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I read that this year. That one is scary and also very hard to read. I would recommend listening to the audio book.

This is a book we did read recently and this was recommended to me by Sarah actually and it was so beautiful. It has magical realism. It talks about the Harlem Renaissance and this is black love.

I think the only other one that I would really recommend is Atomic Habits. I think that's just good for anybody, just basic life skills

I did read Beachread and book lovers and I didn't like those

These are two books that I read in high school when I was younger, and they broke me. I had never read books that were so vulgar and scary and just unnerving and made you really think about society and just the raw, ugly, honest truth in that way.

So, The House in the Ceruan Sea, The Gungle, Malibu Rising, Black Cake, a few really good literary fiction books that I liked.

And it completely changed my life. I literally was sobbing 20% of that video. Towards the end, it was literally the entire video.

I did read Beachread and book lovers and I didn't like those

I'm actually currently reading this with my book club and I'm halfway through the book at this point and it is really good. I like her writing because it's very lyrical and very like descriptive and detailed.

This is a book that changed my life. I've read it multiple times. I recommend it to people all the time.

This is like the OG vampire book, but this is a book about lesbian vampires and it is so cool. This is what I mean by gothic, uncanny, just very cool art. It's very Tim Burtonesque and there's illustrations throughout the book.

And The Christmas Fix. This is the only Lucy Score book that did not make me want to die. I actually really enjoyed this one.

But overall, I liked the premise of this story. I liked what I got from it overall. It's just sometimes she was very insufferable and her family was so ins if she was insufferable.

I think that's why I like Coraline and a lot of things by T. Kingfisher. It's just the eerie, uncanny nature of their writing.

And that was a book that I read this year that I really, really enjoyed. It's about a scientist who wakes up randomly, has no idea where he is, where his family is, and he's in a completely different world where his life is completely different.

But another one I always recommend is Educated by Tara Westover. This is a woman who has gone through so much. I cannot fathom someone going through what she went through.

This is one of those books where I related immensely to the character and it changed me. It changed me as a person because I just learned so much about her outlook on life, how it kind of resembled my view of life at a certain point and her growing and evolving past that made me really hopeful of a of a different future and I just loved that book because it just hit me personally.

And then one Golden Summer is a book that is a standalone, but she also has a mention in her other book, which is Every Summer After, which I did read. I don't think I like that one very much, but I heard this one is phenomenal.

One of my all-time favorites is a memoir by Dolly Alderton. She is such an incredible writer, and the fact that this is not fiction. This is actually her life, and the process she had to go through and the self-actualization she had to go through to really know what true love is actually so astounding.

And that book has like the coolest portraits, the coolest ideals. And it was the most intricate and unique book that I had ever read up until that point.

Then back here, I have the Fourth Wing series just because the books were okay and the author is a bit problematic and I just don't feel comfortable displaying those books on my shelf when I know that I have better books than them.

Oh, I have Frankenstein back here. I loved Frankenstein.

Again, the only one that I absolutely loved by her was funny story.

This is about a woman who loses her entire family in a car crash, and she is in a coma, and she needs to decide, does she want to pass away or does she want to still live and fight knowing that she does not have any family left? It's a really beautiful story.

This does not belong here. This is not sci-fi whatsoever, but I loved it so much and it just didn't fit on my fantasy section, but she deserved a spot here.

I love The Little Prince. This is one of my favorite classic books. This is written by a French author.

So, The House in the Ceruan Sea, The Gungle, Malibu Rising, Black Cake, a few really good literary fiction books that I liked.

She's the same author who wrote Normal People. That is a book I didn't necessarily like, as you guys know.

So, the Red Rising series, Project Hail Mary, Dark Matter, all of these books tie in something that I love, which is science, a great story, a great adventure, and just the whatif of it all.

And this one is holding my attention. I'm really, really enjoying it, but I don't have the physical book. It is on my Kindle.

So, of course, we have my favorite sci-fi series ever, which is Red Rising. I'm not going to go into this. I'm not going to put you through it.

And that book was really beautiful and a great introduction to Kennedy Ryan because I love how she writes her male main characters. He never wavered. He was so consistent, so stoic, but like a rock in how he supported her.

And before that, I had my baby here, which is the Six of Crows duogy. I love that duogy. I love Lee Bardugo.

This book is all over the place, but it shows her just impeccable writing skills. This is a book about Milkman. He is a man who is trying to learn how to fly, both metaphorically and literally, and you get to see him go through life, go through the hardships of being a black person in America, especially during this time.

I love the book up until the ending, but I this is another book that I read with my book club and we just all hated the ending. It felt very rushed and it just felt like it left us with more questions than answers. But outside of that, I really enjoyed this book.

Another one of my favorite classics that I've read this year is The Bell Jar by Sylvia Pla. I have to warn you, this book is very hard, very uncomfortable, and very, very dark.

The book that really scared me the most by her was The Bled Eye. That book is hard. Very, very difficult to read.

You cannot trust anyone in this book and it's so fast-paced. I literally finished this in a day or maybe a day and a half and I loved this story. It's very, very, very good.

It is such an insane story and this is one of my favorite books. This was also gifted to me and I would have never read it otherwise. But this is such a cool story.

So, The House in the Ceruan Sea, The Gungle, Malibu Rising, Black Cake, a few really good literary fiction books that I liked.

And then The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. This is a book that I did read and I loved it. That was a six-star read for me.

The Sun is also a Star by Nicole Yun. Read this. Loved this.

This was one of my favorite reads of the year so far. This is literary fiction. It's not necessarily romance.

So, The House in the Ceruan Sea, The Gungle, Malibu Rising, Black Cake, a few really good literary fiction books that I liked.

It's just like nothing I've ever read and I really liked it. It's an epic love story that traverses time and space and understanding and it's just so beautiful.

It's so cute. She's so nosy. She's so obnoxious, but you can't help but love her.

And I gave that like a six star. And it's so embarrassing because that book is very heavily inspired by Rebecca, which is a book that is a classic.

Again, this is the Gothic level art, the eerie, uncanny descriptions of nature that I love in books. This is my kind of horror.