K's Book-Recap of 2023
Der Herr der Ringe: Die Rückkehr des Königs - J.R.R. Tolkien (Original Title: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
I Kissed Shara Wheeler - Casey McQuiston
One Last Stop - Casey McQuiston
Red White & Royal Blue (Collectors Edition) - Casey McQuiston
Anne Frank Gesamtausgabe (English Title: Diary of a Young Girl)
A Song of Silver And Gold - Melissa Karibian
Die sieben Männer der Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid (Original Title: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
Paradise Lost & Found - Jennifer Knightley
A Little Bit Country - Brian D. Kennedy
Eine Frage der Chemie - Bonnie Garmus (Original Title: Lessons In Chemistry)
Circe - Madeline Miller
Verstand & Gefühl - Jane Austen (Original Title: Sense & Sensibility)
Emma - Jane Austen
From Bad to Cursed - Lana Harper
Back In A Spell - Lana Harper
Galatea - Madeline Miller
Die Abtei vom Nordhanger - Jane Austen (Original Title: Northhanger Abbey)
Die Liebe der Anne Elliot - Jane Austen (Original Title: Persuasion)
Der Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien (Original Title: The Hobbit)
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
She Gets The Girl - Rachel Lippinscott & Alyson Derrick
A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
In Charm's Way - Lana Harper
Der Große Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (Original Title: The Great Gatsby)
Tausend strahlende Sonnen - Khaled Hosseini (Original Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns)
Me and White Supremacy - Layla F. Saad
Verlorene Der Zeit - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Original Title: This Is How You Lose the Time War)
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🌈 Queer Books Out December 2023 🌈
🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!
❤️ Caught in a Bad Fauxmance by Elle Gonzalez Rose
🧡 Heartstopper #5 by Alice Oseman
💛 This Cursed Light by Emily Thiede
💚 All The Hidden Paths by Foz Meadows
💙 Vampires of Eden: Book One by Karla Nikole
💜 Not My Type by Joe Satoria
❤️ Storm in Her Heart by KC Luck
🧡 Eternal Embrace by Luna Lawson
💛 A River of Golden Bones by A.K. Mulford
💙 Tomb of Heart and Shadow by Cara N. Delaney
💜 Through the Embers Volume 2 by Adriana Sargent
🌈 Lucero by Maya Motayne
❤️ The Poison Paradox by Hadley Field & Felix Green
🧡 Second Chances in New Port Stephen: A Novel by TJ Alexander
💛 Matrimonial Merriment by Nicky James
💚 Under the Christmas Tree by Jacqueline Ramsden
💙 Every Beat of Her Heart by KC Richardson
💜 The Memories of Marlie Rose by Morgan Lee Miller
❤️ Playing with Matches by Georgia Beers
🧡 Always Only You by Chloe Liese
💛 Fire in the Sky by Radclyffe and Julie Cannon
💙 Nuclear Sunrise by Jo Carthage
💜 The Naked Dancer by Emme C. Taylor
🌈 Resurrections by Ada Hoffmann
❤️ Destiny’s Women by Morgan Elliott
🧡 Framed by Kate Merrill
💛 The Spoil of Beasts by Gregory Ashe
💚 Catered All the Way by Annabeth Albert
💙 A Cynic’s Christmas Conundrum by L.M. Bennett
💜 Yours for the Taking by Gabrielle Korn
❤️ One Swipe Away by Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue
🧡 The Gentlemen’s Club by A.V. Shener
💛 A Death at the Dionysus Club by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold
💙 Secrets of the Soul by Holly Oliver
💜 Like They Do in the Movies by Nan Campbell
🌈 Limelight by Gun Brooke
❤️ Heart First by S.B. Barnes
🧡 Grave Consequences by Sandra Barret
💛 Haunted by Myth by Barbara Ann Wright
💚 Invisible by Anna Larner
💙 The Murders at Sugar Mill Farm by Ronica Black
💜 Coasting and Crashing by Ana Hartnett
❤️ Fairest by K.S. Trenten
🧡 A City of Abundant Opportunity by Howard Leonard
💛 The Dark Side of MIdnight by Erin Wade
💙 Mending Bones by Merlina Garance
💜 Transform by Connal Braginsky & Sean Ian O’Meidhir
🌈 The Apple Diary by Gerri Hill
❤️ TruLove by Nicole Pyland
🧡 Structural Support by Sloan Spencer
💛 Whiskey War by Stacy Lynn Miller
💚 Overkill by Lou Wilham
💙 Heart of Outcasts by Nicole Silver
💜 In the Shadow of Victory by J. E. Leak
❤️ Just Like Her by Fiona Zedde
🧡 Gingerbread: Claus For Christmas by Miski Harris
💛 Lies are Forever by C. Jean Downer
💙 The Boys in the Club by M.T. Pope
💜 Lasting Light (Metal & Magic) by Michelle Frost
🌈 Tell No Tales by Edie Montreux
❤️ Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
🧡 Even Though We're Adults Vol. 7 by Takako Shimura
💛 The Accidental Bite by Michelle St. Wolf
💚 Mated to the Demons by Taylor Schafer
💙 Someday Away by Sara Elisabeth
💜 Gatherdawn Luminia Duet Volume 1 by Lee Colgin
❤️ Curse of Dawn by Richard Amos
🧡 Healing the Twin by Nora Phoenix
💛 Ride Me by KD Ellis
💙 How to Bang a Vampire by Joe Satoria
💜 Cthulhu for Christmas by Meghan Maslow
🌈 Prestige by Toni Reeb
❤️ Don't Look Down by Jessica Ann
🧡 Winter and the Wolves by Chris Storm and Kinkaid Knight
💛 Hat Trick by Ajay Daniel
💚 Starborn Husbands: Return to the Pleiades by S. Legend
💙 Dead Serious Case #4 Professor Prometheus Plume by Vawn Cassidy
💜 Practice for Toby by Amy Bellows
❤️ The Siren's Song by Crista Crown
🧡 Hers to Hunt K.J. Devoir
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A post for my book recommendations, to be continuously updated as I read and remember more. Because without reading, I would not be writing.
All time favourites are marked with a ☆
All are sorted by genre and will be linked (if able) to their Goodreads pages so that you can dig deeper into whatever catches your eye.
(ps if you have a Goodreads account, you can add me here)
Anthology/Short Story Collections
Behold This Dreamer - Walter de la Mare ☆
Love Letters of Great Men - Ursula Doyle
Difficult Women - Roxane Gay
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu
The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami
Essays
Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay ☆
Bluets - Maggie Nelson ☆
On Freedom - Maggie Nelson
In Praise of Shadows - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Malleable Forms - Meeka Walsh ☆
Fiction (Classic)
Persuasion - Jane Austen ☆
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell ☆
Siddhartha - Hermen Hesse
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera ☆
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Fiction (Modern)
All’s Well - Mona Awad ☆
Bunny - Mona Awad
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
The Pisces - Melissa Broder
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
For Today I Am A Boy - Kim Fu
The Vegetarian - Han Kang
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova ☆
Fall on Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
The Road - Cormac McCarthy ☆
Under the Hawthorne Tree - Ai Mi
The Song of Achilles - Madeleine Miller ☆
After Dark - Haruki Murakami ☆
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami
1Q84 - Haruki Murakami ☆
Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
Boy, Snow, Bird - Helen Oyeyemi
Mr. Fox - Helen Oyeyemi ☆
A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki
The Overstory - Richard Powers ☆
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Blindness - José Saramago
How To Be Both - Ali Smith
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt ☆
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Ru - Kim Thúy
Brooklyn - Colm Tóibín
Big Fish - Daniel Wallace
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
Horror/Thriller
The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
Gerald’s Game - Stephen King
The Shining - Stephen King
Audition - Ryū Murakami
I’m Thinking of Ending Things - Iain Reid
Manga/Graphic Novels
Basilisk - Futaro Yamada, Maseki Sagawa
Death Note - Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
Eureka Seven - Jinsei Kataoka, Kazuma Kondou
Lore Olympus - Rachel Smythe
Nana - Ai Yazawa ☆
Paradise Kiss - Ai Yazawa
Uzumaki - Junji Ito
xxxHolic - CLAMP
Memoirs/Journals
Speak, Okinawa - Elizabeth Miki Brina
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty
I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - Azar Nafisi
Henry and June - Anaïs Nin ☆
The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls ☆
Non-Fiction (General)
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking - Susan Cain
The Red Market - Scott Carney
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern - Stephen Greenblatt
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right - Jane Mayer
The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson
The Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr, E.B White
Non-Fiction (Philosophy/Spiritual)
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge - Carlos Castañeda
Silence: In the Age of Noise - Erling Kagge ☆
The Kybalion - Three Initiates ☆
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo - Chögyam Trungpa
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
Poetry Collections
I Love My Love - Reyna Biddy
Let Us Compare Mythologies - Leonard Cohen
The Prophet - Khalil Gibran
The Anatomy of Being - Shinji Moon
The Beauty of the Husband - Anne Carson ☆
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth - Warsan Shire
Night Sky with Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong
Speculative Fiction
Dune - Frank Herbert
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel ☆
Battle Royale - Koushun Takami
True Crime
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders - Vincent Bugliosi
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote ☆
Young Adult
A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray ☆
The Diviners - Libba Bray
The Sun is Also a Star - Nicola Yoon
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small town AU where:
Scott and Melissa moved there after losing the house during the divorce and she's working at the rural clinic while he's working under Dr. Deaton.
Stiles is still the kid of a sheriff and the sheriff's department takes care of beacon hills as well as the surrounding other small towns in the county :)
Four words, Livestock Veterinarian Alan Deaton! Four more bonus words Livestock Veterinary Assistant Scott!!! A bunch of more words Deaton and Scott with cute little baby farm animals!!!!!!!!
(if i truly had the energy to do so, i would love to continue writing my livestock vet Scott + farmhand Stiles fic, but that's a different AU)
Derek Hale is a city kid turned farmhand on an old man's farm (the old man in question is Elias, Stiles' grandfather)(and to the question why is Stiles or his father working at the farm is because 1. Elias lets his son work as a sheriff because whatever and 2. Stiles is a walking disaster no way is he letting that boy in charge of farm chores nuh uh not even on a lazy almost fall summer day where there's not much than the usual morning feeding also 3. Derek was only hired after Elias accepted that he was not as young and capable as he used to be and Noah and Stiles put themselves in charge of finding a farmhand)(Derek was the only one to send in a reply to their job ad) and the farm primarily raises sheep for meat and wool but I'd like to think that after Derek started working there a few years back he'd regularly add in new animals every summer or so. Sometimes he'd raise poultry, sometimes it's a small drove of pigs, sometimes it's not even animals but just a crop of pumpkins and squash and tomatoes and cucumbers!!
Derek loves the sheep. He's a shepherd through and through.
Jackson is not a whittemore but a miller, except his parents just died a bit later into his life and he lives with the whittemores on their large scale hay farm where there's an added bonus (to me)! h o r s e s !!!!
(all of this is just a way for me to write my fav characters interacting with my longest running obsession of all time, horses)
Lydia's mother owns the town's bistro/bar, her father owns the lodge built next to it. It used to be a whole business but it split with the divorce but there's still the whole B&B package deal to this day as it's wayyyyy too popular to risk losing business by stopping it.
Allison moved there pretty recently and the guns business her family owns fits in pretty well with the need for safety of the farmer and their livestock from predators and also for the wild game hunters in the late summer through fall hunting season.
Scott and Lydia bonding over being two kids from a divorced family. Scott and Lydia bonding over having pet dogs (Roxy is alive and Prada and her are absolute besties). Scott and Lydia being partners in science projects. Scott and Lydia spending wayy too long staring into each others eyes than how much friends would. Scott and Lydia realizing they want to be more than friends.
Stiles spouting off cool animal facts that Scott 100% already knew but acts like he didn't because both of them are stupidly in love with each other.
Scott meeting Derek when on the job. He can't help but crush over Derek and his enthusiasm over regenerative agricultural practices.
Jackson trying to impress Scott and Stiles by trotting up and down the main street on his horse. (I live laugh love by my Scott/Stiles/Jackson agenda) He also gets his dad to bring his horse over to school so he can just ride on it back home, in hopes of impressing Scott and Stiles but Scott is too invested in Stiles animal facts that they only way Jackson really has a chance was when Scott came over with Deaton for an emergency check up on a rogue cow on their property that was limping bad. Jackson straight up embarasses himself because he's a loser :P but Scott finds the attempt endearing and asks if he'd want to hang out with him and Stiles. It's the beginning of a slippery slope of 'Oh. Oh.' realizations for the three of them.
Scott and Allison meeting each other at the bistro and it starts a blossoming relationship that tugs at the heartstrings. It's cute little notes during class and hanging out at the bistro over hot chocolate even on hot days and going over to each others house to watch TV to cuddle under the same blanket and quick glances at each other and it's so goshdarn cute.
BASICALLY, SCOTT/EVERYONE because I can't choose which ship to go with this au because Scott DESERVES everyone and everyones ALSO DESERVES Scott :D
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