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The Church of the Mountain of Flesh

Kyle Wakefield

THE CHURCH OF THE MOUNTAIN OF FLESH is a cosmic horror novel about mad artists, bodies spiralling out of control, and a trans man's merciless desperation. Sole De Gasinis drowns his grief in wine and buries his hatred of his body in twisted sculptures. When, one drunken night on the beach, God orders him to rebuild his village's church, he knows he wasn't chosen for his piety. Instead, he and God make a deal. If Sole rebuilds the church, God will give him the body of a man. As Sole works in a frenzy for salvation, lifelong friendships decay, a village united to tear down its church fractures into pariahs and zealots, and power and grief reshape the prophet into a tyrant. Grief for a boy he fell in love with ten years ago, who claimed to be a virgin birth, who died in agony in the church crypt when the God inside him wanted out -- and whose monstrous remnant Sole must commune with for every piece of his prize.

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What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

T. Kingfisher

From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher." When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruravia. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.

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Silver: Finished 10 Main Quest books.

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A History of My Brief Body

Billy-Ray Belcourt

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Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States Whether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table, many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US’s history of settler colonialism, genocide, white supremacy, slavery, and structural inequality, all of which we still grapple with today. She explains that the idea that we are living in a land of opportunity—founded and built by immigrants—was a convenient response by the ruling class and its brain trust to the 1960s demands for decolonialization, justice, reparations, and social equality. Moreover, Dunbar-Ortiz charges that this feel good—but inaccurate—story promotes a benign narrative of progress, obscuring that the country was founded in violence as a settler state, and imperialist since its inception. While some of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, others are descendants of white settlers who arrived as colonizers to displace those who were here since time immemorial, and still others are descendants of those who were kidnapped and forced here against their will. This paradigm shifting new book from the highly acclaimed author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States charges that we need to stop believing and perpetuating this simplistic and a historical idea and embrace the real (and often horrific) history of the United States.

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lumer

In desperate need of horror books with happy endings

I love the horror genre, but I've read about five horror books in the past few months, and they've left me devastated. I'm exhausted trying to root for the characters, only to see that all of it was for nothing in the end. I usually don't mind sad or open endings, but this last one specially, which I can't name because of spoilers, is taking a toll on me.

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What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

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Monstrilio

Gerardo Sámano Córdova

A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man, and the people who love him in every form he takes Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago’s lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family’s decaying Mexico City estate. Eventually, Monstrilio begins to resemble the Santiago he once was, but his innate impulses—though curbed by his biological and chosen family’s communal care—threaten to destroy this fragile second chance at life. A thought-provoking meditation on grief, acceptance, and the monstrous sides of love and loyalty, Gerardo Sámano Córdova blends bold imagination and evocative prose with deep emotional rigor. Told in four acts that span the globe from Brooklyn to Berlin, Monstrilio offers, with uncanny clarity, a cathartic and precise portrait of being human.

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kimreads

Tell me about your bookish new year resolutions.

This year I’m striving to read 10 non-fiction books. It’s easy to gravitate to fiction for me as an escape and to turn my brain off. I’ve gotten into a reading slump from engaging with too much mid fiction so I’m hoping a new genre switch will get me more excited about reading.

I’m open to your most life-changing NF recommendations! I’ve joined the “tiny but mighty nonfiction” quest but would loooooove any more to add to my TBR.

Happy reading and to a great year!

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suchinthai

Korean reads for Level 4 learners

what the title says! i'm looking to better my Korean after about 7 years! I previously learned as an elective in high school by a native Korean. In terms of Talk to Me in Korean (TTMIK), i've tested at level 4 but since it's been so long, i'd consider myself more a level 3.5 lol. with that background, i would like recommendations for korean literature, graphic novels, media to enhance my learning! thank you pagebound users!! happy new year! 🫶🏻

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Giegs

I‘m planning on reading more worldwide 🌍

I plan on reading one book from a different country such as China, Sweden, Poland, Nigeria, Ghana etc. per month to broaden my literary horizon because I mostly read books from authors from the US, the UK, Ireland and Germany. If you have suggestions for books I should read please let me know ☺️ I already have Pachinko, Beartown and A Hero Born on my TBR. I’m open to most genres except Romantasy or Romance. Tried it a few times but it’s absolutely not for me.

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Phoenix Extravagant

Yoon Ha Lee

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