#barbara morgenstern

[unaturalhistory]

Barbara Morgenstern

[culiehua]

tmi verse x onion headlines

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part 8 (jem!edition)

[barbarabymarta]

Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass in "Jowita" (1967) dir. by Janusz Morgenstern

[wellesleybooks]

Ria, our part time bookseller and full time student at Wellesley College made a book display. She calls it “Anything You Can Write We Can Write Better- Works by alumnae of historically women’s colleges.” It’s full of some fantastic books.

Ria's List

Wellesley College Madam Secretary - Madeleine Albright Mr. Churchill's Secretary - Susan Elia MacNeal Last Night at the Telegraph Club- Malinda Lo The Sweet Spot - Amy Poeppel Heartburn- Nora Ephron Dear Wendy- Ann Zhao Pieces of Blue- Holly Goldberg Sloan Barbara the Slut- Lauren Holmes Good Grief - E.B. Bartels We Have Always Been Who We Are- Sofia Romero Nancy Drew- Carolyn Keene (aka Harriet Stratemeyer)

Barnard College Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh The Vulnerables - Sigrid Nunez The Death of a Jaybird- Jodi M. Savage Making It in America- Rachel Slade

Smith College The Feminine Mystique- Betty Friedan The Cliffs- J. Courtney Sullivan A Tale for the Time Being- Ruth Ozeki A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara Ariel- Sylvia Plath Mastering the Art of French Cooking- Julia Child The Starless Sea-Erin Morgenstern The Babysitters Club- Ann M. Martin

Bryn Mawr Crying in H Mart- Michelle Zauner The Trouble with You- Ellen Feldman The Brightwood Code- Monica Hesse Necessary Trouble- Drew Gilpin Faust

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24 in 2024 - End of the year update

The year is nearly over and I already know that this list will not change again, so here is the final update:

The Bone Witch (#2 & #3) by Rin Chupeco

The Gods of Men (#1, #2 & #3) by Barbara Kloss

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho

Babel by R. F. Kuang

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

Or What You Will by Jo Walton

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

The Foundling by Stacey Halls

Mrs. England by Stacey Halls

If You Could See Me Now by Cecilia Ahern

Le Chant des cavalières by Jeanne Mariem Corrèze

L'ensorceleur des choses menues by Régis Goddyn

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

De la part de la princesse morte by Kenizé Mourad

Le Désert des couleurs by Aurélie Wellenstein

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

Vilette by Charlotte Brontë

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

I managed to read 23 out of 24 books which is very good. Sadly, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell will have to wait until a later date, though it seems like a book that I will immensely enjoy once I get into it.

[nancywheeeler]

PLEASE share some of your favourite books!!! of all time And ones that you discovered this year!! (also only just noticed your header… i love those two <3)

omg anon i would love nothing more!

books of all-time: the secret history & the goldfinch by donna tartt, the haunting of hill house & we've always lived in the castle by shirley jackson, the night circus by erin morgenstern, the immortalists by chloe benjamin, lincoln highway by amor towles, say nothing by patrick radden keefe, the collector by john fowles, never let me go by kazuo ishiguro, tell the wolves i'm home by carol rifka brunt, the night tiger by yangsze choo, the shadow of the wind by carlos ruiz zafon, in the woods & the likeness by tana french, and the bell by iris murdoch.

i'm sure there are some i'm forgetting; i'm sorry to those books!

i try to read a broad range of genres & sub-genres, but my soft spots are magical realism, the promise of an ambiguous and bittersweet resolution, family sagas (or a codependent pair of siblings who are all the other has in the world), novels strongly influenced by classic literature, and unconventional murder mysteries.

and this year, i have favorites for all of the above!

magical realism: the house of the spirits by isabelle allende; ashamed i had not read this classic before, but i arrived at the party and i never wanted to leave.

also recommend: the light pirate by lily brooks-dalton

bittersweet: the memory police by yoko ogawa; more like bittersweet from beginning to end, and haunting. so very haunting.

also recommend: we all want impossible things by catherine newman (if you read the blurb, you'll understand why this is bittersweet, but it is also the funniest book i read all year)

family saga: tom lake by ann patchett; my book of the year, a beautiful exploration of mothers and daughters, our town by thornton wilder, first loves, and the summer stock theater scene.

classic influence: the historian by elizabeth kostova; brilliant take on dracula and vampiric folklore.

also recommend: state of wonder by ann patchett (a heart of darkness, but with women in the amazon!); demon copperhead by barbara kingsolver (tbh i felt it follows david copperfield a bit too closely, but her writing! oh her writing!)

unconventional murder mystery: i have some questions for you by rebecca makkai; not too unconventional, but it has some great takes on the true crime industry.

and since those are all fiction, i'll also add, for non-fiction, that i really loved the wager by david grann, the extraordinary life of an ordinary man by paul newman, and the premonition by michael lewis (great for anyone interested in what america's pandemic response was supposed to be, how it was developed, and why it went so wrong in 2020)

alright wow, this got so long—i'm so sorry! i'd love to hear what everyone else's favorite books they read this year are!

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Morgan's 2023 Reading List ✨📚 

Jan 2: Truly Madly Guilty - Liane Moriarty (1 star)

Jan 4: True Biz - Sara Nović (4.5 stars)

Jan 15: Spare - Prince Harry (4 stars)

Jan 20: Blood of Olympus - Rick Riordan (re-read) (3 stars)

Jan 23: This Time Tomorrow - Emma Straub (3.5 stars)

Jan 25: The Last Thing He Told Me - Laura Dave (3.5 stars)

Feb 2: Beartown - Fredrik Backman (5 stars)

Feb 5: The Hawthorne Legacy - Jennifer Lynn Barnes (4 stars)

Feb 6: The Final Gambit - Jennifer Lynn Barnes (3.5 stars)

Feb 19: Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting - Clare Pooley (4 stars)

Feb 19: The Unsinkable Greta James - Jennifer E. Smith (2.5 stars)

Feb 28: Where’d You Go, Bernadette? - Maria Semple (5 stars)

Mar 15: A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas (4 stars)

Mar 20: A Court of Mist and Fury - Sarah J. Maas (5 stars)

Mar 23: A Court of Wings and Ruin - Sarah J. Maas (4 stars)

Mar 25: The Quarantine Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot (2.5 stars)

Mar 26: A Court of Frost and Starlight - Sarah J. Maas (4 stars)

Mar 31: The Mutual Friend - Carter Bays (4 stars)

April 5: From Blood and Ash - Jennifer L. Armentrout (3.5 stars)

April 9: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire - Jennifer L. Armentrout (4.5 stars)

April 15: The Crown of Gilded Bones - Jennifer L. Armentrout (3 stars)

April 19: The War of Two Queens -Jennifer l Armentrout (3 stars)

April 23: The Reading List - Sara Nisha Adams (3 stars)

April 30: Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus (5 stars)

May 6: Happy Place - Emily Henry (4.5 stars)

May 10: Everything Beautiful in Its Time - Jenna Bush Hager (not rating)

May 13: Well Met - Jen DeLuca (3 stars)

May 21: The Last Mrs. Parrish - Liv Constantine (2.5 stars)

May 25: The Displacements - Bruce Holsinger (4 stars)

May 27: Rock the Boat - Beck Dorey-Stein (4.5 stars)

May 31: Damn Few - Rorke Denver (not rating)

June 14: A Court of Silver Flames - Sarah J. Maas (2 stars)

June 25: Prisoners of Geography - Tim Marshall (not rating)

June 27: A Court of Mist and Fury - Sarah J. Maas (reread)

July 2: Pineapple Street - Jenny Jackson (4 stars)

July 5: Once More With Feeling - Elissa Sussman (2 stars)

July 13: It All Comes Down to This - Therese Anne Fowler (3.5 stars)

July 15: Mad Honey - Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan (4 stars)

July 27: The Secret History - Donna Tart (3 stars)

July 29: The Comeback Summer - Ali Brady (4 stars)

July 30: The It Girl - Ruth Ware (4 stars)

August 5: The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern (4 stars)

August 6: Educated - Tara Westover (not rating)

August 9: The First 90 Days - Michael D. Watkins (not rating)

August 11: This is How it Always Is - Laurie Frankel (5 stars)

August 20: Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver (4.5 stars)

August 27: A Soul of Ash and Blood - Jennifer L. Armentrout (1.5 stars)

August 30: The Alice Network - Kate Quinn (3.5 stars)

September 4: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V.E. Schwab (4.5 stars)

September 15: This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (4 stars)

September 17: Hotel Laguna - Nicola Harrison (2 stars)

September 24: We're All Adults Here - Emma Straub (5 stars)

September 26: A Bend in the Road - Nicholas Sparks (1.5 stars)

October 5: The Celebrants - Steven Rowley (2.5 stars)

October 8: Anxious People - Fredrik Backman (3.5 stars)

October 9: Born a Crime - Trevor Noah (not rating)

October 14: The Wishing Game - Meg Shaffer (4 stars)

October 16: Counting the Cost - Jill Duggar (not rating)

October 18: Love and Other Words - Christina Lauren (2.5 stars)

October 22: Rules of Civility - Amor Towles (4 stars)

October 29: Maybe You Should Talk To Someone - Lori Gottlieb (not rating)

October 30: Troublemaker - Leah Remini (not rating)

November 2: Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen (3.5 stars)

November 7: Good Girl Complex - Elle Kennedy (1.5 stars)

November 23: Modern Lovers - Emma Straub (2 stars)

November 25: Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros (3.5 stars)

December 3: Daisy Jones and The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid (2.5 stars)

December 6: Know My Name - Chanel Miller (not rating)

December 10: Girl in the Blue Coat - Monica Hesse (2.5 stars)

December 15: The Circus Train - Anita Parikh (2 stars)

December 20: Catch and Kill - Ronan Farrow (not rating)

December 22: Today Will Be Different - Maria Semple (4 stars)

December 27: Iron Flame - Rebecca Yarros (4.5 stars)

December 29: Vampire Academy - Michelle Mead (1 star)

December 30: Percy Jackson: The Chalice of the Gods - Rick Riordan (5 stars)

[princeofiron]

Hello! Are you looking for an 18+ tsc shadowhunter rp? We’re on discord, we tend to stick to canon, and we’re open to all the books. Below are some people we needed played! Link below dm for questions!^^

Tmi

Bat Velasquez

Camille Belcourt

Catarina loss

Isabelle Lightwood

Jia Penhallow

Jocelyn Fairchild

Jordan Kyle

Kaelie Whitewillow

Lily Chen

Lilith

Luke Garroway

Maia Roberts

Maryse Lightwood

Meliorn

Patrick Penhallow

Robert Lightwood

Seelie Queen

Valentina Graymark

Valentine Morgenstern

Tda

Aline Penhallow

Andrew Blackthorn

Arawn

Arthur Blackthorn

Cameron Ashdown

Diana Wrayburn

Diego Rosales

Fergus

Gwyn ap nudd

Helen blackthorn

Horace Dearborn

Livia Blackthorn

Manual Villalobos

Nene

Nerissa

Oban

Ragnor fell

Ryan Maduabuchi

Zara Dearborn

Twp

Anush Joshi

Jane Cartwright

Mason Hardcastle

Paige Ashdown

Thais Pedroso

Tid

Cecily Herondale

Charlotte Fairchild

Gabriel Lightwood

Gideon Lightwood

Henry Branwell

Jessamine Lovelace

Nate Gray

Sophie Collin’s

Tatiana Blackthorn

Woolsey Scott

Tlh

Alastair Carstairs

Alexander Lightwood

Anna Lightwood

Ari Bridgestock

Barbara Lightwood

Charles Fairchild

Christopher Lightwood

Eugenia Lightwood

Grace Lightwood

Jesse Blackthorn

Lucie Herondale

Matthew Fairchild

Oliver Hayward

Zachary Carstairs

Companion Books

Auraline (First heir)

Celithe

George Lovelace

Jon Cartwright

Julie Beauvale

Kadir Safar

Marisol Garza

Roland Loss

Vivianna Penhallow

[unaturalhistory]

Barbara Morgenstern

[barbarabymarta]

Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass, Daniel Olbrychski & Janusz Morgenstern on the set of "Jowita" dir. by Janusz Morgenstern

[stpauligirl]

7 & 39 and would also love a book rec if you please

7. a book you did not finish

Already answered here, so I'll give you #8 instead: a book you finished in one sitting

Sonali Dev has a series where she re-tells Jane Austen novels with a modern Indian-American twist. I believe I have finished each of them in one sitting, or very close.

Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

Recipe for Persuasion

Incense and Sensibility

The Emma Project

39. a book featuring your favourite character

Well, the 4-book series I mentioned above of course!

And also Taliesen, which is book 1 of Stephen R. Lawhead's Pendragon Cycle series. It is a telling of the Arthurian legend that focuses on the ancestry of Merlin. I read it as a teenager and it made me absolutely obsessed with King Arthur.

A recommendation just for you

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. Sometimes it’s hard to imagine you will like an author’s second book as much as the first. Not a problem here. I was enraptured.

Also The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.

[joanofarc]

ten songs from shuffle vs. five i actually listen to

i was tagged by the wonderful @kodachromism to participate in this game, and while i usually struggle doing these, i turned off my mind and had fun writing. the rules are self-explanatory. songs i don’t get to choose and then songs i do get to choose (somewhat)!

i shuffled my 2021-2023 listening log spotify playlist, which is 10,000 songs tall and full of songs on albums i’ve only heard once. i’m not tagging anyone, but if you see this and want to do it, do it. here we go.

1. q quarters (the associates)

kind of a bad start, since i don’t have a lot to say about this one. there’s a lot of aesthetic brilliance to adore the associates for, but i’m too twee to be a goth outright. there’s nothing that really grabs me here, unlike the following track ‘tell me easter’s on friday’, which i love.

2. the fast one (tindersticks)

actually literally fast, and not very stand-out. i really don’t remember this song from my first listen. sounds like fucked up spy music, with wailing violin, melodica and groove. pretty gothic lyrics, here, too. did i have a phase or something and didn’t realize it?

3. quicksand (hatchie)

this is apparently the most-listened tune on hatchie’s debut, which is crazy, given ‘this enchanted’ is strictly better. but while the album is based on various pop modes (some from the 90′s), ‘quicksand’ is basically the most literal application of current radio pop trends. it’s not a bad song but it’s really boring when you get to the meat of it.

4. wings of heaven (rose mcdowall)

the third track on rose’s post-strawberry switchblade solo release is sincere, really. it emphasizes moving to a place of freedom, and i really love that from her. it’s not packing the same punch as ‘crystal days (/nights)’, but i’d rather have a full 80′s rose mcdowall pop album than just a single and scattered tracks, so.

5. giuseppina my dear (papiro)

i love this album but i’m also kind of a sucker for certain kinds of lounge-influenced indietronica. super schmaltzy stuff on this tune, with a sneaky bit of morricone hiding in the main synth line. so, another interlude, but a cute one.

6. i remember when (k. hand)

one from the late and great kelli hand. as the penultimate track (and at nine minutes), it leaves a bit to be desired, but i remember this coming on at work and it instantly put me in the zone.

7. summer holiday holocaust (kalle j)

oh, fuck, what a song. kalle j was never part of the sincerely yours / labrador rosters, but this song deserves to be in the annals of swedish balearic pop next to hits by the embassy, air france, the tough alliance, etc. good vibes throughout, chillwave adjacent, certainly fuzzy. i recommend this one.

8. apricots (the high llamas)

the final track on 1992′s santa barbara. i think a lot about microdisney -> the high llamas, and i see the lineage well-represented, here. it’s a bit too cynical to be brian wilson, you know? it’s got that irish flair! i’m observant. it’s an okay tune.

9. wandering (oranger)

oh, interesting. this is the final track on the very-new 2023 oranger album. i remember this album being fairly hit or miss, but listening again, i’ve got this fondness for mike drake’s vocals that’ll always make oranger accessible for shuffle. speaking of shuffle, the interplay of acoustic guitar and drums really works here for me.

10. panic (sophie rimheden)

i remember not liking this album at all, which sucks. i tried so hard to get into sophie rimheden because i love early aughts glitch pop. there’s hooks here, but no chops, which is something i really appreciate from contemporary barbara morgenstern. this song is just one idea stretched out for five minutes with no real payoff. just a whole lot of keyboard slap bass.

vs.

1. no way down (air france)

cool, i mentioned this group earlier. ‘no way down’ follows the immense ‘no excuses’ with no desire to cruise to similar heights. during its main refrain, it’s still subdued and chill. handclaps, whistling and vocal samples. a hipster’s dream, yeah? but you can’t end on an absolute banger, so this song and ‘windmill wedding’ are perfect balearic pop breezers to close out the minialbum.

2. love theme (from the world that never was) (the secret history)

michael grace, jr.’s creative direction and lyricism pairs perfectly with lisa ronson (daughter of legendary mick), creating 80′s pastiche with indie pop trends of the 2000′s. you’ll want to hear this if you’re a fan of 80′s romance movies. or if you’re a goth that wears too much pink. i was super grateful to do an interview with mgjr for my radio program, i just wish i asked more about the secret history!

3. probleme (the feelings)

hey you! you’ve got a problem. i know because i’ve got that problem, too. this CD is really for the sillyheads out there, because the feelings aren’t really that serious about things, blending pop rock with sloppy indie raps and beep boops. ‘probleme’ is probably one of the less cringy tunes on the album, so it’s safe to recommend to you.

4. delete it (mspaint, militarie gun)

ah, you remember when this came out? post-american was like a shock to the system. the hattiesburg band really upped the production and came into that rap-rock catchiness they sought to revive. the song ends without anything truly explosive, but i bet it makes yr head buzz live.

5. the face of youth today (squire)

DID I TELL YOU I’M THE FACE OF TODAY? this band singlehandedly convinced me of mod revival... i don’t know why i was so late to it, but jesus, it’s just so catchy. i still maintain i wanna’ cover this song and make ‘indie modtronica’... my band name will be the contraptions. keep that in mind.

[littlx-songbxrd]

I could talk about the things that felt so wrong and off to me in the tsc universe but then honestly I might never shut up-

Because there's SO MUCH

Both Barbara's deaths, Christopher's death, everything Cat said about the lost herondales, Emma's parents' deaths, Jonathan Morgenstern as a whole, Kit’s childhood and all his behaviors in tda, Charles' change of heart in chot, the reaction to the rumors Alastair repeated at the academy(no bc why were they so obsessed with that one thing? it literally affected no one else but matthew and tom), Jesse's death, Henry actively ignoring Matthew his whole life but adoring Kit, Elias' death, why Alastair didn't inherit Cortana, can Herondales actually see ghosts or was it just Lucie(cause Will could only see Jessamine and James couldn't see any from what I remember), etc etc

I DONT WANT YOU TO SHUT UP CAUSE YOURE RIGHT

Inbox is always open i want to here you ramble about any of these pls therws just so much that doesnt make sense

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Mid-Year Book Freak Out

My good friend @logarithmicpanda tagged me!

Number of books you’ve read so far: 59,5

Best book you’ve read so far in 2024: No new books really made it to the top three, but discovering The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern was nice.

Best sequel you’ve read so far in 2024: Either book 2 or 3 of the series The Gods of Men by Barbara Kloss? I only read two series this years, disliked one and found the other just so-so...

New release you haven’t read yet but want to: I don't follow releases at all...

Most anticipated release for the second half of the year: Same answer.

Biggest surprise favorite new author (debut or new to you): Inua Ellams! I really liked reading The Half-God of Rainfall

Newest fictional crush: None, sadly.

Book that made you cry: I may not have cried real tears, but The Half-God of Rainfall that I've previously mentionned was very moving.

Most beautiful book you’ve bought so far this year (or received): I really like the covers for Stacey Halls' books! Technically I bought this one a while ago but only read it now so... I was a bit disappointed by the story though.

Book that made you happy: Mrs England by Stacey Halls. The end was very satisfying. Sometimes you don't need more than that~

What books do you need to read by the end of the year? : Not really looking forward to it, but I have a very important exam that will partly be on The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald. Apart from that, I'm trying to get through a few prompt lists, so Babel, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and a few classics are also on the menu.

Open tag because I don't know anyone! Feel free to consider this an invitation

[jovialwitchtastemaker]

Books/manga/comics

The Dark-Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon

The Iron Fey series by Julie Kagawa

The Wicked Lovely series by Melissa Marr

Blue Exorcist

Black Clover

Black Butler

The Ancient Magus' Bride

The Bride of the Water God

Fushigi Yuugi

Ghost in the Shell

*Book Recommendations:*

1. *The Dark Tower series* by Stephen King (Western-fantasy)

2. *The Dresden Files* by Jim Butcher (urban fantasy, gritty)

3. *The Sandman Slim series* by Richard Kadrey (dark fantasy, Western-inspired)

4. *The First Law trilogy* by Joe Abercrombie (grimdark fantasy, complex characters)

5. *The Gone-Away World* by Nick Harkaway (post-apocalyptic, Western-inspired)

The Historian* by Elizabeth Kostova (historical fiction, vampire-themed)

*Ricky & JC:*

1. _Call Me By Your Name_ by André Aciman (romance, coming-of-age)

2. _The Miseducation of Cameron Post_ by Emily M. Danforth (coming-of-age, LGBTQ+ themes)

3. _Every Heart a Doorway_ by Seanan McGuire (fantasy, LGBTQ+ themes)

4. _The Song of Achilles_ by Madeline Miller (historical fiction, LGBTQ+ themes)

5. _Wolfsong_ by TJ Klune (paranormal, LGBTQ+ romance)

*Ricky & Victor:*

1. _The Secret History_ by Donna Tartt (dark academia, complex relationships)

2. _The Stranger_ by Harlan Coben (mystery, thriller)

3. _The Glass Castle_ by Jeannette Walls (memoir, complex family dynamics)

4. _The Poisonwood Bible_ by Barbara Kingsolver (literary fiction, complex relationships)

5. _The Sea of Tranquility_ by Katja Millay (new adult, complex relationships)

*Jason & Sam:*

1. _The Perks of Being a Wallflower_ by Stephen Chbosky (coming-of-age, mental health)

2. _The Fault in Our Stars_ by John Green (romance, drama, mental health)

3. _Eleanor & Park_ by Rainbow Rowell (young adult, romance)

4. _The Sun is Also a Star_ by Nicola Yoon (young adult, romance)

5. _Anna and the French Kiss_ by Stephanie Perkins (young adult, romance)

*Lindsey & Ricky:*

1. _The Lovely Bones_ by Alice Sebold (magical realism, sibling relationships)

2. _The Time Traveler's Wife_ by Audrey Niffenegger (romance, complex relationships)

3. _The Night Circus_ by Erin Morgenstern (magical realism, complex relationships)

4. _The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August_ by Claire North (science fiction, complex relationships)

5. _The City & The City_ by China Miéville (police procedural, complex relationships)

Here are revised book recommendations focusing on the sibling relationship between Ricky and Lindsey:

_Ricky & Lindsey (Siblings):_

1. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (magical realism, sibling relationships)

2. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (historical fiction, sibling bonds)

3. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (historical fiction, sibling relationships)

4. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (coming-of-age, sibling dynamics)

5. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (literary fiction, complex sibling relationships)

Additional recommendations exploring themes of:

_Grief & Loss:_

1. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

2. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

3. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

_Mental Health & Trauma:_

1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

2. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

3. Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel

_Supernatural & Paranormal:_

1. The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher

2. The Sandman Slim series by Richard Kadrey

3. The All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness

[nats-reads-reviews]

Currently Reading 📚

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

The Christmas Tree Farm by Laurie Gilmore