read in 2023!
i did a reading thread last year and really enjoyed it so i am doing another one this year!! as always, you can find me on goodreads and my askbox is always open!
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book by J.R.R. Tolkien (★★★★☆)
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo* (★★★★★)
Beowulf by Unknown, translated by Seamus Heaney (★★★★☆)
The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C. Lee (★★★★☆)
Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo (★★★★★)
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado (★★★★☆)
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (★★★★★)
The Shadow of Kyoshi by F.C. Lee (★★★★☆)
The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta (★★★★★)
Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson (★★☆☆☆)
Sharks in the Rivers by Ada Limón (★★★☆☆)
Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R.F. Kuang (★★★★★)
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley (★★★★★)
Paper Girls, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matt Wilson (★★★☆☆)
Paper Girls, Volume 2 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matt Wilson (★★★☆☆)
There Are Trans People Here by H. Melt (★★★★★)
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (★★★★☆)
Paper Girls, Volume 3 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matt Wilson (★★★☆☆)
Paper Girls, Volume 4 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matt Wilson (★★★☆☆)
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (★★★★☆)
Paper Girls, Volume 5 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matt Wilson (★★★☆☆)
The Guest List by Lucy Foley (★★☆☆☆)
Paper Girls, Volume 6 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matt Wilson (★★★☆☆)
The Princess Bride by William Goldman (★★★★☆)
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (★★★★★)
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid* (★★★★★)
Goldie Vance, Volume 1 by Hope Larson, Brittney Williams
Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White (★★★★☆)
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (★★★★☆)
The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (★★★☆☆)
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis (★★★★★)
The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (★★★☆☆)
Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr. (★★☆☆☆)
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (★★★★★)
Going Dark by Melissa de la Cruz (★★★☆☆)
Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie by Ellen Cassedy (★★★★☆)
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)
The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley (★★★★☆)
Hollow by Shannon Watters, Branden Boyer-White, and Berenice Nelle (★★★★☆)
Heavy Vinyl, Volume 1: Riot on the Radio by Nina Vakueva and Carly Usdin (★★★★☆)
Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado (★★★☆☆)
Heavy Vinyl, Volume 2: Y2K-O! by Nina Vakueva and Carly Usdin (★★★★☆)
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (★★★★☆)
Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid (★★★★★)
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo (★★★★★)
The Backstagers, Vol 1: Rebels Without Applause by James Tynion IV, Rian Sygh, and Walter Baiamonte (★★★☆☆)
The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson (★★★★☆)
The Backstagers, Vol 2: The Show Must Go On by James Tynion IV, Rian Sygh, and Walter Baiamonte (★★★☆☆)
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (★★★★☆)
Happy Place by Emily Henry (★★★★★)
After Dark with Roxie Clark by Brooke Lauren Davis (★★★☆☆)
Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones (★★★☆☆)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (★★★★☆)
A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy (★★★★☆)
Built From the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street by Victor Luckerson (★★★★★)
Cheer Up!: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier, Oscar O. Jupiter, and Val Wise (★★★★★)
All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages by assorted authors, edited by Saundra Mitchell (★★★★☆)
Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher** (★★★★☆)
St. Juniper's Folly by Alex Crespo** (★★★★★)
The Last Girls Standing by Jennifer Dugan** (★★☆☆☆)
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (★★★★★)
Where Echoes Die by Courtney Gould** (★★★★☆)
Your Lonely Nights Are Over by Adam Sass** (★★★★★)
Princess Princess Ever After by Kay O’Neill (★★★☆☆)
Thieves' Gambit by Kayvion Lewis** (★★★☆☆)
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)
You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron (★★★☆☆)
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield (★★★★☆)
Devotions by Mary Oliver (★★★★★)
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan* (★★★★☆)
The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan* (★★★★☆)
The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan* (★★★★★)
The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan (★★★★★)
The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan (★★★★★)
Suddenly a Murder by Lauren Muñoz** (★★★★☆)
The Demigod Files by Rick Riordan (★★★★☆)
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty (★★★★★)
All That’s Left to Say by Emery Lord (★★★★★)
The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan (★★★★☆)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (★★★☆☆)
The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan (★★★★☆)
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Joseph Andrew White (★★★★★)
Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)
M Is for Monster by Talia Dutton (★★★★☆)
The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan (★★★★★)
Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories by assorted authors, edited by Yamile Saied Méndez and Amparo Ortiz (★★★★☆)
These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall (★★★★☆)
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (★★★★★)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins* (★★★★★)
The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston (★★★★☆)
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins* (★★★★★)
The October Country by Ray Bradbury (★★★★☆)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare (★★★★☆)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (★★★★☆)
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins* (★★★★★)
The Appeal by Janice Hallett (★★★★☆)
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (★★★★☆)
The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limón (★★★★★)
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi (★★★★★)
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen (★★★★★)
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins* (★★★★★)
Know My Name by Chanel Miller (★★★★★)
Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd (★★★★★)
Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler (★★★★☆)
The Witch Haven by Sasha Peyton Smith* (★★★★★)
The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)
The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson (★★★★★)
A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi (★★★★★)
The Witch Hunt by Sasha Peyton Smith (★★★★☆)
That’s Not My Name by Megan Lally** (★★★★☆)
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher (★★★★☆)
The House of Hades by Rick Riordan (★★★★☆)
Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson (★★★★☆)
Pageboy by Elliot Page (★★★★★)
All This and Snoopy, Too by Charles M. Schultz (★★★★☆)
The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan (★★★★☆)
Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter (★★★★☆)
The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill** (★★☆☆☆)
Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente (★★★★☆)
The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei (★★★★☆)
Spell on Wheels Vol. 1 by Kate Leth, Megan Levens, and Marissa Louise (★★★★☆)
Spell on Wheels Vol. 2: Just to Get to You by Kate Leth, Megan Levens, and Marissa Louise (★★★★☆)
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis (★★★★☆)
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (★★★★☆)
The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett (★★★★☆)
So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014 - 2018 by Ursula K. Le Guin (★★★★☆)
Murder on the Christmas Express by Alexandra Benedict (★☆☆☆☆)
Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)
Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon (★★★★☆)
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (★★★★★)
The Twelve Days of Murder by Andreina Cordani (★★★★☆)
The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson (★★★★☆)
The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)
The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan (★★★☆☆)
Christmas Presents by Lisa Unger (★★★☆☆)
Letters From Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien
Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia (★★★★☆)
An asterisk (*) indicates a reread.
A double asterisk (**) indicates an ARC.
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I may blend the hotd and tboi x splatoon aus but it may be too many ideas or people in one place,, idk but ive got ideas,, and i’ll put em in one post ehehe
hotd x splatoon:
ams and nsbs are affiliated or just the same thing the idols r still there but more in the bg,, Maybe they’d all have different themed codenames rather than numbers.. lisa would probably be neo 3 or adjacent then. this is one of the points that would clash with mixing it with the tboi x splat au
All creatures are sanitized or like. half fuzzy half sanitized some sort of secret third thing fucking neosanitization idk maybe it’ll have to do with coral instead,, but curien is an inkfish so misanthropic he’s bringing squids back and/or continuing what Tartar started. Goldman is either an inkfish the opposite species of curien or some sorta fish. hm. goldfish hehe. but he wants to make a sanctuary of more “natural” beings. And thornheart is thornheart..
Most of the creatures are made from already existing people maybe theyd be able to be reverted back into their previous selves with some side effects. others are made in the lab. Most are inkfish but it gets wacky
Temperance is a part of the same clan as shiver and is like.her 2nd or 3rd cousin. they did not get along before hand and he’d try to upstage her a lot. now while warped he’s still relatively lucid so he’s just kind of an ass to her. ALso going to drag ocean hunter into this the shark he’s tamed is leviathan. Since the muatations still make him gigantic he swings the poor shark around.
Likewise Justice is a part of the eel clan though he is not as closely related to frye as shiver is to temp. He’s very cryptic and not rlly all there. Frye did used to look up to him so seeing him like this is distressing
Emp(eror +ress) and the world are hybrid lab-grown creatures, all glass octo + sea angel probaby? maybe human in there?
Heirophant is a salmonid yeayy
hotd x tboi
maggie is neo 3 isaac is lil buddy. samson is agent 4 lilith is 8 idk about the og 3 yet maybe cain
Isaac’s mom is a goldie. ??? the lost and the forgotten only exist in Isaac’s nightmares when he thinks about his future of possibly dying, being abandoned etc etc.
His dad is a steel eel driver but defected to grizzco bc he Fucked Up Big Time
idk if azazel would be better as a salmonid (bc isaac parallels/evil him) or an octoling i kind of want the latter
Most demons r octarians but some of the human kids r too. Eve escaped to the surface early on and participated in turf wars circa Splat1 while in disguise. She’s also a werekraken. She uses the .96 gal deco
Lilith as mentioned before is 8. Incubus is some sorta seeing eye octotrooper guide and gello is a bby zapfish. Dark one/Adversary is her dad and he gets sanitized
Horsemen r salmonids yeeeayayay
Beast is a super fucked up king salmonid, some sort of giant mudmouth
ig there is a sect of octarian + salmonid diplomacy that all of the bosses mentioned here work under ehhh
dogma is some sort of ai, maybe a remnant of human society
Apollyon is also a salmonid they’re basically a worse flyfish in a weird tartar-based shell
deadly sins are an octoling team or more salmonids
most monsters are weird fuzzied inkfish
bethany mains ballpoint splatling and one of the stringers. Laz has the same mutation yoko has which leaves him sickly but when he’s well he plays with the h3 nozzlenose.
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