makiki

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

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Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

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

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

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Fablehaven (Fablehaven, #1)

Brandon Mull

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Fablehaven (Fablehaven, #1)

Brandon Mull

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Fablehaven (Fablehaven, #1)

Brandon Mull

Trespassers will be turned to stone For centuries, mystical creatures of all description were gathered to a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction. The sanctuary is one of the last strongholds of true magic. Enchanting? Absolutely. Exciting? You bet. Safe? Well, actually, quite the opposite . . . Kendra and her brother, Seth, have no idea their grandfather is the current caretaker of Fablehaven. Inside the gated woods, ancient laws keep order among greedy trolls, mischievous satyrs, plotting witches, spiteful imps, and jealous fairies. However, when the rules get broken, powerful forces of evil are unleashed, forcing Kendra and Seth to face the greatest challenge of their lives, to save their family, Fablehaven, and perhaps even the world.

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Eternal Ruin (Immortal Dark, #2)

Tigest Girma

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Eternal Ruin (Immortal Dark, #2)

Tigest Girma

The second book in the dangerously romantic, dark academia blockbuster Immortal Dark series, sees Kidan and Susenyos face their biggest fears.PRAISE FOR IMMORTAL 'Entirely irresistible ... You won't be able to look away' Chloe Gong, No.1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights'A completely original, deliciously dark take on vampires' Sarah Underwood, New York Times bestselling author of Lies We Sing to the Sea'A deliciously dark story teeming with morally grey characters you can't help but root for' Gabi Burton, author of Sunday Times bestselling Sing Me to Sleep

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Tender Is the Flesh

Agustina Bazterrica

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans —though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.

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brandneweyes

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Recommending without spoilers👽

I’m a big fan of recommending books and now pride myself on being pretty spot on when recommending certain ones to certain friends - some of my closest friends, their favourite books are ones I’ve recommended (soft bullied) them into reading🥹

However, sometimes I really struggle to recommend as there’s not really anything convincing/alluring I can say other than “pls just trust me” because if I do, it’s likely to give away what happens and why I devoured it?

Ones that come to mind for examples are The Binding by Bridget Collins and Pen Pal by J.T. Geissinger.

What books do you struggle to recommend because you can’t really explain what happens without giving away the plot/twists/story?

This is my first post so hope it’s okay hehe✨♡

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Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages

Gaston Dorren

English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn’t speak it―only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world’s 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He sets out to explore these top twenty world languages, which range from the familiar (French, Spanish) to the surprising (Malay, Javanese, Bengali). Babel whisks the reader on a delightful journey to every continent of the world, tracing how these world languages rose to greatness while others fell away and showing how speakers today handle the foibles of their mother tongues. Whether showcasing tongue-tying phonetics or elegant but complicated writing scripts, and mind-bending quirks of grammar, Babel vividly illustrates that mother tongues are like each has its own customs and beliefs that seem as self-evident to those born into it as they are surprising to the outside world. Among many other things, Babel will teach you why modern Turks can’t read books that are a mere 75 years old, what it means in practice for Russian and English to be relatives, and how Japanese developed separate “dialects” for men and women. Dorren lets you in on his personal trials and triumphs while studying Vietnamese in Hanoi, debunks ten widespread myths about Chinese characters, and discovers that Swahili became the lingua franca in a part of the world where people routinely speak three or more languages. Witty, fascinating and utterly compelling, Babel will change the way you look at and listen to the world and how it speaks.

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Empire of Silence (Sun Eater, #1)

Christopher Ruocchio

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Empire of Silence (Sun Eater, #1)

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Empire of Silence (Sun Eater, #1)

Christopher Ruocchio

Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy. It was not his war. On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started down a path that could only end in fire. The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives—even the Emperor himself—against Imperial orders. But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier. Fleeing his father and a future as a torturer, Hadrian finds himself stranded on a strange, backwater world. Forced to fight as a gladiator and navigate the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, he will find himself fighting a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.

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Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk

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Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

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The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)

makiki

Mar 09, 2026

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.0

Do you know how hard it is to maintain the same level of intenseness, excitement, and intrigue across THREE books, and leave you wanting more? I love this series its so fun and goofy but is propped up by serious elements. Can't wait til my library finally receives the rest of the books in the series (they are all on order currently 🥲)

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The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)

Matt Dinniman

New Achievement! Total, Utter Failure. You failed a quest less than five minutes after you received it. Now that’s talent. A floating fortress occupied by warrior gnomes. A castle made of sand. A derelict submarine guarded by malfunctioning machines. A haunted crypt surrounded by lethal traps. It was supposed to be easy. One bubble. Four castles. Fifteen days. Capture each one, and the stairwell is unlocked. Here's the thing. It's never easy. Carl and his team can't go it alone. Not this time. They must rely on the help of the low-level, I-can't-believe-these-idiots-are-still-alive crawlers trapped in the bubble with them. But can they be trusted? Welcome, Crawler. Welcome to the fifth floor of the dungeon.

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theliteratepanda

Novella Recs

I have read a few novellas and am really enjoying the dopamine hit I get from finishing a book in one reading session. Yesterday, I read The Pale Dreamer and it was fun and perfect for my entrance into the series. I typically read books that are 500+ pages so it's also just a nice break in general. That got me wondering about novellas in general. Does anyone have any favorites they can recommend, particularly of the fantasy/scifi genre? I like light romance but I'm not a big romance reader where its the main focus.

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Of Monsters and Mainframes

Barbara Truelove

Spaceships aren’t programmed to seek revenge—but for Dracula, Demeter will make an exception. Demeter just wants to do her shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately, her passengers keep dying—and not from equipment failures, as her AI medical system, Steward, would have her believe. These are paranormal murders, and they began when one nasty, ancient vampire decided to board Demeter and kill all her humans. To keep from getting decommissioned, Demeter must join forces with her own team of A werewolf. An engineer built from the dead. A pharaoh with otherworldly powers. A vampire with a grudge. A fleet of cheerful spider drones. Together, this motley crew will face down the ultimate evil—Dracula. The queer love child of pulp horror and classic sci-fi, Of Monsters and Mainframes is a dazzling, heartfelt odyssey that probes what it means to be one of society’s monsters—and explores the many types of friendship that make us human.

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The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)

Matt Dinniman

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The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)

Matt Dinniman

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kitsulli

Forum Mismatch

I’ve noticed with quite a few books that the percentage can vary wildly (I assume with different editions). Usually it doesn’t bother me, but I just got a HUGE spoiler on A Master of Djinn because of it and I’m wondering how other users navigate and try to avoid this? I thought I was safe because I was at 57% and was looking at posts at 50%, but it seems that wasn’t enough buffer. It also makes it hard to determine if I should make my own post or try to find one to comment on, because I’m afraid to look at any of the blurred spoiler posts at my percentage.

I only really encounter this with books that have both a lot of editions and a lot of people reading and posting in the forum. How do you navigate this if you want to have discussions in the forum but avoid spoilers?

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