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Fantasy
Alchemised
SenLin Yu ⢠2025
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
Rick Riordan ⢠2006
Grim and Oro: Dueling Crowns Edition (a Lightlark Saga Deluxe Companion Book)
Alex Aster ⢠2025
The Poppy War A Novel
R. F. Kuang ⢠2018
Romance
Katabasis
R.F. Kuang ⢠2025
Uncategorized
If He Had Been with Me
Laura Nowlin ⢠2013

The Way I Used to Be
Amber Smith ⢠2016

You Exist Too Much A Novel
Zaina Arafat ⢠2020
<b>A āprovocative and seductive debutā of desire and doubleness that follows the life of a young Palestinian American woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual identities as she endeavors to lead an authentic life (<i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i>).</b><br><br>On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12āyearāold PalestinianāAmerican girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her motherās response only intensifies a sense of shame: āYou exist too much,ā she tells her daughter.<br><br>Told in vignettes that flash between the U.S. and the Middle Eastāfrom New York to Jordan, Lebanon, and PalestineāZaina Arafatās debut novel traces her protagonistās progress from blushing teen to soughtāafter DJ and aspiring writer. In Brooklyn, she moves into an apartment with her first serious girlfriend and tries to content herself with their comfortable relationship. But soon her longings, so closely hidden during her teenage years, explode out into reckless romantic encounters and obsessions with other people. Her desire to thwart her own destructive impulses will eventually lead her to The Ledge, an unconventional treatment center that identifies her affliction as ālove addiction.ā In this strange, enclosed society she will start to consider the unnerving similarities between her own internal traumas and divisions and those of the places that have formed her.<br><br>Opening up the fantasies and desires of one young woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual identities, <i>You Exist Too Much</i> is a captivating story charting two of our most intense longingsāfor love, and a place to call home.
Babel
R. F. Kuang ⢠2022
Instant #1Ā New York TimesĀ Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War Ā āAbsolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out.ā -- Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of Brass From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comesĀ Babel, a thematic response toĀ The Secret HistoryĀ and a tonal retort toĀ Jonathan Strange & Mr. NorrellĀ that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day heāll enroll in Oxford Universityās prestigious Royal Institute of Translationāalso known as Babel. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver workingāthe art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver barsāhas made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empireās quest for colonization. For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide⦠Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?
The Secret History
Donna Tartt ⢠1993






