read in 2024: 22/52 / ☼ = nonfiction, * = library, reread, favourites, books from my tbr pile: 4 / my goodreads

• january
  • julia cameron - the artist's way ☼
  • timothy ferriss - the 4-hour workweek ☼
  • cornelia funke & guillermo del toro - pan's labyrinth
  • mitiarjuk nappaaluk - sanaaq
  • travis baldree - legends & lattes
  • travis baldree - pages to fill (legends & lattes 0.5)
  • nghi vo - the empress of salt and fortune
  • nghi vo - when the tiger came down the mountain
  • julia armfield - salt slow
• february
  • erin morgenstern - the night circus
  • richard siken - crush
  • sebastian fitzek - passagier 23
  • nghi vo - into the riverlands
  • nghi vo - mammoths at the gates
  • nordic tales
  • v.e. schwab - a darker shade of magic / this review
  • helen oyeyemi - what is not yours is not yours (dnf'ed but read more than 50%)
  • kay o'neill - the tea dragon tapestry
• march
  • a.m. shine - the watchers
  • mary oliver - felicity
  • andreas steinhöfel - rico, oskar und der diebstahlstein
  • katherine rundell - the wolf wilder

dnfs of 2024 / hated it:

• hanya yanagihara - a little life / this review
• leigh bardugo - ninth house
• becky chambers - the long way to a small angry planet (didn't hate it, thought it was ok but i don't have the time to read long "ok" books anymore)

notes

• books on my tbr pile: 59 books :/
• books i got in 2024: 4 (0 new / 2 via tauschticket, 2 via bücherschrank)
• themes & genres to read more often
  • scifi
  • older fantasy (80s/90s or earlier)
  • nautical
    • pirates
  • gothic
  • scandinavian thrillers
  • standalone fantasy
  • dark fantasy / dark fairytales
  • southern gothic / midwest gothic
  • horror subgenres
    • occult horror
    • survival horror
    • eco horror
    • folk horror
  • books written by indigenous authors
  • books set in asia (not japan or india)
  • novellas
• should be a thing
  • alpine horror
  • dark yule
  • western horror