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Goodreads Monday #8
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Goodreads Monday is a weekly "challenge" started by Lauren's Page Turners, where you pick a random book off your TBR to highlight books that might get lost in the shuffle.
This week, I'm highlighting Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi!
From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi--a scavenger and an oddball fixture at a local café--collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people and to give them proper burial. But when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps the city, and reports stream in of a horrendous-looking criminal who, though shot, cannot be killed. Hadi soon realizes he's created a monster, one that needs human flesh to survive--first from the guilty, and then from anyone in its path. A prizewinning novel by "Baghdad's new literary star" (The New York Times), Frankenstein in Baghdad captures with white-knuckle horror and black humor the surreal reality of contemporary Iraq.
What do you think? On your TBR? Have you read it?
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アフマド・サアダーウィー、柳谷あゆみ訳『バグダードのフランケンシュタイン』(集英社)自爆テロでバラバラになった死体の部位をつないで作られた一人分の遺体が動き出す(それを呼ぶなら「フランケンシュタインの怪物」だよね)。怪奇幻想というよりは、同じ通りの住人たちが織りなす人間ドラマ。
※アラブ世界では個人名(イスム)のほかに、長男の名前に「ウンム(=~の母)」や「アブー(=~の父)」をつける呼称(クンヤ)も一般的に用いられる。 という説明書きがあり、大変役立った。要するに、ウンム・〇〇=〇〇くんママ、アブー・〇〇=〇〇くんパパということなのだな。勉強になった。
装画:小山義人 装丁:川名潤
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From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi--a scavenger and an oddball fixture at a local café--collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people and to give them proper burial. But when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps the city, and reports stream in of a horrendous-looking criminal who, though shot, cannot be killed. Hadi soon realizes he's created a monster, one that needs human flesh to survive--first from the guilty, and then from anyone in its path. A prizewinning novel by "Baghdad's new literary star" (The New York Times), Frankenstein in Baghdad captures with white-knuckle horror and black humor the surreal reality of contemporary Iraq.
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✨BOOKS TO READ BASED ON YOUR FAVORITE STUDIO GHIBLI FILM✨
The books shown are as follows:
✨SPIRITED AWAY
- Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater
- The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh
- A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynn Jones
✨PRINCESS MONONOKE
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
- Wilder Girls by Rory Power
- The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
✨MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO
- Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend
- The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
- Redwall by Brian Jacques
✨PONYO
- Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang
- Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
✨KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE
- Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
- The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
- Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley
✨FROM UP ON POPPY HILL
- Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
- Oceanography of the Moon by Glendy Vanderah
✨TALES FROM EARTHSEA
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
- Dragon Sword and Wind Child by Noriko Ogiwara
- Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
✨THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETY
- Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
- The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
- Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harlow
✨GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES
- Never Let Me Go by Kashuo Ishiguro
- Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
- Everything I Never Told You By Celeste Ng
✨WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE
- Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine Saint-Exupéry
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
✨EXTRAS (adaptations or inspirations):
- Kiki's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono
- Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Grave of the Fireflies by Akiyuki Nosaka
- The Borrowers by Mary Norton
- From Up on Poppy Hill by Tetsurō Sayama
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daisysjones · 1 year
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2023 Books Read
Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield (Dec 31-Jan 2)
See You Yesterday - Rachel Lynn Solomon (Jan 2-Jan 3)
All Dressed Up - Jilly Gagnon (Jan 4)
She Gets the Girl - Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick (Jan 5-Jan 6)
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline (Jan 6-Jan 10)
Jamaica Inn - Daphne Du Maurier (Jan 10-Jan 13)
Greywaren - Maggie Stiefvater (Jan 14-Jan 16)
The Ballad of Never After - Stephanie Garber (Jan 17-Jan 22)
By the Book - Jasmine Guillory (Jan 22-Jan 24)
Portrait of a Thief - Grace D Li (Jan 25-Feb 4)
Pride and Prejudice (reread, audiobook) - Jane Austen (Jan 31-Feb 6)
Macbeth (reread) - William Shakespeare (Feb 6-Feb 10)
Normal People - Sally Rooney (Feb 18-Feb 22)
All the Dangerous Things - Stacy Willingham (Feb 23-Feb 25)
The Diary of Mary Berg - Mary Berg (Feb 17-Feb 27)
The Witch Haven - Sasha Peyton Smith (Mar 4-Mar 11)
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Feb 26-Mar 12)
The Witch Hunt - Sasha Peyton Smith (Mar 19-Mar 22)
Jonny Appleseed - Joshua Whitehead (Mar 19-Mar 28)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie (Mar 25-Mar 29)
Last Violent Call - Chloe Gong (Mar 30-Apr 1)
Beartown - Fredrik Backman (Apr 1-Apr 4)
People We Meet on Vacation (reread) - Emily Henry (Apr 5-Apr 7)
Notes on an Execution - Danya Kukafka (Apr 8)
Kiss Her Once For Me - Alison Cochran (Apr 8-Apr 10)
If You Could See the Sun - Ann Liang (Apr 11-Apr 15)
Murder at the Vicarage - Agatha Christie (Apr 15-Apr 19)
The Appeal - Janice Hallett (Apr 19-Apr 20)
The Black Spider - Jeremias Gotthelf (Apr 20)
Molly of the Mall - Heidi L.M. Jacobs (Apr 21-Apr 22)
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein - Kiersten White (April 23-Apr 25)
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (April 26-Apr 28)
Happy Place - Emily Henry (Apr 29)
Us Against You - Fredrik Backman (Apr 30-May 3)
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (May 3-May 5)
Juniper and Thorn - Ava Reid (May 6-May 10)
Meet Me at the Lake - Carley Fortune (May 11-May 12)
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (May 12-May 19)
Anne of Green Gables (reread) - L.M. Montgomery (May 19-May 22)
Anne of Avonlea (reread) - L.M. Montgomery (May 24-May 26)
Anne of the Island (reread) - L.M. Montgomery (May 26-May 30)
The Winners - Fredrik Backman (June 2-June 6)
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (June 7-June 8)
Peril at End House - Agatha Christie (June 9)
The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B (reread) - Sandra Gulland (June 11-June 12)
Tales of Passion Tales of Woe - Sandra Gulland (June 13-June 14)
The Last Great Dance on Earth - Sandra Gulland (June 14-June 15)
Frankenstein in Baghdad - Ahmed Saadawi (June 15-June 18)
Crooked House - Agatha Christie (June 22-June 24)
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (June 20-June 30)
I Must Betray You - Ruta Sepetys (June 30-July 1)
Pageboy - Elliot Page (July 2-July 4)
This Time It’s Real - Ann Liang (July 6)
The Last Word - Taylor Adams (July 6-July 7)
The Fiancée Farce - Alexandria Bellefleur (July 7-July 8) 
The Guilt Trip - Sandie Jones (July 8)
Camp Zero - Michelle Min Sterling (July 8)
The Berry Pickers - Amanda Peters (July 8-July 9)
Family of Liars - E. Lockhart (July 9-July 11)
The Last House Guest - Megan Miranda (July 11-July 12)
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride - Roshani Chokshi (July 14-July 21)
Rolling in the Deep (audiobook) - Mira Grant (July 20-July 21)
Wunderland - Jennifer Cody Epstein (July 21-July 23)
The Stationary Shop of Tehran (July 24-27)
Yellowface - R.F. Kuang (July 27-July 29)
These Violent Delights - Micah Nemerever (July 29-Aug 3)
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë (Aug 3-Aug 5)
Begin Again - Emma Lord (Aug 6-Aug 8)
Medicine Walk - Richard Wagamese (Aug 8-Aug 12)
419 - Will Ferguson (Aug 16-Aug 19)
Harlem Shuffle - Colson Whitehead (Aug 21-Aug 24)
Ballet Shoes (reread) - Noel Streatfeild (Aug 25-Aug 26)
Songs for the Missing - Stewart O’Nan (Aug 28-Aug 31)
You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight - Kalynn Bayron (Sept 1-Sept 2)
I’ve Got Your Number - Sophie Kinsella (Sept 2)
The Adult - Bronwyn Fischer (Sept 3)
Nine Liars - Maureen Johnson (Sept 4-Sept 6)
Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan (Sept 6)
The Honeys - Ryan La Sala (Sept 15-Sept 19)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne (Sept 12-Sept 20)
Beowulf - Unknown (Sept 8-Sept 21)
The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side - Agatha Christie (Sept 21-Sept 25)
Better Than the Movies - Lynn Painter (Sept 26-Sept 30)
Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer (Oct 4-Oct 7)
And Don’t Look Back - Rebecca Barrow (Oct 7)
Hallowe’en Party - Agatha Christie (Oct 8-Oct 9)
Cannibal Island - Nichlolas Werth (Oct 9-Oct 22)
The Final Gambit - Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Oct 17-Oct 22)
Stalin’s Nomads: Power and Famine in Kazakhstan - Robert Kindler (Oct 16-Oct 24)
Six of Crows (reread) - Leigh Bardugo (Oct 25-Oct 30)
Crooked Kingdom (reread) - Leigh Bardugo (Nov 3-Nov 7)
Sadie (reread) - Courtney Summers (Nov 9-Nov 10)
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells (Nov 6-Nov 13)
Hamlet - William Shakespeare (Nov 6-Nov 13)
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (reread) - Holly Jackson (Nov 11-Nov 15)
Good Girl, Bad Blood (reread) - Holly Jackson (Nov 15-Nov 18)
As Good as Dead (reread) - Holly Jackson (Nov 20-Nov 23)
Red White and Royal Blue (reread) - Casey McQuiston (Nov 25-Dec 5)
The Secret History - Donna Tartt (Dec 18-Dec 22)
The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth (Dec 24-Dec 25)
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries - Heather Fawcett (Dec 25-Dec 27)
Murder in the Family - Cara Hunter (Dec 28)
Three Holidays and a Wedding - Uzma Jalaluddin, Marissa Stapley (Dec 29)
The Book of Cold Cases - Simone St James (Dec 30-Dec 31)
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spider-xan · 3 months
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The side of the Frankenstein display case with the books representing Frankenstein in Comics (top) and Frankenstein in Fiction (bottom), and the Junji Ito comics adaptation and Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi representing each, respectively; the other side of the case has different editions of the original novel, including a black and white annotated version and a pop up book.
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Do you have any nonfiction that you would recommend if someone was interested in the US Navy/military?
im probably not the right person to ask this bc most of my military knowledge hyperfixation is centered on the ARMY in the American Revolutionary War & World War II. It’s only pretty recently that i got into modern warfare as a topic, so let me just give some indiscriminate recs
Can’t go wrong with David McCullough‘s 1776, which is a great overview of the first year of the revolutionary war + the extremely fraught politics of trying to start a new nation’s military—really illustrates where a bunch of lingering schools of thought in our military originated from.
Another David McCullough shout-out: his The Wright Brothers is an excellent book about the origins of flight, AND it was the book right next to the picture of Ice and Maverick shaking hands on Ice’s bookshelf in TGM. So we know ice has read that one. I think you can’t go wrong at all with any David McCullough. I own like 5-6 of his books and he hasn’t missed once. (His best is John Adams but that’s not mil related)
Ron chernows biography of Washington goes into his military background (7 years' war) a whole bunch, and kind of elucidates how truly fortunate we were to have our nation’s first leader be a military man who really kinda didn’t want to be there. Some really good takes on leadership. Just beware that chernow does have a reputation in the history community for just makin shit up sometimes. If it sounds too cute/quaint to be true, it really might be.
u may be tempted: DO NOT read Brian kilmeade's Thomas Jefferson & the Tripoli Pirates, one of the few navy NF books I've read. I read it b4 I even knew who kilmeade was--didn't matter. it fucking sucks. he uses like 7 sources in the whole book.
Stephen E. Ambrose's Citizen Soldiers is a great WWII NF book about that generation of infantrymen.
The one big Navy NF book I've read recently is (not to brag but my personally signed copy of) Craig symonds' new biography of admiral Chester Nimitz, who was COMPACFLT during WWII's war in the pacific. I got a SHIT ton of professional characterization for Ice from Nimitz' life and this book--Nimitz also worked 18 hour days, was also separated from the love of his life for long periods of time in Hawaii, was also probably acutely depressed, etc.
okay: THOMAS E. RICKS. The Generals is SUCH a good book. Army leadership from WWII up through Iraq and Afghanistan. Focusing on how the Army used to relieve (fire) commissioned officers who couldn't hack it, and that's a huge part of why we won WWII, but somewhere between WWII and Korea, being fired started being super shameful (macarthur's fault if I'm reading it correctly) so mediocre officers didn't get fired and that's why the army has suffered shit leadership in every war since WWII. It's a HUGE thesis that he backs up so well. Would so recommend. I'm also currently reading his FIASCO about the fuck-up of Iraq. Also incredible so far.
Michael O'Hanlon's Military History for the Modern Strategist-- a post Civil War survey of military strategy on the campaign/operational level. Might be a good introduction to US military history, just giving a pretty broad overview of post-CW warfare, so that way you don't pick up a random book about the Korean War and go "wait what was the Chosin campaign again?" Interestingly written and I got to meet him and he wrote "wishing you the best" in my book after I told him I wanted to steal his job at Brookings someday, so admittedly I'm biased.
Lawrence Wright's The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State is not strictly military related, but it is one of the best-written and most illuminating nonfiction books I've ever read and I cannot recommend it enough.
For war fiction, my taste is v mainstream: Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy, Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato (imo better than the things they carried), Ahmed Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad, Kevin Powers' The Yellow Birds, Cannot Miss Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front if you haven't read it, Hassan Blasim's The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of Iraq... For specifically Naval lit: Run Silent, Run Deep is a pretty good classic, and this summer I read the 600-page behemoth The Caine Mutiny, which is about specifically WWII-era naval law... it's a brick. But it won a pulitzer and it's...passable. Kind of interesting at least.
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2023 in books: fiction edition
literary fiction published 2013-2023 (based on English translation)
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Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
There’s No Such Thing As an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
Human Acts by Han Kang (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
Bunny by Mona Awad (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
All Your Children Scattered by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
Mister N by Najwa Barakat (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
Brickmakers by Selva Almada (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
True Biz by Sara Nović (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
Abyss by Pilar Quintana (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
Spring Garden by Tomoka Shibasaki (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
Rombo by Esther Kinsky (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
Concerning My Daughter by Kim Hye-Jin (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
The House of Rust by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
Men without Women by Haruki Murakami (⭐⭐⭐)
The Sky Above the Roof by Natacha Appanah (⭐⭐⭐)
Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa (⭐⭐⭐)
Luster by Raven Leilani (⭐⭐⭐)
Solo Dance by Li Kotomi (⭐⭐⭐)
Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah (⭐⭐⭐)
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste (⭐⭐⭐)
The Deep by Rivers Solomon (⭐⭐⭐)
Afterlives by Abdurazak Gurnah (⭐⭐⭐)
Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey
Indelicacy by Amina Cain (⭐⭐⭐)
Out of Love by Hazel Hayes (⭐⭐⭐)
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (⭐⭐⭐)
The Reactive by Masande Ntshanga (⭐⭐⭐)
The Houseguest: And Other Stories by Amparo Dávila (⭐⭐)
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Owlish by Dorothy Tse (⭐⭐)
The President and the Frog by Carolina de Robertis (⭐⭐)
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3. Top five books I read this year, in no particular order because I cannot choose:
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
Rosewater by Tade Thompson (I've yet to read the third book in this trilogy, but the second one was also really good!)
The Boat of Quiet Hours by Jane Kenyon (purchased by accident at a used bookstore - I was actually thinking of Jane Hirshfield, but this worked out really well)
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante
5. Most read genre - according to StoryGraph, almost half of what I read this year was fantasy! Sci-fi was a distant second, although I feel like I liked the sci-fi I read better overall than the fantasy.
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Summer Reading 2023
Links to 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016
Fiction
How Do You Live 君たちはどう生か by Genzaburo Yoshino
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Medieval Noir
Veil of Lies by Jeri Westerson
Serpent in the Thorns by Jeri Westerson
Sci-fi/Fantasy
Star Wars: The Rising Storm by Cavan Scott
Star Wars: Light of the Jedi
YA
Healer and Witch by Nancy Werlin
Runemarks by Joanne Harris
Nonfiction
White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao
Academic
From Plato to Lancelot: A Preface to Chrétien de Troyes by K. Sarah Murray
The Romances of Chrétien de Troyes by Joseph Duggan
Love cures : healing and love magic in old French by Laine E. Doggett
The Oxford handbook of Ecocriticism edited by Greg Garrad
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Tag nine (9) people you'd like to know better
Tagged by @aragarna and @thesymphonytrue Thanks for the tag!
Last song: Amen--Frankenstein A New Musical. (An absolute banger I might add.)
Currently reading: Just finished reading Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi. Not at all what I was expecting but it made for a fun, slightly chilling, and interesting read. Enjoyed the commentary on contemporary Iraq and the horrors of war.
Currently watching: My mother and I are watching Star Trek in chronological order, starting with Enterprise. (sorry not sorry for the ST spam🤣)
Current obsession: The Beetlejuice musical!😂 (I just saw the movie for the first time so that was the next obvious decision lol). The Star Trek hyperfixation has been reignited hehehehe. And White Collar always lol. Oh and I recently saw Elemental with friends and I’m in loveeee 🥰
Tagging: If you see this, feel free to join in! UwU
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aegissi · 2 years
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tagged by @heavenlyyshecomes for quarterly book recs 🧸☁️
🐰 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
🧙🏾 A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
🪁 Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
⚒️ Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
🩹 Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
🌿 A Mercy by Toni Morrison
🐦 Please Look After Mother by Shin Kyung-sook
📰 Cry, Mother Spain by Lydie Salvayre
🌊 Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto
tagging @lovlettres @syrejaden @helenfrankenthaler @vympr @dogsongs @cultcupid @mossyshadows @unlove 🫂💕
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poetlcs · 1 year
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2023 reading tracker
total: 75/52
sff
a sky beyond the storm - sabaa tahir
enclave - claire g. coleman
a criminal magic - lee kelly (dnf)
the shattered city - lisa maxwell
a feast for crows - george r.r martin
the ballad of songbirds and snakes - suzanne collins
chain of iron - cassandra clare
hell bent - leigh bardugo
chain of thorns - cassandra clare
the bronzed beasts - roshani chokshi
the drowning faith - r.f kuang
how high we go in the dark - sequoia nagamatsu
the jasmine throne - tasha suri
the hunger games - suzanne collins
catching fire - suzanne collins
mockingjay - suzanne collins
a far wilder magic - allison saft
translated
the transmigration of bodies - yuri herrera
portrait of an unknown lady - maria gainza
love in the big city - sang young park
my brilliant friend - elena ferrante
frankenstein in baghdad - ahmed saadawi
la bastarda - trifonia melibea obono
bolla - pajtim statovci
contemporary
you are eating an orange. you are naked - sheung-king
seeing other people - diana reid
the henna wars - adiba jaigirdar
you and me on vacation - emily henry
now that i see you - emma batchelor 
delilah green doesn’t care - ashley herring blake
becoming kirrali lewis - jane harrison
style - chelsea m. cameron
yellowface - rf kuang
the summer i turned pretty - jenny han
it’s not summer without you - jenny han
the charm offensive - alison cochrun
love & virtue - diana reid
the divines - ellie eaton
sincerely, carter - whitney g
crushing - genevieve novak
icebreaker - hannah grace
cleopatra & frankenstein - coco mellors
duck a l’orange for breakfast - karina may
happy place - emily henry
wildfire - hannah grace
i am not your perfect mexican daughter - erika l. sanchez
you don’t have a shot - racquel marie
mystery/thriller
final girls - riley sager
nine liars - maureen johnson
the box in the woods - maureen johnson
a good girls guide to murder - holly jackson
good girl, bad blood - holly jackson
queen of the tiles - hanna alkaf
as good as dead - holly jackson
kill joy - holly jackson
five survive - holly jackson
the dry - jane harper
non-fiction
mirror sydney - vanessa berry
in byrons wake: the turbulent lives of lord byron’s wife and daughter, annabella milbanke and ada lovelace - miranda seymour
the lavender scare: the cold war persecution of gays and lesbians in the federal government - david k. johnson
odd girl out: the hidden culture of aggression in girls - rachel simmons
dinosaurs rediscovered - michael j. benton
queer others in victorian gothic - ardel haefele-thomas
alone time: four cities, four seasons and the pleasures of solitude - stephanie rosenbloom
how to break up with fast fashion - lauren bravo
the white album - joan didion
the gene - siddhartha mukherjee
the new hite report: the revolutionary report on female sexuality - shere hite
my body - emily ratajkowski
historical fiction
the mountains sing - nguyen phan que mai
one for the master - dorothy johnson
tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow - gabrielle zevin
the christie affair (dnf) - nina de gramont
classics
things fall apart - chinua achebe
northanger abbey - jane austen
jamaica inn - daphne du maurier 
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Annie's 2023 books
also links to goodreads and my newly-created storygraph !
The Chimes by Charles Dickens; 4/5 stars
The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens; 4/5 stars
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien; 5/5 stars
Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore; 5/5 stars
The Color Purple by Alice Walker; 5/5 stars
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz; 4/5 stars
Nemesis Games (The Expanse #5) by James S.A. Corey; 4.5/5 stars
Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse #6) by James S.A. Corey; 3.5/5 stars
The Dirty Dust: Cré na Cille by Máirtín Ó Cadhain, 4/5 stars
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, 5/5 stars
Children of Dune (Dune #3) by Frank Herbert; 5/5 stars
Out by Natsuo Kirino; 3/5 stars
Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood; 4/5 stars
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick; 3/5 stars
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland; 3/5 stars
Doctor Who: Choose the Future: Terror Moon by Trevor Baxendale; 2/5 stars
Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter; 4.5/5 stars
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty; 3.5/5 stars
There There by Tommy Orange; 5/5 stars
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd; 4/5 stars
Torto Arado by Itamar Vieira Junior; 4/5 stars
All the Murmuring Bones by A.G. Slatter; 4/5 stars
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov; 5/5 stars
Doom Patrol Vol. 5: Magic Bus by Grant Morrison; 5/5 stars
Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky; 4/5 stars
Doom Patrol Vol. 6: Planet Love by Grant Morrison; 4/5 stars
Doom Force #1 by Grant Morrison; 3/5 stars
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy; 4/5 stars
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; 3.5/5 stars
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; 5/5 stars
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia; 4/5 stars
Collected Short Stories by Heinrich Böll; 4/5 stars
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi; 4/5 stars
The Viy by Nikolai Gogol; 4/5 stars
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe; 3/5 stars
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1) by Rick Riordan; 5/5 stars
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid; 2/5 stars
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse #7) by James S.A. Corey; 3/5 stars
Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos; 4/5 stars
Sourcery by Terry Pratchett; 3/5 stars
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #2) by Rick Riordan; 5/5 stars
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