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last updated July, 2026

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Ahhh Moski congrats on getting your list featured on the PB insta!! ✨✨

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Yes moski!!! I saw that too woohoo!! 👏👏👏

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thank u snoop!!!

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AAA thank u so much!!! was such a pleasant surprise!!!

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And this is how I found out they have an insta hahaha (I don't use it, but still! 😂)

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that's such a cool list! (you made me question my english skills though haha) i think you made a fool of death with your beauty would fit right in

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perfect omg tysm!!

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Hahaha me too! 🧠

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You taking suggestions?👀

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always!!

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Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith Bury My Heart Under the Martian Sky by Juan Manuel Perez These Scars Spell Antheia by Heather Stewart I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya That's All I Know by Elisa Levi Lie With Me by Philippe Besson Rest and Be Thankful by Emma Glass You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson

ITS KIND OF A LOT SORRY I lowkey just scrolled through my finished shelf🙈🙈🙈

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DONT BE SORRY youre an angel ty for your help!!

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Maybe Finlay Donovan is killing it? (I haven‘t personally read it), and maybe The spirit bares it‘s teeth

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perfect suggestions, tysm!!!

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oooh moski you did it again!! great list! If you’re taking suggestions: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick Tenderly, I am Devoured by Lyndall Clipstone There is No Antimemetics Division by qntm A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor

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erinnnn tysm!!!! ill add these rn!!!!!

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Suggestion: Violet Thistlewaite is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin This Book Made Me Think of You by Libby Page

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adding!!! ty ty!!!

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The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things by JT LeRoy (...you could probably do a list like this just with Bible quotes tbh) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston This is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila Once, This Forest Belonged to a Storm by Austen Leah Rose An Electric Sheep Jumps to Greener Pasture by Tyler Atwood I'm Trying to Tell You I'm Sorry by Nina Boutsikaris

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adding, tysm!!!

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Cool list btw!

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thank you so much my friend!!!

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This is so much fun!! I love these kinds of titles

If you need any more:

Ros Demir is Not the One by Leyla Brittan Everything is Fine (Vol. 1) by Mike Birchall Bite Me, Royce Taslim by Lauren Ho And the River Drags Her Down by Jihyun Yun You Should Smile More by Anastasia Ryan Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto M is for Monster by Talia Dutton A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen! by Sarah Kapit This is Not a Personal Statement by Tracy Badua We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

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you’re amazing!!! will add these tysm:))

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heyyyy so I was looking at my shelves and found some more 😆 This is really fun!

I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid Ripping Someone Open Only Makes Them Bleed by Yoru Sumino It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit by Justin A. Reynolds Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney We Do Not Welcome Our Ten-Year-Old Overlord by Garth Nix This Book Might Be About Zinnia by Brittney Morris Bye Forever, I Guess by Jodi Meadows Who Put This Song On? by Morgan Parker Find Him Where You Left Him Dead by Kristen Simmons I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom by Shannon C. F. Rogers

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thank you thank you! this is awesome i’ll add all of these rn :))

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What a fun list! 👏

Couple suggestions from my recent (enough to remember) reading, if you'd like?

Everybody wants to rule the world, except me. Django Wexler (Edit... Does his first in series count, too? How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying. My brain is too tired for the literature calculations this morning, apparently. Bahaha.)

This is not a test. Courtney Summers

We didn't mean to go to sea. Arthur Ransome

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adding rn you're amazing!!!

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great list hahahah!

there are actually a lot of books i could suggest but i picked these two!

we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson she’s always hungry by eliza clark

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amazing yes tysm!!! adding now!

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Love this! Possible suggestion: “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” by Rufi Thorpe 🤔?

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perfect!! adding now :)

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Yayyy what a cool list Moski🥰 If you're still adding suggestions, Eat the ones you love by Sarah Maria Griffin would fit!

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PERFECT tysm!!!!!

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from my recent tbr:

  • i deliver parcels in beijing by hu anyan (trans. jack hargreaves)
  • heaven does not block all roads by anna beth keim
  • some people need killing by patricia evangelista
  • moonlight rests on my left palm by yu xiuhua (trans. fiona sze-lorrain)
  • will my cat eat my eyeballs? by caitlin doughty

(i just realised most of these are nonfic and idk if you want them in this list, but yu xiuhua's book is a poetry collection!)

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perfect!!! nonfiction is absolutely welcome!!! adding these now!!! ty ty

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so fun! i just finished love is a dangerous word which fits here; i also really reckon you should check it out!

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adding to list and interested!! ty ty!

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what a fun list!

i know of

  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time * by Mark Haddon Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin
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adding!! ty ty!

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This is such a fun list concept?

For your consideration:

  • The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
  • Laura Clark Is Away From Her Desk by Helen Russell
  • Call Me By Your Name by Andre Anciman
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adding these now!!! ty ty!!!

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glad to add to such a fun list!

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one that has stuck in my brain for like a decade is if i die in a combat zone, box me up and ship me home by tim o'brien

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added!!! tysm what a cool title too

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Love this!!! Such original. In the future, if this becomes a quest pls let me know asap.

I read the comments to also take suggestions for my tbr 🤭. My humble contribution:

  • things are gotten worst since we last spoke
  • we had to remove this post
  • will my cat eat my eyeballs?
  • the eyes are the best part
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adding these now!!! tysm!

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This list is lovely and full of genres, thank you for this!

If you are taking suggestions, I have two: The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. LeGuin (a classic science fiction allegory about colonization, it made me cry) and I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins (a messy autofiction about postpartum depression and the author's father's weirdly close connection with Charles Manson).

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omg perfect, tysm!!! will add these asap!!!💛

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finally added, so sorry it took a while! these books also look so cool so will be checking them out as well <3 tysm!!!

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I love that this exists, only on PB ❤️

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hehe 💛💛💛

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I love this idea! I saw you’re taking suggestions so if may I add “They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us” by Hanif Abdurraqib! it’s a great nonfiction book exploring music, pop culture, and race, and I love recommending it to anyone and everyone

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ooo yes good one! will add :)

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(such a good book too!)

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wahoo I love helping spread the they cant kill us agenda! thanks sm for putting this list together it’s awesome :D

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you’re so sweet thank u so much!!!

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I was at the library the other day and saw a book that immediately made me think of this list: "No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cauze Bill Bailey Ain't Never Coming Home Again"

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ooo PERFECT!!! tysm!!!

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I love this so much!

Can I suggest

  • I hope this finds you well by Natalie Sue
  • A Sorceress comes to call by T. Kingfisher
  • We hunt the flame by Hafsah Faizal
  • America is not the heart by Elaine Castillo
  • I will die in a foreign land by Kalani Pickhart
  • Three apples fell from the sky by Narine Abgaryan
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you’re AMAZING tysm for these!! will add :)

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Got another one: I gave you eyes and you looked toward darkness by Irene Solà (honestly the most badass title ever)

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what a cool title! tysm :))

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Love the idea! What about At night all blood is black by David Diop and The country will bring us no peace by Matthieu Simard. Also I don't think I see The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon, such a brilliant book! 🫶

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will add, tysm!!!

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Great list!!! If I could submit suggestions 🫣

  • How Do You Live?
  • Shut Up You're Pretty
  • America Is In the Heart (which is what America is Not the Heart is referencing I believe!)
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tysm!! will add these!!!

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Moski, I've got some more for you!

— I'm Glad My Mom Died (Jennette McCurdy) — At Certain Points We Touch (Lauren John Joseph) — War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (Chris Hedges) — Best Offer Wins (Marisa Kashino) — What Is Wrong with Men (Jessa Crispin) — Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind (Molly McGhee) — Open Wide (Jessica Gross) — Julie Chan is Dead (Liann Zhang) — Is a River Alive? (Robert Macfarlane) — We Went to the Woods (Catie Dolan-Leach) — Follow Me to Ground (Sue Rainsford) — Jacob Have I Loved (Katherine Paterson) — Tell the Machine Goodnight (Katie Williams) — I Hold a Wolf by the Ears (Laura van den Berg) — Comfort Me With Apples (Catherynne M Valente) — Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World (Barry Lopez) — Secrets Can Kill (Carolyn Keene) — Little Foxes Took Up Matches (Katya Kazbek) — Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (Peter Cameron) — The Women Could Fly (Megan Goddings) — Now Is Not the Time to Panic (Kevin Wilson) — Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine (Kevin Wilson) — Which Witch? (Eva Ibbotson) — Patricia Wants to Cuddle (Samantha Allen) — How Can I Help You (Laura Sims) — The Heat Will Kill You First (Jeff Goodell) — You Dreamed of Empires (Álvaro Enrigue) — Normal Rules Don't Apply (Kate Atkinson) — I Heard the Owl Call My Name (Margaret Craven — Here Is the Beehive (Sarah Crossan) — Unf*ck Your Habitat (Rachel Hoffman) — We Cast a Shadow (Maurice Carlos Ruffin)
— No One Is Talking About This (Patricia Lockwood) — I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons (Peter S Beagle) — Let's Call It a Doomsday (Katie Henry) — I Cheerfully Refuse (Leif Enger) — This Is My Body, Given for You (Heather Parryl — Esther Is Now Following You (Tanya Sweeney) — And the Sea Gave Up the Dead (William Friend) — Are You Hungry, Are You Cold (Ludwig Bemelmans) — May We Be Forgiven (AM Homes) — All Your Friends Are Here (M Shaw) — Please Stop Trying to Leave Me (Alana Saab) — Feast While You Can (Mikaella Clements) — This World Does Not Belong to Us (Natalia García Freire) — Wish Her Safe at Home (Stephen Benatar) — The Sea Beast Takes a Lover (Michael Andreasen) — Stay On the Line (Clay Chapman) — Bury Your Gays (Chuck Tingle) — Pour One for the Devil (Theodore C. Van Alst) — Your Shadow Half Remains (Sunny Moraine) — What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours (Helen Oyeyemi) — Help the Witch (Tom Cox) — The Earth Strikes Back (Richard T. Chizmar) — Boris Says the Words (Kyle Winkler) — The Forest Brims Over (Maru Ayase) — You Should Have Left. (Daniel Kehlmann) — We Are Here to Hurt Each Other (Paula Ashe) — Here Goes Nothing (Steve Toltz)

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