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

‏‏‎ with this new decade of my life starting, there are certain books that i like to prioritize, mostly books that i have owned or been meaning to read for a while and popular books in their respective genres.

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𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐘

• the mists of avalon by marion zimmer bradley, 1982
• the city of brass by s.a. chakraborty, 2017
• dark age by pierce brown, 2019 ⋆
• piranesi by susanna clarke, 2020
• the queens of innis lear by tessa gratton, 2018 ⋆
• assassin's apprentice by robin hobb, 1995 ⋆
• practical magic by alice hoffman, 1995
• babel by r.f. kuang, 2022 ⋆
• the name of the wind by patrick rothfuss, 2007
• empire of silence by christoper ruocchio, 2018
• the hollow hills by mary stewart, 1973 ⋆
• the lord of the rings by j.r.r. tolkien, 1954 ⋆
• deathless by catherynne m. valente, 2011
• weight by jeanette winterson, 2005
• juliet marillier's backlist series ↷
  • saga of the light isles, (2003)
  • the bridei chronicles, (2004) ⋆
  • wildwood, (2006)
  • shadowfell, (2012)
  • blackthorn & grim, (2014) ➄
  • warrior bards, (2019)

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𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐃𝐔𝐋𝐓 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐘

• my lady jane by cynthia hand, brodi ashton & jodi meadows, 2016 ⋆
• graceling by kristin cashore, 2008
• the demon king by cinda williams chima, 2009 ⋆
• city of bones by cassandra clare, 2007
• the lion, the witch and the wardrobe by c.s. lewis, 1950
• fireborne by rosaria munda, 2019
• alanna: the first adventure by tamora pierce, 1983
• divergent by veronica roth, 2011
• the raven boys by maggie stiefvater, 2012

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𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍

• alias grace by margaret atwood, 1996 ⋆
• the maiden by kate foster, 2023 ➄
• child of the morning by pauline gedge, 1977
• the confessions of catherine de medici by c.w. gortner, 2010
• the secret magdalene by ki longfellow, 2005 ⋆ ➄
• the mad women's ball by victoria mas, 2019
• the dream of scipio by iain pears, 2002
• fire from heaven by mary renault, 1969
• dreaming the eagle by manda scott, 2003
• the conqueror's wife by stephanie thornton, 2015
• the white mare by jules watson, 2004
• innocent traitor by alison weir, 2006 ⋆
• cassandra by christa wolf, 1983 ⋆
• the shadow of the wind by carlos ruiz zafón, 2001
• the book thief by markus zusak, 2005

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𝐆𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐂, 𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐑 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐑

• bluebeard's castle by anna biller, 2023
• the bloody chamber and other stories by angela carter, 1979
• slewfoot by brom, 2021 ⋆
• before you knew my name by jacqueline bublitz, 2021
• the historian by elizabeth kostova, 2005
• the corset by laura purcell, 2018
• the house of whispers by laura purcell, 2019
• interview with the vampire by anne rice, 1976 ⋆
• the girl from rawblood by catriona ward, 2015
• looking glass sound by catriona ward, 2023 ⋆
• affinity by sarah waters, 1999 ⋆ ➄

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𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 ‍

• 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 ⋆
• the kite runner by khaled hosseini, 2003
• hamnet by maggie o'farrell, 2020
• the secret history by donna tartt, 1992 ⋆ ➄
• the end of loneliness by benedict wells, 2016
• a little life by hanya yanagihara, 2015 ⋆
• notes on a scandal by zoë heller, 2003
• putney by sofka zinovieff, 2018

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𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐈𝐑𝐒

• the spiral staircase by karen armstrong, 2004
• tears of the desert by halima bashir, 2008
• papillon by henri charrière, 1969
• the search for omm sety by jonathan cott, 1987
• the diary of a young girl by anne frank, 1947
• man's search for meaning by viktor e. frankl, 1946
• driving with dead people by monica holloway, 2007
• an unquiet mind by kay redfield jamison, 1995
• not without my daughter by betty mahmody, 1987
• at home in the world by joyce maynard, 1998
• hilma af klint: a biography by julia voss, 2023
• sorcerer's apprentice by amy wallace, 2003

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𝐍𝐎𝐍-𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍

• eichmann in jerusalem by hannah arendt, 1963 ⋆
• meditations by marcus aurelius, 180 ⋆
• the consolation of philosophy by boethius, 524 ⋆
• the power of myth by joseph campbell, 1988
• on atlantis by edgar cayce, 1968
• the five dialogues of plato by plato, -385
• existentialism & humanism by jean-paul sartre, 1946 ⋆
• letters from a stoic by seneca, 64 ⋆
• the kybalion by three initiates, 1912
• a little history of philosophy by nigel warburton, 2011 ⋆

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𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐒

• an oresteia by anne carson, 2009 ➄
• the plague by albert camus, 1947 ⋆
• the odyssey by homer, 701 ⋆
• steppenwolf by herman hesse, 1927
• the screwtape letters by c.s. lewis, 1942 ➄
• the great divorce by c.s. lewis, 1946 ➄
• the bell jar by sylvia plath, 1963
• lolita by vladimir nabokov, 1955 ⋆
• jane eyre by charlotte brontë, 1847 ⋆
• the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde, 1890

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𝐑𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆

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