• when the body says no (gabor maté)
• the body keeps the score (bessel van der kolk)
• the undying (anne boyer)
• a pipe for february (charles h. red corn)
• the fifth season (n.k. jemisin)
• yellowface (r.f. kuang)
• the ends of the world (peter brannen)
• the annotated mona lisa (john boswell)
• loving sports when they don't love you back (jessica luther & kavitha a. davidson)
• crying in h mart (michelle zauner)
• if we were villains (m.l.rio)
• broken earth trilogy (n.k. jemisin)
• living my life (emma goldman)
• discworld (terry pratchett)
• the monsters: mary shelley and the curse of frankenstein (dorothy hoobler)
• orson welles (simon callow)
• letters to vera (vladimir nabokov)
• i want to be where the normal people are (rachel bloom)
• dear girls (ali wong)
• children of the new world (alexander weinstein)
• deathless (catherynn m. valente)
• the lifespan of a fact (john d'agata & jim fingal)
• natural causes (barbara ehrenreich)
• the new prophets of capital (nicole aschoff)
• portrait of a thief (grace d. li)
• the orchid thief (susan orlean)
• the feather thief (kirk wallace johnson)
• written on the body (jeanette winterson)
• happy hour (marlowe granados)
• on earth we're briefly gorgeous (ocean vuong)
• quiet (susan cain)
• let the old dreams die (john ajvide lindqvist)
• let the right one in (john ajvide lindqvist)
• the days of abandonment (elena ferrante)
• sophie's world (jostein gaarder)
• animal: the autobiography of a female body (sara pascoe)
• sex money power (sara pascoe)
• the midnight lie (marie rutkoski)
• tess of the d'urbervilles (thomas hardy)
• killing mr. griffin (lois duncan)
• the last days of the romanovs: tragedy at ekaterinburg (helen rappaport)
• would you rather? (katie heaney)
• miss sophia's diary (ding ling)
• the golem and the jinni (helene wecker)
• when genius failed: the rise and fall of long-term capital management (roger lowenstein)
• anatomy of greed (brian cruver)
• the smartest guys in the room: the amazing rise and scandalous fall of enron (bethany mclean & peter elkind)
• super pumped: the battle for uber (mike isaac)
• i overcame my autism and all i got was this lousy anxiety disorder (sarah kurchak)
• funny, you don't look autistic: a comedian's guide to life on the spectrum (michael mccreary)
• manufacturing consent: the political economy of the mass media (edward s. herman & noam chomsky)
• in the dream house (carmen maria marchado)
• aspergirls (rudy simone)
• the primal wound (nancy verrier)
• please kill me (gillian mccain & legs mcneil)
• let's spend the night together (pamela des barres)
• rebecca (daphne du maurier)
• the auctioneer (joan samson)
• the hole (hye-young pyun)
• we need to talk about kevin (lionel shriver)
• the night gardener (jonathan auxier)
• a little life (hanya yanagihara)
• the bell jar (sylvia plath)
• the house of the spirits (isabel allende)
• the new york cookbook (molly o'niell)
• woman, native, other (trinh t. minh-ha)
• regarding the pain of others (susan sontag)
• kim ji-young, born 1982 (cho namju)
• shantaram (gegory david roberts)
• harriet the spy (louise fitzhugh)
• a history of the senses: from antiquity to cyberspace (robert jütte)
• god herself: the feminine roots of astrology (geraldine thorsten)
• winners take all: the elite charade of changing the world (anand giridharadas)
• a door in the earth (amy waldman)
• dark money (jane mayer)
• killers of the flower moon (david grann)
• underground (murakami)
• sophia tolstaya biography
• tipping the velvet (sarah waters)
• the sun is also a star (nicola yoon)
• the catcher in the rye (j.d. salinger)
• gulliver's travels (jonathan swift)
• a series of unfortunate events (reread)
• lilith's brood (octavia e. butler)
• aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe (benjamin alire sáenz)
• possession (a.s. byatt)
• love and other small wars (donna-marie riley)
• the colour of success (ellen wu)
• a pale blue dot (carl sagan)
• me before you (jojo moyes) - only because wonwoo read it and cried, how precious
• the art of being normal (lisa williamson)
• das parfum (patrick süskind)
• the secret history (donna tartt)
• a single man (christopher isherwood)
• the picture of dorian gray (oscar wilde)
• one hundred years of solitude (gabriel garcía márquez)
• the three-body problem (liu cixin)
• the dressmaker (rosalie ham)
• legend (marie lu)
• the song of achilles (madeline miller)
• the diviners (libba bray)
• gone girl (gillian flynn)
• anna karenina (leo tolstoy)
• kafka on the shore (murakami)
• demian (hermann hesse) - actually because of 1n2d not bts lolol
• agua viva (clarice lispector)
• i'll be ready (kyung sook shin)
• reading lolita in tehran (azar nafisi)
• in cold blood (truman capote)
• the suicide motor club (christopher buehlman)
• ikigai
• a gentleman in moscow (amor towles)
• tools of titans (timothy ferriss)
• rewriting the rules (meg barker) .
• priceless: how i went undercover to rescue the world's stolen treasures (robert k. wittman)

Authors

• tolkein
• gogol
• raymond charles
• anne carson
• nora roberts
• sor juana
• banana yoshimoto

Poets

• robert frost
• gwendolyn brooks
• william carlos williams
• john cooper clark
• amanda gorman
• edna st. vincent millay
• pablo neruda

Stephen King

• dolores claireborne
• carrie
• misery
• the shining
• the girl who loved tom gordon
• gerald's game
• pet sematary
• the green mile
• different seasons
• needful things
• 11/22/63
• the dark tower
• mr. mercedes
• the dead zone
• the stand
• the mist
• rita hayworth and shawshank redemption
• the running man
• 'salem's lot

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