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- When the Moon Hatched
- Illad (Wilson)
- Sha po lang vol 1 (chinese)
- Lout of Count’s Family vol. 2
- Fire from Heaven
- The Houskeeper and the Professor
- The Infinite Moment (poems)

I have so many haha

- The Moon and Sixpence
- All the Pretty Horses
- The Eternal Husband
- Notes from Underground
- Crush (poems)
- The Kite Runner
- vN: The First Machine Dynasty
- Legend of the White Snake (Lee)
- Ballad of Sword and Wine vol.3
- Heavenly Tyrant

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One of my all-time favorites!! Though the experience does somewhat depend on how much you like Shakespeare's tragedies haha. Have you read "The Secret History" by any chance? They are often compared together for similar themes and story setup.

Honorable Mentions:

- Oryx and Crake
- The Three-Body Problem
- All Quiet on the Western Front

the category is “i wasn’t the same person i was before i read this book”

(bringing this from twitter)

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THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL IM CRYINGG

Sa Ye, Eros the Bittersweet, Never Let Me Go, The Eternal Husband and other stories.

Excited about all of them! But especially Sa Ye and The Eternal Husband

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☆Read more classics
☆Start annotating
☆Do more buddy reads
☆Read books in Chinese and French
☆Book swaps (2)
☆Read more non-fiction, educational books
☆Read 9 political works of fiction or non-fiction
☆Read 8 works of poetry

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缚耳来/入戏 (For a Lie). Finally fell under my friend's persistent pressures to start this book. So far it's really good, not really what I was expecting.

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16. I who have never known men (though I think this one is decently popular at the moment?), Oryx and Crake
17. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, Kokoro
18. Rose and Renaissance
19. literary fiction and danmei
20. I don't watch a lot of book adaptations but I think Three-Body Problem

14. I think all the popular romantasy books I've read from TikTok or Instagram have disappointed me immensely. To name a few: Powerless, Voyage of the Damned, Divine Rivals
15. Powerless, Voyage of the Damned, Everneath, The Night Ends with Fire

12. Many books made me feel sad, but the only book that made me cry this year was Till Death Do Us Part
13. I don't have any books that I think need more banging but I can list plenty that need LESS

4. Alice Winn, Hanya Yanagihara
5. Cui Buqu (from Peerless)
6. The Foxhole Court, Liu Yao, In Memoriam (none of these books are even romance haha)
7. Murder on the Orient Express
8. The Redemption of Time or Peerless
10. Liu Yao
11. The Silence of the Girls

2. So far,
In terms of enjoyment: The Foxhole Court, Illuminations (Rimbaud), Living to Suffer, Kokoro, Liu Yao

In terms of how deeply it impacted me: Oryx and Crake, The Redemption of Time, Interview with the Vampire, The Imperial Uncle, I Who Have Never Known Men
3. Western, Horror

2024 book wrap-up:

1. Death's End by Liu Cixin

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Ooo thanks for the recommendations, putting them on my tbr

On that note, does anyone have any good recommendations?

Love open endings. Of course, the ending has to be done well—not just put there because the author ran out of motivation or didn’t know how to finish the story—but I enjoy endings that are left a bit ambiguous and undefined.

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In the Absence of Men by Philippe Besson

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Wayy too many but the one that came to mind was Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

“If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.”

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art credits: 猫君大白 maojundabai

Ghosts, hm…gods and immortals, deities, yao, spirits from Asian mythology, angels (particularly fallen ones), aliens and ai

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6☆ - Phenomenal. Changed my life and worldview
5☆ - Outstanding
4☆ - Very Good
3☆ - Decent but eh/Mediocre
2☆ - Poor
1☆ - Awful
0.x☆ - Horrendous. Will hate on this for the rest of eternity.

But I'm very much a mood rater most of the time and would give arbitrary ratings of like 4.37☆ and 9.999☆.

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Evocation, Babel, The Birth of Tragedy, The Talented Mr. Ripley

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