#Andrew Morrison Books

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To everyone in red states where book bans are likely to take place soon, here’s some lists for you <3

As a history student going into library science, people way under hype how crazy book banning is

A follow up post I beg you to also read.

Multiple lists of books already banned in schools/libraries or ones that likely will be:

Banned Books Week 2024: 100 of the Most Challenged Books

Banned Books: Top 100

Banned Book List

Colorado Banned Book List

The Complete List of Banned & Challenged Books by State

Banned Books from the University of Pennsylvia Online Books Page

Top 10 Most Challenged Books in 2023

PEN America Index Of School Book Bans – 2023-2024

Challenged and Banned Books

Places to order books other than Amazon:

Internet Archive (free)

Libby (free with library card)

Thrift Books

Book Outlet

BookBub

Abe Books (owned by Amazon)

Half Price Books

Barnes & Noble

Better World Books

PangoBooks

Book Finder

Goodwillbooks

Alibris

Places to support that fight against book banning:

American Library Association

Unite Against Banned Books

National Coalition Against Censorship

PEN America

There’s a reason politicians fight so hard to limit knowledge and it should scare you.

Some recs below based on reviews I’ve seen

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sing by Maya Angelou

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson

George by Alex Gino

Looking for Alaska by John Green

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

All Boys Aren't Blue by George Matthew Johnson

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds

And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Flamer by Mike Curato

Let's Talk About It: The Teen's Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan

Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison

This Day in June by Gayle E. Pitman

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds

Sex is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg

Prince & Knight by Daniel Haack

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Drama by Raina Telgemeier

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Beloved by Toni Morrison

[macrolit]

The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.

As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

NYT Article.

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Q: How many of the 100 have you read? Q: Which ones did you love/hate? Q: What's missing?

Here's the full list.

100. Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson 99. How to Be Both, Ali Smith 98. Bel Canto, Ann Patchett 97. Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward 96. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman 95. Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel 94. On Beauty, Zadie Smith 93. Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel 92. The Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante 91. The Human Stain, Philip Roth 90. The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen 89. The Return, Hisham Matar 88. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis 87. Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters 86. Frederick Douglass, David W. Blight 85. Pastoralia, George Saunders 84. The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee 83. When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labutat 82. Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor 81. Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan 80. The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante 79. A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin 78. Septology, Jon Fosse 77. An American Marriage, Tayari Jones 76. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin 75. Exit West, Mohsin Hamid 74. Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout 73. The Passage of Power, Robert Caro 72. Secondhand Time, Svetlana Alexievich 71. The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove Ditlevsen 70. All Aunt Hagar's Children, Edward P. Jones 69. The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander 68. The Friend, Sigrid Nunez 67. Far From the Tree, Andrew Solomon 66. We the Animals, Justin Torres 65. The Plot Against America, Philip Roth 64. The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai 63. Veronica, Mary Gaitskill 62. 10:04, Ben Lerner 61. Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver 60. Heavy, Kiese Laymon 59. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides 58. Stay True, Hua Hsu 57. Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich 56. The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner 55. The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright 54. Tenth of December, George Saunders 53. Runaway, Alice Munro 52. Train Dreams, Denis Johnson 51. Life After Life, Kate Atkinson 50. Trust, Hernan Diaz 49. The Vegetarian, Han Kang 48. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi 47. A Mercy, Toni Morrison 46. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt 45. The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson 44. The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin 43. Postwar, Tony Judt 42. A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James 41. Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan 40. H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald 39. A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan 38. The Savage Detectives, Roberto Balano 37. The Years, Annie Ernaux 36. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates 35. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel 34. Citizen, Claudia Rankine 33. Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward 32. The Lines of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst 31. White Teeth, Zadie Smith 30. Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward 29. The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt 28. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell 27. Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 26. Atonement, Ian McEwan 25. Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc 24. The Overstory, Richard Powers 23. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Alice Munro 22. Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo 21. Evicted, Matthew Desmond 20. Erasure, Percival Everett 19. Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe 18. Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders 17. The Sellout, Paul Beatty 16. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon 15. Pachinko, Min Jin Lee 14. Outline, Rachel Cusk 13. The Road, Cormac McCarthy 12. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion 11. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz 10. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson 9. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro 8. Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald 7. The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead 6. 2666, Roberto Bolano 5. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen 4. The Known World, Edward P. Jones 3. Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel 2. The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson 1. My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante

[the-bi-library]

Happy bisexual visibility day! Here are bisexual books out in September!

Books listed:

The Lovers by Rebekah Faubion

Pumpkin Spice & Poltergeist by Ali K. Mulford and Elle Morrison

Love and Loathing in El Olvido by Sylvia San Sebastian

At the End of the River Styx by Michelle Kulwicki

We Will Devour The Night (The Essence of the Equinox, #2) by Camilla Andrew

The Hunter's Gambit by Ciel Pierlot

The Seemingly Impossible Love Life of Amanda Dean by Ann Rose

The Age of Larkspur by Aleighsha Parke

She Slipped Through the Cracks by W. Payne Sillavan

The Glass Scientists, Vol. 2 by S.H. Cotugno

The Shadowbearer's Curse by Jasmyn Morning

Nightstrider (Nightstrider, 1) by Sophia Slade

No One Does It Like You by Katie Shepard

Imbued (Imbued, #1) by Helyna L. Clove

Ménage à Claws (Wayward Déine Chronicles Book 1) by Amelia Lascaux

Spells to Forget Us by Aislinn Brophy

Not The Fainting Kind (Not That Kind Of Dandy Book 2) by Will Soulsby-McCreath

Old Wounds by Logan-Ashley Kisner

The Gods Below (The Hollow Covenant, #1) by Andrea Stewart

Gravity’s Fire by C.J. Aralore

Hating a Witch by Brigid Hunt

Stuck in the Middle With You by Frances M. Thompson

You and I Collide by E. A. M. Trofimenkoff

The Kings of Dusk & Dawn (The Heir to Moondust, #4) by Lou Wilham

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Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2023 - Banned Books Week (September 22-28, 2024)

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe - 106 challenges. Challenged for LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit

All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson - 82 challenges. Challenged for LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit

This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson - 71 challenges. Challenged for LGBTQIA+ content, sex education, claimed to be sexually explicit

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky - 68 challenges. Challenged for claimed to be sexually explicit, LGBTQIA+ content, rape, drugs, profanity

Flamer by Mike Curato - 67 challenges. Challenged for LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison - 62 challenges. Challenged for rape, incest, claimed to be sexually explicit, EDI content

(tie) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews - 56 challenges. Challenged for claimed to be sexually explicit, profanity

(tie) Tricks by Ellen Hopkins - 56 challenges. Challenged for claimed to be sexually explicit, drugs, rape, LGBTQIA+ content

Let's Talk About It: The Teen's Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan - 55 challenges. Challenged for claimed to be sexually explicit, sex education, LGBTQIA+ content

Sold by Patricia McCormick - 53 challenges. Challenged for claimed to be sexually explicit, rape

Source: https://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10

[lqtraintracks]

Top 5 books of beautiful prose Pls for the ask x

Not me forgetting I scheduled that post and going, okay random Magpie but sure? :D Great ask! Okay:

5. Trust by Hernan Diaz

4. Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

3. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

2. Less by Andrew Sean Greer

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Okay, but I HAVE to do some runners up: Anything by Jhumpa Lahiri, Michael Cunningham's Day, Real Life by Brandon Taylor, Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman, Torpor by Chris Kraus, The Great Gatsby, Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran, To Paradise and A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, literally anything by Toni Morrison or Annie Proulx or James Baldwin... Arrggggh!

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Banned Books Week 2024

Banned Books Week starts today, September 22nd, and runs through September 28th. With the current political climate in the US and beyond, it's a sad truth that the books most often challenged and banned in the US are queer stories, and so we wanted to take this week to shout out these books. Seven of the ten have been challenged because of LGBTQIA+ content.

The ten most challenged books of 2023 are:

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson

This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Flamer by Mike Curato

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

Tricks by Ellen Hopkins

Let's Talk About It by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan

Sold by Patricia McCormick

I've personally only read 2 - Gender Queer and Flamer - and both were excellent. I definitely need to get on reading more though.

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Please Start Archiving in the US

With current events, I think it is prudent that everyone, that is able to, needs start archiving shit. I am a former library worker but I do not know much about cybersecurity. If you do want to go down that route please research and keep you and your archive safe :). The more copies that are preserved, then the more likely it is that the media will survive. Even if you save only 2 files that is still important!

First, I will list how to create an computer archive and best practices, then I will provide a list of known targets and suggested materials to add.

You need somewhere to store your data most people will use their computer's storage drive but you need to have backups! Do not rely on cloud storage solutions, they require internet connection are vulnerable to data breaches, and the companies that store that data must follow any laws that the government may decide to pass. USBs or external hardrives are best options. CDs can be used in a pinch, but are more likely to degrade as well as having lower storage capacity then the previous options. Use whatever you have lying around, you do not need to spend money if you don't want to.

When saving data use file formats that are common and able to be read without use of a special software. (that means no .docx) PDF/A is the gold standard for archiving. It is a subtype of pdf that contains metadata, such as typefaces and graphical info, that ensure the files are read properly in the future. Adobe Acrobat is able to save and convert documents into PDF/A. PDFTron, DocuPub, and Ghostscript are all free or have free versions that create pdf/a files. PNG, JPEG2000, .txt, MP3, wav, are other common file types that the Smithsonian recommends for data storage. For a full list of types to use and avoid, see the sources cited at the bottom.

What are we archiving?

Please gather both fiction and nonfiction resources. Nonfiction collection ideas: Current news clips, local history of marginalized communities, interviews, biographies, memoirs, zines, and art pieces. Saving scientific research is incredibly important! In 1933, one of the first places they targeted was the Institute of Sexual Science. Lots of what was stored there was never recovered. Environmental science, trans and intersex health, and minority history will likely be targeted first. For fiction, the most commonly challenged books last year were: 1) GenderQueer by Maia Kobabe 2) All Boys Aren't Blue by George Johnson 3) This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson 4) The of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 5) Flamer by Mike Curato 6) The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison 7) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews 8) Tricks by Ellen Hopkins 9) Let's Talk about it (Teen guide to sex, relationships, and being a human) by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan 10) Sold by Patricia McCormick I present this list so you have an idea of what is normally targeted. Books that describe racism and queer identities are most common, but other targets include any depictions of violence, drugs, sex. Use your personal archive to accumulate data that you personally are passionate about. The more niche a topic the more likely it is that other people will not have it in their storage.

Lastly, please remember as an archivist you are not there to determine if a piece is worthy of being saved. Just because you do not like or agree with the message does not mean it will be saved from being banned. All artworks amateur or professional are worthy of being archived.

Sources: ALA 2023 Banned Books https://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10

How to create a PDF/A file https://www.research.gov/common/attachment/Desktop/How_do_I_create_a_PDF-A_file.pdf

Smithsonian Data Management Best Practices and File Formats https://siarchives.si.edu/what-we-do/digital-curation/recommended-preservation-formats-electronic-records https://library.si.edu/research/best-practices-storing-archiving-and-preserving-data

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bree’s southern gothic mega rec list :3

the best of the genre by a southern gothic lover from the gothic south ~

books:

The Sound and The Fury - William Faulkner

The Heart is A Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers

Wise Blood - Flannery O’Connor (honestly anything by her she’s my absolute favorite southern gothic author)

Child of God - Cormac McCarthy

Swamplandia! - Karen Russell

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn

A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams

Cat on A Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams

Beloved Trilogy - Toni Morrison

A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (another personal favorite of mine. more comedic than other southern gothic lit)

The Devil All The Time - Donald Ray Pollock

Fledgling - Octavia Butler

Kindred - Octavia Butler

The Color Purple - Alice Walker (i genuinely believe that it should be mandatory for everyone to read this book at least once)

Murder in Mississippi - John Safran

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

Flowers in The Attic - V.C. Andrews

music:

ethel cain

nicole dollanganger

ha vey

parker millsap

the civil wars

delta rae

colter wall

ray lamontagne

johnny cash

the dead south

movies:

eve’s bayou

the beguiled

12 years a slave

django unchained

sling blade

fried green tomatoes (for the sapphics)

[mariastadnicka]

4 Megahertz. Awake

The first copy of 4 Megahertz. Awake. A limited edition artist book included in the Art, Science and Creativity Art Book Exhibition at the Liverpool Central Library. The book was designed and created with the artist Andrew Morrison and published by the Kerbstone Press. The exhibition will be open between 3rd September – 30th October 2024. © Maria Stadnicka, August 2024.

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

💙💜💖 Bi Books Coming Out September 2024

💖💜💙 It's Bisexuality Visibility Month! Here are a few bisexual books coming out in September that would make fabulous additions to your never-ending TBR! Happy reading!

💙 I apologize for any discrepancies. Publishing days are subject to change.

💖 The Seemingly Impossible Love Life of Amanda Dean - Ann Rose 💜 Old Wounds - Logan-Ashley Kisner 💙 The Lovers - Rebekah Faubion

💖 This World Is Not Yours - Kemi Ashing-Giwa 💜 The Gods Below - Andrea Stewart 💙 Old Wounds - Logan-Ashley Kisner

💖 The Hunter's Gambit - Ciel Pierlot 💜 We Will Devour The Night - Camilla Andrew 💙 The Shadowbearer's Curse - Jasmyn Morning

💖 She Slipped Through the Cracks - W. Payne Sillavan 💜 The Age of Larkspur - Aleighsha Parke 💙 At the End of the River Styx - Michelle Kulwicki

💖 Love and Loathing in El Olvido - Sylvia San Sebastian 💜 Pumpkin Spice & Poltergeist - Ali K. Mulford & K. Elle Morrison 💙 The Gods Below - Andrea Stewart

💖 You and I Collide - E. A. M. Trofimenkoff 💜 No One Does It Like You - Katie Shepard 💙 Stuck in the Middle With You - Frances M. Thompson

💖 Imbued - Helyna L. Clove 💜 Spells to Forget Us - Aislinn Brophy 💙 Ménage à Claws - Amelia Lascaux

💖 Hating a Witch - Brigid Hunt 💜 Not The Fainting Kind - Will Soulsby-McCreath 💙 Gravity’s Fire - C.J. Aralore

[armandyke]

Would love to hear about the books u read in 2024, surprise bests, biggest disappointments?

I think I will do a multi part post over the coming weeks with reviews of all the books I read since I have about half of them written up already. For now I'll just say my two absolute favourite reads of the year were Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock and Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova. Two very different books but both of them permanently altered my brain chemistry.

Below are my ratings for all the books I read and as I say, I'll try to post more in depth reviews over the next few weeks. My aim this year is to try and do proper reviews of the books I read as I'm reading them instead of having to go back several months later lmao.

Oh, and because it's something I'm always looking for specific recs for, I've highlighted the books with queer rep (that I remember) in pink, and the extreme horrors/books I advise checking trigger warnings for are marked with a lil skull.

1) Gone to see the River Man by Kristopher Triana (4⭐) 💀

2) Skeleton Crew by Stephen King (4⭐)

3) The Butcher by Laura Kat Young (5⭐)

4) The Hollow Places by T.Kingfisher (5⭐)

5) Salem’s Lot by Stephen King (4.5⭐)

6) The Shuddering by Ania Ahiborn (3.5⭐)

7) Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (5⭐)

8) Nothing but Blackened Teeth by Cassandraw Khaw (3.5⭐)

9) Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite (4⭐) 💀

10) Good Girls Don’t Die by Christina Henry (1⭐)

11) The Devil Makes Three by Tori Bovalino (3.5⭐)

12) Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley (4⭐)

13) The Dead of Winter curated by Cecily Grayford (3⭐)

14) Off Season by Jack Ketchum (3⭐) 💀

15) Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt (3.5⭐) 💀

16) Dead Inside by Chandler Morrison (4⭐) 💀

17) The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum (5⭐) 💀

18) Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (4⭐)

19) Caraval by Stephanie Garber (2⭐)

20) The Grip of It by Jac Jemc (4⭐)

21) Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims (5⭐)

22) Nod by Adrian Barnes (4⭐)

23) How to sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix (5⭐)

24) Among the Living by Tim Lebbon (2⭐)

25) 19 Claws and a Black Bird by Augustina Bazterrica (3⭐)

26) House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson (4.5⭐)

27) Song of Kali by Dan Simmons (DNF)

28) The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Perry (DNF)

29) A House with Good Bones by T.Kingfisher (5⭐)

30) A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock (5⭐)

31) Cujo by Stephen King (5⭐)

32) The Dark Net by Benjamin Percy (3.5⭐)

33) The Dinner Guest by B P Walter (4.5⭐)

34) The Cloisters by Katy Hays (1⭐)

35) Diavola by Jennifer Thorne (5⭐)

36) Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (4.5⭐)

37) Nettle and Bone by T.Kingfisher (3.5⭐)

38) The Hatching (3.5⭐) Skitter (1⭐) and Zero Day (1⭐) by Ezekiel Boone

39) Come Closer by Sara Gran (4⭐)

40) Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison (5⭐)

41) The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (DNF)

42) Wranglestone by Darren Charlton (3.5⭐)

43) Piñata by Leopoldo Gout (4⭐)

44) Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca (1⭐) 💀

45) Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle (5⭐)

46) The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice (I didn't rate this because this was less like reading a book and more like studying for an exam)

47) The Ghost Woods by C.J Cooke (4.5⭐)

48) Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (3.5⭐)

49) Too Late by Colleen Hoover (DNF)

50) Alice by Christina Henry (1⭐)

51) The House of a Hundred Whispers by Graham Masterton (3.5⭐)

52) All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes (4.5⭐)

53) Violent Faculties by Charlene Elsby (4⭐) 💀

54) Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin (3.5⭐) 💀

55) Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison (4.5⭐)

56) My Throat an Open Grave by Tori Bovalino (3.5⭐)

57) Bloom by Delilah S Dawson (4⭐)

58) Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella (DNF)

59) Out There Screaming curated by Jordan Peele (3.5⭐)

60) The Watchers by A.M Shine (4⭐)

61) Whalefall by Daniel Kraus (4.5⭐)

62) My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham (3.5⭐)

63) Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix (4.5⭐)

64) Incarcerat by Garth Marenghi (4⭐)

65) Feast While You Can by Onjuly Datta and Mikaella Clements (5⭐)

66) The Whistling by Rebecca Netley (4⭐)

67) Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield (4⭐)

68) Scuttle by Barnaby Walter (DNF)

69) Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova (5⭐)

70) Revival by Stephen King (4⭐)

71) Blight by Tom Carlisle (3.5⭐)

72) The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw (5⭐)

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18 Books About Ghosts

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

The Spirit Bares It's Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Third Hotel by Laura Van Den Berg

The Sad Ghost Club by Lize Meddings

The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Experimental Film by Gemma Files

The Shining by Stephen King

Spirited Away, Vol. 1 by Hayao Miyazaki

The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill

[ashstfu]

could you please give me some book recs? <3

hiii! i highly recommend these titles:

Tennis lessons – Susannah Dickey

White Nights – Dostoevsky

Simple Passion – Annie Ernaux

The Waves – Virginia Woolf

Friends and Strangers – J. Courtney Sullivan

We all want important things – Catherine Newman

On earth we’re briefly gorgeous – Ocean Vuong

Saltwater – Jessica Andrews

Kitchen – Banana Yoshimoto

The stream of life – Clarice Lispector

Beloved – Toni Morrison

The Shards – Bret Easton Ellis

[sera-fable]

Thought Provoking Books & Books That Have Important Voices! Pt. 29

281. Beloved by Toni Morrison (Historical Fiction/Magical Realism/Slavery/Memory/Trauma/Motherhood/Ghost Story/Challenged Book)

282. Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith C. Brown (Gender Studies/Religious History/Sexuality & Religion/Women's Power & Agency/Social & Cultural Context/Historical Investigation)

283. Diana: In Pursuit of Love by Andrew Morton (Challenged Book/Nonfiction/Biography/Memoir)

284. The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser (Nonfiction/History/Biography/Feminism/European History/War/Medieval)

285. Fool's Crow by James Welch (Banned Book/Historical Fiction/Cultural Loss/Colonialism/Spirituality/Connection to the Natural World/Coming of Age/Impact of Westward Expansion on Native American Tribes/Blackfeet Nation/Individual v Community)

286. When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain (Suspense/Psychological Thriller/Crime Fiction/Trauma)

287. Go the F* to Sleep by Adam Mansbach (Bedtime Book for Parents/Challenged Book/Humor)

288. The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister (Appalachian/Folk/Gothic/Horror/Fantasy/Magical Realism/Adult)

289. How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran (Challenged Book/Nonfiction Memoir/British Writer/Views on Feminism/Humor)

290. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver (Poems/Nature/Spirituality/The Human Experience/Queer/Adult)