the goal is to reduce the amount of unread books on my shelves, with the focus being on the books i bought before 2025. so i can finally start clearing out the books that i have owned for the longest and make room for newer books. (i don't include non-fiction, with the exception of memoirs) ✮ = 2025 priority tbr

• begin 2025: 79
• read in 2025: 4
• removed from tbr: 3

2017-2020

• baptism of fire by andzrej sapkowski (2017)
• time of contempt by andrzej sapkowski (2017)
• jane eyre by charlotte bronte (2017)
• the hobbit by j.r.r. tolkien (2017)
• my lady jane by cynthia hand, jodi meadows, brodi ashton (2018)
• mistborn by brandon sanderson (2018)
• lolita by vladimir nabokov (2018)
• house of earth and blood by sarah j. maas (2020)
• the dark mirror by juliet marillier (2020)
• the blade of fortriu by juliet marillier (2020)

2021

• the island of sea women by lisa see
• the circle of ceridwen by octavia randolph
• circus of wonders by elizabeth macneal
• empress orchid by anchee min
• divine heretic by jamie lee moyer
• age of swords by michael j. sullivan
• assassin's apprentice by robin hobb
• the demon king by cinda williams chima
• the devil of nanking by mo hayder
• the wolf den by elodie harper
• in the miso soup by ryu murakami
• the winter sea by susanna kearsley

2022

• she who became the sun by shelley parker-chan
• beartown by fredrik backman
• babel by r.f. kuang ✮
• ordinary monsters by j.m. miro
• the city of dusk by tara sim
• the secret history by donna tartt
• a little life by hanya yanagihara
• the hollow hills by mary stewart
• alias grace by margaret atwood
• dark age by pierce brown
• the queens of innis lear by tessa gratton
• crying in h mart by michelle zauner
• hollywood park by mikel jollett
• the red tent by anita diamant

2023

• clytemnestra by costanza casati ✮
• the bridge kingdom by danielle l. jensen ✮
• madame tussaud by michelle moran
• the odyssey by homer
• after the forest by kell woods
• the cleaving by juliet e. mckenna
• interview with the vampire by anne rice
• the will of the many by james islington ✮
• a history of fear by luke dumas

2024

• the elephants of thula thula by francoise malby-anthony ✮
• the other side of mrs wood by lucy barker
• i went to see my father by kyung-sook shin
• crooked kingdom by leigh bardugo ✮
• iron flame by rebecca yarros
• innocent traitor by alison weir
• the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenedis ✮
• houdini heart by ki longfellow
• the plague by albert camus
• slewfoot by brom ✮
• heir by sabaa tahir
• gorse by sam k. horton ✮
• the secret magdalene by ki longfellow ✮
• till we have faces by c.s. lewis ✮
• white oleander by janet fitch
• lady macbeth by ava reid ✮
• heartless hunter by kristin ciccareli ✮

KEEPING IN STORAGE

• into the wild by jon krakauer (2017)
• nort and south by elizabeth gaskell (2018)
• once upon a river by diane setterfield (2018)
• lancelot by giles kristian (2018)
• battle royale by koushun takami (2018)
• pet semetary by stephen king (2019)
• the sword of shannara by terry brooks (2019)
• dark days by d. randall blythe (2020)
• the sealwoman's gift by sally magnusson (2020)
• station eleven by emily st. mandell (2021)
• know my name by chanel miller (2022)
• betty by tifanny mcdaniel (2022)
• peach blossom spring by melissa fu (2022)
• elena knows by claudia pineiro (2023)

DECIDED TO UNHAUL - 2025

• lovely war by julie berry
• rosewater by tade thompson
• the wolf in the whale by jordanna max brodsky
• the women in the white kimono by ana john