Kiss me, Hardy

[dorywhynot]

"Iorek Byrnison" Watercolor on paper, 11x14", 2026.

For "Bibliophilia," opening April 8 at Quirky Fox Gallery

[jeansbookshelf-deactivated20250]

I got 60 out of 1000 😂

1000 Books You May Have Actually Read

Based on the number of ratings each book has on Goodreads. And if you haven't read them, maybe you can use for a literature bucket list.

[tinyasafirefly]

Anyone who says they’ve read all 1000 is a liar because one of them is a huge cookbook and no one is actively joy reading that.

[mbrainspaz]

with some of these it’s like “fuck, I did read that,” and with some it’s like “Oh fuck, I did read that.”

I got 99, but I counted a few that I had only mostly-read before deciding I didn’t like them and never finishing them.

[tempest-in-diy-earrings]

Damn, I’ve only read 97 of these.

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

179, an astonishing number legitimately thanks to high school.

Also, lol I absolutely did read The Joy of Cooking for fun. Still do sometimes. It’s the closest thing my family has to a Bible. And since my older brothers got to leave home with the old version that showed you how to skin a squirrel, I took away the replacement version on that list that I previously in my childhood bought my mom for Christmas.

[shiniestqueen]

chump numbers

i used to reflexively loathe anything that got more than 5 copies in the library, so i’ve got a lot of catching up to do

[lesliebwrites]

214. Side effect of growing up before YA was really a thing. I read a loooooot of Stephen King and old SFF.

[christinaroseandrews]

232. Entirely due to the fact that my mother was a teacher I would get books ad infinitum for birthdays or whatever for years. I grew up pre-internet and pre-screens so books and in particular anthologies were very much a thing on road trips and traveling. I also worked at a library for a time again pre-internet so I read a bunch of these as they came in because I could. Finally I really got into science fiction and fantasy and anime and read my fair share of Stephen King (which this list was massively biased toward). Plus my high school had so many of these books like probably a solid 75 of them as required reading throughout my time there. I also read a bunch of these in my Spanish literature courses that I took in college the fact that the professor for that course was from Chile meant we read a lot of Allende. And I absolutely read The Joy of cooking multiple times as enjoyment. I own the book and it’s something I will go to regularly. Also I counted a bunch of these as I started the book hated it did my requisite red first 10 chapters and then said “nope” and got the fuck out… I am looking at you Cassandra Clare and Stephanie Meyer.

There are a few books that I am surprised aren’t on this list but in all it’s not bad

[the-forest-library]

As a present to myself for surviving the current horrors, I treated myself to two more books from this series

[macrolit]

How many of these have you read?

[studentofetherium]

[dandelionwyn-o]

Booksmith sells online! They even have book mystery boxes based on other books you love. Let's show them (and others) that they made a good business AND moral choice.

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

TRCC'S Top 25 Books of 2025

I've had an incredible reading year and these books are the best of the best of what I read <3 from fantasy to horror to YA contemporary to sci-fi, I had a lot of fun with these books and am 110% happy to chat about any of them if y'all wanna more ^.^

list of titles below the cut <3

Triple Sec - TJ Alexander

Leaving the Station - Jake Maia Arlow

Costumes for Time Travellers - AR Capetta

A Letter to the Luminous Deep - Sylvie Cathrall

Fate’s Bane - CL Clark

Bloom - Delilah S Dawson

Hazelthorn - CG Drews

Black Flame - Gretchen Felker-Martin

The Glass Girl - Kathleen Glasgow

Into the Drowning Deep - Mira Grant

Drift - Pip Harry

Pet Sematary - Stephen King

Shampoo Unicorn - Sawyer Lovett

Cinder House - Freya Marske

The Botanical Daughter - Noah Medlock

Automatic Noodle - Annalee Newitz

Greenteeth - Molly O’Neill

Mirage City - Lev AC Rosen

Wings of Starlight - Allison Saft

Sister Maiden Monster - Lucy A Snyder

The Haar - David Sodergren

On the Bright Side - Anna Sortino

The Skin I’m In - Steph Tisdell

Blood Over Bright Haven - ML Wang

Skysong - CA Wright

[ieidolon]

Insane to me that certain comic book creators who shall not be named dismissed Jonathan Harker as a "milk sop" and a boring character. White-haired avenger with ambiguously vampiric superstrength Jonathan Harker. Most violent and unhinged member of the vampire hunters Jonathan Harker. Ran at Dracula with a kukri knife without skipping a beat and then tried to climb out of a window to pursue him Jonathan Harker. "Like a living flame" Jonathan Harker. Calls his bond with his wife "the holiest love" and determines that if she becomes a vampire, even if Dracula calls her to his side, "she shall not go into that dark night alone" Jonathan Harker. You know. That one.

[linguisticparadox]

[charonnyxtides]

by @pb-dot

[vvanillavveins]

I don't think we give Jonathan Harker nearly enough credit for his absolutely unhinged choices. In 1897, that pathetic wet cat of a man was written with enough grit, willpower, and raw human stupidity to rival any of our modern horror podcast protagonists. When faced with a centuries-old vampire, in a coffin, drenched in fresh blood, he really thought the best thing to do was to hit it in the face WITH A SHOVEL. The audacity. The misplaced confidence. The sheer desperation. No plan. No hesitation. Running on fear and spite alone. And i fucking love him for it. Truly the character of all time.

[wearethekat]

The Summer War

In this poignant, heartfelt novella from the New York …

surprise new naomi novik book??

In this poignant, heartfelt novella from the New York Times bestselling author of Spinning Silver and the Scholomance Trilogy, a young witch who has inadvertently cursed her brother to live a life without love must find a way to undo her spell.

Celia discovered her talent for magic on the day her beloved oldest brother Argent left home. Furious at him for abandoning her in a war-torn land, she lashed out, not realizing her childish, angry words would suddenly become imbued with the power of prophecy, dooming him to a life without love.

While Argent wanders the world, forced to seek only fame and glory instead of the love and belonging he truly desires, Celia attempts to undo the curse she placed on him. Yet even as she grows from a girl to a woman, she cannot find the solution—until she learns the truth about the centuries-old war between her own people and the summerlings, the immortal beings who hold a relentless grudge against their mortal neighbors.

Now, with the aid of her unwanted middle brother, Celia may be able to both undo her eldest brother's curse and heal the lands so long torn apart by the Summer War.

out September 16th

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

so the next Alex Easton novella cover goes hard as fuck 👀👀👀

[thebookcafee]

Absolutely the funniest thing about Dracula. Dracula is defeated with the power of Love And Also Money.

[dreamingdormouse]

Okay so this is a big deal

Sir Terry Pratchett's Night Watch to become Penguin Classic | Terry Pratchett

Sir Terry Pratchett's iconic Discworld novel Night Watch, featuring Commander Sam Vimes, to be published as a Penguin Classic.

To me, and to a significant subset of Sir Terry's fans (including most of you who've found this by the tags), his writing is serious commentary on the human condition - politics, prejudice, self-control, revenge vs. justice, religion, idealism, faith in people vs. cynicism, and more - dressed up with fantasy settings and a hefty leavening of humor to make it fun to read. And it is WILDLY fun to read, actual laugh-out-loud or at least a snicker averaging about every page.

But there's this common idea among the "important literature" people that fun and funny books are not also worthwhile or important in the same way.

This is a Discworld book being released WITH ACADEMIC COMMENTARY and AS A PENGUIN CLASSIC. That's a HUGE amount of recognition.

[tenarutervayn]

@thebibliosphere

[thebibliosphere]

Oh, I’m about to tear up. I had to fight so hard to do my thesis on Pratchett because the university didn't like what they considered pop culture being studied as literature and this is just... Existing. 🥹

[macrolit]

If you loved If We Were Villains, you might want to pre-order Graveyard Shift from M.L. Rio. Buy from: Bookshop.org AbeBooks.com Barnes & Noble Amazon.com

[thestarlesselsewhere]

I pray the tomb is shut forever, I pray the rock is never rolled away…

Or the alternative title, “One flesh, one end, bitch!”

It is finally done! The ninth house prayer from Gideon the Ninth as an early 16th century manuscript, because it just made sense in my brain.

[thorinds]

1000 Books You May Have Actually Read

How many of these books listed you have you read?

1-15

16-30

31-45

46-60

61-75

76-90

91-105

106-120

121-135

136-150

151-175

More than 176

Voting ended onJun 12, 2024

[bookcub]

rereading my favorite books is my favorite form of self care

[etredusoir]

Books with a "tinge" of pink.

I read the books I bought solely based on their covers... so here are my ratings. (Note: I'd definitely get into detail about what I like and don't like about these books in seperate posts but that's for another time.) Long story short, I enjoyed Bunny so much that I'm currently re-reading and annotating it right now.

— Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors (3★), My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh (3★), Bunny by Mona Awad (5★), All's Well by Mona Awad (3★)