READ

• The Midwich Cuckoos (4.5/5)
• Midnight Library (4.5/5)
• How to do Nothing (3/5)
• This One Summer (3.5/5)
• Sweet Bean Paste (4/5)
• Ms. Ice Sandwich (3.5/5)
• Record of a Night Too Brief (3/5)
• Winter in Sokcho (3/5)
• Slow Boat (3.5/5)
• The End of a Moment We Had (3/5)
• Grief is The Thing with Feathers (3.5/5)
• Strange Weather in Tokyo (4/5)
• Convenience Store Woman (4.5/5)
• If Not, Winter (4.5/5)
• Animal Farm (5/5)
• The Gracekeepers (4/5)
• Memoirs of a Polar Bear (3.5/5)
• The Inugami Curse (5/5)
• The Nakano Thrift Shop (4/5)
• Evil Eye (4.5/5)
• Bloom (5/5)
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (4/5)
• The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino (4/5)
• The Honjin Murders (4/5)
• People from my Neighborhood (3.5/5)
• Before the Coffee Gets Cold (4/5)
• Sagala (4/5)
• Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (5/5)
• The Girl from the Other Side Vol. 1 (5/5)
• The Bear and the Paving Stone (3/5)
• Letters to a Young Poet (5/5)
• The Girl from the Other Side Vol. 2 (5/5)
• Autumn by KOK (5/5)
• Zero at the Bone (5/5)
• Melting Lover (3/5)
• Dekoboko Sugar Days (4.5/5)
• Neverwhere (4/5)
• How the Marquis Got his Coat back (4.5/5)
• The Lost Soul (4/5)
• The Song of Achilles (5/5)
• Never Let Me Go (3.5/5)
• Stardust (4.5/5)
• The Girl from the Other Side (5/5)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (4.5/5)
• How Do You Live? (5/5)
• The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (3.5/5)
• Blue Horses (5/5)
• The Girl from the Other Side Vol. 4 (5/5)
• Autobiography of Red (4/5)
• Encyclopedia of Early Earth (5/5)
• Hamnet (5/5)
• Spring, Summer, Nacchan, Fall, Winter, and Me (5/5)
• Coraline (5/5)
• The Starless Sea (4/5)
• The Woman in the Purple Skirt (3.5/5)
• The Hole (4/5)
• Confessions (4.5/5)
• No Longer Human (5/5)

Wishlist/Collection

• You are only allowed to buy 6 books in a month max, both locally and internationally, with priority to the ones you actually want to (and can read) this year. This includes:
• 1 Translated Literature
• 1 Classical lit/Folklore
• 1 Graphic Novel/Manga
• 1 Poetry
• 1 Classic
• 1 General Fiction

1 Thriller/Mystery/Crime/Horror

Series Collection

• Books in a series collection you can buy one of per month
• Vintage Japan Classics
• Japanese Novellas
• Seasons Quartet (Ali Smith and KOK)
• Pushkin Vertigo
• Vintage Russian Classics
• Vintage Woolf Classics
• Pushkin Essential Stories
• Oxford World Classics
• Legends from the North
• Chiltern Classics
• The School of Life Library
• The School of Life Complete Essays

Phase 2: When you finish your TBR

• When you have read everything you bought and you can start buying books again, read one of the following:
• A Books Across the Globe book
• Classic Author you want to Read
• Mythology or Folklore
• Manga

Asian Literature

• Spring Garden
• Slow Boat
• The bear and the paving stone
• People from my neighborhood
• Sweet Bean Paste
• Earthlings
• Convenience Store Woman
• Strange Weather in Tokyo
• People from my Neighborhood
• The Honjin Murders
• Human Acts
• The Vegetarian
• The Last Children of Tokyo
• Memoirs of a Polar Bear
• The night is short, walk on girl
• Beauty is a Wound
• No Longer Human
• The Setting Sun
• Cursed Bunny
• The Cat who saved books
• The Little house (kyoko nakajima)
• Captivated, by You (Yama Wayama)
• Endless Blue Sky

Poetry

• Violet bent backwards over grass
• Blue Horses
• Devotions
• Dog Songs
• Swan
• Rilke
• Yesterday I was the moon
• If not, Winter
• Faber Nature Poems Collection
• Everyman's Library Poets Collection

Classics/Modern Classics

• Oscar Wilde
• Hemingway
• Atwood
• Ali Smith
• Hardy
• Gibran
• Bronte
• The Master and the Margarita
• We have always lived in this castle

General Fiction

• Murakami
• Gaiman
• Kazuo Ishiguro
• Wyndham
• Ghosts of Harvard
• Labyrinth of Spirits
• Welcome to Night Vale
• It Devours
• The Faceless Old Woman who Secretly Lives in Your Home
• His Dark Materials

Nominated/Award-winning/Top Books

• Hamnet
• Speak, Silence
• Such a Fun Age
• The Silence of the Girls
• The Vanishing Half
• Know My Name
• Exciting Times
• World of Wonders
• Creatures
• Weather

Graphic Novels

• The Encyclopedia of Early Earth
• Killing and Dying
• Horrorstor
• The New Ghost
• Bloom
• Heartstopper
• Through a life