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they/she. middle-aged white queer w the 'tism and 80 of the HDs. me and yr dad probably like all the same movies. i have approximate knowledge of many things. fix yr hearts or die.

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Aw, I got one of the Ao3 spam comments people were talking about a while back! How cute!

January 13, 2026 at 5:28 AM

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A hit, a very palpable hit.

Screenshot of a text post by Tumblr user sicksicksixx from December 12, 2025. Text reads "this episode opening with my moon my man by feist and then closing with all the things she said by t.a.t.u proves that this show is actually for the they/she bi girls who went to college in the 2010s," and is tagged "#heated rivalry"

January 4, 2026 at 4:39 PM

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118. Sunrise on the Reaping - Suzanne Collins
119. The King's Blood - Daniel Abraham [reread]
120. The Witchwood Knot - Olivia Atwater
121. Even Though I Knew the End - C. L. Polk
122. The Corruption of Hollis Brown - K. Ancrum
123. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins [reread]
124. Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers - Caroline Fraser
125. Winter's Orbit - Everina Maxwell
126. The Tyrant's Law - Daniel Abraham [reread]
127. Anji Kills a King - Evan Leikam
128. Copper Script - KJ Charles
129. Behind Frenemy Lines - Zen Cho

AUGUST
130. Nefando - Mónica Ojeda (tr. Sarah Booker)
131. Stone and Sky - Ben Aaronovitch
132. When the Wolf Comes Home - Nat Cassidy
133. Beauty - Robin McKinley [reread]
134. Automatic Noodle - Annalee Newitz
135. How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question - Michael Schur
136. The Angel of the Crows - Katherine Addison
137. The Javelin Program - Derin Edala
138. A Strange and Stubborn Endurance - Foz Meadows
139. The Antarctica Conspiracy - Derin Edala
140. A Head Full of Ghosts - Paul Tremblay [reread]

SEPTEMBER
141. I Leave It Up to You - Jinwoo Chong
142. Hemlock & Silver - T. Kingfisher
143. Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor
144. Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir [reread]
145. Love in the Big City - Sang Young Park (tr. Anton Hur)
146. Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir [reread]
147. A Game in Yellow - Hailey Piper
148. Lucky Day - Chuck Tingle

149. The Tusks of Extinction - Ray Nayler
150. Haunt Sweet Home - Sarah Pinsker
151. The Dragonfly Gambit - A. D. Sui
152. Uncertain Sons and Other Stories - Thomas Ha
153. The Other Girl - Annie Ernaux
154. The Echo Maker - Richard Powers
155. Bunny - Mona Awad
156. Proud Pink Sky - Redfern Jon Barrett
157. How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying - Django Wexler
158. Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me - Django Wexler

OCTOBER
159. Murder By Memory - Olivia Waite
160. The First Thousand Trees - Premee Mohamed
161 A Half-Built Garden - Ruthanna Emrys
162. What Stalks the Deep - T. Kingfisher
163. Ghosts of Hiroshima - Charles Pellegrino
164. The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot [reread]
165. Princess in the Spotlight - Meg Cabot [reread]
166. Princess in Love - Meg Cabot [reread]
167. Princess in Waiting - Meg Cabot
168. Princess in Pink - Meg Cabot
169. Princess in Training - Meg Cabot
170. Party Princess - Meg Cabot
171. Window Shopping - Tessa Bailey
172. But Not Too Bold - Hache Pueyo
173. The Unworthy - Agustina Bazterrica (tr. Sarah Moses)
174. The Duke and I - Julia Quinn
175. Mirage City - Lev AC Rosen
176. Black Flame - Gretchen Felker-Martin
177. Cuckoo - Gretchen Felker-Martin
178. Land of Milk and Honey - C Pam Zhang
179. Victorian Psycho - Virginia Feito
180. Grey Dog - Elliott Gish
181. Nettle & Bone - T. Kingfisher [reread]

182. Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng - Kylie Lee Baker
183. The Life and Death of Sophie Stark - Anna North
184. I Make My Own Fun - Hannah Beer
185. So Happy For You - Celia Laskey
186. Girl Dinner - Olivie Blake

NOVEMBER
187. Rainbow Black - Maggie Thrash
188. The Graceview Patient - Caitlin Starling
189. Morbidly Yours - Ivy Fairbanks
190. Bog Queen - Anna North
191. You Weren't Meant to Be Human - Andrew Joseph White
192. All of Us Murderers - KJ Charles
193. You Wanna Be on Top?: A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America's Next Top Model - Sarah Hartshorne
194. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro [reread]
195. Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros
196. Swordheart - T. Kingfisher [reread]
197. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV - Emily Nussbaum
198. Night Film - Marisha Pessl
199. Cinder House - Freya Marske

DECEMBER
200. Orbital - Samantha Harvey
201. Brigands & Breadknives - Travis Baldree
202. Don't Sleep With the Dead - Nghi Vo
203. One Day All This Will Be Yours - Adrian Tchaikovsky
204. Walking to Aldebaran - Adrian Tchaikovsky
205. And Put Away Childish Things - Adrian Tchaikovsky
206. Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao [reread]
207. Heavenly Tyrant - Xiran Jay Zhao
208. The Stardust Grail - Yume Kitasei
209. The Talent - Daniel D'Addario
210. After Hours at Dooryard Books - Cat Sebastian
211. God's Junk Drawer - Peter Clines
212. Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh [reread]

December 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM

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2025 Reading List: Final Tally - 212 (🧵)

JANUARY
1. The Witch Elm - Tana French [reread]
2. League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for Truth - Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru
3. Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree [reread)
4. Bookshops & Bonedust - Travis Baldree [reread]
5. Witchcraft for Wayward Girls - Grady Hendrix
6. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil - Ananda Lima *
7. Ordinary Monsters - J. M. Miro
8. The Disaster Tourist - Yun Ko-Eun (tr. Lizzie Buehler)
9. Age of Ash - Daniel Abraham
10. Black Sheep - Rachel Harrison
11. Clockwork Boys - T. Kingfisher *
12. The Half Life of Valery K - Natasha Pulley *
13. The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison [reread]
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving [reread]

FEBRUARY
15. The Orb of Cairado - Katherine Addison
16. Bonded in Death - J. D. Robb
17. The God of the Woods - Liz Moore
18. Lost Ark Dreaming - Suyi Davies Okungbowa *
19. Finder - Suzanne Palmer
20. The Wonder Engine - T. Kingfisher
21. Death of the Author - Nnedi Okorafor
22. Glory O'Brien's History of the Future - A. S. King
23. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson - Jeff Pearlman *
24. The Mountain in the Sea - Ray Naylor *
25. This World is Not Yours - Kemi Ashing-Giwa
26. Piglet - Lottie Hazell
27. A Sorceress Comes to Call - T. Kingfisher

28. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency - Andy Greenberg
29. Countess - Suzan Palumbo
30. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler *
31. Daughter of the Merciful Deep - Leslye Penelope
32. The Woman Who Fooled the World: The True Story of Fake Wellness Guru Belle Gibson - Beau Donnelly & Nick Toscano
33. The Appeal - Janice Hallett
34. The Scandalous Letters of V and J - Felicia Davin
35. Chain Gang All Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah *
36. Diavola - Jennifer Thorne
37. Your Shadow Half Remains - Sunny Moraine
38. The Night Guest - Hildur Knútsdóttir (tr. Mary Robinette Kowal)
39. Ghost Station - S. A. Barnes

MARCH
40. Model Home - Rivers Solomon
41. Something in the Walls - Daisy Pearce
42. The Safekeep - Yael van der Wouden
43. The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison [reread]
44. The Tomb of Dragons - Katherine Addison
45. The Sapling Cage - Margaret Killjoy
46. Fadeout - Joseph Hansen
47. The Boys from Brazil - Ira Levin [reread]
48. Single Player - Tara Tai
49. Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection - John Green
50. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions - Larry Mitchell with Ned Asta
51.. Two Truths and a Lie - Cory O'Brien

APRIL
52. The Hymn to Dionysus - Natasha Pulley
53. Spin - Robert Charles Wilson

54. The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon
55. The Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson [reread]
56. The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson [reread]
57. The Tyrant Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson [reread]
58. The Art of Repair - Molly Martin
59. All Systems Red - Martha Wells [reread]
60. Artificial Condition - Martha Wells [reread]
61. Rogue Protocol - Martha Wells [reread]
62. Exit Strategy - Martha Wells [reread]
63. Death Takes Me - Cristina Rivera Garza (tr. Robin Myers & Sarah Booker)
64. A/S/L - Jeanne Thornton
65. Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle - Clare Hunter
66. Network Effect - Martha Wells [reread]
67. Rose/House - Arkady Martine
68. Fugitive Telemetry - Martha Wells [reread]
69. System Collapse - Martha Wells [reread]
70. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism - Sarah Wynn-Williams
71. Notes From a Regicide - Isaac Fellman
72. One Last Stop - Casey McQuiston [reread]

MAY
73. Anathem - Neal Stephenson [reread]
74. Direct Descendant - Tanya Huff
75. Flying Solo - Linda Holmes
76. The Dream Hotel - Laila Lalami
77. Swordheart - T. Kingfisher
78. Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie [reread]
79. Ancillary Sword - Ann Leckie [reread]
80. Ancillary Mercy - Ann Leckie [reread]
81. The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie [reread]
82. Small Game - Blair Braverman
83. The Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
84. Greta & Valdin - Rebecca K Reilly
85. The Ship Who Sang - Anne McCaffrey

JUNE
86. A Deadly Education - Naomi Novik *
87. Sister Snake - Amanda Lee Koe *
88. Manhunt - Gretchen Felker-Martin
89. Provenance - Ann Leckie [reread]
90. Atmosphere - Taylor Jenkins Reid
91. The Spellshop - Sarah Beth Durst
92. The Moon of the Turning Leaves - Waubgeshig Rice
93. The Starving Saints - Caitlin Starling *
94. The Last Graduate - Naomi Novik
95. The Golden Enclaves - Naomi Novik
96. Game Changer - Rachel Reid
97. Heated Rivalry - Rachel Reid
98. The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness
99. The Ask and the Answer - Patrick Ness
100. Monsters of Men - Patrick Ness
101. Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat
102. Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew - Jonathan H. Ward and Michael D. Leinbach
103. Time Loops & Meet Cutes - Jackie Lau
104. Wearing the Lion - John Wiswell *
105. The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association - Caitlin Rozakis *
106. Prince's Gambit - C. S. Pacat
107. Harmattan Season - Tochi Onyebuchi *
108. Kings Rising - C. S. Pacat
108. The Alice Network - Kate Quinn
110. The Power - Naomi Alderman

JULY
111. Blood Over Bright Haven - M. L. Wang
112. Moon of the Crusted Snow - Waubgeshig Rice
113. The Mercy of Gods - James S. A. Corey
114. Livesuit - James S. A. Corey
115. Clark and Division - Naomi Hirahara
116. A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
117. The Dragon's Path - Daniel Abraham [reread]

December 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM

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2025 Reads: November

New-to-Me Faves:
-> You Wanna Be on Top?

NOVEMBER
184. Rainbow Black - Maggie Thrash
185. The Graceview Patient - Caitlin Starling
186. Morbidly Yours - Ivy Fairbanks
187. Bog Queen - Anna North
188. You Weren't Meant to Be Human - Andrew Joseph White
189. All of Us Murderers - KJ Charles
190. You Wanna Be on Top?: A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America's Next Top Model - Sarah Hartshorne
191. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro [reread]
192. Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros
193. Swordheart - T. Kingfisher [reread]
194. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV - Emily Nussbaum
195. Night Film - Marisha Pessl
196. Cinder House - Freya Marske

December 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM

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Ah yes let's put Kevin Stitt, a crooked mortgage lender who's pissed off every tribe in the state and no one in his own party even likes, on a job creation panel.

Image of an elderly David Lynch giving a weather report. He's wearing sunglasses and a dark shirt, sits at a desk with some clutter, and has a swept-back head of white hair. The yellow text at the bottom of the image says, quoting him, "What a great time to be alive if you love the theater of the absurd."

November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM

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2025 Reads: October

New-to-Me Faves:
-> Window Shopping
-> The Unworthy
-> Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zheng

OCTOBER
156. Murder By Memory - Olivia Waite
157. The First Thousand Trees - Premee Mohamed
158. A Half-Built Garden - Ruthanna Emrys
159. What Stalks the Deep - T. Kingfisher
160. Ghosts of Hiroshima - Charles Pellegrino
161. The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot [reread]
162. Princess in the Spotlight - Meg Cabot [reread]
163. Princess in Love - Meg Cabot [reread]
164. Princess in Waiting - Meg Cabot
165. Princess in Pink - Meg Cabot
166. Princess in Training - Meg Cabot
167. Party Princess - Meg Cabot
168. Window Shopping - Tessa Bailey
169. But Not Too Bold - Hache Pueyo
170. The Unworthy - Agustina Bazterrica (tr. Sarah Moses)
171. The Duke and I - Julia Quinn
172. Mirage City - Lev AC Rosen
173. Black Flame - Gretchen Felker-Martin
174. Cuckoo - Gretchen Felker-Martin
175. Land of Milk and Honey - C Pam Zhang
176. Victorian Psycho - Virginia Feito
177. Grey Dog - Elliott Gish
178. Nettle & Bone - T. Kingfisher [reread]
179. Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng - Kylie Lee Baker
180. The Life and Death of Sophie Stark - Anna North
181. I Make My Own Fun - Hannah Beer
182. So Happy For You - Celia Laskey
183. Girl Dinner - Olivie Blake

October 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM

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2025 Reads: September

New-to-me Faves:
-> Haunt Sweet Home
-> Proud Pink Sky
-> How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying

SEPTEMBER
138. I Leave It Up to You - Jinwoo Chong
139. Hemlock & Silver - T. Kingfisher
140. Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor
141. Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir [reread]
142. Love in the Big City - Sang Young Park (tr. Anton Hur)
143. Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir [reread]
144. A Game in Yellow - Hailey Piper
145. Lucky Day - Chuck Tingle
146. The Tusks of Extinction - Ray Nayler
147. Haunt Sweet Home - Sarah Pinsker
148. The Dragonfly Gambit - A. D. Sui
149. Uncertain Sons and Other Stories - Thomas Ha
150. The Other Girl - Annie Ernaux
151. The Echo Maker - Richard Powers
152. Bunny - Mona Awad
153. Proud Pink Sky - Redfern Jon Barrett
154. How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying - Django Wexler
155. Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me - Django Wexler

October 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM

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2025 Reads: August

New-to-me Faves:
-> When the Wolf Comes Home
-> The Javelin Program

AUGUST
126. Nefando - Mónica Ojeda (tr. Sarah Booker)
127. Stone and Sky - Ben Aaronovitch
128. When the Wolf Comes Home - Nat Cassidy
129. Beauty - Robin McKinley [reread]
130. Automatic Noodle - Annalee Newitz
131. How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question - Michael Schur
132. The Angel of the Crows - Katherine Addison
133. The Javelin Program - Derin Edala
134. A Strange and Stubborn Endurance - Foz Meadows
135. The Antarctica Conspiracy - Derin Edala
136. A Head Full of Ghosts - Paul Tremblay [reread]

September 5, 2025 at 5:28 AM

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2025 Reads: July

New-to-me Faves:
-> Blood Over Bright Haven
-> Murderland
-> Anji Kills a King
-> Behind Frenemy Lines

JULY
108. Blood Over Bright Haven - M. L. Wang
109. Moon of the Crusted Snow - Waubgeshig Rice
110. The Mercy of Gods - James S. A. Corey
111. Livesuit - James S. A. Corey
112. Clark and Division - Naomi Hirahara
113. A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
114. The Dragon's Path - Daniel Abraham [reread]
115. Sunrise on the Reaping - Suzanne Collins
116. The Witchwood Knot - Olivia Atwater
117. Even Though I Knew the End - C. L. Polk
118. The Corruption of Hollis Brown - K. Ancrum
119. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins [reread]
120. Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers - Caroline Fraser
121. Winter's Orbit - Everina Maxwell
122. Anji Kills a King - Evan Leikam
123. Copper Script - KJ Charles
124. Behind Frenemy Lines - Zen Cho

August 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM

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2025 Reads: June

New-to-me Faves:
-> A Deadly Education
-> Sister Snake
-> The Starving Saints
-> Wearing the Lion
-> Grimoire Grammar School
-> Harmattan Season

JUNE
83. A Deadly Education - Naomi Novik *
84. Sister Snake - Amanda Lee Koe *
85. Manhunt - Gretchen Felker-Martin
86. Provenance - Ann Leckie [reread]
87. Atmosphere - Taylor Jenkins Reid
88. The Spellshop - Sarah Beth Durst
89. The Moon of the Turning Leaves - Waubgeshig Rice
90. The Starving Saints - Caitlin Starling *
91. The Last Graduate - Naomi Novik
92. The Golden Enclaves - Naomi Novik
93. Game Changer - Rachel Reid
94. Heated Rivalry - Rachel Reid
95. The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness
96. The Ask and the Answer - Patrick Ness
97. Monsters of Men - Patrick Ness
98. Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat
99. Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew - Jonathan H. Ward and Michael D. Leinbach
100. Time Loops & Meet Cutes - Jackie Lau
101. Wearing the Lion - John Wiswell *
102. The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association - Caitlin Rozakis *
103. Prince's Gambit - C. S. Pacat
104. Harmattan Season - Tochi Onyebuchi *
105. Kings Rising - C. S. Pacat
106. The Alice Network - Kate Quinn
107. The Power - Naomi Alderman

June 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM

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2025 Reads: May

MAY
70. Anathem - Neal Stephenson [reread]
71. Direct Descendant - Tanya Huff
72. Flying Solo - Linda Holmes
73. The Dream Hotel - Laila Lalami
74. Swordheart - T. Kingfisher
75. Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie [reread]
76. Ancillary Sword - Ann Leckie [reread]
77. Ancillary Mercy - Ann Leckie [reread]
78. The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie [reread]
79. Small Game - Blair Braverman
80. The Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
81. Greta & Valdin - Rebecca K Reilly
82. The Ship Who Sang - Anne McCaffrey

June 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM

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2025 Reads: April

APRIL
49. The Hymn to Dionysus - Natasha Pulley
50. Spin - Robert Charles Wilson
51. The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon
52. The Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson [reread]
53. The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson [reread]
54. The Tyrant Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson [reread]
55. The Art of Repair - Molly Martin
56. All Systems Red - Martha Wells [reread]
57. Artificial Condition - Martha Wells [reread]
58. Rogue Protocol - Martha Wells [reread]
59. Exit Strategy - Martha Wells [reread]
60. Death Takes Me - Cristina Rivera Garza (tr. Robin Myers & Sarah Booker)
61. A/S/L - Jeanne Thornton
62. Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle - Clare Hunter
63. Network Effect - Martha Wells [reread]
64. Rose/House - Arkady Martine
65. Fugitive Telemetry - Martha Wells [reread]
66. System Collapse - Martha Wells [reread]
67. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism - Sarah Wynn-Williams
68. Notes From a Regicide - Isaac Fellman
69. One Last Stop - Casey McQuiston [reread]

May 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM

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2025 Reads: March

MARCH
38. Model Home - Rivers Solomon
39. Something in the Walls - Daisy Pearce
40. The Safekeep - Yael van der Wouden
41. The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison [reread]
42. The Tomb of Dragons - Katherine Addison
43. The Sapling Cage - Margaret Killjoy
44. Fadeout - Joseph Hansen
45. Single Player - Tara Tai
46. Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection - John Green
47. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions - Larry Mitchell with Ned Asta
48. Two Truths and a Lie - Cory O'Brien

April 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM

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2025 Reads: February

FEBRUARY
15. The Orb of Cairado - Katherine Addison
16. Bonded in Death - J. D. Robb
17. The God of the Woods - Liz Moore
18. Lost Ark Dreaming - Suyi Davies Okungbowa *
19. Finder - Suzanne Palmer
20. The Wonder Engine - T. Kingfisher
21. Death of the Author - Nnedi Okorafor
22. Glory O'Brien's History of the Future - A. S. King
23. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson - Jeff Pearlman *
24. The Mountain in the Sea - Ray Naylor *
25. This World is Not Yours - Kemi Ashing-Giwa
26. Piglet - Lottie Hazell
27. A Sorceress Comes to Call - T. Kingfisher
28. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency - Andy Greenberg
29. Countess - Suzan Palumbo
30. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler *
31. Daughter of the Merciful Deep - Leslye Penelope
32. The Woman Who Fooled the World: The True Story of Fake Wellness Guru Belle Gibson - Beau Donnelly & Nick Toscano
33. Chain Gang All Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah *
34. Diavola - Jennifer Thorne
35. Your Shadow Half Remains - Sunny Moraine
36. The Night Guest - Hildur Knútsdóttir (tr. Mary Robinette Kowal)
37. Ghost Station - S. A. Barnes

March 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM

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2025 Reads: January

February 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM

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I regret nothing. No such thing as guilty pleasures.

DECEMBER
196. Holly - Stephen King [reread]
197. Needful Things - Stephen King [reread]
198. The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt [reread]
199. The Lost Story - Meg Shaffer
200. In Other Lands - Sarah Reese Brennan [reread]
201. The Queen - Nick Cutter
202. Misery - Stephen King [reread]
203. Girl A - Abigail Dean
204. Shadow Spinner - Susan Fletcher [reread]
205. Don't Believe It - Charlie Donlea
206. My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell
207. Chalice - Robin McKinley [reread]
208. Bewilderment - Richard Powers
209. The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison [reread]
210. The Witness for the Dead - Katherine Addison [reread]
211. The Grief of Stones - Katherine Addison [reread]
212. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin [reread]
213. Comfort Me With Apples - Catherynne M. Valente [reread]
214. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters [reread]
215. The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers - Samuel Burr
216. You Should Be So Lucky - Cat Sebastian

January 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM

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And yes, I read The Goblin Emperor for the first time in September, read the whole series immediately, and reread it twice. Shut up, leave me alone, you don't know me.

JULY
111. Red Rising - Pierce Brown
112. You Like It Darker: Stories - Stephen King
113. Exhibit - R. O. Kwon
114. The Mount - Carol Emshwiller [reread]
115. Wicked - Gregory Maguire [reread]
116. The Annual Migration of Clouds - Premee Mohamed
117. We Speak Through the Mountain - Premee Mohamed
118. In Other Lands - Sarah Reese Brennan [reread]
119. And What Can We Offer You Tonight - Premee Mohamed
120. Woodworm - Layla Martínez (tr. Sophie Hughes & Annie McDermott)
121. The Surviving Sky - Kritika H. Rao
122. The Adventure Zone: The Suffering Game - Clint McElroy, Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy, & Carey Pietsch
123. The Unrelenting Earth - Kritika H. Rao
124. Dreamcatcher - Stephen King [reread]
125. Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
126. Bury Your Gays - Chuck Tingle

AUGUST
127. Moon Over Soho - Ben Aaronovitch
128. White Trash Warlock - David R. Slayton
129. The Summer Prince - Alaya Dawn Johnson
130. Glass Houses - Madeline Ashby
131. Trailer Park Trickster - David R. Slayton
132. Deadbeat Druid - David R. Slayton
133. Whalefall - Daniel Kraus
134. 56 Days - Catherine Ryan Howard
135. The Trap - Catherine Ryan Howard
136. The Hunter - Tana French
137. Whispers Under Ground - Ben Aaronovitch

SEPTEMBER
138. Broken Homes - Ben Aaronovitch
139. Random in Death - J. D. Robb
140. Peril - Bob Woodward & Robert Costa
141. I'll Have What He's Having - Adib Khorram
142. The Lesson - Cadwell Turnbull
143. The Beautiful Bureaucrat - Helen Phillips
144. 20th Century Ghosts - Joe Hill
145. The Nothing Man - Catherine Ryan Howard
146. The Mars House - Natasha Pulley
147. Vox - Christina Dalcher
148. The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
149. Foxglove Summer - Ben Aaronovitch
150. She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan
151. Half a Soul - Olivia Atwater
152. Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
153. How to Piss Off Men: 109 Things to Say to Shatter the Male Ego - Kyle Prue
154. The Witness for the Dead - Katherine Addison
155. The Briar Club - Kate Quinn
156. The Grief of Stones - Katherine Addison

OCTOBER
157. The Goblin Emperor- Katherine Addison [reread]
158. Out of the Drowning Deep - A. C. Wise
159. Dune - Frank Herbert [reread]
160. Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
161. Children of Dune - Frank Herbert
162. Rough Pages - Lev AC Rosen
163. The Hanging Tree - Ben Aaronovitch
164. The Pairing - Casey McQuiston
165. Passions in Death - J. D. Robb
166. The Rose Code - Kate Quinn
167. American Rapture - CJ Leede
168. Room - Emma Donoghue [reread]
169. Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II - Abbott Kahler
170. Rumor Has It - Cat Rambo
171. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself - Marisa Crane
172. Lies Sleeping - Ben Aaronovitch
173. False Value - Ben Aaronovitch
174. The Dragon's Path - Daniel Abraham

NOVEMBER
175. The Hero and the Crown - Robin McKinley [reread]
176. Amongst Our Weapons - Ben Aaronovitch
177. Metal From Heaven - August Clarke
178. The King’s Blood - Daniel Abraham
179. All Our Wrong Todays - Elan Mastai
180. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted - Suleika Jaouad
181. The Witness for the Dead - Katherine Addison [reread]
182. A Companion to Wolves - Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear
183. Acts of Service - Lillian Fishman
184. Rose Madder - Stephen King [reread]
185. Mr. Mercedes - Stephen King [reread]
186. Finders Keepers - Stephen King [reread]
187. End of Watch - Stephen King [reread]
188. The Outsider - Stephen King [reread]
189. The Dark Half - Stephen King [reread]
190. The Tyrant's Law - Daniel Abraham
191. The Widow's House - Daniel Abraham
192. The Spider's War - Daniel Abraham
193. Brunch Is Hell: How to Save the World by Throwing a Dinner Party - Brendan Francis Newnam and Rico Gagliano
194. Bag of Bones - Stephen King [reread]
195. If It Bleeds - Stephen King [reread]

January 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM

@vardenscuticles.bsky.social

I ended up reading 216 books last year. Everything I read was either great or absorbing despite its flaws. Notably less nonfiction than normal. I can see clearly the month I had a cancer scare, and the time I spent recuperating from surgery.

JANUARY
1. Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party - Jonathan Karl
2. Paladin's Faith - T. Kingfisher
3. Farthing - Jo Walton [reread]
4. Ha'penny - Jo Walton [reread]
5. Half a Crown - Jo Walton [reread]
6. 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence - Howard Means [reread]
7. Rabbit Hole - Kate Brody
8. Menewood - Nicola Griffith
9. Learned By Heart - Emma Donoghue
10. Strong Poison - Dorothy L. Sayers [reread]
11. The Plague Dogs - Richard Adams
12. Gaudy Night - Dorothy L. Sayers [reread]
13. Flux - Jinwoo Chong
14. Cruel Seduction - Katee Robert
15. Three Eight One - Aliya Whiteley
16. Liar City - Allie Therin
17. This Wretched Valley - Jenny Kiefer
18. All Systems Red - Martha Wells [reread]
19. Spear - Nicola Griffith
20. Hither, Page - Cat Sebastian
21. The Missing Page - Cat Sebastian
22. Slippery Creatures - KJ Charles
23. The Sugared Game - KJ Charles
24. Subtle Blood - KJ Charles
25. The Fruit Cure: The Story of Extreme Wellness Turbed Sour - Jacqueline Alnes
26. Artificial Condition - Martha Wells [reread]
27. Rogue Protocol - Martha Wells [reread]
28. Exit Strategy - Martha Wells [reread]
29. Fugitive Telemetry - Martha Wells [reread]

FEBRUARY
30. Playing for Keeps - Mur Lafferty [reread]
31. Network Effect - Martha Wells [reread]
32. The Genesis of Misery - Neon Yang
33. The Devil Takes You Home - Gabino Iglesias
34. The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez
35. The First Sister - Linden A. Lewis
36. The Dawnhounds - Sascha Stronach
37. System Collapse - Martha Wells
38. Black Water Sister - Zen Cho

MARCH
39. Jurassic Park- Michael Crichton [reread]
40. River Mumma - Zalika Reid-Benta
41. The Lost World - Michael Crichton [reread]
42. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years - Shubnum Khan
43. Fathomfolk - Eliza Chan
44. The Circle - Dave Eggers [reread]
45. The Every - Dave Eggers
46. The Blue, Beautiful World - Karen Lord
47. The Siege of Burning Grass - Premee Mohamed
48. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles - Malka Older
49. High Times in the Low Parliament - Kelly Robson
50. The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water - Zen Cho
51. The Butcher of the Forest - Premee Mohamed
52. Notes From the Burning Age - Claire North
53. The Second Rebel - Linden A. Lewis
54. Mister Magic - Kiersten White [reread]
55. Starter Villain - John Scalzi
56. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

APRIL
57. The Book of Love - Kelly Link
58. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North
59. All the World Beside - Garrard Conley
60. The Saint of Bright Doors - Vajra Chandrasekera
61. The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan - Michael Hastings
62. Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction - Ann Leckie
63. The Lie About the Truck: Survivor, Reality TV, and the Endless Gaze - Sallie Tisdale
64. The Future of Another Timeline - Annalee Newitz
65. Someone You Can Build a Nest In - John Wiswell
66. When Women Were Dragons - Kelly Barnhill
67. Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus

MAY
68. Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World - Will Cockrell
69. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent - Judi Dench and Brendan O'Hea
70. Shades of Grey - Jasper Fforde [reread]
71. Yes, Daddy - Jonathan Parks-Ramage
72. Red Side Story - Jasper Fforde
73. What Feasts at Night - T. Kingfisher
74. Tenderloin - Joy Sorman (trans. Lara Vergnaud)
75. Ocean's Godori - Elaine U. Cho
76. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space - Adam Higginbotham
77. The Wanderers - Meg Howrey [reread]
78. Blind Sight - Meg Howrey
79. They're Going to Love You - Meg Howrey
80. Home is Where the Bodies Are - Jeneva Rose
81. Yellowface - R. F. Kuang [reread]
82. When the Sparrow Falls - Neil Sharpson
83. Tangerine - Edward Bloor [reread]
84. Divinity 36 - Gail Carriger
85. Ill Will - Dan Chaon
86. Blue-Skinned Gods - SJ Sindu
87. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - Kim Michele Richardson
88. Cassiel's Servant - Jacqueline Carey

JUNE
89. Dead Space - Kali Wallace [reread]
90. You Sexy Thing - Cat Rambo
91. Devil's Gun - Cat Rambo
92. The Institute - Stephen King [reread]
93. Doctor Sleep - Stephen King [reread]
94. The 5th Gender - G. L. Carriger
95. Sleep Donation - Karen Russell
96. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer - Siddhartha Mukherjee [reread]
97. Soulless - Gail Carriger [reread]
98. Changeless - Gail Carriger [reread]
99. Blameless - Gail Carriger
100. Heartless - Gail Carriger
101. Honey Cut - Sierra Simone
102. The Moorchild - Eloise McGraw [reread]
103. Gwenhwyfar: The White Spirit - Mercedes Lackey
104. Dreadful - Caitlin Rozakis
105. Hell is a World Without You - Jason Kirk
106. Timeless - Gail Carriger
107. Romancing the Werewolf - Gail Carriger
108. The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M. Auel [reread]
109. The Valley of Horses - Jean M. Auel
110. Horror Movie - Paul Tremblay

January 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM

@vardenscuticles.bsky.social

So far in April I've read 4 absolute bangers and I can't express enough how glad I am. February was also absolutely perfect re: nothing but hits. I don't finish reading books I'm not enjoying but there's fine/fun and then there's these: