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are you a fiction podcast fan? looking for your next read? look no further!! here are some book recommendations if you like the magnus archives, the penumbra podcast, welcome to night vale, and wooden overcoats! 🎙️

for more book recommendations, check out my bookstagram @hauntedstacks 📖

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phantom-in-the-library · 9 days

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part 3 of the 2023 version of this post: adult books!

part 1: middle grade books | part 2: young adult books

this is a very incomplete list, as these are only books I've read and enjoyed. not all books are going to be for all readers, so I'd recommend looking up synopses and content warnings. feel free to message me with any questions about specific representation!

list of books under the cut ⬇️

yerba buena by nina lacour

if we were villains by m.l. rio

everyone in this room will someday be dead by emily r. austin

i want to be a wall by honami shirono

portrait of a thief by grace d. li

the thirty names of night by zeyn joukhadar

on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong

love & other disasters by anita kelly

take a hint, dani brown by talia hibbert

boyfriend material by alexis hall

almost like being in love by steve kluger

the charm offensive by alison cochrun

something wild & wonderful by anita kelly

red, white & royal blue by casey mcquiston

something to talk about by meryl wilsner

honey girl by morgan rogers

one last stop by casey mcquiston

once ghosted, twice shy by alyssa cole

kiss her once for me by alison cochrun

a spindle splintered by alix e. harrow

finna by nino cipri

every heart a dooryway by seanan mcguire

the starless sea by erin morgenstern

under the whispering door by tj klune

space opera by catherynne m. valente

light from uncommon stars by ryka aoki

dead collections by isaac fellman

the city we became by n.k. jemisin

light carries on by ray nadine

an absolutely remarkable thing by hank green

feed them silence by lee mandelo

summer sons by lee mandelo

upright women wanted by sarah gailey

lavender house by lev a.c. rosen

fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe by fannie flagg

the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid

a master of djinn by p. djeli clark

witchmark by c.l. polk

a marvellous light by freya marske

a restless truth by freya marske

when women were dragons by kelly barnhill

plain bad heroines by emily m. danforth

a lady for a duke by alexis hall

infamous by lex croucher

passing strange by ellen klages

even though i knew the end by c.l. polk

the chosen and the beautiful by nghi vo

whiskey when we're dry by john larison

wake of vultures by lila bowen

silver in the wood by emily tesh

the once and future witches by alix e. harrow

the kingdoms by natasha pulley

a tip for the hangman by allison epstein

she who became the sun by shelley parker-chan

the song of achilles by madeline miller

spear by nicola griffith

this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone

gideon the ninth by tamsyn muir

some desperate glory by emily tesh

all systems red by martha wells

a psalm for the wild built by becky chambers

the mimicking of known successes by malka older

winter's orbit by everina maxwell

fireheart tiger by aliette de bodard

empress of salt and fortune by nghi vo

legends and lattes by travis baldree

the house in the cerulean sea by tj klune

other ever afters by melanie gillman

the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon

a day of fallen night by samantha shannon

a strange and stubborn endurance by foz meadows

the unbroken by c.l. clark

real queer america by samantha allen

fun home by alison bechdel

in the dream house by carmen maria machado

better living through birding by christian cooper

why fish don't exist by lulu miller

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phantom-in-the-library · 14 days

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The Ocean is terrifying!

Here are some book recommendations to prove it!

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phantom-in-the-library · 3 months

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oops! it seems i tripped and dropped several million free books, papers, and other resources

https://annas-archive.org

https://sci-hub.se

https://z-lib.is

https://libgen.is

https://libgen.rs

https://www.pdfdrive.com

https://library.memoryoftheworld.org

https://monoskop.org/Monoskop

https://libcom.org

https://libretexts.org

http://classics.mit.edu

https://librivox.org

https://standardebooks.org

https://www.gutenberg.org

https://core.ac.uk

#resources #save

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phantom-in-the-library · 8 months

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Tips for reading:

1. Don't judge yourself.

That's it. Don't judge yourself for reading. Don't judge yourself for not reading. Don't judge yourself for what you read or when you read, how often you read, what kind of books you don't enjoy, where you get books from, what makes you stop or start reading, or why you can't read like you used to.

Books for not judging yourself: whatever you enjoy the most, or not reading at all if you don't want to.

2. Do/Don't challenge yourself.

If you feel like you could use a challenge, then challenge yourself. If you're tired of everything all of the time, be kind to yourself. Those are not mutually exclusive, but if you're tired, you deserve to rest, and challenging yourself may not be the best way to do that. Whatever you chose, it's okay. And it's going to be okay.

Books for challenging or not challenging yourself: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Tired as Fuck by Caroline Dooner. Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao. Comic books. Graphic novels. Picture books you enjoyed as a kid. The Odyssey by Homer. Anything by Tamora Pierce.

3. Do what you can.

If all you can do is read a page, read a page. If all you can do is read a word, read a word. If you can't bring yourself to crack the hardback, look at the cover. Breathe deeply, and take care of yourself first. You aren't expected to be able to read your own mind the way you used to devour a novel. Human beings are far more complicated and challenging than a hundred pages of lined text. You are currently doing what you can do.

Books for doing what you can: the nearest one.

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phantom-in-the-library · 9 months

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recent highlights from the bad books server

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phantom-in-the-library · 9 months

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there is never a dull moment in the bad books server

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phantom-in-the-library · 9 months

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Good morning to you! I saw that you heavily annotate the books you read as well as your textbooks. Really, I was just interested to heae whether you have a system there or what you usually notice about writing. It just looks very impressive!

Hi! 🌼

Thank you for the ask, I hope you won't mind too much that it's been sitting in my drafts for a little too long 😅

I think you're talking about my Contemporary History textbook posts, so I'll start from there. My professor was really keen on dates, which, as you can imagine, were at least half as many as the pages – so 99% of those notes are a series of days, months, years. The main challenge was to know when it was relevant to know the exact day, and when it was okay to just remember a vague period of time. Generally, it worked like this:

personal actions (declarations, marches, rallies, etc.): dd/mm/yy

military operations: mm/yy (unless they had immediate repercussions on personal actions);

laws, etc.: yy (again, unless they had immediate repercussions on personal actions);

when a concatenation of events, or a series of laws, are part of a more general project, I make sure to explicitly highlight that connection.

And that's about it for textbooks I need to read for uni exams (mostly because I don't have much time).

But, as I read a lot of non-fiction in my free time as well, I often like to reference it when annotating fiction, and vice versa. I enjoy finding concepts in a novel that I read about in depth within an essay, or maybe realizing, while reading literary theory or philosophy books, that those ideas have been put into pratice in a short story I've already read. In short, I like to highlight the intertextual links between works, it makes reading a lot more interesting and inspiring and enriching!

Of course, I take note of my favourite quotes even when I "simply" relate to them on a personal or stylistic level, but in that case I usually write them down somewhere else, rather than highlighting them directly on the text. So I can find them more easily!

Last but not least, here is a post I made a while ago about how to take notes if you want to write detailed reviews, or just generally feel more present in your reading.

Hope you found this useful, or at least that it answered yours question! Feel free to chime in with comments and your personal preferences, everyone 🌼

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phantom-in-the-library · 9 months

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hi here's a list of contemporary poetry that i have personally read & recommend. currently 173 titles, free PDF download to reference as you look for new books to read <3 enjoy!!

#poetry #save

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phantom-in-the-library · 9 months

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People who don't re-read books are so funny to me. "I know what happens"..?? Gurl I know what pizza tastes like, still gonna eat another one. I know what a rainbow looks like, you think that'll stop me running outside, camera in hand, to see the next one?

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phantom-in-the-library · 9 months

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hi here's a list of contemporary poetry that i have personally read & recommend. currently 173 titles, free PDF download to reference as you look for new books to read <3 enjoy!!

#poetry

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phantom-in-the-library · 10 months

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botanical horror related books that i am absolutely going to read (ie. the tbr list that no one asked for) :

Otto, Eric C. Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism. Ohio State University Press, 2012.

Meeker, Natania, and Antónia Szabari. Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction. 1st ed. Fordham University Press, 2020.

Dauncey, E. A., and Sonny Larsson. Plants That Kill: A Natural History of the World’s Most Poisonous Plants, 2018.

Bishop, Katherine E., David Higgins, and Jerry Määttä. Plants in Science Fiction: Speculative Vegetation. University of Wales Press, 2020.

Tidwell, Christy, and Carter Soles. Fear and Nature: Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene. AnthropoScene, 2023.

Parker, Elizabeth. The Forest and the EcoGothic: The Deep Dark Woods in the Popular Imagination. Springer Nature, 2020.

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phantom-in-the-library · 11 months

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#over about 500 I suppose

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phantom-in-the-library · 2 years

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↳˳🐚;; ❝ like or reblog if u use/save, dont repost or copy ᵕ̈ ೫˚∗:

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phantom-in-the-library · 2 years

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TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW

Freedom!!! Freedom for every American teenager!!!

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phantom-in-the-library · 2 years

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"And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone."-The Song of Achilles

#tsoa

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