my goodreads

notes

• books on my tbr pile: too many
• books read in 2025: 60 / books from my tbr pile: 14 (not that great!)
• books i got in 2025: too many (around 35) but almost all of them were secondhand so i don't even feel bad about it
• 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

wishlist

• already read but need in my collection
  • magnolia by nina mingya powles
  • tiny moons by nina mingya powles
  • bone map by sara eliza johnson
  • vapor by sarah eliza johnson
  • averno by louise glück
  • dream work by mary oliver
  • west wind by mary oliver
  • crying in h mart by michelle zauner
  • the dumb house by john burnside

favourite books of all time

• inferno by dante alighieri
• the secret history by donna tartt
• the golden compass by philip pullman
• the amber spyglass by philip pullman
• die wand by marlen haushofer
• the waves by virginia woolf
• a tale for the time being by ruth ozeki
• the road by cormac mccarthy
• call me by your name by andre aciman
• crying in h mart by michelle zauner
• bone map by sara eliza johnson
• magnolia by nina mingya powles
• the handmaid's tale by margaret atwood
• i who have never known men by jacqueline harpman
• bullerbyn series by astrid lindgren