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Fran’s 2023 Spring Reads

April

Floriography - Sally Coulthard

Naruto vol. 4-12 - Masashi Kishimoto

St. Francis of Assisi - GK Chesterton

Judas - Jeff Loveness & Jakub Rebelka

The Waste Land - TS Eliot

The Seven Last Words - Fulton J Sheen [reread]

Stations - Clare McCallan & Ryan McQuade [reread]

The City in Which I Love You - Li-Young Lee

Lockwood & Co #1: The Screaming Staircase - Jonathan Stroud

Aurelius (to be called) Magnus - Victoria Goddard

Forget Me Not: A Floral Treasury - Pamela Todd

May

Naruto vol. 13-21 - Masashi Kishimoto

Montague Siblings #1 : The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue - Mackenzi Lee

Lockwood & Co #2: The Whispering Skull Jonathan Stroud

Frankenstein, 1818 text - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [via Frankenstein weekly substack]

War of the Foxes - Richard Siken

The Sparrow #2: Children of God - Mary Doria Russell

June

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

TRC #3: Blue Lily Lily Blue - Maggie Stiefvater

Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson

The Stolen Heir - Holly Black

Naruto vol. 22-25 - Masashi Kishimoto

Bright Dead Things - Ada Limón

Trigun vol. 1-3 - Yasuhiro Nightow

The Vampire Chronicles #1: Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice

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Fran's Summer Reads

July

The Saint of Steel #2&3: Paladin's Strength & Paladin's Hope - T Kingfisher

Naruto vol. 26-30 - Masashi Kishimoto

The Cemeteries of Amalo #1: The Witness for the Dead - Katherine Addison [reread]

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men - Caroline Criado Pérez

The Doomsday Books #1: The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen - KJ Charles

The Tithenai Chronicles #1: A Strange and Stubborn Endurance - Foz Meadows

New and Selected Poems vol. 1 (1992 Beacon Press edition) - Mary Oliver

Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle [reread]

No Matter the Wreckage - Sarah Kay

The Masquerade #1: The Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson

Mostly Void, Partially Stars: WTNV vol. 1 - Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor

August

Mo Dao Zu Shi: Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation vol. 1 - Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

Naruto vol. 31-34 - Masashi Kishimoto

Translation State - Ann Leckie

Trigun Maximum vol. 1 - Yasuhiro Nightow

The Locked Tomb short stories: The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex, As Yet Unsent, The Uninvited Guest - Tamsyn Muir

September

The Masquerade #2: The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson

Trigun Maximum vol. 2-3 - Yasuhiro Nightow

Naruto vol. 35-39 - Masashi Kishimoto

Mo Dao Zu Shi: Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation vol. 2 - Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù

The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison [reread, via audiobook]

The World According to Mister Rogers - Ed. Hatchette Books

Lockwood & Co #3: The Hollow Boy - Jonathan Stroud

Wind, Sand and Stars - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear - Michael J O'Loughlin

The Queen's Thief #1: The Thief - Megan Whalen Turner [reread, via audiobook]

From Blood and Ash - Jennifer L Armentrout [bookclub fightclub read]

The Bells of Nagasaki - Takashi Nagai

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings - Joy Harjo

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Fran’s 2023 Winter Reads

Been reading a lot more this year (!!!) So turning this into a quarterly thing rather than a yearly one

January

The Red Company Reformed #2: The Redoubtable Pali Avramapul - Victoria Goddard

American Primitive - Mary Oliver

The Adventure Zone Graphic Novel #2: Murder on the Rockport Limited - Carey Pietsch & the McElroys

Through the Woods - Emily Carroll

Magdalene - Marie Howe

Lays of the Hearth Fire #1: The Hands of the Emperor - Victoria Goddard [reread]

Ninth House [reread] & Hell Bent - Leigh Bardugo

The Tsar of Love and Techno - Anthony Marra

Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood - Jennifer Traig

February

The Raven Cycle #2: The Dream Thieves - Maggie Stiefvater [reread]

Tuyo #2&3: Nikoles & Tarashana - Rachel Neumeier

The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon [DNF @ 25%]

The Beautiful #1&2: The Beautiful & The Damned - Renée Ahdieh

The Saint of Steel #1: Paladin's Grace - T Kingfisher

Pilgrim Bell - Kaveh Akbar

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot - Stephen Adly Guirgis

V for Vendetta - Alan Moore

Rai-Kirah #1: Transformation - Carol Berg

March

Lumatere Chronicles #1-3: Finnikin of the Rock, Froi of the Exiles, & Quintana of Charyn - Melina Marchetta

The Language of Flowers - Marina Heilmeyer

Crush - Richard Siken

Tuyo #4-6: Keraunani, Suelen, & Tano - Rachel Neumeier

Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi

The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin

Vespertine - Margaret Rogerson

Naruto vol. 1-3 - Masashi Kishimoto

The Lonely City - Olivia Laing [DNF @ 50%]

The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker

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Fran's 2021 Reads

Italics indicate it was read for bookclub-hateclub-fightclub

January

Mindful Tech - David M Levy

February

Empire of Storms - Sarah J Maas

March

N/A

April

Stations - Clare McCallan and Ryan McQuade

May

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Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir

Tower of Dawn - Sarah J Maas

Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir

Drowned Ammet - Diana Wynne Jones

June

Upstream: Selected Essays - Mary Oliver

While the World Turns - @coldswarkids

July

The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison

The World of Critical Role - Liz Marsham

The Tale of Desperaux [reread] - Kae DiCamillo

August

Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett

The Truth - Terry Pratchett

A Darker Shade of Magic - V.E. Schwab

A Gathering of Shadows - V.E. Schwab

The Witness for the Dead - Katherine Addison

Kingdom of Ash - Sarah J Maas

Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik

Fangs - Sarah Andersen

Scholomance #1: A Deadly Education - Naomi Novik

September

An Emotion of Great Delight - Tahereh Mafi

Lost in the Cosmos - Walker Percy

The Language of Thorns - Leigh Bardugo

Dauntless Path #1: Thorn - Intisar Khanani

The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune

Murderbot #1: All Systems Red - Martha Wells

October

Scholomance #2: The Last Graduate - Naomi Novik

The Folk of the Air #1: The Cruel Prince - Holly Black

The Folk of the Air #1.5: The Lost Sisters - Holly Black

November

The Folk of the Air #2: The Wicked King - Holly Black

Murderbot #2: Artificial Condition - Martha Wells

Dauntless Path #1.5: The Bone Knife - Intisar Khanani

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas S Kuhn

Dancing in Odessa - Ilya Kaminsky

December

Dauntless Path #2: The Theft of Sunlight - Intisar Khanani

Murderbot #3: Rogue Protocol - Martha Wells

The Adventure Zone Graphic Novel #1: Here There Be Gerblins - Carey Pietch & Mcelroys

The Folk of the Air #3: The Queen of Nothing - Holly Black

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FRAN MY BELOVED,,, hi here is a reminder that you are loved and deserve good things <3 BUT also since we all know you have excellent taste,,, spare book recs ? :0

ATLAS MY DEAREST!!!!!

ILY!!!!

i have SO MANY book recs it rlly depends on what u like!!!!! my goodreads is here which has been going for a decade so has all my recent reads but also really terrible indulgent reads from awhile back, BUT hundreds of books! I also have a book insta that i started last summer covering more recent reads @ frans.library

HOWEVER!!!!!! i am absolutely down to talk and discuss and recommend books at ANY TIME, so if you give me some parameters like genre(s), or other books u enjoy, or fave tropes, or 'vibes/emotions/moods' you want from the book, i can compile MANY recommendations for u

Right off the bat i WILL recommend The Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner bc they ARE my fave books ever and I can and will rec them to everyone given even the slightest opportunity

I WILL GIVE U MORE AND MORE RECS I WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO

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Anyway y'all should follow my reading insta bc I like to talk about books and have Many Thoughts its frans.library it's empty rn but hopefully not for long