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~ books read in 2023 ~
#30: Long Live the Pumpkin Queen by Shea Ernshaw
At the crisp, inky hour of midnight, Jack and I are married atop Spiral Hill in the Death's Door Cemetery.
Rating: 3.5/5
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kaleldobrev · 4 months
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2023 Ultimate Masterlist
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Everything I read in 2023 on Tumblr
Note: I did not read as much as I would have liked to. And I'm really hoping to change that this year <3 | I still have a lot of things as my reading list has gotten a little extensive, so I'm hoping that maybe I can make a once a month reading list instead of like an end of a year one | I have at least 10+ fics on my current reading list
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Dean Winchester
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If You Want It To Be Masterlist (@zepskies)
You Are Dean's One Exception (@zepskies)
Chasing Cars (@deanwanddamons)
I Can't Fight This Feeling (@deanwanddamons)
Texting Dean while he's on a hunt (@zepskies)
Enough (@thatonewriter15)
Treats and Treats (@thatonewriter15)
Sleepy Dean (All - Parts 1, 2, 3) (@jackles010378)
Little O (@spnexploration)
Lost Comfort (@mind-empty-just-fictional-people)
Never been kissed (@jackles010378)
The boy next door (@jackles010378)
Love language (@mind-empty-just-fictional-people)
Don't lick your lips (@jackles010378)
Vintage Collection (@zepskies)
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Soldier Boy
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Love Actually (All - Parts 1, 2 & 3) (@zepskies)
Getting jealous over this man (@zepskies)
Playing with Soldier Boy's hair (@zepskies)
Home (@syrma-sensei)
The way you love Ben's hands (@zepskies)
Break Me Down Masterlist (@zepskies)
Hot under the helmet (@syrma-sensei)
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taylortruther · 1 month
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book or reading recs?? your taste is immaculate ❤️
you must read anything by lisa taddeo!! i also highly recommend the dispossessed by ursula k. le guin, the time traveler's wife, and caramelo by sandra cisneros. check these tags for other recs
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alagaisia · 9 months
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Holy shit. I finally got around to reading the Hunger Games prequel, and I finished it just now, and. Wow.
I mean it’s been “wow” the whole time, obviously, Suzanne Collins is an exceptional writer and it’s such an interesting addition to the history and world building of the Hunger Games books. I had to leave it at my desk at work all week as my lunchtime book, so that I would be able to draw it out a little, but primarily so that I would go home and be a little bit productive instead of immersing myself in the book and stay up all night.
But oh my god, everything catches up to itself in the last chapter or two. Like a steady acceleration of a train until it speeds off the rails and crashes in a thousand horrific pieces. But like, on purpose, for the sake of good storytelling.
I mean if nothing else it’s an exquisite depiction of how a regular kid with some privilege and some prejudices grows up to be the calculating and bloodthirsty president of Panem. But it is also so much more.
Really unfortunate that the Hunger Games mania had died down so much by the time Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes came out, because it’s such a good book, both as a prequel and as a novel in and of itself, and I don’t feel like it got nearly the attention it deserved.
Is it wrong to hope that this will not be the last Hunger Games prequel? I would read at least half a dozen more. There’s so much there to work with.
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pdalicedraws · 7 months
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New-to-me books of 2023: Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Yes, I’m far enough behind on this lil project of mine that I’m still on a book I finished in February but onward we go!!
Harrow is such a fucking nuts book, man, the reader has no goddamn clue what’s happening for like 3/4 of it and only a writer like Muir could pull that off. It’s completely gripping the whole time even when you have no idea how things will slot together, and when they finally do it’s so satisfying. When the second person snapped into first I had to get up and throw myself around the room for a bit even though my grandma was visiting. I’m pretty damn self conscious!! I still did it!!
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feaftlikeabeaft · 1 year
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I’ve never blogged about a book before but I feel the need to start with Wrath Goddess Sing.
FINALLY SOME GOOD TRANS CONTENT.
In short, it’s a queer retelling of the Illiad (the account of the Trojan War by the ancient Greek poet Homer). It’s so much more than that though - honestly it’s bonkers.
It’s like if the Illiad snorted Warhammer cocaine and came out as trans by decapitating a transphobe.
The first half is pretty fun, depicting Achilles (who in this story is a trans woman) returning to her home country after sheltering on a mostly-women island from her abusers (this book has a lot of explicit depictions of queerphobia so be warned!) and fighting in the Trojan War. It’s very bloody and brutal and also very fun because Achilles is basically invincible at first. I wasn’t fully into the story at this point but I still enjoyed it.
The second half is BONKERS. Without spoiling anything, the machinations of the gods suddenly become front-and-centre and the story becomes all about power and reclaiming power. It culminates in an finale which made me audibly gasp.
Also the characters are very lovable and gay even when (especially when?) they’re committing war crimes (which, to be fair, are not technically crimes because the Geneva Conventions haven’t been written yet).
So yeah. Preddy good.
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Little Ms Dr Brian wess obsession
Do you guys believe in reincarnation?
Have you had any experiences that cemented the belief for yOu?
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antique-symbolism · 1 year
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10 Books to Read in 2023!
This year’s reading goal is to read at least one more book than last year (10+), and for at least 25% of my reads to be indie or self-published! 
For indie/self-pub reads here, I have:
@ashen-crest‘s A Rival Most Vial, which I’ve been so psyched for since I started following
@abalonetea‘s Youth Sunken and @drchucktingle’s Camp Damascus which will be a deviation from my normal genre habits in that they’re both horror
@thebibliosphere’s Hunger Pangs which I read some of in 2021 and loved, but didn’t get the chance to finish
and finally I’m very excited to have the honour of beta reading Cavernous for @kjscottwrites after following the project with bated breath for a good chunk of 2022! I didn’t know if you had a cover yet, KJ, so I hope you don’t mind the blank box.
When I did this sort of post last year I believe it was a tag game, so I’d like to tag any/all the authors I tagged above as well as @thelonelyrainbowenby @cloudbooks @wardoffthenight to post some books from your 2023 TBR! I’d love it if any of my other followers wanted to do this and tag me to see, too!
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ritchiereads · 4 months
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~ books read in 2023 ~
#21: The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones
The farmer had four ordinary children, which was why the magic of the fifth came as a surprise.
Rating: 5/5
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if-you-fan-a-fire · 4 months
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BOOKS I READ IN 2023 Here's what I read in 2023. What has now become an annual tradition of sorts!
An unusual year in reading for me. The first half of the year was very slow, and I mostly finished two long books I've been trying to finish for years by William Morris and Robert Musil. Then the PSAC strike, and more time to read. After that, I made a reading plan and stuck to it, trying to read every day at least a chapter of a book on the list. I also ended up re-reading several books this year - transcribing notes at first, I ended up going over the entire book a second time. I also tried to take extensive notes on every new book. I also snuck a few theses I read onto the list - it feels weird not to include a several hundred page work I went over with a fine-toothed comb. Mostly academic books, germane to my own research and writing, but some strong forays into topics I don't normally think about much. Plus some genuinely good 'amateur' history, too.
Re-reads are marked by a plus sign and my most enjoyable or interesting reads are marked with an asterisk.
First Row:
Jesper Vaczy Kragh, Lobotomy Nation: The History of Psychosurgery and Psychiatry in Denmark (2021)
William Morris, The Well at the World's End (1896, Ballantine edition 1975)
Robert Musil, translated by Sophie Wilkins, The Man Without Qualities (1930, Picador edition 2017)*
Gavin Walker, ed., The Red Years: Theory, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Japanese ’68 (2020)*
Garrett Felber, Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State (2020) *
Robin Jarvis Brownlie, A Fatherly Eye: Indian Agents, Government Power, and Aboriginal Resistance in Ontario, 1918-1939 (2003)
Second Row:
Steve Hewitt, Riding to the Rescue: The Transformation of the RCMP in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1914-1939 (2006)
Maeve McMahon, The Persistent Prison?: Rethinking Decarceration and Penal Reform (1989)+
Rebecca McLennan, The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776–1941 (2007)+
Anne Guérin, Prisonniers en révolte: Quotidien carcéral, mutineries et politique pénitentiaire en France (2013)+
Anson Rabinbach, The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor (2018)
Scott Thompson & Gary Genosko, Punched Drunk: Alcohol, Surveillance and the LCBO, 1927-1975 (2009)
Third Row:
Erin Durham, "In Pursuit of Reform, Whether Convict or Free: Prison Labor Reform in Maryland in the early Twentieth Century." (2018 thesis)
Chester Himes, Yesterday Will Make You Cry (1998)*
Harvey Swados, Standing Fast: A Novel (1971, 2013 Open Road edition)
Charles Upchurch, "Beyond the Law": The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain (2021)
Barry Godfrey, David J. Cox & Helen Johnston, Penal Servitude: Convicts and Long-Term Imprisonment, 1853–1948 (2022)
W.J. Forsythe, Penal Discipline, Reformatory Projects And The English Prison Commission, 1895-1939 (1991)
Fourth Row:
Neal A. Palmer, To the Dark Cells: Prisoner Resistance and Protest in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2008)
Frances H. Simon, Prisoners' Work and Vocational Training (1999)
Meera Nanda, Science In Saffron: Skeptical Essays On History of Science (2016)*
Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun (four volumes, 1980-1983, Folio Society edition 2021)+
David J. Rothman, Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America (2002)+
Kathryn Cooper, "The Infamous Convict Museum Ship Success : an Archaeological Investigation of Material Culture and Identity Formation Processes." (2014 thesis)
Fifth row:
Barry M. Gough, Gunboat Frontier: British Maritime Authority and Northwest Coast Indians, 1846-1890 (1984)
Edward Jones-Imhotep, The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War (2017)*
Larry A. Glassford, Reaction and Reform: The Politics of the Conservative Party under R.B. Bennett, 1927-1938 (1992)
Don Nerbas, Dominion of Capital: The Politics of Big Business and the Crisis of the Canadian Bourgeoisie, 1914-1947 (2013)
James Naylor, The Fate of Labour Socialism: The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and the Dream of a Working-Class Future (2016)
Michael Martin, The Red Patch: Political imprisonment in Hull, Quebec during World War 2 (2007)
Sixth Row:
Ruán O'Donnell, Special Category: The IRA in English Prisons, Vol. 1: 1968-1978 (2012)*
Ruán O'Donnell, Special Category: The IRA in English Prisons, Vol. 2: 1978-1985 (2015)*
Cheryl D. Hicks, Talk with You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935 (2010)*
Clarence Jefferson Hall, A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York's North Country (2020)
Scott Thompson, "Consequences of Categorization: National Registration, Surveillance and Social Control in Wartime Canada, 1939-1946." (2013 thesis)
H.V. Nelles, The Politics of Development: Forests, Mines, and Hydro-Electric Power in Ontario, 1849-1941 (2005)+
Seventh row:
Chief Thomas Fiddler & James R. Stevens, Killing the Shamen (1985)
Ashley Johnson Bavery, Bootlegged Aliens: Immigration Politics on America's Northern Border (2020)
Patrick Brode, Dying for a Drink: How a Prohibition Preacher Got Away with Murder (2018)
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart & Michael Quinlan, Unfree Workers: Insubordination and Resistance in Convict Australia, 1788-1860 (2022)*
Victor Serge, translated by Ralph Manheim, Last Times (1946, 2022 NYRB edition)
Christopher Cauldwell, Studies in a Dying Culture (1938)
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taylortruther · 1 year
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2023 reading list update
three women by lisa taddeo
before she knew him by peter swanson
ghost lover by lisa taddeo
last girl ghosted by lisa unger
radical candor by kim scott (for work)
nobody is talking about this by patricia lockwood
severance by ling ma
animal by lisa taddeo
sorrow and bliss by meg mason
daddy by emma cline
romantic comedy by curtis sittenfeld
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alagaisia · 1 year
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I love when I read a book *after* seeing an adaptation and it gives me a new appreciation for the adaptation. Season one of The Expanse follows the plot and major scenes of Leviathan Wakes remarkably closely, and the characters are exactly the same. I’m replaying scenes from the show in my mind. Conversations that weren’t in the show still read in the actors’ voices. I swear I recognized some dialogue. And the changes I did notice (such as where Miller finds Julie Mao in the end, and how the dead man’s switch comes in) made complete sense in smoothing over the transition from page to screen. Fuck Amazon and all that, but the writers and showrunnners of that show should be lauded for their attention and dedication to the source material.
I’m interested to see how that holds up in the rest of the series. I know that the actor playing Alex Kamal left the show for reasons unrelated to the character’s original arc, and I think I know that the books go on longer than the show, so I have a feeling eventually the two will split, but I’m hoping to meet a few more favorite characters before that happens :)
(other books I've read this year)
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shy-fairy-levele3 · 4 months
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2023 Book List
Unbelievably I read a staggering 70 books in 2023! The most ever! My only disappointment is NOT finishing Dracula Daily, I came so close...
Wolf Brother Michelle Paver
Skin-Walker Michelle Paver
Be the Serpent Seanan McGuire  
She Who Became the Sun 
Soul-Eater Michelle Paver
Nona the Ninth Tamsyn Muir 
The Girl in Red Christina Henry
As yet Unsent Tamsyn Muir   
Outcast Michelle Paver  
Leonard Cohen: On a wire Philippe Girard
Oath Breaker Michelle Paver 
Ghost Hunter Michelle Paver   
 Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life Alan Cumming
M is for Magic Neil Gaiman
Silverwing Kenneth Opal 
Last Violent Call Chloe Gong
Malice: Malice Duology #1 Heather Walter  
Pandora Susan Stokes-Chapman
A Lady for a Duke Alexis Hall                                    
Boyfriend Material Alexis Hall
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries Heather Fawcett  
Motorcycles & Sweetgrass Drew Hayden Taylor
Conventionally Yours Annabeth Albert  
The Unbalancing R.B Lemberg  
Stone Blind Natalie Haynes
The Winter Soldier: Cold Front Mackenzi Lee 
Ruby Nina Allan
The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter Theodora Goss
Husband Material Alexis Hall
The Secret Service of Tea and Treason India Holton  
My Dear Henry: A Jekyll and Hyde Remix Kalynn Bayron
The Monsters we Defy Leslye Penelope
Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix Aminah Mae Safi
Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman Alan Rickman
Morgan Is My Name Sophie Keetch
Threads That Bind Kika Hatzopoulou
European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman Theodora Goss
Feeling Sorry for Celia Jaclyn Moriarty
Daughter of the Pirate King Tricia Levenseller
A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix C.B. Lee
Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour Tee Franklin
Magic for Liars Sarah Gailey
The Story of Owen Emily Kate Johnston
The Brilliant Death A.R. Capetta
Circle of Magic: Sandy’s Book Tamora Pierce
The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror Daniel M. Lavery  
Death's Detective- Malykant Mysteries #1-4 Charlotte E. English
The Salt Grows Heavy Cassandra Khaw
A Touch of Darkness- Hades & Persephone #1 Scarlett St. Clair
Mortal Follies Alexis Hall
Witch King Martha Wells
The London Séance Society Sarah Penner
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future David Attenborough, Jonnie Hughes
A Game of Fate- Hades Saga #1 Scarlett St. Clair
Immortal Longings Chloe Gong
Hooked Emily McIntire  
Foul Heart Huntsmen Chloe Gong
Signal to Noise Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Daughter of the Siren Queen Tricia Levenseller  
Starter Villain John Scalzi
The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl Theodora Goss
Starling House Alix E. Harrow
A Marvellous Light: The Last Binding #1 Freya Marske   
A Restless Truth: The Last Binding #2 Freya Marske 
Thornhedge T. Kingfisher
What the River Knows Isabel Ibanez  
The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments Hadley Vlahos
Misrule: Malice Duology #2 Heather Walter
The Raven and The Reindeer T. Kingfisher
A Power Unbound: The Last Binding #3 Freya Marske
I started some series, and I finished some series. I found new favourite authors and revisited some old favourites. Please take them as recommendations, or if you have read any of the same books come talk about them with me!  
Reminder you can also follow me on The Storygraph to see what I am reading in real time, where I am simply shy_fairy   
Previous Years Reading lists can be found here: 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
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nausikaaa · 10 months
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Books I Read In 2023, Part One
In January I decided I wanted to track my reading, as I usually don't really have a sense of how much I read per month or year. I don't like things like Goodreads, so I just jotted down the books I read and what I thought of them in my notes app. Now that we're halfway through the year, I thought I might share what I've read, and then in December I can add part 2. So, without further ado,
January
The Girl From The Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag. 3 stars, a bit slow but generally sweet and fun.
Jackalope Wives And Other Stories by T Kingfisher. 5 stars, every story slapped. would highly recommend if you like dark fairytales with a sense of humour.
February
started Helen Of Troy by Margaret George. I still haven't finished it (she is LONG) but i'm really enjoying it!
I Was Born For This by Alice Oseman. 4.5 stars, it was entertaining and emotional like all of Alice Oseman's books but i have to deduct a half a star for the main character (who is from the south) briefly assuming with no basis that being from north = transphobic and the narrative treating this as a rational assumption and not super bigoted and classist, like what the hell was that about? also via this interaction Alice Oseman managed to find yet another way to mention Durham in her books but this time i couldn't even go "yay i'm from there!" because now have this sense that she thinks i'm predisposed to transphobia because of where i'm from. i cannot stress this enough: what the fuck.
The Prince And The Dressmaker by Jen Wang. 5 stars, so heartwarming and i loved the art! I'm trying to get one of my friends to read it because I just know he'll relate.
March
The Lives Of The Saints by Leigh Bardugo. 3 stars, not really my jam but it adds another layer to her other books, which I really enjoy.
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. 3 stars, made my head hurt at times because it's kinda convoluted, but still super interesting. the musical is great too. and before you mention it, yes, i am reading Dykes To Watch Out For, but it's not on the list because I just started it, and I will probably read the bulk of it and finish it in July so it will fall under there.
April
Lies We Sing To The Sea by Sarah Underwood. 3.5 stars, i'll be honest, i read this out of morbid curiosity and spite. it was a pretty average for a YA book really, not worth all the drama it stirred up in the classics community, but the end surprised me so it gets an extra half star.
A Fatal Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum: Murder In Ancient Rome by Emma Southon. 4 stars, really interesting and quite funny at times but i just don't really like the author's vibe. she's weirdly defensive of Caligula, just as she was in her book on Agrippina that i read last year. like yeah people make fun of him and exaggerate stories about him but he literally killed people, maybe he deserves it.
May
Messalina: A Story Of Empire, Slander And Adultery by Honor Cargill-Martin. 5 stars, super interesting and engaging, i never wanted to put it down! Messalina really did just girlboss too close to the sun.
I travelled this month so didn't have time for any other books, but I bought my own weight in them and will try to work through them.
June
Rain Hare by Anna Barker. 4 stars, a collection of short stories so a mixed bag. I really liked most of them, some even made me cry (to be precise, How Do I Feel About Lentils?, which does an excellent job of blending past and present to help the reader get into the confused mind of the narrator, who has Alzheimer's, and Tunny, wherein the twist hit me like a sack of bricks and all I could do was break down) but there was just one i didn't really like (Sea Glass, i just don't really vibe with the mentally ill narrator dying at the end and this being presented as what she wanted.)
Through The Woods by Emily Carroll. 3.5 stars, good horror, the art was great and the stories interesting, but they all felt like they ended just a bit too soon and therefore lost some of their impact.
Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield. 6 stars, yes, i'm straight up giving this 6 out of 5 stars because it was so so good! i devoured it in one day flat and loved it. the horror was atmospheric and gripping, the romance made my chest ache, and the ending absolutely devastated me, but in a good way.
so yeah, hopefully i can continue to get through my massive TBR pile in the coming months! and if you've read any of these books, please let me know what you think, I would love to talk about them!!
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thequeerlibrarian · 1 year
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I saw this for 2022 and now I wanna do it for this year
23 books I want to finish in 2023
Ash Princess by Laura Sebastian
Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
The Silmarillion by Tolkien
One last stop by Casey McQuiston
Star War's Episode I
A Court of Thrones and Roses by Sarah J Maas
Lady Smoke by Laura Sebastian
Ember Queen by Laura Sebastian
Carry on by Simon Snow
Wayward son by Simon Snow
Any way the wind blows by Simon Snow
In Deeper Waters by F. T. Lukens
So this is ever after by F. T. Lukens
Seide und Schwert by Kai Meyer
Lanze und Licht by Kai Meyer
Drache und Diamant by Kai Meyer
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia C. S. Lewis
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader C. S. Lewis
The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis
The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis
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