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