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My Favorite Books
18
items Likes: Horror, Domestic Thrillers, Memoirs, Poetry, Fiction Dislikes: Romance novels, Fantasy (most) dumb MCs (I mean, Ill read it, but Im gonna complain the whole time.
Sections
3
Horror/SciFi/Thriller
Fiction
Poetry/Memoir
Horror/SciFi/Thriller
Started with Goosebumps now were here
Overall 5/5 , Scare Level 2/5, Writing Style 10/5 The MC needs hormone therapy, a vacation, an exorcism, or all of the above. Relatable to female suffering, mother wounds, family trauma and the cost of not being honest. Nat Cassidy write like a tired...
Mary by Nat Cassidy
Overall 5/5, Scare Level 3/5, Writing Style 10/5 The MC needs rescue. The MC had a baby, had a medical trauma, cannot walk, and is moved to the top of a building, dependent on it's elevator and her idiot partner. What's the wors that could happen? Go...
Nestlings by Nat Cassidy
Overall 4/5, Scare Level 2/5, Writing Style 8/5 The MC needs to call the pound. This one was rough on me, but maybe in that it is TOO CLOSE TO HOME. Has Nat Cassidy been throught some shit? Always read the epilogue, friends. Especially in this one an...
When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy
Overall 5/5, Scare Level 4/5, Writing Style 9/10 The MC makes alot of strange choices. I have buried a few pets in my lifetime and it is awful, but not as awful as it returning from the dead to hate me. We all know SK has a few screws loose and I lov...
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Overall 5/5, Scare Level 5/5, Writing Style 10/5 The MC needs a rabies shot. This one took me by surprise. I had been avoiding the King book about the "haunted dog or whatever" but, I was WRONG. The build up was oppressive and the pov from the dog wa...
Cujo by Stephen King
Overall 5/5, Scare Level 5/5, Writing Style -10/10 cause its EVIL AND SCARY. The MC needs help. The MC needs help quickly. This book is my worst nightmare and it is so fantastic. A superfan with a super strange way of thinking, has kidnapped our MC a...
Misery by Stephen King
Overall 5/5, Scare Level 4/5, Writing Style 5/10 cause I got a bit confused but that's probably me and it kept me guessing. The MC is not as they think they are and nothing is as it seems. The MC is made up of what is inside the dome and the dome is ...
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1) by Jeff Vandermeer |
Overall 5/5, Scare Level 0/5, Writing Style 3/5 The MC has become a pawn for an alien gameshow which may or may not get cancelled, most earthlings are dead and his girlfriends cat can talk to him. This book made me laugh out loud and the cat, for me ... Dammit Donut!
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Overall 5/5 Scare Level 5/5 Writing style 5/5 This is my most perfect horror story. This kept me up and keeps me recommending it to anyone looking for a scary story. The MC has moved into a beautiful home in an old forest. He brought his beautiful wi...
Old Country by Matt Query & Harrison Query
Overall 4/5 Scare Level 3/5 Writing Style 4/5 The MC has had it with everything. A haunting is the literal last thing she can handle. Funny, witty, touching, and spooky. This was a great fall read. YES. Be cliche and read it in September. In your hou...
The September House by Carissa Orlando
Fiction
A little ESCAPE
Overall 5/5, Charm Level 5/5, Writing Style 15/10 The MC is a curmudgeon and he just wants a working computer. I understand Ove on a spiritual level as someone who is filled with rage covered grief and this story is a soft landing for anyone who feel...
A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman
Overall -10/5, Scare Level 5/5, Writing Style 100/10 I will never recover. This book, was an impulse buy, also a me getting easily influenced by TikTok. Oh, Jude. My heart broke a million times and when I would finally catch my breath, something else...
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Overall 4/5 Scare Level 1/5 Writing Style 4/5 Additional note: Paper used in first edition paperback book: 100/10 its soft. Which made me want to read more. The MC is too smart for their own good. This book is fun, smart, and long. Kuang has wonderfu...
Babel by R.F. Kuang
Overall 4/5 Charm Level 5/5 Writing Style 10/10 This book broke my heart and anyone who has read it and felt the broken part of them unravel knows. UGH if the MCs would just learn how to communicate.
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Overall 5/5 Charm Level 5/5/ Writing Style 5/5 A warming read. The MC gets a cat. All is well.
Sipsworth by Simon Van Boot
Poetry/Memoir
A journey inward
Poetry is extremely subjective so I can only really tell you that my inner sad girl is pacified by sweet Sylvia Plath's apathetic dread of the ordinary. As a fellow restless artist, her work makes me feel less alone and more understood. She is more t...
The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath
This is the book that helped me name so many feelings I didn't know I had. Written in short bursts, its like reading letters to yourself, trying to wake yourself up. If you have ever been in the type of relationship with unspoken rules and if the ter...
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Overall 10/5 Scare Level 5/5 Writing style 100/5 This book broke my heart then rebuilt it then broke it then REBUIT IT. Sorry, I will settle down. The MC is sick. The MC is, seeing things from the other side of this medical practice. The MC has so mu...
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi