We're Reading... 2018

Members are invited to keep track of their own reading list for the year using whatever format they like—maybe they feel like including a small shot of the cover, a review, their preferred wine pairing? Maybe they only list what they finish, or they want to list everything they’ve got on tap too! Whichever route you choose, we’re excited to see which books you’ve lost yourself in

We ask only two things:

• Spoilers in spoiler tags, please!
• Don’t break the page or the code >.>

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If I could marry Bee I would but I can't so I ship our characters instead.

Track my reading progress or join my real-life-friend book club via Goodreads

FINISHED: JANUARY '18

• The Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon Ronson; Nonfiction.
  

FINISHED: FEBRUARY '18

• Peter Pan by JM Barie; Fiction.
  
• The Nuremburg Trial by Ann Tusa; Nonfiction.
  

FINISHED: MARCH '18

• Promise Me, Dad by Joe Biden; Nonfiction.
  
• The Golden House by Sahlman Rushdie; Fiction - Set in the recent past, The Golden House follows a family of mysterious, wealthy immigrants in New York City.
  

BOOKS IN PROGRESS

• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver; Fiction - Set in the not-too-distant past, The Poisonwood Bible follows a family of very ill-prepared missionaries in the Congo.
  
  

  

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FINISHED: JANUARY 2018

• Cirque Du Freak; A Living Nightmare (Book One) by Darren Shan.

FINISHED: FEBRUARY 2018

• Forgive My Fins (Book One) by Tera Lynn Childs.

FINISHED: MARCH 2018

• Fins Are Forever (Book Two) by Tera Lynn Childs.
  
• The Hunger Games (Book One) by Suzanne Collins.
  
• The Vampire Stalker by Allison van Diepen.
  
• Just For Fins (Book Three) by Tera Lynn Childs.

FINISHED: APRIL 2018

• Nameless (Book One) by Lili St. Crow.

FINISHED: MAY 2018

• Cirque Du Freak; The Vampire's Assistant (Book Two) by Darren Shan.
  
• My Sister The Vampire; Switched (Book One) by Sienna Mercer.

FINISHED: JUNE 2018

• My Sister The Vampire; Fangtastic (Book Two) by Sienna Mercer.

FINISHED: JULY 2018

• My Sister The Vampire; Re-Vamped (Book Three) by Sienna Mercer.

FINISHED: AUGUST 2018

• Cirque Du Freak; Tunnels of Blood (Book Three) by Darren Shan.
  
• My Sister The Vampire; Vampalicious (Book Four) by Sienna Mercer.

FINISHED: OCTOBER 2018

• Cirque Du Freak; Vampire Mountain (Book Four) by Darren Shan.

FINISHED:NOVEMBER 2018

• Cirque Du Freak; Trials of Death (Book Five) by Darren Shan.
  
• Cirque Du Freak; The Vampire Prince (Book Six) by Darren Shan.

  

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Magic by Elaine!

BOOKS FINISHED

• Corinne Duyvis' On the Edge of Gone (9/10 YA sci-fi. #diversecast, #actuallyautistic author, I read it in 27 hours.)
  
• Roxane Gay's Hunger
  
• Candace Bushnell's The Carrie Diaries (this is not a good book. this is a very readable book, tho.)
  
• Judd Apatow's Sick in the Head
  
• Becky Albertali's Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
  
• Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  
• Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone in the Dark
  
• Ned Vizzini's It's Kind of a Funny Story
  
• Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace
  
• Susie Steiner's Missing, Presumed
  
• Krysten Ritter's Bonfire
  
• David Cruise and Allison Griffith's On South Mountain
  
• Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles
  
• Libba Bray's Going Bovine
  
• Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects
  
• The March for Our Lives Founders' Glimmer of Hope
  
• Jane Harper's The Dry
  
• Maggie Stiefvater's The Scorpio Races
  
• Blair Braverman's Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube
  

  

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MJ made this!

FINISHED:

• Book Title by Name Here
  

IN-PROGRESS:

• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  

UPCOMING:

• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Ftizgerald
  

  

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— MJ is MAGICAL —

Read:

• The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• To Capture What We Cannot Keep by Beatrice Colin
• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
• The Vortex by Noël Coward
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Fahrenheight 451 by Ray Bradbury
• The Seabeast Takes A Lover by Michael Andreasen
• The Poison Bed by E.C. Fremantle
• The Witches Of New York by Ami McKay
• The Pisces by Melissa Broder
• The Magicians by Lev Grossman
• The Illumination Of Ursula Flight by Anne-Marie Crowhurst
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
• After Me Comes the Flood by Sarah Perry
• Cooking with Bones by Jess Richards
• The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson
• You by Caroline Kepnes
• The Murderer of Warren Street by Marc Mulholland
• The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins
• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
• The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry
• The Princess Saves Herself in this One by Amanda Lovelace
• The Hoarder by Jess Kidd
• The Pharmicist's Wife by Vanessa Tait
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• The Dry by Jane Harper
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
• Melmoth by Sarah Perry
• The House on Vesper Sands by Paraic O'Donnell
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• The Odd Women by George Gissing

Currently Reading:

• The Romanovs 1613 - 1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
  
• The Rover and Other Plays by Aphra Behn

Imminent To-Read List:

• The Wicked Cometh by Laura Carlin
• The Floating Theatre by Martha Conway
• Melmoth by Sarah Perry

I'm in the process of setting up a book blog which I will link when it's up and running ~

  

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Finished:

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J Maas, third book in the Court of Thorns and Roses series - entertaining, series ties together fairy tales from a variety of places and develops an excellent fantasy world.

Book of the People by Geraldine Brookes - was alright, interesting look into the past.

Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen, final book of the Queen of the Tearling trilogy - I wasn't able to put it down, like the first two books in the series, excellent conclusion.

The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult - an excellent read, humorous tone, great story, clever layout, fantastic read.

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab - Charming Summer Challenge

Terrier by Tamora Pierce - Charming Summer Challenge

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert - Charming Summer Challenge

The Diviners by Libba Bray - Charming Summer Challenge

Beauty by Robin McKinely - I really enjoyed rereading this, although I do see why she rewrote it for Rose Daughter, nonetheless I am still a sucker for retellings of Beauty and the Beast and this was quite enjoyable.

Torn by Rowenna Miller

Current:

Isabella: The Warrior Queen by Kirstin Downey

Next:

War Storm by Victoria Aveyard
The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak
In the Woods by Tana French
Caraval by Rawi Hage
The Likeness by Tana French
Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton

  

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*sniff* Bee made her look all grown up <3

Ooo how fun. Like Lynn, I also have a goodreads account but I can’t seem to find the link to it on muni phone so you’ll have to wait until I’m back on my laptop tomorrow. EDIT: here's my Goodreads account

What I’ve read in 2018:
1. This Greek novel called... A Journey With Venus? The star name of Venus. Yeah idk how to translate it and Goodreads has no English editions. The author is Angelos Terzakis.
2. Franny & Zooey by J. D. Salinger
3. The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
4. Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple #13) by Agatha Christie
5. This short story by A. Pushkin called The Queen Of Spades
6. The Bloody Chamber and other stories by Angela Carter
7. Six Tales From The Jazz Age and other stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
9. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
10. The Catcher In The Rye by Salinger again
11. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
12. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

  

Hit Me Up!

Read:

• New Boy by Tracy Chevelier
  Adaptation of "Othello" set at an elementary school. V. Intriguing read that continues on many of the themes of the original with a healthy dose of American racism. Mid-century. 7/10
• Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce
  Good by Tammy standard, fab by YA fantasy standards. Explores the life of Numair before the Immortals series when he, Varice, and Ozorne were baby mages. 6/10 for Tammy, 9/10 for genre. 7.5/10 overall.
• Emperor Mage by Tamora Pierce
  Put this away in one sitting after finishing the above—needed more Carthak in my life! Have read numerous times. Do not reccommend without first reading the first two books in this quartet, but one of my favourite books by my favourite author <3. YA Fantasy. 10/10.

Currently Reading:

• American War by Omar El Akkad
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

On Tap:

• Belgravia by Julian Fellowes
• Company Town by Madeline Ashby
• Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
• The Witches of New York by Ami McKay
• The Dry by Jane Harper

  

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If I could marry Bee I would but I can't so I ship our characters instead.

A number of disclaimers:
— My goodreads account is very out-of-date and I'm too lazy to sort it out right now. >.>
— I don't actually read much for fun anymore except in the summers because 90% of my degree has been reading JSTOR articles or whatever. Also I've been in such a ~non-fiction phase for so long now that I'm properly in a fiction slump and find it really hard to engage with new stuff? Hoping to turn that around later in the year!

FINISHED

• Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life by Peter McPhee (a solid biography, am still haunted by his death scene, Jesus Christ)
  
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (sometimes you've got to hate-read trash fiction to get out of a slump, who knew?)
  
• Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring by Alexander Rose (I miss Turn the tv show a whole lot.)
  

CURRENTLY READING

• Shelley: The Pursuit by Richard Holmes
  
• Crow by Boria Sax
  
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (a reread, obviously, but because there are 365 chapters exactly I decided it would be a fun exercise to read a chapter a day all year long)
  
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (another reread that has been on hiatus for literal months because Edmond was pissing me off so much in the middle that I had to put it down and walk away xD)
  

THE TO-READ PILE

• Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
  
• Piracy: The Complete History by Angus Konstam
  
• Nefertiti's Face: The Creation of an Icon by Joyce Tyldesley
  
• The Journals of Kierkegaard 1834-1854 trans. Alexander Dru
  
• Rebel Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London's Radical History by David Rosenberg
  my bff keeps buying me books of my weirdly specific interests welp
  

  

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look ANOTHER beautiful bee!set <3

Have a good reads it's SUPER out of date!

READ
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire
Star Wars: Dark Force Rising
Fire and Fury
Oliver Twist
Game of Thrones
The Female Malady
The Ivory Leg in the Ebony Cabinet
The Madwoman in the attic

CURRENT
A Clash of Kings

TO READ
Star Wars: The Last Command
Jester
The Colour of Magic
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
A Dance with Dragons

  

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Look what MJ did!!

READING
The Nightengale by Kristen Hannah
The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah

READ
A Court of Frost and Starlight by S.J Maas
A Court Of Wings and Ruin by S.J Maas
A Court of Mist and Fury by S.J Maas
Eona by Alison Goodman
Eon by Alison Goodman

FUTURE READS
Covenant College by Amanda M. Lee
Winter Garden by Kristen Hannah
Age of X: Gameboard of the Gods by Richelle Mead
Age of X: The Immortal Crown by Richelle Mead
Lady Midnight by Cassandra Claire
Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Claire
Throne Of Glass by S.J Maas
Throne of Glass: Crown Of Midnight by S.J Maas

  

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MJ made Avril's set!