the tbr of a girl who APPARENTLY LOVES TO SUFFER!? AND CRY?!
i swear the day an r. f. kuang book has a happy ending where everybody lives and smiles and is giddy with pure joy is the day i become a magic fairy and fly off to neverland. ik its comming and i get why but it gets me EVERY SINGLE TIME Thankyou for katabasis ms kuang u healed my soul
Items in this hypelist
physical tbr
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman · 2025
Demon Copperhead A Novel
Barbara Kingsolver · 2022
The Little Paris Bookshop
Nina George · 2015
East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 2025
The Poisonwood Bible A Novel
Barbara Kingsolver · 2008
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood · 2004
fantasy
The Sword of Kaigen A Theonite War Story
M. L. Wang
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch · 2007
<b>The first book of the epic fantasy caper Gentleman Bastard Sequence about a roguish group of conmen, which George R. R. Martin says “captured me right on the first page and never let me go.”</b><br> <br><b>“If you haven’t read [<i>The Lies of Locke Lamora</i>], you should. If you have read it, you should probably read it again.”—Patrick Rothfuss</b><br><br>An orphan’s life is harsh—and often short—in the mysterious island city of Camorr. But young Locke Lamora dodges relentless danger, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist. As leader of the band of light-fingered brothers known as the Gentlemen Bastards, Locke is soon infamous, fooling even the underworld’s most feared ruler. But in the shadows lurks someone still more ambitious and deadly. Faced with a bloody coup that threatens to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the enemy at his own brutal game—or die trying.<br> <br><b>Don’t miss any of Scott Lynch’s epic fantasy Gentleman Bastard Sequence:</b><br>THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA • RED SEAS UNDER RED SKIES • THE REPUBLIC OF THIEVES
Powerless
Lauren Roberts · 2023
Vicious (Villains Book 1)
V. E. Schwab · 2013
Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil
Schwab, V. E.
A Darker Shade of Magic: A Novel (Shades of Magic Book 1)
V. E. Schwab · 2015
Rule of Wolves (King of Scars Duology, 2)
Leigh Bardugo · 2023
King of Scars (King of Scars Duology, 1)
Leigh Bardugo · 2019
Hell Bent: A Novel (Alex Stern Book 2)
Leigh Bardugo · 2023
<p><b>#1 <i>New York Times </i>Bestseller</b> • <b>Goodreads Choice Award Winner<br><br>"A tour de force of suspenseful pacing and empathetic writing." <i>―The New York Times</i><br><br>"All hail the queen of dark academia!"<i> ―NPR</i></b><b><br><br>Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. The Ivy League is going straight to hell in the sequel to the smash New York Times bestseller Ninth House from #1 bestselling author Leigh Bardugo.</b><br><br>Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. But Galaxy “Alex” Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory—even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale.<br><br>Forbidden from attempting a rescue, Alex and Dawes can’t call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team of dubious allies to save the gentleman of Lethe. Together, they will have to navigate a maze of arcane texts and bizarre artifacts to uncover the societies’ most closely guarded secrets, and break every rule doing it. But when faculty members begin to die off, Alex knows these aren’t just accidents. Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if she is going to survive, she’ll have to reckon with the monsters of her past and a darkness built into the university’s very walls.<br><br>Thick with history and packed with Bardugo’s signature twists, <i>Hell Bent </i>brings to life an intricate world full of magic, violence, and all too real monsters.</p>
fiction
This Is the Only Kingdom A Novel
Jaquira Díaz · 2025
CIRCE
Madeline Miller · 2020
"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller is "both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The New York Times). In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts, and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love. With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world. #1 New York Times bestseller -- named one of the best books of the year by NPR, the Washington Post, People, Time, Amazon, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Newsweek, the A.V. Club, Christian Science Monitor, Refinery 29, BuzzFeed, Paste, Audible, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Thrillist, NYPL, Self, Real Simple, Goodreads, Boston Globe, Electric Literature, BookPage, the Guardian, Book Riot, Seattle Times, and Business Insider
The Little Bird
Ashby Jones · 2024
The Lilac People
Milo Todd · 2025
The Correspondent
Virginia Evans · 2025
Dear Dickhead
Virginie Despentes · 2024
The Great Alone A Novel
Kristin Hannah · 2019
Emily’s Quest
L.M. Montgomery · 2014
Wurthering Heights
Emily Bronte · 1999
A Tale for the Time Being A Novel
Ruth Ozeki · 2013
Lonesome Dove A Novel
Larry McMurtry · 1986
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2018
<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i></b><b> BESTSELLER</b><br> <br><b>“If you</b>’<b>re looking for a book to take on holiday this summer, <i>The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo</i> has got all the glitz and glamour to make it a perfect beach read.” —<i>Bustle</i></b><br> <br><b>From the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Daisy Jones & the Six</i>—an entrancing and “wildly addictive journey of a reclusive Hollywood starlet” (<i>PopSugar</i>) as she reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine.</b><br><br>Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?<br> <br>Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.<br> <br>Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ‘80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways.<br> <br>“Heartbreaking, yet beautiful” (Jamie Blynn, <i>Us Weekly</i>), <i>The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo </i>is “Tinseltown drama at its finest” (<i>Redbook</i>): a mesmerizing journey through the splendor of old Hollywood into the harsh realities of the present day as two women struggle with what it means—and what it costs—to face the truth.
Dig
A. S. King · 2020
The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han · 2022
The Woman Destroyed
Simone De Beauvoir · 2013
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton · 2003
<b>“The greatest novel to emerge out of the tragedy of South Africa, and one of the best novels of our time.” —<i>The New Republic</i></b><br> <br><b>“A beautiful novel…its writing is so fresh, its projection of character so immediate and full, its events so compelling, and its understanding so compassionate that to read the book is to share intimately, even to the point of catharsis, in the grave human experience.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b><br><br>An Oprah Book Club selection, <i>Cry, the Beloved Country</i>, was an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.<br> <br><i>Cry, the Beloved Country</i>, is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, <i>Cry, the Beloved Country</i> is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · 2016
<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (<i>NPR</i>) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.<br></b><br><b><b><b><b><b><b><b>NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST <b><b><b>•</b></b></b></b> MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST <b>• <b><b><b><b><b> WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE</b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><br><br><i>A Little Life</i> follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.
A Month in the Country (New York Review Books Classics)
J.L. Carr, Michael Holroyd · 2000
where the crawdads sing
Delia Owens · 2018
The Orenda
Joseph Boyden · 2014
A visceral portrait of life at a crossroads, The Orenda opens with a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of the young Iroquois Snow Falls, a spirited girl with a special gift. Her captor, Bird, is an elder and one of the Huron Nation's great warriors and statesmen. It has been years since the murder of his family and yet they are never far from his mind. In Snow Falls, Bird recognizes the ghost of his lost daughter and sees the girl possesses powerful magic that will be useful to him on the troubled road ahead. Bird’s people have battled the Iroquois for as long as he can remember, but both tribes now face a new, more dangerous threat from afar.<br/><br/>Christophe, a charismatic Jesuit missionary, has found his calling amongst the Huron and devotes himself to learning and understanding their customs and language in order to lead them to Christ. An emissary from distant lands, he brings much more than his faith to the new world.<br/>As these three souls dance each other through intricately woven acts of duplicity, small battles erupt into bigger wars and a nation emerges from worlds in flux.
Three Day Road
Joseph Boyden · 2006
Set in Canada and the battlefields of France and Belgium, Three-Day Road is a mesmerizing novel told through the eyes of Niska—a Canadian Oji-Cree woman living off the land who is the last of a line of healers and diviners—and her nephew Xavier. At the urging of his friend Elijah, a Cree boy raised in reserve schools, Xavier joins the war effort. Shipped off to Europe when they are nineteen, the boys are marginalized from the Canadian soldiers not only by their native appearance but also by the fine marksmanship that years of hunting in the bush has taught them. Both become snipers renowned for their uncanny accuracy. But while Xavier struggles to understand the purpose of the war and to come to terms with his conscience for the many lives he has ended, Elijah becomes obsessed with killing, taking great risks to become the most accomplished sniper in the army. Eventually the harrowing and bloody truth of war takes its toll on the two friends in different, profound ways. Intertwined with this account is the story of Niska, who herself has borne witness to a lifetime of death—the death of her people. In part inspired by the legend of Francis Pegahmagabow, the great Indian sniper of World War I, Three-Day Road is an impeccably researched and beautifully written story that offers a searing reminder about the cost of war.
Through Black Spruce
JOSEPH BOYDEN · 2009
From internationally acclaimed author Joseph Boyden comes a powerful novel of contemporary Indian life, full of the dangers and harsh beauty of both forest and city.
The Dante Club: A Novel
Matthew Pearl · 2004
classics
Only Dull People are Brilliant at Breakfast
Oscar Wilde · 2016
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2018
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 2021
Anna Karenina (Oxford World's Classics)
Leo Tolstoy · 2016
Homers Odyssee.
Homer, Citta Jünger, Friedrich Georg Jünger · 1981
dystopian and sci fi
Project Hail Mary: A Novel
Andy Weir · 2021
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2006
non fiction
Shari Franke The House of My Mother Path to Self-Discovery: A Journey Beyond the Spotlight
Robert Grood · 2025
How to Kill a Witch The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
Zöe Venditozzi, Claire Mitchell · 2025
The Look
Michelle Obama · 2025
Frequently Happy
David Larbi · 2025
thrillers and horror
Sisters in the Wind
Angeline Boulley
None of This Is True: A Novel
Lisa Jewell · 2023
surreal + dark fantasy
The Ocean at the End of the Lane A Novel
Neil Gaiman · 2013
