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2025 - Books I've Read (So Far)
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items Physical books. digital books, audiobooks, all of the books. List in progress. Updated 1 May 2025.
Sections
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fiction from my TBR list
nonfiction from my TBR list
forever rereading
fiction from my TBR list
I read a lot of fiction when I'm extra stressed out.
"A superior, creeping psychological thriller taut with tension and drama." --The Seattle Times "Easily the creepiest setting for a suspense novel since the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King's The Shining." --BookPage From the critically acclaimed author...
The Clinic
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Everything I want in a thriller. Sexy, shocking, and tense with an ending I never saw coming. Jeneva Rose is the queen of twists."--Colleen Hoover, #1 New York Times bestselling author The highly anticipated new ...
You Shouldn't Have Come Here
Soon to be a Prime Video TV series starring Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel A Washington Post and Sun Sentinel Best Book of the Year “Cunning. . . . Get ready to be led down the garden path to a conclusion so morally ambiguous a professional ethicis...
The Better Sister: A Novel
There’s power in a book… They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give the...
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
The Conjuring meets Sadie in this queer ghost story, when seventeen-year-old podcaster Dare finds herself in a life-or-death struggle against an evil spirit. Dare Chase doesn’t believe in ghosts. But as the host of Attachments, her brand-new paranorm...
The Girls Are Never Gone
A New York Times' best thriller of the year! From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an emotional novel of suspense about two families at war. Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until...
What Happened to Nina?: A Novel
A struggling author in Los Angeles discovers the dark side of fame when a stalker begins reenacting violent events from her thriller in this electrifying and twisty novel. When Zoe Ann Weiss moves to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of becoming a writ...
The Close-Up
Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that’s sure to keep you awake at night. Iðunn is in yet another doctor's office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something's not right, b...
The Night Guest
tags include: post-apocalyptic, speculative fiction, relatively short, beautifully written, wtf humanity
I Who Have Never Known Men
speculative fiction, hunger games, young adult, is katniss in this one
Sunrise on the Reaping (a Hunger Games Novel)
first gen college student, undocumented experience, immigrant daughter, rich people, literary fiction, family lore, immigrant experience, diaspora, the usa is the bad place
Catalina: A Novel
millennial ennui, everyone was awful but i didn't dnf, corporate cosplay, chicago, mental illness probably, quick read
The New Me
unreliable narrator, unhinged women, what is happening, multiple timelines, women surviving women, love when the scenery is also a character, lana del rey would eat this up
Tangerine: A Novel
grief, family lore, literary fiction, learning to live without a person you adore, mothers, eldest daughter
After Annie: A Novel
grief, family lore, diaspora, immigrant experience, mystery, thriller, domestic fiction
After the Ocean
everyone was awful and i loved it, rich people, summer reads, small town with big secrets, mystery, honey your friends hate you
Bad Summer People: A Novel
sisters, family lore, multiple timelines, women surviving women, mental health, literary fiction, new york city, grief, addiction, domestic fiction
Blue Sisters: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel
snark snark snark, character is a writer, identity, bcc: usa, disapora, rich people, hollywood
Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick): A Novel
dark academia, murder, small town with big secrets, women surviving men
Dark Rooms: A Novel
thoroughly unexpected, twists and turns and puzzles, dark academia adjacent, rich people, what is going on, i'm still processing parts of this one
Darkly
anthology, horror, hello to my fellow mexicans, immigrant experience, women surviving men, women surviving women
Lotería: Stories
coming of age, queer (always complimentary), i might like romcoms now, romantic comedy, mystery, I had a great time, like mean girls but with religious trauma, small town with big secrets
I Kissed Shara Wheeler: A Novel
dark academia adjacent, coming of age, queer (always complimentary), trans rights are human rights, new york city, rich people, multiple timelines, stories about besties
Idlewild
locked room, mystery, truman show, unhinged women, honey your friends hate you, lore, multiple timelines, thriller
Everyone Is Watching: A Locked-Room Thriller
queer (always complimentary), unstuck in time, no wtf I really enjoyed this, I might like romcoms now, romantic comedy, what is going on, new york city
One Last Stop
quiet and cozy and devastating, ireland, quick read, big mood, maybe there's hope
Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club)
short stories, japan, cozy, maybe there's hope, library, quick read, translated into english
What You Are Looking for Is in the Library
small town with big secrets, I might like romcoms now, bookstores, city gal in a small town, banned books, mostly cozy
The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks
what is going on, no real plot just vibes, unhinged women, grief, technology?? seems appropriate, fever dream, not for everyone but absolutely for me
Dead in Long Beach, California: A Novel
nonfiction from my TBR list
I can feel myself close to entering a nonfiction era.
better than i expected, memoir, mental health, hollywood, child actor, harry potter, jk rowling is still trash tho, draco malfoy, sorry i had to use the tag, sorry to this man
Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
joan didion, eve babitz, i love when women, multiple timelines, literary people, we love lore, writers
Didion and Babitz
forever rereading
re-examining current events by rereading my classics, familiar-ish rereads to get out of a reading slump, comfort reads, etc
tags include: classics, required reading, BCC: USA, no seriously if you're wondering how the united states started to collapse this has a whole lot of clues in it
Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition
major tw, so pls proceed with caution. tags include: dark, hella dark, unhinged women, childhood trauma, monstrous mothers, girlie pop returns to her hometown, whomst amongst us did the murder
Sharp Objects: A Novel