ᴋᴇʏ ⇢ ‏‏‎ ‎ ‏‏‎ ‏‏‎ ‎ ⋆ ‏‏‎ ‎ own a physical copy as of making this list ‎ ┊ ‏‏‎ ‎ × ‏‏‎ ‎ lost interest or dnf

‏‏‎ with this new decade of my life starting, there are certain books that i like to prioritize in the next four years, mostly books that i have owned or been meaning to read for a while, and some popular books that i haven't read yet but feel like i should have at this point.

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𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋

• alias grace by margaret atwood, (1996) ⋆
• hamnet by maggie o'farrell, (2020)
• the maiden by kate foster, (2023)
• the confessions of catherine de medici by c.w. gortner, (2010)
• the secret magdalene by ki longfellow, (2005)
• the winter sea by susanna kearsley, (2008) ⋆
• the mad women's ball by victoria mas, (2019)
• dreaming the eagle by manda scott, (2003)
• the conqueror's wife by stephanie thornton, (2015)
• innocent traitor by alison weir, (2006) ⋆
• cassandra by christa wolf, (1983)
• the shadow of the wind by carlos ruiz zafón, (2001)

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𝐆𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐂, 𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐑 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐑

• the bloody chamber and other stories by angela carter, (1979)
• the historian by elizabeth kostova, (2005)
• the corset by laura purcell, (2018)
• interview with the vampire by anne rice, (1976) ⋆
• looking glass sound by catriona ward, (2023)
• the girl from rawblood by catriona ward, (2015)
• affinity by sarah waters, (1999) ⋆

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𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍

• a history of loneliness by john boyne, (2014)
• if i had your face by frances cha, (2020)
• the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides, (1993) ⋆
• white oleander by janet fitch, (1999) ⋆
• the silver dark sea by susan fletcher, (2012)
• i who have never known men by jacqueline harpman, (1995) ⋆
• notes on a scandal by zoë heller, (2003)
• the secret history by donna tartt, (1992) ⋆

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𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐘

• piranesi by susanna clarke, (2020)
• the queens of innis lear by tessa gratton, (2018) ⋆
• the will of the many by james islington, (2023) ⋆
• the bridei chronicles by juliet marillier, (2005) ⋆
• wildwood dancing by juliet marillier, (2006)
• blackthorn & grim by juliet marillier, (2014)
• the hollow hills by mary stewart, (1973) ⋆
• the lord of the rings by j.r.r. tolkien, (1954) ⋆
• deathless by catherynne m. valente, (2011)

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𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐃𝐔𝐋𝐓 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐘

• crooked kingdom by leigh bardugo, (2016) ⋆
• city of bones by cassandra clare, (2007)
• the demon king by cinda williams chima, (2009) ⋆
• the lion, the witch and the wardrobe by c.s. lewis, (1950)
• the night circus by erin morgenstern, (2011)
• fireborne by rosaria munda, (2019)
• divergent by veronica roth, (2011)
• the raven boys by maggie stiefvater, (2012)

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𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐈𝐑𝐒

• man's search for meaning by viktor e. frankl, (1946)
• driving with dead people by monica holloway, (2007)
• the railway man by eric lomax, (1995)
• faery tale by signe pike, (2010)
• hilma af klint a biography by julia voss, (2023)
• sorcerer's apprentice by amy wallace, (2003)

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𝐍𝐎𝐍-𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍

• eichmann in jerusalm by hannah arendt, (1963) ⋆
• meditations by marcus aurelius, (180) ⋆
• the consolation of philosophy by boethius, (524) ⋆
• the search for omm sety by jonathan cott, (1987)
• magic in the middle ages by richard kieckhefer, (1989)
• ancient mystic rites by c.w. leadbeater, (1986)
• existentialism and humanism by jean-paul sartre, (1946) ⋆
• a little history of philosophy by nigel warburton, (2011) ⋆

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𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐒

• jane eyre by charlotte brontë, (1847) ⋆
• the plague by albert camus, (1947) ⋆
• an oresteia, anne carson, (2009)
• the great divorce, c.s. lewis, (1946)
• lolita by vladimir nabokov, (1955) ⋆
• the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde, (1890)

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𝐑𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆

• an ember in the ashes by sabaa tahir
• burial rites by hannah kent
• the good people by hannah kent
• white chrysanthemum by mary lynn bracht
• the highland witch by susan fletcher
• a court of silver flames by sarah j. maas
• the bear and the nightingale by katherine arden