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2025 reading journal

Last updated 1 month, 1 week ago.

  1. Stories of a Bitter Country by Ninotchka Rosca

    • status: read (finished Mar. 31)
    • rating: tba
    • thoughts: beautiful prose!
  2. Haikyu!! by Haruichi Furudate

    • status: read (finished Apr. 3)
    • rating: TENS ACROSS THE BOARD
    • thoughts: hinata shouyou you change lives
  3. Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare

    • status: paused
    • rating: tba
    • thoughts: lore >>>
  4. Inferno by Dante Alighieri

    • status: paused
    • rating: tba
    • thoughts: most iconic fic of all time
  5. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman

    • status: paused
    • rating: tba
    • thoughts: beautiful prose...beautiful translation...you think you know yearning and then you read love in the time of cholera
  6. Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

    • status: paused
    • rating: tba
    • thoughts: not to be starting yet another book when i haven't finished a single one this year yet except for Haikyuu volumes but wow. exquisite opening scene
  7. The Quiet Ones by Glenn Diaz

    • status: read
    • rating: tba
    • thoughts: my lord...
  8. My Mechanical Romance by Alexene Farol Follmuth

    • status: read
    • rating: tba
    • thoughts: cute!
  9. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

    • status: read
    • rating: 10/10 no notes as always
    • thoughts: truly a comfort book
  10. The Stranger by Albert Camus

    • status: paused
    • rating: tba
    • thoughts: tba
  11. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    • status: read
    • rating: tba
    • thoughts: delicious power system and worldbuilding. ughhh
  12. Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    • status: read
    • rating: tba
    • thoughts: the most DELICIOUS execution of POV change I've ever seen in my life
  13. Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    • status: read
    • rating: tba
    • thoughts: i do fear for how much damage Harrow's body's brain has suffered throughout this series. like i know you can regenerate but i am terrified all the same in a medical sense. 10/10 confused me so bad
  14. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

    • status: read
    • rating: iconic
    • thoughts: the gothic novel ever. my god
  15. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

    • status: read
    • rating:
    • thoughts: ...
  16. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

    • status: read
    • rating: tba
    • thoughts: my god ... blew me out of the water

to read

  1. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
  2. The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
  3. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

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