Continuing the thread again:
11. What A Way to Go — Bella Mackie
12. Piranesi — Susanna Clarke (✨SO GOOD✨)
13. Field Notes for the Wilderness —Sarah Bessey
14. The Poisonwood Bible — Barbara Kingsolver
15. Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov
16. Devolution — Max Brooks
Send recs; my TBR is cowering before me.

January has been dedicated to reading (a) random books in my childhood room (including ones my parents left there for me while I’ve been away ❤️), (b) secondhand Secret Santa gifts that I brought with me, and (c) the 900-pg tearjerker monstrosity I’ve been threatening to finish since 2020.

4. Trinity — Leon Uris
5. Beware the Woman — Megan Abbott
6. youthjuice — E. K. Sathue
7. A Kiss Before Dying — Ira Levin
8. Pandora — Susan Stokes-Chapman
9. Pieces of Her — Karin Slaughter
10. The Hundred Thousand Kingdom — N. K. Jemisin (an old favourite, clearly)

I’m on a roll, so I’m making this into a thread of 2025 reads — until I inevitably forget to update it.

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