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lucy-ghoul · 2 years

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Tbr list that I will hopefully complete before the end of summer:

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

The Orphan's Tales: In The Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente

Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt

Maurice by E. M. Forster

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

Journey at the End of the Millennium by Abraham Yehoshua

The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty

and last but not least: Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin (the fourth book of the Earthsea Cycle - which I'm loving btw)

(In theory Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik, Stardust by Neil Gaiman, and Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno by Italo Calvino are included in this list but let's be honest here, I will never manage to read those ones too before the end of August lmao)

Now, my favorite books from 2022 (at least so far):

Grendel by Josh Gardner (!!! i wasn't expecting it to be that great but omg. it really was. gorgeous prose + existential philosophy + tragic antivillain/antihero maneater monster as protagonist? i mean.)

Averno by Louise Glück

The Plague by Albert Camus

Hygiène de l'Assassin and Journal d'Hirondelle by Amélie Nothomb (batshit insane stuff. 100% recommended)

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen (unhinged fictional women my beloveds <3)

Salomé by Oscar Wilde (unhinged fictional women my beloveds <3 part 2)

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (ditto part 3)

The Hours by Micheal Cunningham

An Oresteia by Aeschylus, Sophokles, and Euripides (translated by Anne Carson) (and yes, that's where the famous "it's rotten work" "not to me. not if it's you" comes from lmao. also family drama and greek tragedies <3)

technically L'amica geniale/My Brilliant Friend saga by Elena Ferrante (my beloved!!) although that was a reread. but this time I appreciated it even more so I'm including it in the list

#writing it all down on tumblr just as a journal kind of thing #though i already have goodreads for that #and an office word document with my complete and long ass tbr list (which idt i could ever successfully complete in one lifetime)#val speaks #txt

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