#c.l. hinton

[thebeautifulbook]

IN ARCADY by Hamilton Wright Mabie. (New York: Dodd Mead, 1903) Illustrated by Will H. Low. Decorated by C.L. Hinton who may have designed the cover.

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[ghoulishbuck]

Well it’s not even a full week into April and I’ve read 124 books so far this year. I honestly don’t know what happened. Last year I read 119 books in total. I do believe that it’s a mixture of shitty mental health and reaching a point where I preferred to read instead of watching things or playing video games though.

Anyways, here’s some stats and the progress on my book goals I have for this year.

P.s. I’m not trying to say you need to read a lot or that I’m better because I’ve read so much I’m just sharing what I’ve read. I highly doubt I’ll ever read as much as I will this year in the future.

Books hauled so far this year and percentage read of hauled books: 33 (9.091%)

Number of books read this year that I own vs borrowed: 31 vs 93

Number of pages read so far: 36,762

Number of books read for each month: 41, 42, 32

Percentage of my physical books read: 18%

Number of physical books owned: 516

Number of books donated to a little free library and the number that is ready to leave: 6 and 5

My favourite books for each month:

January- Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross, Eragon by Christopher Paolini, Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

February- A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy, The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston, Better Than The Movies by Lynn Painter

March- Once Upon A K-Prom by Kat Cho, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

My less favourite/ most disappointing reads for each month:

January- The Ruins by Scott Smith, Heartstopper volume 5 by Alice Oseman

February- Waverider by Kazu Kibuishi, Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross, The House is on Fire by Rachel Beanland

March- The Wager by David Grann, All of us Villains by Amanda Foody and C.L. Herman, The Death Cure by James Dashner, King of Immortal Tithe by Ben Alderson

Reading goals:

4/5 classics read

6/5 nonfiction read

9/12 romances read

0/12 paperbacks from hell read

0/12 point horror books read

9.091%/50% of books hauled in 2024 read

13/5 YouTuber favourites read

3/12 dragon books read

22/24 sci-fi books read

92/100 owned books read (this is going to drop by 4 soon)

Bonus goals:

0/2 memoirs read

3/3 true crime books reads

4/3 soft DNF’s read

0/5 literary fiction read

[jennystahl]

We have so many classics that tell a different perspective, you just don't read them. I don't care what you were forced to read in high school, you have free will.

Don't discredit the many greats because you want to assume they don't exist. The societal outlook has not yet changed, but you don't have to say this kind of stuff. It's unhelpful at best.

Obviously white men are always over represented, but your message is still incorrect, especially considering how many NEW books we have that are absolutely what you're looking for. But anyway, non-white male classic writers:

Alice Walker (gay Black woman)

Sylvia Plath

Sarah Waters (lesbian)

Lydia Chukovskaya

Anita Diamant (Jewish woman)

Joan Didion

Truman Capote (gay man)

Fanny Burney

Ursula K Le Guin (feminist and incredibly progressive)

Dorothy Bussy (bisexual woman)

Jane Austen

Zora Neale Hurston (Black woman)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (African woman)

James Baldwin (gay Black man writing about civil rights in many forms)

Julia Voznesenskaya

Harper Lee

Elizabeth Peters

E.M. Forster (gay man writing about gay men)

Mary Shelley (female pioneer in science fiction)

Mabel Seeley

Louisa May Alcott

Virginia Woolf (gay woman)

Ann Radcliffe

L.M. Montgomery

Shirley Jackson

Mae West (wrote plays about sex, drag, and homosexuality)

Frances Gies (wrote history, still some of the best sources for their topics)

Christine de Pizan (medieval woman writer)

Margaret Weis

Robin Wall Kimmerer (Potawatomi woman)

Maya Angelou (Black woman)

C.L. Moore (female pioneer in weird fiction)

All three Bronte sisters

Ngaio Marsh, Agatha Christie, Patricia Wentworth (wrote mystery like no man in history ever has; Christie is the most sold author of all time after Shakespeare and the Bible)

Donna Tartt

Daphne du Maurier

Alexandre Dumas (mixed-race Black man)

Willa Cather (gay woman)

Toni Morrison (Black woman)

George Eliot

Margaret Atwood (explicitly feminist works)

Fannie Flagg (gay woman)

Anne Carson (translates ancient Greek works)

Oscar Wilde (gay man)

S.E. Hinton

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Khaled Hosseini (Afghan man)

Kate Chopin

Eve Babitz

Helena Maria Viramontes (Chicana)

Octavia Butler (Black woman writing science fiction, an incredible staple of the genre)

I didn't count any who wrote children's stories; it didn't seem relevant. There are thousands of others too, these are all just at least moderately well known.

I do find it unfortunate when ppl (especially women) live with a ‘well female characters are hardly ever interesting, so I prefer male characters’ mindset. When there are arguably the same, if not many, many, more terribly written male ocs compared to women. Like media/society has just convinced you to put men and their stories first and you’ve gotta break out of that mindset if you’re ever truly going to embrace women in media imo

[thebeautifulbook]

UNDER THE TREES by Hamilton Wright Mabie. (New York: Dodd Mean, 1902) Illustrated and decorated by C.L. Hinton.

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