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My TBR List

My TBR list is an ever-changing beast. 



I won't be updating this consistently, but here are some of the things on my TBR list, which you can expect to see here in the future:

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Finished

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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
If We Were Villains - M. L. Rio
Anxious People - Frederic Backman
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury 
Call Us What We Carry - Amanda Gorman
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
The Sword of Kaigen - M. L. Wang
The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
Anxious People - Frederic Backman
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
The Ice Palace - Tarjei Vesaas
Dune - Frank Herbert
Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
Circe - Madeline Miller
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V. E. Schwab
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: and Other Lessons from the Crematory - Caitlin Doughty
Kingdom of the Wicked - Kerri Maniscalco
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Firekeeper's Daughter - Angeline Boulley
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
A Game of Fate - Scarlett St. Clair
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho 
We Hunt the Flame - Hafsah Faizal 
Milk and Honey - Rupi Kaur
The Cruel Prince - Holly Black
Frankenstein in Bagdad - Ahmed Saadawi
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez 
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Siege and Storm - Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising - Leigh Bardugo
The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
My Dawn is Only Five Hours Away - Dion Anja
The Traveler's Gate Trilogy - Will Wight
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
From Blood and Ash - Jennifer L. Armentrout
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern 
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon
Red, White & Royal Blue - Casy McQuinston
The Ninth Rain - Jen Williams
Crier's War - Nina Varela
Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyemi
This is How You Lose the Time War - Max Gladstone
Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo 
Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo
Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
The Poppy War - R. F. Kuang
The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson 
A Darker Shade of Magic - V. E. Schwab
The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson 
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
The City of Brass - S. A. Chakraborty
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Caraval - Stephanie Garber
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
Cloud Atlas - David Stephen Mitchell
Swamplandia - Karen Russel
The Lost Apothecary - Sarah Penner
Neon Gods - Katee Robert
The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Uprooted - Naomi Novik 
Beautiful World, Where Are You - Sally Rooney
The Mistborn Trilogy - Brandon Sanderson
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
A Deadly Education - Naomi Novik
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose - Eckhart Tolle
The Prestige - Christopher Priest 
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs 
Four Quartets - T. S. Eliot
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel - Susanna Clarke
The Fig Eater - Jodi Shields
Vicious - V. E. Schwab
Vengeful - V. E. Schwab
Thorne Bay - Jeanine Croft
Dominicana - Angie Cruz
The Atlas Six - Olivie Blake
Sailing to Sarantium - Guy Gavriel Kay
The Drama of the Gifted Child: the Search for the True Self - Alice Miller
The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
The Midnight Sea - Kat Ross
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
The Near Witch - V. E. Schwab
Radiance - Catherynne M. Valente
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
The Last Days of Night - Graham Moore
Strange the Dreamer - Laini Taylor
Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman
Eragon - Christopher Paolini
The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson
The Inferno - Dante
The Hazel Wood - Melissa Albert
Red Rising - Pierce Brown
People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
Sabriel - Garth Nix
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Written in Red - Anne Bishop
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
The Glass Hotel - Emily St. John Mandel
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
The Shadow Land - Elizabeth Kostova
First Love - Ivan Turgenev
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
Incarceron - Catherine Fisher
Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Shape of Water - Guillermo Del Toro and Daniel Kraus
Daughter of Smoke and Bone - Laini Taylor
From Lukov with Love - Mariana Zapata
These Violent Delights - Chloe Gong
A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
The Hating Game - Sally Thorne
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Broken Wings - Kahlil Gibran
The Girl Who Drank the Moon - Kelly Barnhill
No Matter the Wreckage - Sarah Kay
The Swan Thieves - Elizabeth Kostova
Devotions - Mary Oliver
Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik
Sea of Strangers - Lang Leav
A Spy in the House of Love - Anaïs Nin
Echo - Francesca Lia Block
Falling Out of Time - O. R. Melling
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Delta of Venus - Anaïs Nin
A Castle in the Clouds - Kerstin Gier
Dreamtigers - Jorge Luis Borges
Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin - Anaïs Nin
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
A History of Celibacy - Elizabeth Abbott
Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges 
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho - Sappho
Untold Night and Day - Bae Suah
Little Birds - Anaïs Nin
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf 
Rebel of the Sands - Alwyn Hamilton
The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Color of Water: a Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother - James McBride
Wow, No Thank You: Essays - Samantha Irby
The Way of the Peaceful Warrior - Dan Millman
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened - Allie Brosh
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Perfume: the Story of a Murderer - Patrick Süskind
Night Sky with Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
Soulless - Gail Carriger
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? - Lorrie Moore
Snow - Orhan Pamuk
Paradise Lost - John Milton
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan
You've Reached Sam - Dustin Thao
Middle March - George Eliot
Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Animal's People - Indra Sinha
Funny Boy - Shyam Selvadurai
Sky in the Deep - Adrienne Young
Cosmos - Carl Sagan
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
Seam - Tarfia Faizullah
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Expéry
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
A Woman - Sibilla Aleramo
Psyche in a Dress - Francesca Lia Block
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Flight of the Horse - Larry Niven
Perdido Street Station - China Miéville
The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood
Adulthood is a Myth - Sarah Andersen
The Witch's Heart - Genevieve Gornichec
A Thousand Ships - Natalie Haynes
Galatea - Madeline Miller
Malice - John Gwynne
The Rage of Dragons - Evan Winter
Daughter of the Pirate King - Tricia Levenseller
The Diviners - Libba Bray
The Dating Plan - Sara Desai
Foundryside - Robert Jackson Bennett
Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson
The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin
Prince of Thorns - Mark Lawrence
The Shadow of What Was Lost - James Islington
The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
Promise of Blood - Brian McClellan
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Moshfegh Ottessa
Normal People - Sally Rooney
The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker
The People Look Like Flowers at Last - Charles Bukowski
Number9Dream - David Mitchell
The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende
Love is a Dog From Hell - Charles Bukowski
The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell
Possibility of Being - Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
House of Salt and Sorrows - Erin A. Craig
The Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson
The Dark Interval - Rainer Maria Rilke
He, She and It - Marge Piercy
A Room with a View - E. M. Forster
For the Wolf - Hannah Whitten
The Vanishing Deep - Astrid Scholte
Kiki's Delivery Service - Eiko Kadono
The Missing of Claire de Lune - Christelle Dabos
The Memory of Babel - Christelle Dabos
The Storm of Echoes - Christelle Dabos
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Pablo Neruda
The Once and Future Witches - Alix E. Harrow
Little Thieves - Margaret Owen
The Never Tilting World - Rin Chupeco
The Helm of Midnight - Lostetter
Slaughter House Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
Purple and Black - K. J. Parker
The Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu
A Spindle Splintered - Alix E. Harrow
The Bone Season - Samantha Shannon
His Majesty's Dragon - Naomi Novik
Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater
Malice - Heather Walter
Bluets - Maggie Nelson
The Winter Duke - Claire Eliza Bartlett
The Raven Boys - Maggie Stiefvater
Ruby Red - Kerstin Gier
Permanent Record - Edward Snowden
Big Panda and Tiny Dragon - James Norbury
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown - Holly Black
Jade City - Fonda Lee
The Beekeeper of Aleppo - Christy Lefteri
The Archived - Victoria Schwab
Radiance - Grace Draven
The Bedlam Stacks - Natasha Pulley
A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
Only a Monster - Vanessa Len
Fortuna Sworn - K. J. Sutton
The House in the Cerulean Sea - T. J. Klune
Life From Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki
The Wolf and the Woodsman - Ava Reid
Crown of Coral and Pearl - Mara Rutherford
The Wrath and the Dawn - Renee Ahdieh
Sin Eater - Megan Campisi
A Far Wilder Magic - Allison Saft
All the Ways We Said Goodbye - Beatriz Williams
The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern
The Binding - Bridget Collins
Redwall - Brian Jacques
A Deal with the Elf King - Elise Kova
Legendborn - Tracy Deonn
Small Favors - Erin A. Craig
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea - Axie Oh
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
Daughters of a Dead Empire - Carolyn Tara O'Neil
Notre-Dame de Paris - Victor Hugo
A Magic Steeped in Poison - Judy I. Lin



This list is in no particular order. Some of these are rereads, while others I've yet to pick up. 

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