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Book 51 of 2025: 107 Days by Kamala Harris. 5⭐️ “It may take a while. But the fight for our country is always worth it. And we will win.” Wow.
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Book cover of 107 Days by Kamala Harris
November 1, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Book 50 of 2025: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. 2.75⭐️ “‘[Fear] is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.’”
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Book cover of the haunting of hill house by Shirley Jackson
October 29, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Book 49 of 2025: Origin by Dan Brown. 3.75⭐️ “...that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion...that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them“ #booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #origin #danbrown
Book cover of origin by Dan brown
October 23, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Book 48 of 2025: The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez. 4.25⭐️ “…that though today might seem special, there would be a tomorrow, and a day after that; that the best-case scenario of a well-spent life was the slow and steady unraveling of the heart’s knot”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #simonjimenez
Book cover of the vanished birds by Simon Jimenez
October 11, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Book 47 of 2025: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid. 5⭐️📚 “Happiness is so hard to come by. I don't understand why anyone would begrudge anyone else for managing to find some of it.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #atmosphere #taylorjenkinsreid
Book cover of Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
September 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Book 46 of 2025: Katabasis by R.F. Kuang. 4.75⭐️ “…this numbness? It wasn’t that Alice didn’t* care, it was that she had cared so much, and a thread had snapped. Some fundamental capacity was broken.” Real. This was excellent!
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Book cover for Katabasis by RF Kuang
September 22, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Book 45 of 2025: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab. 4⭐️📚 “‘Is it life,’ he counters, ‘if there is never death to balance it? Or is its brevity what makes it beautiful?’”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #vampires #buryourbonesinthemidnightsoil #veschwab
Book cover of bury our bones in the midnight soil by VE Schwab
September 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Book 44 of 2025: The Devils by Joe Abercrombie. 4⭐️📚 “He had never had much patience for religion. What was it, really, but superstition with money?” I thoroughly enjoyed this one!
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #thedevils #joeabercrombie
Book cover of the devils by Joe Abercrombie
September 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Book 43 of 2025: Normal People by Sally Rooney. 3.75⭐️📚 “Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything.”
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August 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Book 42 of 2025: The Hike by Drew Magary. 3.25⭐️ “The world changes, but people act the way people always do.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #thehike
Book cover of The Hike by Drew Magary
August 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Book 41 of 2025: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin. 3.75⭐️ “For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #theFifthSeason
Book cover of the fifth season by NK Jemisin
August 17, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Book 40 of 2025: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. 3.75⭐️ “If definitive proof emerges that we’re living in a simulation, the correct response to that news will be: So what. A life lived in a simulation is still a life.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #scifi #seaoftranquility
Book cover of sea of tranquility by Emily St. John mandel
August 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Book 39 of 2025: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. 4.25⭐️ “Hate is loud, but I think you'll learn it's because it's only a few people shouting, desperate to be heard…so long as you remember you're not alone, you will overcome.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #houseintheceruleansea #TJKlune
Book cover of the house in the cerulean sea by tj klune
July 30, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Book 38 of 2025: The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang. Wow. What a story 5+⭐️ “…how could one possibly hold so much suffering in something as small as a human form?”…“Yet here was this woman who held everything inside…without breaking.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #MLWang #theswordofkaigen #fantasy
Book cover of the sword of Kaigen by ML Wang
July 26, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Book 37 of 2025: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. 5⭐️ “You keep asking why your work is not enough […] because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #beckychambers
Book cover for a psalm for the wild built by Becky chambers
July 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Book 36 of 2025: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith. 3⭐️ “For mine has always been the side of righteousness. The side of justice. The side of light.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025
Book cover of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
July 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Book 35 of 2025: Mickey7 by Edward Ashton. 4⭐️ “The short answer is that I've always believed it's important to accept the people in your life for what they are.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #mickey7 #scifi
Book cover of Mickey7 by Edward Ashton
July 13, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Book 34 of 2025: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler. 3.75⭐️ “Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of ‘wrong’ ideas.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #kindred
Book cover of Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
July 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Book 33 of 2025: The Women by Kristin Hannah. 5⭐️ Phenomenal. “The women had a story to tell, even if the world wasn't quite yet ready to hear it, and their story began with three simple words. We were there.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #thewomen #kristinhannah
Book cover of The Women by Kristin Hannah
July 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Book 32 of 2025: The Black Prism by Brent Weeks. 3.5⭐️ “Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #blackprism #fantasy
Book cover of the Black Prism by Brent Weeks
June 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Book 31 of 2025: Artemis by Andy Weir. 3⭐️📚“The Moon is a nice place to pass out. You hit the ground very gently.” 😂
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #artemis #andyweir
Book cover of Artemis by Andy Weir
June 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Book 30 of 2025: The Will of the Many by James Islington. 5⭐️ “They ask something small of you…You think you are working your way up, but in fact they are changing you. Moulding you into what they think you should be, one compromise at a time.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #willofthemany
Book cover of the Will of the Many by James Islington
June 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Book 29 of 2025: Orbital by Samantha Harvey. 3.5⭐️📚 “Time moves on with its usual nihilism, mows us all down, jawdroppingly insensate to our preference for living.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #orbital
Book cover of Orbital by Samantha Harvey
June 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Book 28 of 2025: The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl #4) by Matt Dinniman. 5⭐️📚 “‘You keep destroying government buildings, Carl[…]People are going to think you have a problem with authority’” These books are GOLD.
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #dungeoncrawlercarl #princessdonut
Book cover of the gate of the feral gods by Matt Dinniman
June 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Book 27 of 2025: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. 3.5⭐️ 📚 “We only know what we perceive. Everything we experience is ultimately just our perception of it.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #midnightlibrary
Book cover of the midnight library by Matt haig
June 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM