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Started and finished:
Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier. This was a reread, it’s one of my favoruites.
There Are Rivers In The Sky, by Elif Shafak.
Lucky Day, by Chuck Tingle.
Finished
**The Adventure of the Demonic Ox, by Lois McMaster Bujold**
**Stone and Sky, by Ben Aaronovitch**
**Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Activism and Action, by Sophie Williams**
Continuing
**Asimov’s Guide to the Bible, by Isaac Asimov**
**The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson**
**The Angel of Indian Lake, by Stephen Graham Jones**
**The Dog Stars, by Peter Heller**
Started
**Deep Silence, by Jonathan Maberry**
The Lady of the Camellias, by Alexandre Dumas
Talks with T. G. Masaryk, by Karel Čapek
O Kaplan! My Kaplan!, Leo Rosten
I am re-reading (for the seventh time?)
***Carpe Juglulum,*** **by Terry Pratchett.**
How I wish we could reach out to him to talk with us.
Finished:
**A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping, by Sangu Mandanna**
**Red Valkyries, by Kristen R. Ghodsee**
**Hothouse Bloom, by Austyn Wohlers**
**Tourist Season, by Brynne Weaver**
Margo’s Got Money Troubles, by Rufi Thorpe !!!
Finished:
**All Systems Red, by Martha Wells**
Started:
**This Inevitable Ruin, by Matt Dinniman**
**War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy.** No, Pierre. Not everyone wants to be a Freemason. I know you’re excited about your new friends, but..
**Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence.** The Revolt is taking off!
**The Mission Song, by John Le Carre.** Oh Salvo.
**All Things Bright And Beautiful, by James Herriot.** Sometimes this is just the thing for a challenging time
**The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck.** I can’t explain why this is so, but I find Ma Joad so, so beautiful
Continued reading: **Brave New World, by Alduos Huxley**. About halfway through, will probably finish by next week.
Finished:
**Recursion, by Blake Crouch**
Started:
**A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles**
Finished
**Perdido Street Station, by China Miéville**
Last week I said I was unsure if I’d read many books better than 1Q84 this year so you can imagine surprise when that happened with the very next book I read. What an incredibly engrossing read. The world building is fantastic, I truly fell in love with New Crobuzon. I needed more, and so…
Started
**The Scar, by China Miéville**
…I got more. The setting for this is great too, I love the idea that Armada is just a huge mass of boats turned into a civilisation.
Started:
**Black-Owned, by Char Adams !invite**
Started:
**Columbine: A True Crime Story, by Jeff Kass**
Finished:
**Columbine, by David Cullen**
Started & Finished:
**No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine, by Brooks Brown and Rob Merritt**
**A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy, by Sue Klebold**
**The Call of Cthulhu, by H. P. Lovecraft**
**The Ministry of Time, by Kaliane Bradley**
**Everything is Tuberculosis, by John Green**
Ongoing:
**Wise Blood, by Flannery O’Connor**
**The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by C.S. Lewis**
**A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini**
Finished:
**If Russia Wins, by Carlo Masala**
While interesting, it hasn’t really stuck with me as revolutionary
**Wild Dark Shore, by Charlotte McConaghy**
Was incredibly frustrated throughout this one, but liked the setting and themes, while execution lacked severely for me
Started:
**The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas**
It is time!
And
**Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch**
One of those I’ve forgotten why I wanted to read.
Finished:
**The Ballad of the Salty Sea, by Hugo Pratt**
**The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels**
Started:
**Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley**
**FINISHED :**
*The Untethered Soul*, by Michael A. Singer.
*Cerveau de verre*, by Fabien Clavel.
*Frostbite*, by Richelle Mead.
*L’existentialisme est un humanisme*, by Jean-Paul Sartre.
*Come Closer*, by Sara Gran.
**STARTED :**
*Their Vicious Games*, by Joelle Wellington.
Finished:
Stoner, by John Williams
Started:
Requiem for a dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
Finished: The Secret History, Donna Tartt
Started: In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Finished:
The boy from the sea, by Garrett Carr
Started:
If on a winter’s night a traveler, by Italo Calvino
Finished: The Other People by CB Everett
Started : The Book of Delights by Ross Gay