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
may 18 2025 ∞
jul 10 2025 +