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Finished:
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by DH Lawrence
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, by Grady Hendrix
Queer As Folklore, by Sacha Coward
Started:
Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen
Finished
**Megumi’s Turn, by Natsume Akatsuki**
Continuing
**Asimov’s Guide to the Bible, by Isaac Asimov**
**The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson**
**Kills Well with Others, by Deanna Raybourn**
Started
**The Invisible Library, by Genevieve Cogman**
**Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan’s Underworld, by Junichi Saga**
Started. Apparently it’s not a gangster story but merely about the illegal gambling scene. Either way, there are lots of curious tidbits about everyday life.
Finished:
**Normal Women, by Philippa Gregory**
**The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton, by Jennifer N. Brown**
Fenix project – love it
Finished
The Cider House Rules, by John Irving
Started
Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt
Finished
**Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, by Barbara Demick**
Srill reading:
**The Familiar, by Leigh Bardugo**
Finished:
Why Read the Classics, by Italo Calvino
Started:
The Idiot, by Elif Batuman
*Finished:*
**My Sister, the Serial Killer, by Oyinkan Braithwaite**
**There Is No Antimemetics Division, by qntm**
Finished:
The Lost Ones by Anita Frank
Started:
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
I really recommend both to lovers of the macabre and spooky! 😀
Sorry I don‘t know how to do bold writing in here yet, I‘m still kinda new to Reddit 😅
**Finished:**
Space: The Human Story, by Tim Peake
**Started:**
The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World, by J R Dawson
Finished:
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Started:
Time Machine, HG Wells
I started autumn of the patriarch by Gabriel Marquez. The prose and movement through time and space are really interesting. I’m only a few dozen pages in and I’m hooked.
Finished: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Starting/Going to continue: The buffalo hunter hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Finished: **Vera, or Faith** by Gary Shteyngart
Started: **The Great Alone** by Kristin Hannah
Finished: Criminal Cove by SF Sowter. (Indie author, enjoyed reading).
Still reading: Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari.
Started: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray.
Finished A Song for Arbonne, really liked it, I’ll defninitely read more Kay books.
Started **Circle of Days, by Ken Follett**.
Finished: Cherry Baby by Rainbow Rowell
Started: Go Gentle by Maria Semple, She Who Remains by Rene Karabash
Started:
**The Subtle Knife, by Philip Pullman** – second part of His Dark Materials trilogy
**Horus Rising, by Dan Abnett** – first part of the Horus Heresy series. I work with tabletop games, I should get some knowledge about the Warhammer 40k universe