Can anyone recommend any books about the loss of a pet?

I’m sorry if I’m completely missing it, but how to I log re-reads?

I use interested for books im curious about reading but dont have a lot of feeling for. But now ive got like 300 books between the two shelves. I need to cut them down as am overwhelmed. I have my own shelves like “excited tbr” etc. But any other tips?

Thank you!!!

EDIT: i mean like tips on how to decide if a book is truly one for the tbr? A la marie kondo “does it spark joy”? Or “would u wash or throw away this item if it got poo on it”?

Just curious as to how everybody’s using these two shelves. I’ve just been putting everything into TBR but I’ve been thinking maybe I should put the books I immediately want to read in Interested? Or maybe I could even go the other way where I put the books I will definitely read in my TBR and the books I’m not so sure about in Interested?

(yes, it really is my birthday haha) as the title says! I've been hearing about R.F Kuang endlessly for what feels like ages but haven't ever actually got around to any of her work. I'd like to change this in 2026, but she's terribly prolific and I'm at a loss now for where to start.

Any suggestions for a beginner? (and does it help to know I'm fine with academic settings and don't mind big meaty books?)

The use of wild, trapped animals in this is haunting; from the tiger, to the starling. It’s all beautifully done.

Saw people asking to add books to the quest but it seems that is not possible, so I thought we could make a further reading list!

Drop any book you would add if you could, or any other books you like that use punctuation in an unconventional way, or anything else you think would make good further reading. I’ll go first: Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss uses grammar and punctuation so bizarrely that reading it becomes an extreme sport.

What else would you guys recommend?

EDIT: so far the other recommendations from other posts are as follows: Vintage Sadness by Hanif Abdurraqib The Dog Stars by Peter Heller The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

All I can think at the moment, as I listen to Kimmerer talk, is how tragic the loss of indigenous wisdom is for the planet. I can't imagine how much knowledge we've lost already, it's so important to preserve it for the future. Time and time again, story after story demonstrates how important indigenous farming practices and all round understanding of the environment meant long-term sustainability for all.

I really love Kimmerer's discussion about reciprocity (a running theme) and how we should take a moment to thank the plants/environment for it's provision. We give and taken, they give and taken. I mean, I totally understand this from a scientific perspective of symbiosis but I feel like it's important to include the relational side as well.

All this to say, this lead me to thinking down a rabbit hole, as I was holding my plastic bottle of coke zero and walking home, how would I thank this coke zero? I know, kinda silly, but also how? I'm trying to be more like Kimmerer here! I don't want to thank our corporate overlords, but I am thankful someone came up with the recipe, because I love it. And I (reservedly) said thanks to the crude oil for being turned into plastic, because it is a natural resource albeit a finite one.

This is what a thought spiral with me is like, thanks for joining.

You should add this to the list 👀 It’s cunningly rhythmic and puts you in a thinking pause as your absorb his poems word for word.

This quest might get me to my first Sally Rooney! The badge is so cute