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May 2025 - Forever Building A TBR List
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items My hobbies include: reading books, reading ABOUT books, thinking about the books I'm going to read, keeping up with news releases about upcoming books, building an endless TBR, etc.
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my TBR, except it's just (potentially) unhinged women
an "actually, that's not true, ellen" TBR for my fellow U-S-Americans
nonfiction TBR, generally
fiction TBR, generally
my TBR, except it's just (potentially) unhinged women
I won't even pretend that I don't have a favorite type of character in my literary fiction.
Mexican Gothic meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in Christina Li’s haunting novel about the secrets that lie in wait in the crumbling mansion of a former Hollywood starlet, and the intertwined fates of the two Chinese American families fighting...
The Manor of Dreams - 2025 May 6
In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracized and then seduced by a clique of creepy-sweet rich girls who call themselves “Bunny.” An invitat...
We Love You, Bunny: A Novel - 2025 Sept 23
Thirty years old with a lifetime of dysphoria and irritating exes rattling around in her head, Max is plagued by a deep dissatisfaction. Shouldn't these be the best years of her life? Why doesn't it feel that way? After taking a spill down the stairs...
Disappoint Me: A Novel - 2025 Jan 23
an "actually, that's not true, ellen" TBR for my fellow U-S-Americans
Because the people whining about book bans and “parental choice” are only going to get louder.
With deep candor and humor, Cristina shows us what it’s like to grow up undocumented and the reality that being a “good” immigrant doesn’t shield you from systemic racism, danger—or even the confusion of falling in love. She invites us to acknowledge...
Dreaming of Home: How We Turn Fear into Pride, Power, and Real Change - 2025 May 27
nonfiction, anthology, diaspora probably, immigrant experience, BCC: USA
The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America - 2019 Feb 19
joan didion, history is important y'all, BCC: USA
Salvador
all cats are beautiful, BCC: USA, nonfiction, media literacy, how propaganda works
Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News - 2025 April 15
nonfiction TBR, generally
Because I haven't spotted a pattern amongst these books in my TBR list quite yet.
Much more than a nostalgia trip, Hollywood High is a lively, provocative, and affectionate cultural history, spanning nearly one hundred years. Handy, an acclaimed journalist and critic who spent two decades at Vanity Fair, examines the defining film...
Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies - 2025 May 20
booktok don't you dare, self-improvement, boundaries, i stg if this is all hype then we are professionally done
The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About - 2024 Dec 24
fiction TBR, generally
Because I haven't spotted a pattern amongst these books in my TBR list quite yet.
Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, un...
Atmosphere: A Love Story - 2025 June 3