aoitsuki

30 | 🥐🇨🇵🍷 | She/Her | audiobooks Back after a 12 year slumb, always looking to diversify my readings!

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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)

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Video games that have bookish vibes?

I'm an avid gamer (especially of RPGs and cozy games) and I'm curious to hear some video games that you think have bookish vibes! Low-key making a list of games to checkout.

Obviously there's Tiny Bookshop. If you're not a gamer I still think everyone should check that one out. It's very very fun. I also think Legend of Zelda has suuuch a fun epic fantasy series vibe.

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love—in rich, imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre known as "magical realism."

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Petitioning for French book quests!

Hello PBees! (First of all, what do we think of this community name?)

I've seen a few fellow French and francophones alike here, and seen the recent Japanese Fiction Quest, I'm so stoked about expanding the quests and would like to peach you two :)

French Literature Starter Pack

A collection of books by French authors across periods and genres.

Rules

A 15 books quest with Champion and Completionist badges
No repeat author, that means only one book from Victor Hugo, Zola etc
Only from authors with French nationality, Francophone authors will receive all the love in the second quest 😉 this rule might need to be refined as some authors later gained French nationality or potential history sentitive definition oft he French nationality...
Only books that were at least translated in English so you don't need to read in French to participate in the quest
No children/teenage books (bye bye Ewilan, Tara Duncan, Peggy Sue, Tirya, Minimoys,... We've only got 15 spots!)

Badge Design

The Eiffel tower, a beret, a baguette, cheese and wine, a marinière, La liberté guidant le peuple,...? So many options, go crazy!

Books

It will be hard to pick I'm sure! Probably books from Zola, Victor Hugo, Simone de Beauvoir, George Sand, ...

Francophonie mon amour

An endless list of great books that were written in French!

Rules

The book must have been written/published first in French, no matter the flavour nor the author nationality
No genre restriction (can also include our teenage fantasies 🙌)
Can include books that were not necessarily translated to English (whether it was translated to other European languages for ex, or only exist in French)? I'm thinking since this can be an infinite quest with like a Platinium badge, that will allow non French readers to still participate and French readers to discover more options?
Only the first volume of a series of course

Badge Design

a Rolling Stone tongue with a French Flag? A wheel of French speaking region flags? The design might be more sensitive, we need the community to brainstorm!

Books

Infinite choices! So long a letter by Mariama Bâ, I who have never known men by Jacqueline Harpman, poems from Léopold Sédar Senghor, Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress by Dai Sijie, L'homme qui lisait des livres by Rachid Benzine,...

I want all your suggestions, I'm craving for more diverse French books!

Would even be more fun if they are released either on the International Francophonie Day on March the 20th or Maybe Bastille Day on July the 14th? Yes, I'm even planning the roadmap now, please excuse me for going too far 🙇‍♀️

Would love to read your inputs on anything and everything (rules, designs, book suggestions,...)! Thank you for listening to my Tedx show!

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Petitioning for French book quests!

Hello PBees! (First of all, what do we think of this community name?)

I've seen a few fellow French and francophones alike here, and seen the recent Japanese Fiction Quest, I'm so stoked about expanding the quests and would like to peach you two :)

French Literature Starter Pack

A collection of books by French authors across periods and genres.

Rules

A 15 books quest with Champion and Completionist badges
No repeat author, that means only one book from Victor Hugo, Zola etc
Only from authors with French nationality, Francophone authors will receive all the love in the second quest 😉 this rule might need to be refined as some authors later gained French nationality or potential history sentitive definition oft he French nationality...
Only books that were at least translated in English so you don't need to read in French to participate in the quest
No children/teenage books (bye bye Ewilan, Tara Duncan, Peggy Sue, Tirya, Minimoys,... We've only got 15 spots!)

Badge Design

The Eiffel tower, a beret, a baguette, cheese and wine, a marinière, La liberté guidant le peuple,...? So many options, go crazy!

Books

It will be hard to pick I'm sure! Probably books from Zola, Victor Hugo, Simone de Beauvoir, George Sand, ...

Francophonie mon amour

An endless list of great books that were written in French!

Rules

The book must have been written/published first in French, no matter the flavour nor the author nationality
No genre restriction (can also include our teenage fantasies 🙌)
Can include books that were not necessarily translated to English (whether it was translated to other European languages for ex, or only exist in French)? I'm thinking since this can be an infinite quest with like a Platinium badge, that will allow non French readers to still participate and French readers to discover more options?
Only the first volume of a series of course

Badge Design

a Rolling Stone tongue with a French Flag? A wheel of French speaking region flags? The design might be more sensitive, we need the community to brainstorm!

Books

I want all your suggestions, I'm craving for more diverse French books!

Would love to read your inputs on anything and everything (rules, designs, book suggestions,...)! Thank you for listening to my Tedx show!

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Morally grey or straight up baddies? A collection of books written from a villainous/morally grey POV. Only the first book from a series is included.

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The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

Holly Black

Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever. And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe. Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences. As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.

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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Shehan Karunatilaka

Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers, and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. He has seven moons to contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to the photos that will rock Sri Lanka. Ten years after his prize-winning novel Chinaman established him as one of Sri Lanka’s foremost authors, Shehan Karunatilaka is back with a “thrilling satire” (Economist) and rip-roaring state-of-the-nation epic that offers equal parts mordant wit and disturbing, profound truths.

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Lights Out

Navessa Allen

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Lights Out

Navessa Allen

The viral TikTok stalker dark romance, burning with high heat, hilarious banter, and a love story like you’ve never seen before. Can you handle the ride? I want someone with a soul as black as night. Someone who would burn the world down for me and not lose a single minute of sleep over it. Trauma nurse Aly Cappellucci doesn’t need any more kinks. She likes the one she’s landed on just fine. To her, nothing could top the masked men she follows online. Unless one of those men was shirtless, heavily tattooed, and waiting for her in her bedroom. She dreams about being hunted by one in particular, of him chasing her down and doing deliciously dark things to her willing body. She never could have guessed that by sending one drunken text, those dreams would become her new reality. I want things most people don’t, craving darkness and depravity instead of light and love. Josh Hammond has spent his life avoiding the limelight, but his online persona is another story. At night, he posts masked thirst traps for his millions of fans to drool over, but one follower has caught his eye: Aly. After reading a comment begging him to break into her house wearing a mask, he decides to take her up on her offer. Together, Aly and Josh live out their darkest fantasies, unaware that Aly has captured the attention of someone else. Someone with far more sinister intentions than a little light stalking. As Josh turns from predator to protector and the stakes heighten, he must ask himself how far he’s willing to go for the woman he’s obsessed with.

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Feb 26, 2026

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Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0

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Educated

Tara Westover

Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag". In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent. Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home. Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes and the will to change it.

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Thoughts from 20% - full cast audiobook

Between these ladies sighs, near moans, and intimate whispers to each other I am blushing more at these two women hugging then I have at full door open Romantasy sex scenes. I don’t think I can listen to this at work! 😳

I love it and need more.

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Educated

Tara Westover

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Feb 25, 2026

2.0

Enjoyment: 2.5Quality: 2.0Characters: 1.5Plot: 2.0

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Characters' actions are too stereotypical and silly, it's a lot of telling you what it is rather than showing it, there is a weird vibe about everyone being bad except the FMC and her love interest in her eyes... Honestly, at some point I kept on going to see the smut unfold, but it came waaaay too late and was anticlimactic. Not worth it imho 🙈 I don't mind a slow burn or no smut, it's just that I didn't vibe with the characters' at all.

I'm not too used to the genre but I've recently enjoyed A not so meet cute by Meghan Quinn in a similar vibe, and I thought that while the setting was also a bit silly, the characters and the plot there were more interestingly developed (also there is more spice, be aware). I would definitely recommend reading this one instead.

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A Deal with the Devil (The Devils, #1)

Elizabeth O'Roark

He might not be the devil, but working under him for six weeks is my idea of hell. Hayes Flynn is an arrogant jerk known best for his scotch habit and the way he spreads his British “charm” all over Hollywood, never with the same woman twice. He’s the last person I want to work for, except he has a face I can’t look away from, and the longer we’re together, the harder he is to hate. Because under that smug exterior is a heart he doesn’t want to show—one that was badly broken a decade earlier. A part of me wants to fix it for him before I leave…but can I do it without breaking my own in the process?

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Little Thieves (Little Thieves, #1)

Margaret Owen

Once upon a time, there was a horrible girl... Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother's love--and she's on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele's dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja's otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back... by stealing Gisele's life for herself. The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while Vanja uses an enchanted string of pearls to take her place. Now, Vanja leads a lonely but lucrative double life as princess and jewel thief, charming nobility while emptying their coffers to fund her great escape. Then, one heist away from freedom, Vanja crosses the wrong god and is cursed to an untimely end: turning into jewels, stone by stone, for her greed. Vanja has just two weeks to figure out how to break her curse and make her getaway. And with a feral guardian half-god, Gisele's sinister fiancé, and an overeager junior detective on Vanja's tail, she'll have to pull the biggest grift yet to save her own life.

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