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The Locked Tomb series +3
by Tamsyn Muir
The Percy Jackson & the Olympians series -1
by Rick Riordan
The Harry Potter series
by J.K. Rowling
The Six of Crows duology +3
by Leigh Bardugo
Dracula -3
by Bram Stoker
The Warrior Cats series -1
by Erin Hunter
A Song of Ice and Fire -1
by George R. R. Martin
The All for the Game series
by Nora Sakavic
The Discworld series +7
by Terry Pratchett
A Court of Thorns and Roses series +3
by Sarah J. Maas
The Silmarillion -1
by J. R. R. Tolkien
Pride And Prejudice -3
by Jane Austen
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
The Raven Cycle series +3
by Maggie Stiefvater
The Sun and the Star
by Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro
The Vampire Chronicles
by Anne Rice
Wings Of Fire +9
by Tui T. Sutherland
The Secret History -7
by Donna Tartt
The Trials of Apollo series -4
by Rick Riordan
The Iliad +10
by Homer
The Odyssey +24
by Homer
The Folk in the Air series -8
by Holly Black
The Animorphs series +5
by K. A. Applegate
The Stormlight Archive +8
by Brandon Sanderson
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
by Jeff Kinney
Moby Dick +24
by Herman Melville
1984 +6
by George Orwell
Fables
by Bill Willingham
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
by Franz Kafka
The Song of Achilles -10
by Madeline Miller
The Last Hours series
by Cassandra Clare
The Simon Snow series -10
by Rainbow Rowell
The Throne of Glass series +13
by Sarah J. Maas
Nimona
by ND Stevenson
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard +6
by Rick Riordan
The Bell Jar -15
by Sylvia Plath
The Dreamer trilogy +6
by Maggie Stiefvater
The Shadowhunter Chronicles -15
by Cassandra Clare
The Mistborn series
by Brandon Sanderson
This Is How You Lose the Time War
by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Captive Prince -1
by C. S. Pacat
The Twilight Saga -7
by Stephanie Meyer
The Sandman
by Neil Gaiman
The Deltora Quest series
by Jennifer Rowe
Romeo and Juliet -8
by William Shakespeare
The Far Side
by Gary Larson
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde +2
by Robert Lewis Stevenson
Calvin and Hobbes
by Bill Watterson
The Picture of Dorian Gray -31
by Oscar Wilde
Good Omens
by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
The number in italics indicates how many spots a title moved up or down from the previous year. Bolded titles weren’t on the list last year.
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Pick a Picture Reading | PAC
Pick a picture 1 - 2 - 3
Hello, sweethearts. It's an unusual reading. I picked quotes for each pile that will give you insights or enlighten you.
Pile 1
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
— Sigmund Freud
“Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar’s vile tongue be cut out!”
— Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
“Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
“Evil is just what is positive; it makes its own existence felt.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Sufferings of the World
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
— F. Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
”The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Who are you then?”
“I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.”
— Goethe, Faust
Pile 2
"In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness."
— C.G. Jung
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And so, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.”
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication"
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Don’t worry about people. People think what you want them to think.”
— Theodore Dreiser, The Financier
Pile 3
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
— George Orwell, 1984
“To define is to limit.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
“If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“Hardships make or break people.”
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.“
— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
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