— reading list; 2023

 

⍤ - ongoing 
☐ - need to read
☒ - read 
≛ - re-read
ӫ - unsure
🇿🇦 : local 

🦹 : graphic novel 🎧 : audiobook/podcast 📚 : school/textbook 🗞️ : nonfiction/research 

🖊️ : writing/grammar 🧘🏻‍♀ : self-improvement 🎼: poetry  ✍🏻: memoir

1. Trough of Hell by H.R D'Costa ☒ 📚🗞️🖊️
2. Story Climax by H.R D'Costa ☒ 📚🗞️🖊️
3. Anti-Fandom: Dislike and Hate in the Digital Age by Melissa Click (ed) ☒ 📚🗞️🖊️
4. The Anatomy of Prose: 12 Steps to Sensational Sentences by Sacha Black ☒ 📚🗞️🖊️
5. Method Acting for Writers: Learn Deep POV Using Emotional Layers by Lisa Hall Wilson ☒ 📚🗞️🖊️
6. The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement by Jean M. Twenge & W. Keith Campbell ☒ 📚🗞️
7. Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo ☒📚🗞️
8. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo ☒📚🗞️
9. Wordslut by Amanda Montell ☒📚🗞️🖊️
10. Cultish by Amanda Montell ☒📚🗞️🖊️
11. Not Nice by Aziz Gazipura ☒📚🗞️🧘🏻‍♀
12. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson ☒ 📚🗞️🧘🏻‍♀
13. Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson ☒  📚🗞️🧘🏻‍♀
14. Unmasking Autism by Devon Price ☒  📚🗞️🧘🏻‍♀
15. The Anxious Perfectionist by Clarissa W. Ong & Michael P. Twohig ☒  📚🗞️🧘🏻‍♀
16. Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You by Jenara Nerenberg ☒🗞️🧘🏻‍♀
17. Atomic Habits by James Clear ☒ 🗞️🧘🏻‍♀
18. How to Do the Work by Nicole LePera ☒ 🗞️🧘🏻‍♀
19. Writing with Chronic Illness: Improve Outlook and Productivity by Kristine Kathryn Rusch  ☒ 🗞️🧘🏻‍♀
20. Stop Me if You Can by Paul O'Sullivan CFE ☒ 🗞️✍🏻🇿🇦 
21. The President's Keepers by Jacques Pauw ☒ 🗞️✍🏻🇿🇦 
22. Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom by André de Ruyter ☒ 🗞️✍🏻🇿🇦 
23. Countdown to Socialsm by Anthea Jeffery ☒ 🗞️✍🏻🇿🇦 
24. Corrupted by Jonathan D. Jansen ☒ 🗞️✍🏻🇿🇦 
25. What if there were no whites in South Africa? by Ferial Haffajee ☒ 🗞️✍🏻🇿🇦 
26. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy ☒🗞️✍🏻
27. Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern ☒🗞️✍🏻
28. Ejaculate Responsibly by Gabrielle Stanley Blair ☒ 🗞️
29. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon ☒ 🗞️
30. Feminasty by Erin Gibson ☒ 🗞️
31. Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity by Iliza Shlesinger ☒ 🗞️
32. Everything Trump Touches Dies by Rick Wilson  ☒ 🗞️
33. I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays by Tom Segura ☒ 🗞️
34. Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers: Turbo-Charge Your Writing by Jules Horne ☒ 📚🗞️🖊️
35. The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film by Barry Keith Grant (ed.) ☒ 📚🗞️🖊️
36. Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Carol Clover ☒ 📚🗞️🖊️
37. The Method by James Paterson ☒ 🎧
38. The Cipher by Brett Neichin ☒ 🎧
39. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by Julian Simpson ☒ 🎧
40. The Whisperer in the Darkness by Julian Simpson ☒ 🎧
41. The Shadow over Innsmouth by Julian Simpson ☒ 🎧
42. The Haunter of the Dark by Julian Simpson ☒ 🎧
43. Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston ☒
44. Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle ☒
45. A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin ☒
46. A Venom Dark and Sweet by Judy I. Lin ☒
47. Ponies by Kij Johnson ☒
48. At the Mouth of the River of Bees by Kij Johnson ☒
49. Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror by Jordan Peele (ed.) ☒
50. Men, Women, and Chainsaws by Stephen Graham Jones ☒
51. The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston ☒
52. Monsters Born and Made by Tanvi Berwah ☒
53. Far Removed by C.B Lansdell ☒
54. The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson ☒
55. Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia ☒
56. The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi ☒
57. Her Radiant Curse by Elizabeth Lim ☒
58. Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson ☒
59. Legion by Brandon Sanderson ☒
60. Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco ☒
61. Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco ☒
62. Kingdom of the Feared by Kerri Maniscalco ☒
63. Banewreaker by Jacqueline Carey ☒
64. Godslayer by Jacqueline Carey ☒
65. Best of Luck by Jason Mott ☒
66. Pram by Joe Hill ☒
67. Big Bad by Chandler Baker ☒
68. It Waits in the Woods by Josh Malerman ☒
69. In Bloom by Paul Tremblay ☒
70. Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth ☒
71. I Found Puppets Living in My Apartment Walls by Ben Farthing ☒
    
72. All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody ☒
73. All of Our Demise  by Amanda Foody ☒
74. Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson ☒ 
75. Mysteries of Thorn Manor by Margaret Rogerson ☒
76. The Sacred Hospitality by Olivie Blake ☒
77. The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake ☒ 
78. The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake ☒
79. Babel by R.F Kuang ☒
80. The Poppy War by R. F Kuang ☒
81. The Dragon Republic by R. F Kuang ☒
82. The Drowning Faith by R. F Kuang ☒
83. The Burning God by R. F Kuang ☒
84. Yellowface by R. F Kuang ☒
85. Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young ☒
86. The Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo ☒≛
87. Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo ☒
88. Leech by Hiro Ennes ☒
89. How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix ☒
90. Ankle Snatcher by Grady Hendrix ☒
91. Little Eve by Catriona Ward  ☒
92. Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward ☒
93. Mr. Magic by Kiersten White ☒
94. A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid ☒
95. Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee ☒
96. Jade Shards (The Green Bone Saga) by Fonda Lee ☒
97. Little Thieves by Margaret Owens ☒≛
98. Painted Devils by Margaret Owens ☒
99. Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh ☒
100. Radiant Sin by Katee Robert ☒
101. Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert ☒
102. Desperate Measures by by Katee Robert ☒
103. Hooked by Emily McIntire ☒
104. Love Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood ☒
105. How to Cook and Eat the Rich by Sunyi Dean ☒
106. The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow ☒ 
107. Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson ☒
108. Bear with Me Now by Katie Shepard ☒
109. Happy Place by Emily Henry ☒ 
110. Undercover by Tamsyn Muir ☒ 
111. The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex by Tamsyn Muir ☒≛
112. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir ☒≛
113. Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir ☒
114. As Yet Unsent by Tamsyn Muir ☒
115. Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir ☒
116. The Garden by Tomi Adeyemi ☒
117. Persephone by Lev Grossman ☒ 
118. What the Dead Know by Nghi Vo ☒
119. Mammoth's at the Gates by Nghi Vo ☒
120. The Candles are Burning by Veronica G. Henry ☒
121. Out of the Mirror, Darkness by Garth Nix ☒
122. The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon ☒
123. My Roommate is a Vampire by Jenna Levine ☒
124. Starter Villain by John Scalzi ☒
125. Love and War: Brothers in Arms The Beginning by Samantha Kane ☒
126. Hollywood’s Gruesome, Lurid Obsession with People Eating People by Carmen Maria Machado ☒