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Trying to pick reading back up after my maths degree had me years without touching a non-academic text. She/her. 24. 🏳️‍🌈.

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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)

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El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

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Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he?

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Apr 16, 2026

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Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 3.5Characters: 3.0Plot: 4.0

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Overall, I really liked the book. Good pace, I read it in around 5 hours and at no moment feel the temptation to put the book down. The only thing that sometimes was tedious was how often we changed POVs and, some characters just werent as interesting as others. Sorry Tommy.

A great story for those who feel a vampire story should make the reader uncomfortable.

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Japanese Gothic

Kylie Lee Baker

In this lyrical, wildly inventive horror novel interwoven with Japanese mythology, two people living centuries apart discover a door between their worlds.October, 2026: Lee Turner doesn’t remember how or why he killed his college roommate. The details are blurred and bloody. All he knows is he has to flee New York and go to the one place that might offer refuge—his father’s new home in Japan, a house hidden by sword ferns and wild ginger. But something is terribly wrong with the no animals will come near it, the bedroom window isn't always a window, and a woman with a sword appears in the yard when night falls.October, 1877: Sen is a young samurai in exile, hiding from the imperial soldiers in a house behind the sword ferns. A monster came home from war wearing her father’s face, but Sen would do anything to please him, even turn her sword on her own mother. She knows the soldiers will soon slaughter her whole family when she sees a terrible a young foreign man who appears outside her window.One of these people is a ghost, and one of these stories is a lie.Something is hiding beneath the house of sword ferns, and Lee and Sen will soon wish they never unburied it.

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Complete Sonnets

William Shakespeare

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Complete Sonnets

William Shakespeare

Without a doubt the most important of Shakespeare's nondramatic works, the sonnets have engendered reams of scholarly disputation as to the identity of "the dark lady" and the "lovely boy" to whom the vast majority are addressed. Controversy has also long simmered over the full name of the "W.H." of the dedication. What is not in dispute is the superior quality of these lyrics, which rank among the finest sonnets ever written — in any language.Overt 150 poems deal with love, friendship, the tyranny of time, beauty's evanescence in power, death, and other themes in language unsurpassed in power, precision, and beauty. Now this inexpensive Dover edition enables any lover of poetry or fine literature to have this exquisite verse in his or her personal library. A brief glossary illuminates a number of archaic terms.

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Mar 27, 2026

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Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0

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I first read this book years ago, and it created in my a deep love for found footage/lost media stories, and while I have read some very good ones since then, this is still my favorite. I have now re-read it and it was even better than I remembered.

First of all, the two main stories, the one about the Navidsons/The House and the one about how Johnny is consumed by this essay about a none existent footage. The fact that they are constantly interrupting each other would probably be frustrating if I had not been so invested in both. I was always wanting to know what happened next in the parallel story, but I enjoyed the one I was readying.

Then the fact that we had this other two agents helping us see this stories: Zampano, who is the only vehicle we have to The Navidson Records, and Ed, who is the least intrusive editor ever and yet his few apparitions here and there also tell us about Johnny's mental state, at least in the degree to which it affected his work.

And of course, the very experimental corner. The fact that it goes crazy when we are following the exploration of the house, it really puts you in this altered state of mind in a way words alone cannot do. The truth is that while the story is good, it can only achieve the peak of the emotional aspects with the format in some way echoing what is happening to the characters.

The book is ambitious but it achieves everything it sets out to do, I cannot recommend it enough to anyone looking for a more unconventional horror book.

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House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski

A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

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Personality Picks: Books for Different Types of Readers

So Goodreads posted a blog post last month called "Personality Picks: Book Recommendations for (Nearly) Every Type of Reader" and I thought it was a cute idea except most of their recs suck (they chose a lot of really popular ones) and I'd rather hear from the PB community 😊I'll list the categories they used below. Give me recs for as many as you're able to!

The Canonical Reader: Only the Classics for Me The Movie Buff Reader: Book-to-Screen The Snug-at-Home Reader: I Like All Things Charming and Cozy The "What Is Wrong with You?!" Reader: Dark and Twisted The Cheerleader Reader: I'll Always Support a Debut! The "I'm Going to Film Myself Crying over This Book for TikTok" Reader The Vibes Reader: I'll Read Any Book with a Great/Wacky/Unhinged Premise The "I Don't Have Time to Read" Reader: I Need Single-Sitting Books The Random Hyperfixation Reader: This Year I'm Reading Books with an Animal on the Cover The Epistolary Reader: I Love Books Told in Letters The Bite-Size Reader: Gimme Some Great Short Stories The Eternal Optimist Reader: It Has to Have a Happily-Ever-After The Avant-Garde Reader: I Like Super-Experimental Books The Chart-Topper Reader: If Everyone Else Is Reading It, Then I Will Too The "I Just Listened to an NPR Segment about That" Reader: Nonfiction in the News The "Did You Hear About…" Reader: Juicy and Revealing Memoirs The "Make Me Better" Reader: Self-Improvement Nonfiction

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The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton

Jennifer N. Brown

A dual-timeline murder mystery set in an English country manor, when an ambitious professor discovers the long-lost manuscript of a Reformation-era prophetess Historian Alison Sage has made a groundbreaking archival discovery―she found a manuscript containing the prophecies of a 16th century nun, Elizabeth Barton. Barton’s prophecy condemning Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn led to her execution and the destruction of all copies of her prophecies―or so the world believed. With Alison’s discovery, she is catapulted to academic superstardom and scores an invitation to the exclusive Codex Consortium, a week of research among a select handful of fellow historians at a crumbling manor in England, located next to the ruins of the priory where Elizabeth herself once lived. What begins as a promising conference turns into a nightmare as the eerie house becomes the site of a murder. Suddenly, everyone is a suspect, and it seems that answers lie at the root of a local legend about centuries-old hidden treasure. Alison’s research makes her best-suited to solve the mystery―but when old feelings resurface for a former colleague, and the stakes of the search skyrocket, everyone's motives become murky. Alison’s cutthroat world of academia is almost as dangerous as Elizabeth Barton’s sixteenth-century England, where heretics are beheaded, visions can kill, and knowing who to trust is a deadly art. The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton is a thrilling novel, crackling with the voices of the past and propelled by a mystery that will leave readers in suspense until the very last page.

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TBR vs Interested

How do you guys use the TBR vs Interested options to mark books? As of now, I am using them a bit interchangeably, but more often than not I just don´t use the Interested option. I was wondering if maybe someone had a good system that uses both as distinctly separated options?

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looking for queer gothic recs

tbh I'm totally new to the gothic fiction genre, have never thought of reading it ever in my life - until recently, when I read wuthering heights for the readalong. although I disliked the characters, I found myself very much enjoying the gothic aesthetics of the windy and rainy moors. it has now awakened in me an interest and I would like to explore more gothic fiction, but I much prefer reading queer novels in general compared to other novels. I know of Interview With The Vampire and Carmilla, but that's about it. so all this is to say, does anyone have queer gothic romance recs / queer gothic fiction recs? 🥹 (other than IWTV and Carmilla which I already have my eye on!)

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Queering the Gothic

Andrew Smith

This is the first multi-authored book concerned with the developing interface between Gothic criticism and queer theory. Considering a range of Gothic texts produced between the eighteenth century and the present, the contributors explore the relationship between reading Gothically and reading Queerly, making this collection both an important reassessment of the Gothic tradition and a significant contribution to scholarship on queer theory. Writers discussed include William Beckford, Matthew Lewis, Mary Shelley, George Eliot, George Du Maurier, Oscar Wilde, Eric, Count Stenbock. E. M. Forster, Antonia White, Melanie Tem, Poppy Z. Brite, and Will Self. There is also exploration of non-text media including an analysis of Michael Jackson’s pop videos. Arranged chronologically, the book establishes links between texts and periods and examines how conjunctions of "queer," "gay" and "lesbian" can be related to, and are challenged by, a Gothic tradition. All of the chapters were specially commissioned for the collection, and the contributors are drawn from the forefront of academic work in both Gothic and Queer Studies.

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Babel

R.F. Kuang

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a historical fantasy epic that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British Empire Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. The tower and its students are the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver-working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as the arcane craft serves the Empire's quest for colonization. For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide . . . Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?

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Joseph Fink (one of the writers of WTNV) gave us a recommendation list on Tiktok for fans of the podcast, so I thought it would be nice to bring it here.

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