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My Taste

You Deserve Each Other

The Song of Achilles

Sorcery of Thorns (Sorcery of Thorns, #1)

The Bell Jar

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Passing

A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

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The Memory Police

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Prime Day reminder 🎉🎊

Just a reminder to buy your books from indie bookstores and to use your local library to the maximum.

If you'll allow me, I'll share my favourite bookstores located in Montreal, QC & I encourage you to share yours from home (I love visiting indie bookstores when I travel) :

× Maktaba Bookshop × Joie de Livres Bookstore × Librairie St-Henri Books

Also, in Québec, we have an "holiday" every August 12th where we are encouraged to buy a Quebecer books. Do you any similar Day in your country?

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Calling all annotators

How do you annotate? I’m keeping the question broad intentionally.

As someone currently powers through books raw, I’d love to get into annotating and would love to hear your methods.

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is it just me or...

does anyone else only read one book at a time? i thought i was in the majority here but my friends think i'm crazy lol

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Native or foreign language?

Hello readerss!! Ive got a question for all my people whose first language isn't English - which books do you read more of: the ones in your language or the ones written in English? By the ones in your language i also mean translations, not only by authors from your country

Im really wondering cause lately ive been into reading the english ones and i find it really fun - the beggining of every book is pretty weird, cause its getting into reading in English, but after like 50-100 pages i feel like im starting to fly through it💪🙈 do you also feel this way?

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Favorite Publishing Houses

as a bookworm, I try to build my own collection of books and would love to hear some of your most trustworthy publishers!

it can be for a lot of reasons but i’m looking mainly for: 1. nice, curated selection of books (mostly fiction) and 2. they got beautiful book covers (ofc, I’m also a sucker for pretty books. can’t help it sometimes 🤭)

some of the publishing houses I have my eyes on are: NYRB, Vintage Books, and New Directions.

what’s yours? ✨😌

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Cursed Daughters

Cursed Daughters

Oyinkan Braithwaite

No man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace... So goes the family curse, long handed down from generation to generation, ruining families and breaking hearts. And now it's Eniiyi's turn - who, due to her uncanny resemblance to her dead aunt, Monife, is already used to her family's strange beliefs, as well as their insistence that she is a reincarnation. Still, when she falls in love with the handsome boy she saves from drowning, she can no longer run from her family's history. Is she destined to live out the habitual story of love and heartbreak, or can she escape the family curse and the mysterious fate that befell her aunt?

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My Sister, the Serial Killer

Thoughts from 75% (page 170)

Ayoola. Your mom too, if I catch you. And even Tade at this point😤

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Tender Is the Flesh

Thoughts from 100% (page 219)

Y*ck, the climax 😵‍💫😵‍💫 I'd never recommend this to anyone. Please, it's purely suffering and disgusting 😭😭🤧

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Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Coco Mellors

For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage. Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank's life is full of all the excesses Cleo's lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to apply for a Green Card. But their impulsive marriage irreversibly changes both their lives, and the lives of those close to them, in ways they never could've predicted. Each compulsively readable chapter explores the lives of Cleo, Frank, and an unforgettable cast of their closest friends and family as they grow up and grow older. Whether it's Cleo's best friend struggling to embrace his gender queerness in the wake of Cleo's marriage, or Frank's financially dependent sister arranging sugar daddy dates to support herself after being cut off, or Cleo and Frank themselves as they discover the trials of marriage and mental illness, each character is as absorbing, and painfully relatable, as the last. As hilarious as it is heartbreaking, entertaining as it is deeply moving, Cleopatra and Frankenstein marks the entry of a brilliant and bold new talent.

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Favorite Publishing Houses

as a bookworm, I try to build my own collection of books and would love to hear some of your most trustworthy publishers!

it can be for a lot of reasons but i’m looking mainly for: 1. nice, curated selection of books (mostly fiction) and 2. they got beautiful book covers (ofc, I’m also a sucker for pretty books. can’t help it sometimes 🤭)

some of the publishing houses I have my eyes on are: NYRB, Vintage Books, and New Directions.

what’s yours? ✨😌

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Favorite Publishing Houses

as a bookworm, I try to build my own collection of books and would love to hear some of your most trustworthy publishers!

it can be for a lot of reasons but i’m looking mainly for: 1. nice, curated selection of books (mostly fiction) and 2. they got beautiful book covers (ofc, I’m also a sucker for pretty books. can’t help it sometimes 🤭)

some of the publishing houses I have my eyes on are: NYRB, Vintage Books, and New Directions.

what’s yours? ✨😌

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Passing

Passing

Nella Larsen

Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netflix film directed by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga. This Signet Classics edition of Passing includes an Introduction by Brit Bennett, the bestselling author of The Vanishing Half. Irene Redfield is a Black woman living an affluent, comfortable life with her husband and children in the thriving neighborhood of Harlem in the 1920s. When she reconnects with her childhood friend Clare Kendry, who is similarly light-skinned, Irene discovers that Clare has been passing for a white woman after severing ties to her past--even hiding the truth from her racist husband. Clare finds herself drawn to Irene's sense of ease and security with her Black identity and longs for the community (and, increasingly, the woman) she lost. Irene is both riveted and repulsed by Clare and her dangerous secret, as Clare begins to insert herself--and her deception--into every part of Irene's stable existence. First published in 1929, Larsen's brilliant examination of the various ways in which we all seek to "pass," is as timely as ever.

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The Hour of the Star

The Hour of the Star

Clarice Lispector

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio de Janeiro and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly, and unloved. Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid realization that for all her outward misery, Macabéa is inwardly free. She doesn't seem to know how unhappy she should be. Lispector employs her pathetic heroine against her urbane, empty narrator--edge of despair to edge of despair--and, working them like a pair of scissors, she cuts away the reader's preconceived notions about poverty, identity, love, and the art of fiction. In her last novel she takes readers close to the true mystery of life, and leaves us deep in Lispector territory indeed.

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Killing Stella

Killing Stella

Marlen Haushofer

L'hypocrisie du couple dénoncée par la confession d'un crime échappant au accusations.

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Madonna in a Fur Coat

Madonna in a Fur Coat

Sabahattin Ali

The bestselling Turkish classic of love and longing in a changing world, available in English for the first time.'It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected.' A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. The city's crowded streets, thriving arts scene, passionate politics and seedy cabarets provide the backdrop for a chance meeting with a woman, which will haunt him for the rest of his life. Emotionally powerful, intensely atmospheric and touchingly profound, Madonna in a Fur Coat is an unforgettable novel about new beginnings and the unfathomable nature of the human soul.'Passionate but clear . . . Ali's success [is in ] his ability to describe the emergence of a feeling, seemingly straightforward from the outside but swinging back and forth between opposite extremes at its core, revealing the tensions that accompanies such rise and fall.' Atilla Özkirimli, writer and literary historian

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On the Calculation of Volume I

On the Calculation of Volume I

Solvej Balle

Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd November 18th: she no longer experiences the changes of days, weeks, months, or seasons. She finds herself in a lonely new reality without being able to explain why: how is it that she wakes every morning into the same day, knowing to the exact second when the blackbird will burst into song and when the rain will begin? Will she ever be able to share her new life with her beloved and now chronically befuddled husband? And on top of her profound isolation and confusion, Tara takes in with pain how slight a difference she makes in the world. (As she puts it: “That’s how little the activities of one person matter on the eighteenth of November.”) Balle is hypnotic and masterful in her remixing of the endless recursive day, creating curious little folds of time and foreshadowings: her flashbacks light up inside the text like old flash bulbs. The first volume’s gravitational pull―a force inverse to its constriction―has the effect of a strong tranquilizer, but a drug under which your powers of observation only grow sharper and more acute. Give in to the book's logic (its minute movements, its thrilling shifts, its slant wit, its slowing of time) and its spell is utterly intoxicating. Solvej Balle’s seven-volume novel wrings enthralling and magical new dimensions from time and its hapless, mortal subjects. As one Danish reviewer beautifully put it, Balle’s fiction consists of writing that listens. “Reading her is like being caressed by language itself.”

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Tiny but Mighty Fiction

Don’t be fooled by the page count, these novels still quite pack a punch and will leave a mark on you.

Can be read in a day or two (or in one seating whichever you prefer) 😌

**Books with 200 pages or less

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Madonna in a Fur Coat

I Who Have Never Known Men

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

Hunchback

Madonna in a Fur Coat

I Who Have Never Known Men

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My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels, #1)

Oct 06, 2025

Oct 06, 2025

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

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Passing

Passing

Nella Larsen

Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netflix film directed by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga. This Signet Classics edition of Passing includes an Introduction by Brit Bennett, the bestselling author of The Vanishing Half. Irene Redfield is a Black woman living an affluent, comfortable life with her husband and children in the thriving neighborhood of Harlem in the 1920s. When she reconnects with her childhood friend Clare Kendry, who is similarly light-skinned, Irene discovers that Clare has been passing for a white woman after severing ties to her past--even hiding the truth from her racist husband. Clare finds herself drawn to Irene's sense of ease and security with her Black identity and longs for the community (and, increasingly, the woman) she lost. Irene is both riveted and repulsed by Clare and her dangerous secret, as Clare begins to insert herself--and her deception--into every part of Irene's stable existence. First published in 1929, Larsen's brilliant examination of the various ways in which we all seek to "pass," is as timely as ever.

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My Husband

My Husband

Maud Ventura

In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obsessing over her perfect husband--but can their marriage survive her passionate love? At forty years old, she has an enviable life: a successful career, stunning looks, a beautiful house in the suburbs, two healthy children, and most importantly, an ideal husband. After fifteen years together, she is still besotted with him. But she's never quite sure that her passion is reciprocated. After all, would a truly infatuated man ever let go of his wife's hand when they're sitting on the couch together? Determined to keep their relationship perfect, she meticulously prepares for every encounter they have, always taking care to make her actions seem effortless. She watches him attentively, charting every mistake and punishing him accordingly to help him improve. And she tests him--setting traps to make sure that he still loves her just as much as he did when they first met. Until one day she realizes she may have gone too far . . . The winner of France's First Novel Prize in 2021, My Husband builds on the premise of hits like Gone Girl and Fates and Furies--how well can you really know your spouse?--and adds the tension and creepy obsession of You. The result is an irresistible read--compelling, tense, and engaging, infused with sly subversive humor, and told in an utterly original voice that makes it unforgettable. Translated from the French by Emma Ramadan

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