the goal is to reduce the amount of unread books on my shelves. the focus lies on the books i bought before 2025. to clear out the books that i have owned for the longest.

• begin 2025: 78
• read in 2025: 3
• removed from tbr: 3

to read in 2025

• babel by r.f. kuang
• clytemnestra by costanza casati
• crooked kingdom by leigh bardugo
• heartless hunter by kristen ciccarelli
• heir by sabaa tahir
• iron flame by rebecca yarros
• lady macbeth by ava reid
• madame tussaud by michelle moran
• my lady jane by cynthia hand, jodi meadows, brodi ashton
• slewfoot by brom
• the bridge kingdom by danielle l. jensen
• the elephants of thula thula by françoise malby-anthony
• the secret magdalene by ki longfellow
• the will of the many by james islington
• the winter sea by susanna kearsley
• till we have faces by c.s. lewis

i will be reading in 2026

• gorse by sam k. horton
• houdini heart by ki longfellow
• in the miso soup by ryu murakami
• she who became the sun by shelley parker-chan

to be read for my reading challenge

• a little life by hanya yanagihara
• alias grace by margaret atwood
• assassin's apprentice by robin hobb
• eichmann in jerusalem by hannah arendt
• house of earth and blood by sarah j. maas
• innocent traitor by alison weir
• interview with the vampire by anne rice
• jane eyre by charlotte brontë
• lolita by vladimir nabokov
• the demon king by cinda williams chima
• the hollow hills by mary stewart
• the odyssey by homer
• the plague by albert camus
• the queens of innis lear by tessa gratton
• the secret history by donna tartt
• the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides
• white oleander by janet fitch

remaining - will read

• a history of fear by luke dumas
• after the forest by kell woods
• age of swords by michael j. sullivan
• beartown by fredrik backman
• circus of wonders by elizabeth macneal
• crying in h mart by michalle zauner
• dark age by pierce brown
• empress orchid by anchee mi
• i went to see my father by kyung-sook shin
• ordinary monsters by j.m. miro
• station eleven by emily st. john mandel
• the cleaving by juliet e. mckenna
• the devil of nanking by mo hayder
• the final empire by brandon sanderson
• the other side of mrs wood by lucy barker
• the red tent by anita diamant
• the sealwoman's gift by sally magnusson
• the wolf den by elodie harper

try a chapter

• divine heretic by jaime lee moyer
• pet sematary by stephen king
• the circle of ceridwen by octavia randolph

keeping in storage for now

• baptism of fire by andrzej sapkowski
• battle royale by koushun takami
• betty by tiffany mcdaniel
• dark days by d. randall blythe
• elena knows by claudia pineiro
• hollywood park by mikel jollett
• into the wild by jon krakauer
• know my name by chanel miller
• lancelot by giles kristian
• north and south by elizabeth gaskell
• once upon a river by diane setterfield
• peach blossom spring by melissa fu
• the city of dusk by tara sim
• the island of sea women by lisa see
• the sword of shannara by terry books
• the time of contempt by andrzej sapkowski

decided to unhaul

• 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