Violent Young Girls and Creepy Dysfunctional Families

• Stoker
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Weird, Experimental Horror

• House of Leaves
• And The Trees Crept In
• Night Film
• Horrorstor

Dark Fairy Tale Retellings

• The Company of Wolves
• Crimson Bound
• To Kill a Kingdom
• American McGee's Alice series
• Neco z Alenky
• Cruel Beauty
• The Bloody Chamber and other stories

Gaslamp Fantasy

• kajii
• schoolgirl - dazai osamu
• snow country - yasunari kawabata
• dogra magra - yumeno kyusaku
• breakfast of champions - kurt vonnegut
• the master and margarita - mikhail bulgokov

+ phantasm japan

• Dark
• Mindhunter
• Lucifer
• A Discovery of Witches
• The Good Place
• Barry (HBO, Bill Hader)
• The Old Guard

January

• Notes from the Underground and The Double - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Cardigans - Cole McCade
• Solomon's Crown - Natasha Siegel
• Idlewild - James Frankie Thomas
• Eros the Bittersweet - Anne Carson
• Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys
• Come Close - Sappho
• Filipino Master Damian Domingo - Stephen R. Ongpin

February

• Sunburn - Chloe Michelle Howarth
• Of Socialites and Prizefights - Arden Powell
• If Not, Winter - Anne Carson
• Gwen and Art Are Not in Love - Lex Croucher
• Junk Shop Blues - Cole McCade
• Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Participate in guided meditation
• Make peace with my single-ness
• Reconnect with old college friends
• Go on a hike
• Read some more web novels
• Visit an art gallery
• Try new food (even if via Grab or Foodpanda)
• Save money for a trip to Singapore after COVID

after COVID?

• Hang out with a bookstagram friend IRL after COVID!
• Visit the Greek Orthodox chapel in Makati (7-9 AM Saturdays only)
• Visit some Buddhist temples in Manila
• Eat at more cafes
• Go on a date!!
• Take an out of town trip to Baguio alone
• Visit some historical sites all over Mani...

In order of priority

• New tablet (if it breaks)
• New laptop (if it breaks) - PHP 30-50k
• New phone (if it breaks)

Travel

• Baguio
• Taiwan
• Japan
• Batanes
• Hong Kong

Clothes

• All black converse
• A nice slouchy blazer
• Oxfords
• Rob and Mara doc martens style boots

Too fancy for my own good

• Smoking jacket
• Kimono

Here's a list of technically NOT YA books that are still wildly relatable to anyone who's a young adult. Coming of age is always full of angst.

• Catcher in the Rye
• No Longer Human
• The Bell Jar
• Rebecca
• Schoolgirl
• Brideshead Revisited (?)
• The Secret History

• Joena Zoleta
• Yeo Kaa
• Signe Pierce (American Reflexxx)
• Charliexbaker
• Spring Breakers

BOOKS

• Love Speaks Its Name-
• The Mill House Murders
• Flowers of Buffoonery
• Love in the Big City (UK paperback)
• Captive Prince 1 -- secondhand-
• Ocean's Echo (US hardcover)-
• Convenience Store Woman (UK paperback)-
• Diary of a Void (UK paperback?)
• Beauty and Sadness (UK Penguin Modern Classics)
• The Well of Loneliness (UK Penguin Modern Classics)
• Manga - The Guy She Liked Wasn't a Guy at All
• Listography Journal

CLOTHES AND SHOES

• Doc Martens-
• Black converse
• Cream-colored Muji jeans

• Victor Vale
• Alexa Chung
• Florence Welch
• Audrey Rivet

Other Blog Post Ideas

• October TTT Freebie 10/29 - Favorite Horror Books
  • House of Leaves
  • We Have Always Lived in the Castle
  • Edogawa Ranpo
  • Kirino Natsuo Book

Future

• So You Love The Secret History (TSH-esque books, dark academia, campus novels)
  • The Likeness
  • Lake of Dead Languages
  • Black Chalk
  • Bunny
  • The Furies
  • The Truants
  • Social Creature
  • We Will Be Villains