#there's three hundred thousand books id like to read but i have no brain whatsoever

[mallahanmoxie]

simba's elusive reading list for the year of the lord 2024 may we read all this shit amen

writing this damn list out because i didn't do it last year and I ended up reading threeeeeeee books altogether and they were specifically the one where the guy gets alien pregnant and shits the babies out I am not kidding and the others were bridgerton so. I desperately need it.

A bunch of books I started 1-3 years ago and I have to finish. Eventually. (This year): Beautiful Wreck by Larissa Brown, Legendborn by Tracy Deon, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers, The Helm of Midnight by Marina Lostetter, The Comforters by Muriel Spark, If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

A book about deconstructing prophecies: The Art of the Prophecy by Wesley Chu

A book about deconstructing the fantasy book? I think?: Dark Rise by C.S. Pacat

A non fiction that isn't about history, for once: The Crisis of Meaning and the Life-World by L'ubica Učník (optimistically) or Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc (more likely)

A book about angels: Angels Before Man by Rafael Nicolás

A book about vampires: A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson, or alternatively, Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco

A book I've been seen recommended a lot: The Will of the Many by James Islington

A book that sounds disorienting: Crossings by Alex Landragin

A rec by storygraph on the Out of your comfort zone tab: The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai

A book with a pretty cover: The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson

A book already on my library, yet untouched: Shadow and Claw by Gene Wolfe or Slewfoot by Brom

A book recced to me by my aunt (<3): El silencio de la ciudad blanca de Eva García Sáenz de Urturi or Gabriel's Inferno by Sylvain Reynard