it would be so lovely to populate my bookshelves with books i adore

own

• Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
• The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
• The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Costanza by Rachel Blackmore
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
• The Pretender by Jo Harkin
• Rapture by Emily Maguire
• There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
• Where They Burn Books, They Also Burn People by Marcos Antonios Hernandez
• You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue
• Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
• Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
• Death Valley by Melissa Broder
• Martyr by Kaveh Akbar
• My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
• S by Doug Dorst and J.J. Abrams
• The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett
• Cleopatra by Stacey Schiff
• Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend
• Rouge by Mona Awad
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
• Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• Binstead's Safari by Rachel Ingalss
• Kin by Tayari Jones
• I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
• If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga
• Hunger and Thirst by Claire Fuller
• Honey by Imani Thompson

to own

• Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Sister Snake by Amanda Lee Koe
• Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell Woods
• Boudicca's Daughter by Elodie Harper
• The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
• Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
• The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
• Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Maddalena and the Dark by Julia Fine
• The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
• Chlorine by Jade Song
• Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
• Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison
• We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
• The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• Birnam Wood by Elizabeth Catton
• North Woods by Daniel Mason
• On Beauty by Zadie Smith
• The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
• Possession by A.S. Byatt
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
• The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• The Blueprint by Rae Giana Rashad
• A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing by Alice Evelyn Yang
• The Beheading Game by Rebecca Lehmann
• I Love You Don't Die by Jade Song
• Zeal by Morgan Jenkins
• Honeysuckle by Bar Fridman-Tell
• Strange Girls by Sarvat Hasin
• The Once and Future Me by Melissa Pace
• Dear Monica Lewinsky by Julia Langbein
• Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker
• Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
• The Cleopatras by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
• Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
• Old Wives' Tales by Julie Zhou
• Second Nature by Ling Ling Huang