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30. Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
Manhattan, 1746. Mr. Smith arrives at the counting-house with an order for 1000 pounds.
Why is he there? What's the money for?
Mr. Smith gets into all kinds of scrapes, and I really enjoyed following his story.
Really fun historical fiction.
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Manhattan, 1746. Mr. Smith arrives at the counting-house with an order for 1000 pounds.
Why is he there? What's the money for?
Mr. Smith gets into all kinds of scrapes, and I really enjoyed following his story.
Really fun historical fiction.
💙📚
August 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
30. Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
Manhattan, 1746. Mr. Smith arrives at the counting-house with an order for 1000 pounds.
Why is he there? What's the money for?
Mr. Smith gets into all kinds of scrapes, and I really enjoyed following his story.
Really fun historical fiction.
💙📚
Manhattan, 1746. Mr. Smith arrives at the counting-house with an order for 1000 pounds.
Why is he there? What's the money for?
Mr. Smith gets into all kinds of scrapes, and I really enjoyed following his story.
Really fun historical fiction.
💙📚
29. Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Wallace, a gay Black graduate student, finds himself at a crossroads after his father dies. An unexpected encounter with a straight white man brings things to a head one weekend.
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Wallace, a gay Black graduate student, finds himself at a crossroads after his father dies. An unexpected encounter with a straight white man brings things to a head one weekend.
💙📚
August 15, 2025 at 2:53 AM
29. Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Wallace, a gay Black graduate student, finds himself at a crossroads after his father dies. An unexpected encounter with a straight white man brings things to a head one weekend.
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Wallace, a gay Black graduate student, finds himself at a crossroads after his father dies. An unexpected encounter with a straight white man brings things to a head one weekend.
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28. This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer
Rock climbing trip goes wrong. Our protagonists can't get back to the car, no matter how long they walk. Also, ghosts. The land wants blood.
A good palate cleanser for me after a rough reading month in July.
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Rock climbing trip goes wrong. Our protagonists can't get back to the car, no matter how long they walk. Also, ghosts. The land wants blood.
A good palate cleanser for me after a rough reading month in July.
🩸📚💙
August 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
28. This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer
Rock climbing trip goes wrong. Our protagonists can't get back to the car, no matter how long they walk. Also, ghosts. The land wants blood.
A good palate cleanser for me after a rough reading month in July.
🩸📚💙
Rock climbing trip goes wrong. Our protagonists can't get back to the car, no matter how long they walk. Also, ghosts. The land wants blood.
A good palate cleanser for me after a rough reading month in July.
🩸📚💙
27. Silence is My Mother Tongue by Sulaiman Addonia
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.
Solid novel about life in a refugee camp. I'm in a bit of a reading slump lately, and I never quite locked in to it. At least I finished it. Can't say that about some of my July reads.
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Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.
Solid novel about life in a refugee camp. I'm in a bit of a reading slump lately, and I never quite locked in to it. At least I finished it. Can't say that about some of my July reads.
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July 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
27. Silence is My Mother Tongue by Sulaiman Addonia
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.
Solid novel about life in a refugee camp. I'm in a bit of a reading slump lately, and I never quite locked in to it. At least I finished it. Can't say that about some of my July reads.
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Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.
Solid novel about life in a refugee camp. I'm in a bit of a reading slump lately, and I never quite locked in to it. At least I finished it. Can't say that about some of my July reads.
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26. Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham
Small-time grifter Stan rises from magician in a carnival to Spiritualist preacher to the ultra-rich. Then he falls.
Stan is a dirtbag. The book is a bummer. But overall, a very well-written noir-adjacent story.
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Small-time grifter Stan rises from magician in a carnival to Spiritualist preacher to the ultra-rich. Then he falls.
Stan is a dirtbag. The book is a bummer. But overall, a very well-written noir-adjacent story.
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July 7, 2025 at 2:29 AM
26. Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham
Small-time grifter Stan rises from magician in a carnival to Spiritualist preacher to the ultra-rich. Then he falls.
Stan is a dirtbag. The book is a bummer. But overall, a very well-written noir-adjacent story.
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Small-time grifter Stan rises from magician in a carnival to Spiritualist preacher to the ultra-rich. Then he falls.
Stan is a dirtbag. The book is a bummer. But overall, a very well-written noir-adjacent story.
📚💙
25. The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste
Talitha returns to her old neighborhood, which has been been separate from our reality for the last twenty years. No one could enter or leave, except the three survivors.
Sad story about ghosts literal and figurative.
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Talitha returns to her old neighborhood, which has been been separate from our reality for the last twenty years. No one could enter or leave, except the three survivors.
Sad story about ghosts literal and figurative.
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June 27, 2025 at 2:33 AM
25. The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste
Talitha returns to her old neighborhood, which has been been separate from our reality for the last twenty years. No one could enter or leave, except the three survivors.
Sad story about ghosts literal and figurative.
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Talitha returns to her old neighborhood, which has been been separate from our reality for the last twenty years. No one could enter or leave, except the three survivors.
Sad story about ghosts literal and figurative.
🩸📚💙
24. Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Detective Rahman is tasked with investigating the murder of a young woman whose body is found in a mosque.
Socially-conscious police procedural. Police corruption, racist Evangelicals, biker gangs, etc.
Good, but gets bogged down by info dumps.
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Detective Rahman is tasked with investigating the murder of a young woman whose body is found in a mosque.
Socially-conscious police procedural. Police corruption, racist Evangelicals, biker gangs, etc.
Good, but gets bogged down by info dumps.
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June 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM
24. Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Detective Rahman is tasked with investigating the murder of a young woman whose body is found in a mosque.
Socially-conscious police procedural. Police corruption, racist Evangelicals, biker gangs, etc.
Good, but gets bogged down by info dumps.
⚡️📚💙
Detective Rahman is tasked with investigating the murder of a young woman whose body is found in a mosque.
Socially-conscious police procedural. Police corruption, racist Evangelicals, biker gangs, etc.
Good, but gets bogged down by info dumps.
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6/21/25 update:
Reading slump. Shit.
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Reading slump. Shit.
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June 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
6/21/25 update:
Reading slump. Shit.
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Reading slump. Shit.
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23. The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Angry men search for a murderer to hang. But are they on the right track?
Peer pressure is bad. Left me thinking about the consequences of my actions for hours.
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Angry men search for a murderer to hang. But are they on the right track?
Peer pressure is bad. Left me thinking about the consequences of my actions for hours.
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June 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
23. The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Angry men search for a murderer to hang. But are they on the right track?
Peer pressure is bad. Left me thinking about the consequences of my actions for hours.
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Angry men search for a murderer to hang. But are they on the right track?
Peer pressure is bad. Left me thinking about the consequences of my actions for hours.
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BookTube is doing a "June on the The Range" event, where they read Westerns,so I figured I'd try it. May also be why you've been hearing about it.
This and Lonesome Dove have been coming up a lot
This and Lonesome Dove have been coming up a lot
June 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
BookTube is doing a "June on the The Range" event, where they read Westerns,so I figured I'd try it. May also be why you've been hearing about it.
This and Lonesome Dove have been coming up a lot
This and Lonesome Dove have been coming up a lot
Reading The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. Don't read many westerns, but I'm enjoying this one.
June 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Reading The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. Don't read many westerns, but I'm enjoying this one.
22. How To Stand Up To a Dictator by Maria Ressa
Memoir by the Nobel-winning journalist. Goes over her career, as well as how social media is used to attack journalists and spread lies.
Sobering, but not without hope for the future.
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Memoir by the Nobel-winning journalist. Goes over her career, as well as how social media is used to attack journalists and spread lies.
Sobering, but not without hope for the future.
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May 31, 2025 at 2:55 AM
22. How To Stand Up To a Dictator by Maria Ressa
Memoir by the Nobel-winning journalist. Goes over her career, as well as how social media is used to attack journalists and spread lies.
Sobering, but not without hope for the future.
💙📚💡
Memoir by the Nobel-winning journalist. Goes over her career, as well as how social media is used to attack journalists and spread lies.
Sobering, but not without hope for the future.
💙📚💡
21. Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede
Maeve likes routine. She plays a theme-park princess and lives with her grandma. But when Gideon comes to town, routines are upset. And Maeve has to grapple with the parts of herself that she tries to ignore.
Super-dark humor, sex, and murder.
A great debut.
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Maeve likes routine. She plays a theme-park princess and lives with her grandma. But when Gideon comes to town, routines are upset. And Maeve has to grapple with the parts of herself that she tries to ignore.
Super-dark humor, sex, and murder.
A great debut.
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May 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
21. Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede
Maeve likes routine. She plays a theme-park princess and lives with her grandma. But when Gideon comes to town, routines are upset. And Maeve has to grapple with the parts of herself that she tries to ignore.
Super-dark humor, sex, and murder.
A great debut.
💙📚🩸
Maeve likes routine. She plays a theme-park princess and lives with her grandma. But when Gideon comes to town, routines are upset. And Maeve has to grapple with the parts of herself that she tries to ignore.
Super-dark humor, sex, and murder.
A great debut.
💙📚🩸
20. Yellow Bird by Sierra Crane Murdoch
Lissa Yellow Bird searches for a missing oil worker. She's not long out of prison, and the oil boom on her reservation complicates things at all levels.
A little slow, but Lissa is super complicated and interesting.
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Lissa Yellow Bird searches for a missing oil worker. She's not long out of prison, and the oil boom on her reservation complicates things at all levels.
A little slow, but Lissa is super complicated and interesting.
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May 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
20. Yellow Bird by Sierra Crane Murdoch
Lissa Yellow Bird searches for a missing oil worker. She's not long out of prison, and the oil boom on her reservation complicates things at all levels.
A little slow, but Lissa is super complicated and interesting.
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Lissa Yellow Bird searches for a missing oil worker. She's not long out of prison, and the oil boom on her reservation complicates things at all levels.
A little slow, but Lissa is super complicated and interesting.
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19. The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
Three families are intertwined by an accident in Zambia. We follow these families over 100+ years, from British colonialism all the way to some light sci-fi.
Multi-generational epics aren't always my thing, but I dug this. Will look for more from Serpell.
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Three families are intertwined by an accident in Zambia. We follow these families over 100+ years, from British colonialism all the way to some light sci-fi.
Multi-generational epics aren't always my thing, but I dug this. Will look for more from Serpell.
💙📚
May 12, 2025 at 2:54 AM
19. The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
Three families are intertwined by an accident in Zambia. We follow these families over 100+ years, from British colonialism all the way to some light sci-fi.
Multi-generational epics aren't always my thing, but I dug this. Will look for more from Serpell.
💙📚
Three families are intertwined by an accident in Zambia. We follow these families over 100+ years, from British colonialism all the way to some light sci-fi.
Multi-generational epics aren't always my thing, but I dug this. Will look for more from Serpell.
💙📚
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell. It's a generation-spanning family saga set in Zambia. Maybe a little magical realism in there, too?
May 6, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell. It's a generation-spanning family saga set in Zambia. Maybe a little magical realism in there, too?
Nice! I have it on my shelf. I'll try to get to it soon.
May 2, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Nice! I have it on my shelf. I'll try to get to it soon.
Haven't read NOITAT yet. But I loved Priestdaddy!
May 2, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Haven't read NOITAT yet. But I loved Priestdaddy!
18. Excavations by Hannah Michell
The skyscraper where Sae's husband is working construction collapses, but no one knows where he is. She goes searching for answers, and ends up with many more questions about her husband.
A decent thriller. I did learn a bit about South Korean history.
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The skyscraper where Sae's husband is working construction collapses, but no one knows where he is. She goes searching for answers, and ends up with many more questions about her husband.
A decent thriller. I did learn a bit about South Korean history.
💙📚 ⚡️
May 2, 2025 at 1:12 AM
18. Excavations by Hannah Michell
The skyscraper where Sae's husband is working construction collapses, but no one knows where he is. She goes searching for answers, and ends up with many more questions about her husband.
A decent thriller. I did learn a bit about South Korean history.
💙📚 ⚡️
The skyscraper where Sae's husband is working construction collapses, but no one knows where he is. She goes searching for answers, and ends up with many more questions about her husband.
A decent thriller. I did learn a bit about South Korean history.
💙📚 ⚡️
Changing Hands in Phoenix
April 28, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Changing Hands in Phoenix
17. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days by Rebecca Donner
The nonfiction story of Mildred Harnack, the American PhD student who was a central part of the resistance to Hitler in Berlin.
I was afraid this might be a slog. But it flies by. Regular people fighting back against tyranny.
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The nonfiction story of Mildred Harnack, the American PhD student who was a central part of the resistance to Hitler in Berlin.
I was afraid this might be a slog. But it flies by. Regular people fighting back against tyranny.
💙📚 💡
April 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
17. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days by Rebecca Donner
The nonfiction story of Mildred Harnack, the American PhD student who was a central part of the resistance to Hitler in Berlin.
I was afraid this might be a slog. But it flies by. Regular people fighting back against tyranny.
💙📚 💡
The nonfiction story of Mildred Harnack, the American PhD student who was a central part of the resistance to Hitler in Berlin.
I was afraid this might be a slog. But it flies by. Regular people fighting back against tyranny.
💙📚 💡
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days by Rebecca Donner
Highly-readable nonfiction about an American woman involved in the German resistance to Hitler.
Highly-readable nonfiction about an American woman involved in the German resistance to Hitler.
April 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days by Rebecca Donner
Highly-readable nonfiction about an American woman involved in the German resistance to Hitler.
Highly-readable nonfiction about an American woman involved in the German resistance to Hitler.
16. All the Fiends of Hell by Adam Nevill
Karl wakes to find that everyone has disappeared.
Almost everyone. A few people remain. And terrible creatures roam the earth, half-seen, picking off the stragglers.
Creepy as hell. The apocalypse with a dude who's kind of a fuck-up. 🩸📚 💙
Karl wakes to find that everyone has disappeared.
Almost everyone. A few people remain. And terrible creatures roam the earth, half-seen, picking off the stragglers.
Creepy as hell. The apocalypse with a dude who's kind of a fuck-up. 🩸📚 💙
April 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
16. All the Fiends of Hell by Adam Nevill
Karl wakes to find that everyone has disappeared.
Almost everyone. A few people remain. And terrible creatures roam the earth, half-seen, picking off the stragglers.
Creepy as hell. The apocalypse with a dude who's kind of a fuck-up. 🩸📚 💙
Karl wakes to find that everyone has disappeared.
Almost everyone. A few people remain. And terrible creatures roam the earth, half-seen, picking off the stragglers.
Creepy as hell. The apocalypse with a dude who's kind of a fuck-up. 🩸📚 💙