makiki

linguist :-) autistic trying to read all the books in the world but just a smidgen behind

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

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The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)

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Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die

Greer Stothers

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Blacktail: A Novel

Scott Hawkins

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batxbby

Help finding a book club book

Hi! It’s my turn to pick my Book Club’s book for the next meeting. I’m struggling because I read really long saga-like stories. We just finished the Song of Achilles and everyone seemed to enjoy that.

Looking for a standalone book that’s about 300-ish pages, some fantasy, but not too much… and a little spice, but not too much 😂 I read smut and high fantasy but want to cater to the larger group. Thanks for any insight!

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very cold people: new england gothic

by leylines

41 books

the darker side of new england. crumbling colonial-era brick, run down coastal towns, abandoned factories, dilapidated mills, foggy orchards, cold dark waters, whispers of witchcraft, venerated institutions, secret societies, and uneasy echoes of the past.

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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)

Larry McMurtry

A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America. Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember.

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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)

Larry McMurtry

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Below

Ryan Lockwood

In all his years as a professional diver, Will Sturman has never encountered a killing machine more ferocious than the great white shark or as deadly as the piranha. Now, off the coast of California, something is rising from the deep--and multiplying. Voracious, unstoppable, and migrating north, an ungodly life form trailed by a gruesome wake of corpses. With the help of the brilliant and beautiful oceanographer Valerie Martell, Will finds himself in a race against time to stop the slaughter--by a predator capable of devastating the world's oceans. Pray it kills you quickly.

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Jul 20, 2026

Grey Dog

3.0

Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.0

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Grey Dog

Elliott Gish

A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delusions, wild beasts, and the uncontainable power of female rage. The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd ― spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist ― accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for the chance to re-establish herself where no one knows her secrets. She develops friendships with her neighbors, explores the woods with her students, and begins to see a future in this tiny farming community. Her past ― riddled with grief and shame ― has never seemed so far away. But then, Ada begins to witness strange and grisly a swarm of dying crickets, a self-mutilating rabbit, a malformed faun. She soon believes that something ancient and beastly ― which she calls the grey dog ― is behind these visceral offerings, which both beckon and repel her. As her confusion deepens, her grip on what is real, what is delusion, and what is traumatic memory begins to fail. Ada takes on the wildness of the woods, and begins to wonder which is more dangerous: the grey dog, or herself.

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MysticalGreenReader

Does anyone else prefer reading over watching shows/movies?

Lately choosing a show/movie to watch is so hard. I lose interest after 5, 10 minutes. I used to binge watch shows, it could be k dramas, animes. But now everytime i scroll through netflix and see a mystery i think how a book couldve done it way better. No matter how good the show is.

My experiences reading are almost always better then watching a show. Sometimes reading genuinely feels like watching a show. Books make me feel more then I would watching something, and thats why I prefer it.

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aliyahmk

what do you want more of?

i’m working on a choose-your-own-adventure style guide to help people pick their next monstrously-feminine read, and it has me wondering what everyone is loving about and wanting to see more of in this quest.

taking into consideration the aims of this quest (which are outlined in the pinned posts), what have you been enjoying, and what would you like to see more of? are there any niches you’d like to see filled, or gaps that surprise you?

i obviously can’t invent books that don’t exist, but i want to do my hardest to represent as much diversity within the boundaries of the monstrous feminine as i possibly can. so let me know what you’re after; more folkloric or fairytale retellings? representation for a specific community? a particular type of body horror? vampires? werewolves? cannibals? killers? shout out in the comments!

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makiki

Online bookstore- BooksRun

Has anyone used the online bookstore BooksRun?

I am on my quest to find Songs from the Seashell Archives Volume 2. Thriftbooks refunded my order because they sent volume 1, and I am hesitant to try reordering from them. Pangobooks has one copy (woohoo) except shipping to Canada costs TWENTY NINE DOLLARS (the book is 5.99). It appears that this book is only found in the USA and BooksRun at least has cheaper shipping......... why is this book impossible to find?! Do I bite the bullet and spend $$$ to secure it? Do I make it my lifelong mission to try to find it at a used bookstore?!

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Online bookstore- BooksRun

Has anyone used the online bookstore BooksRun?

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Grey Dog

Elliott Gish

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Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die

Greer Stothers

In this hilarious, off-the-wall queer fantasy romance, a reclusive sorcerer is forced to protect a cowardly knight after a prophecy ties their fates together. Funny, touching and inventive, this book is perfect for fans of A Marvellous Light and Dreadful. All his life, Sir Cameron has tried to stay as far away from danger as possible. But when the Church hands down a prophecy to his fellow knights predicting that the only way to defeat their nemesis, the mad sorcerer Merulo, is to kill Sir Cameron, he finds himself in a situation too sticky for even his considerable wiles. Short of ideas, Cameron throws himself on the mercy of the one person who now actually wants him to the mad sorcerer. Merulo isn't thrilled to be babysitting a spoilt, attention-seeking knight, but fate has tied them together. And transmogrifying Cameron into a vulture is at least a great source of entertainment. Cameron, meanwhile, is on a voyage of self-discovery. It turns out he's really, really into surly sorcerers who lock him up and tell him what to do. Who knew? As a legion of knights surround their stronghold, led by an angry concussed elf—which definitely isn't in any way Cameron's fault—the sorcerer's poisonous ambitions draw ever closer to fruition. Cameron is quite invested in not dying, but he finds he's also invested in Merulo. And sometimes, supporting the sorcerer you care about means taking an interest in their hobbies. Even if their hobby is trying to kill God. Even if it might get you killed, too.

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Rottenheart

Kat Dunn

Revenge me. For I am murdered . . . Odette and her best friend, Cecilia, grow up between two grand homes, one in Hampstead and one in Suffolk, the ancient and imposing Herne House. Odette’s mother, Lydia, is almost parasitic in her neediness, but despite her, Odette and Cecilia come of age together—free to roam, to learn, and to love. When Lydia inexplicably sickens and dies, a dark veil falls. Odette’s father retreats to his study, while her aunt—the cold and cruel Claudine—increasingly takes charge of the household. Lost in grief and spiraling into madness, Odette disappears into the shadows, leaving Cecilia alone and with her affections tested. As Claudine is announced as Odette’s new stepmother, the girls reckon with this final betrayal, and a sinister presence awakens. To her horror, Odette realizes that her mother never truly left. She now haunts the manor, ready to drag long- held secrets into the light and exact revenge against those who thought her dead and gone. A visceral tale of grief and madness, Rottenheart exhumes the heart of Hamlet to tell a fearless queer love story laced with an unforgettable haunting, asking whether we can truly outrun our suffering, or if we are forever indebted to the vengeful dead.

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Jul 19, 2026

Disappoint Me

3.0

Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

I have to say, the synopsis gives the impression that this might be a more lighthearted book than it actually is. I'm having a hard time rating it. Did I like any of the characters? Absolutely not. I found it grating to be in Max's head. She is so... negative and anxious about everything and I just have a really hard time with characters like that. Vincent does some shitty things. Simone is a total prick. There were actually no redeeming characters in this book That being said you could dissect so much of this book... i enjoyed the social commentary in this book and found myself going "YEAH GOOD POINT!!!" throughout the book. Was it a good book, and well written? Yes. Would I have liked it more had I been given a more accurate understanding of what this book would be like? Probably. Did I like the characters? Hell no. But after about 30% i was more interested in what the book was saying rather than what was happening, if that makes sense.

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Disappoint Me

Nicola Dinan

After a rough tumble and maybe-serious head injury, a disillusioned trans poet falls for a charming corporate lawyer in a love story that grapples with the explosive ghosts of relationships past, romantic and familial, from the Lambda Award-nominated author of Bellies, Nicola Dinan “Fell down the stairs and woke up a trad wife.” Max is thirty, a published poet and grossly overpaid legal counsel for a tech company. With a lifetime of dysphoria and fuccbois rattling around in her head, Max is plagued with a deep dissatisfaction during what should be the best years of her life. After taking a spill down the stairs at a New Year’s Eve party, she decides to make some changes. First things first: a stab at good old-fashioned heteronormativity. Max thinks she’s found the answer in Vincent, a corporate lawyer and hobby baker, whose trad friendship group may as well speak a foreign language, and whose Chinese parents never pictured their son dating a trans woman. This uncharted territory may have rough terrain, but Vincent cares for Max in a way she’d long given up on as a foolish fantasy. Yet Vincent is carrying his own baggage from his gap year in Thailand a decade prior: an explosive entanglement with a mysterious, gorgeous traveler. Voice-driven, warm, and poignant, Disappoint Me is an exploration of millennial angst, race, trans panic, and the allure of bourgeois domesticity that asks if we are defined by our worst mistakes.

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