So, not that anyone asked but these are the novels I read this year. If any of these books catch your eye let’s be friends!
(Note: these are not in any order, I kinda just put em into a wanton list without any prior organization)
Violet’s wee reading list of 2022
1. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - Quentin Tarantino
2. Butter Honey Pig Bread - Francesca Ekwuyasi
3. Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahansa Yogananda
4. Seize the Day - Saul Bellow
5. Storm of Steel - Ernst Junger
6. Tacky - Rax King
7. Slow Days, Fast Company - Eve Babitz
8. Stoner - John Williams
9. Hard Rain Falling - Don Carpenter
10. Anniversaries - Uwe Johnson
11. Don Quixote de La Mancha - Miguel de Cervantes
12. Killing Commendatore - Haruki Murakami
13. Burning Questions - Margaret Atwood
14. The Counterfieters - André Gide
15. Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsun
16. The Poems of John Keats - John Keats
17. Ulysses - James Joyce
18. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
19. The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector - Clarice Lispector
20. Quo Vadis - Henry’s Sienkiewicz
20. The Dwelling Place of Light - Winston Churchill (not the former PM)
21. Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
22. Dune - Frank Herbert
23. Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
24. Children of Dune - Frank Herbert
25. God Emperor of Dune - Frank Herbert
26. Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert
27. Chapter House Dune - Frank Herbert
28. Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
29. The Double - Fyodor Dostoevsky
30. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
31. Middlemarch - George Eliot
32. The Complete Stories of Jorge Luis Borges - Jorge Luis Borges
33. The Collins Complete Shakespeare - William Shakespeare
34. The Banjo: A History - Laurent DuBois
35. House of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski
36. Sérotonin - Michel Houellebecq
37. Pamela - Samuel Richardson
38. The Confusions of Young Törless - Robert Musil
39. The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
40. My Struggle I: A Death in the Family - Karl Ove Knausgaard
42. My Struggle II: A Man in Love - Karl Ove Knausgaard
43. My Struggle III: Boyhood Island - Karl Ove Knausgaard
44. My Struggle IV: Dancing in the Dark - Karl Ove Knausgaard
45. My Struggle V: Some Rain Must Fall - Karl Ove Knausgaard
46. My Struggle VI: The End - Karl Ove Knausgaard
47. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
48. The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
49. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
50. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
51. The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens
52. Nicholas Nickelby - Charles Dickens
53. Roots - Alex Haley
54. Silas Marner - George Eliot
55. Scenes of Clerical Life - George Eliot
56. Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
57. Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao
58. Babel - R. F. Kuang
59. The Complete Father Brown Stories - G. K. Chesterton
60. Death Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases - Nissoisin
61. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
62. The Song of Roland - Anon.
63. The Nibelungenlied - Anon.
64. Le Morte D’Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory
65. The Lais of Marie de France - Marie de France
66a. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (penguin tran.) - Anon. (The Pearl Poet)
66b. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Tolkien tran.) - Anon. (The Pearl Poet)
67. The Pearl (Tolkien tran.) - Anon. (The Pearl Poet)
68. Les Fleurs de Mal - Charles Baudelaire
69. Faust - Goethe
70. Forrest Gump - Winston Groom
71. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini - Benvenuto Cellini
72. Here There Be Dragons - James A. Owen
73. The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio
74. The Island - Alastair MacLeod
75. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
76. White Teeth - Zadie Smith
77. Beautiful Losers - Leonard Cohen
78. Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles - Harold Bloom
79. A Song for Arbonne - Guy Gavriel Kay
80. Harlem Shuffle - Colson Whitehead
81. The Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
82. The Vampire LeStat - Anne Rice
83. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
84. Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh
85. Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
86. Thus Were Their Faces - Silvina Ocampo
87. The Hellbound Heart - Clive Barker
88. The Collected Works of Breece D’J Pancake - Breece Pancake
89. Ben-Hur: The Story of a Christ - Lew Wallace
90. Open City - Teju Cole
91. Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood
92. The Aeneid - Virgil
93. Emma - Jane Austen
94. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
95. Persuasion - Jane Austen
96. The Portable Sixties Reader - Various, compiled by Ann Charters
97. The Innocents - Michael Crummey
98. Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen
99. The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling - Henry Fielding
100. The Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan
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Representation matters!-in YA novels/books
-i am, obviously, not able to type ALL here, but the ones i know and love dearly+the ones I think are most important for the readers♥- I WILL KEEP UPDATING THIS WHEN NEEDED♥) +obvi not in any important-order!!
-BUT FIRST BOOKS THAT HELP FIGHT RACISM/EDUCATE/INFORM ABOUT BLACK LIVES:
-White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
-Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
-The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
-The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
-The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison
(thank you for this list Dakota Johnson!)
+
-The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
-Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
-Becoming by Michelle Obama
-BOOKS EDUCATING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE/CRISIS list:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/139102124?shelf=climate-crisis
-BOOKS EDUCATING ABOUT AIDS/HIV list:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/139102124?shelf=about-aids-hiv
1. BISEXUAL-BI-REPRESENTATION (as a bi person myself I still think this should be represented more in media everywhere)
-bi boys: Isaac Sullivan (The Devouring Gray + The Deck Of Omens (duology), Jesper Fahey (Six of Crows, Grishaverse), Ness Arroyo / Eduardo Iron (Infinity Cycle Series-Infinity Son + Infinity Reaper + Infinity Kings), Rufus Emeterio (They Both Die At The End), Nathan Allan (I Wish You All The Best), Magnus Bane (The Mortal Instruments/The Shadowhunter Chronicles), Nick Nelson (Heartstopper), Alex Claremont-Diaz (Red, White & Royal Blue), Kit Fairfield (The Pairing), Winter Young(Stars and Smoke & Icon and Inferno), Jonah Collins & Dylan Ramirez (They Hate Each Other), Ash Ashton Taylor (The Law of Inertia), Will Tavares (Only Mostly Devastated), Enrique “Quique” Luna (This Is Why They Hate Us), Adam Parrish (The Raven Cycle Series), Will Solace (Percy Jackson Series), Andy Fleming (We Could Be So Good), Seth (Coffee Boy), Ridley Everlasting (Verona Comics), Mason Kane (The Dark We Know),
-bi girls: Violet Saunders (The Devouring Gray + The Deck Of Omens (duology), Nina Zenik (Six of Crows, Grishaverse), Maribelle Lucero (Infinity Cycle Series- Infinity Son + Infinity Reaper + Infinity Kings), Vivi Duarte(TheCruelPrince-The Folk Of The Air), Imogen Scott (Imogen, Obviously), Cleo Ferrara (The Girl Next Door), Nora Holleran (Red, White & Royal Blue), Lara (Only Mostly Devastated), Jules Lu (The Charm Offensive), Lea Li Zhang (How to Find a Missing Girl), Sutton Spencer (Those Who Wait), Dayana (London on My Mind), August Landry (One Last Stop), Chloe Green (I Kissed Shara Wheeler), Isa Isadora Chang (The Dark We Know),
-bi nonbinary: Theo Flowerday(The Pairing),
BOOKS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BISEXUAL HISTORY & ACTIVISM: https://www.tumblr.com/ruimtetijd/686000390089621504/list-of-books-about-bi-history-and-activism-from
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/139102124?shelf=bi-bisexual-characters-done-well
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q--nIkJu0OS0BgiyZmdKVwOVg1G90SFzWijNDWFTt58/edit#heading=h.wqkaxpi7o5je
1b. ASEXUAL REPRESENTATION
Ling Chang (The Diviners Series), Tolya Yul-Bataar (Grishaverse-ShadowAndBone), Tori Spring (Heartstopper), Isaac Henderson (Heartstopper), Raphael Santiago (The Mortal Instruments/The Shadowhunter Chronicles),
1c. PANSEXUAL-PAN-REPRESENTATION
Parisa (The Charm Offensive), Iris Blackthorn (How to Find a Missing Girl), Diana (London on My Mind),
2. GAY/ LESBIAN REPRESENTATION
-gay: Wylan Van Eck (Six Of Crows, Grishaverse), Henry DuBois IV (The Diviners Series), Griffin Griff Jennings(History Is All You Left Me), Brendan and Winston (Shatter Me Series), Prince Henry- Henry George Edward James Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor of Wales(Red White&Royal Blue), Amir Azadi(How It All Blew Up), Charlie Spring (Heartstopper), Orion Pagan(The First To Die At The End), Valentino Prince (The First To Die At The End), Clark Huckleton(If I See You Again Tomorrow), Beau Dupont (If I See You Again Tomorrow), Baz Pitch-Tyrannus Basilton Grimm-Pitch (Simon Snow Trilogy), Reynolds ^ Bartholomew Brimsley (Queen Charlotte), James (The Law of Inertia), Ollie-Oliver (Only Mostly Devastated), Ronan Lynch (The Raven Cycle Series), Nico di Angelo (Percy Jackson Series), Emil Rey (Infinity Cycle Series- Infinity Son+ Infinity Reaper as for now), Nick Russo (We Could Be So Good), Mark Bailey (You Should Be So Lucky), Eddie O’Leary (You Should Be So Lucky), Kaleb (Louder Than Words), Kieran (Coffee Boy), Benjy (I Kissed Shara Wheeler), Rory Heron (I Kissed Shara Wheeler), Wes & Isaiah (One Last Stop), Simon Spier ( Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda), Alec Lightwood (The Mortal Instruments/The Shadowhunter Chronicles),
-lesbian: Arriane Alter (Fallen Series), Ling Chang (The Diviners Series), Tamar Kir-Bataar (Grishaverse-ShadowAndBone), Nadia Zhabin (Grishaverse-ShadowAndBone), Darcy Olsson (Heartstopper), Tara Jones (Heartstopper), Charlotte Thompson (Those Who Wait), Jane Su (One Last Stop), Georgia (I Kissed Shara Wheeler), Morgan Matthews (Some Girls Do),
2b. Non-Binary Representation
-Ben Benjamin De Backer (I Wish You All The Best)
-Theo Flowerday (The Pairing)
-Wyatt Fowler (The Feeling Of Falling In Love)
-Gem Echols (Godly Heathens)
-Jude Ricci(Okay, Cupid)
-Ash (I Kissed Shara Wheeler)
+please go read “Gender Euphoria“ by Laura Kate Dale
3. TRANSGENDER PEOPLE REPRESENTATION
- Wyatt Croft (The Witch King)
- Felix Love (Felix Ever After)
- Neil Kearney (The Feeling Of Falling In Love)
- Noah Byrd (The Borrow A Boyfriend Club)
-Enzo Truly (Godly Heathens)
-Gem Echols (Godly Heathens)
-Yadriel (Cemetery Boys)
-Huy Trinh(Okay, Cupid)
-Peter Darling/ Peter Pan (Peter Darling)
-Kieran (Coffee Boy)
-Niko (One Last Stop)
-Aaron (Some Girls Do)
-Otto Vandersteen (The Dark We Know)
-Valentina Castillo (Shatter Me Series)
+please go read “Gender Euphoria“ by Laura Kate Dale
4. ASTHMA REPRESENTATION
- Arthur Penhaligon (The Keys To The Kingdom Series)
4a. DISABLED CHARACTERS REPRESENTATION (AUTISM/OCD/MORE..)
Kaz Brekker & Jesper Fahey & Wylan Van Eck (Grishaverse-Six Of Crows), Genya Safin & David Kostyk(Grishaverse-Shadow And Bone), Ling Chang (The Diviners Series), Harper Carlisle (The Devouring Gray,The Deck Of Omens), Griffin (History Is All You Left Me) (OCD),
-! PLEASE READ Chloe Hayden-Different, Not Less-A Neurodivergent’s Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After (especially for Autism/ADHD)
also for AUTISM : Jessie (Something More by Jackie Khalilieh), Harriet Manners (Geek Girl),
4b. EPILEPSY in Literature(Thank you for the list The Cameron Boyce Foundation)
-100 Sideways Miles by Andrew Smith
-The Idiot by Dostoevsky
-The Gentlemen’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
-Dings by Lance Fogan
-What the Wind Can Tell You by Sarah Marie A.Jette
-Mustaches for Maddie by Chad Morris and Shelly Brown
-When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
-How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets by Garth Stein
-The Thing With Feathers by McCall Hoyle
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
5. DIABETES REPRESENTATION
- Cassie Salazar (Purple Hearts)
6. ADHD REPRESENTATION
- Jesper Fahey (Six Of Crows, Grishaverse)
- Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series)
- Alex Claremont-Diaz (Red, White & Royal Blue)
- Theo Flowerday (The Pairing)
- Anne Shirley (Anne Of Green Gables Series)
-! PLEASE READ Chloe Hayden-Different, Not Less-A Neurodivergent’s Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After (especially for Autism/ADHD)
+ How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain-Jessica McCabe
7. DYSLEXIA/ DYSGRAPHIA REPRESENTATION
- Wylan Van Eck (Six Of Crows, Grishaverse)
- Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series)
- Rory Heron (I Kissed Shara Wheeler),
8. BLACK PEOPLE AS THE LEAD REPRESENTATION
-The Hate U Give- Angie Thomas
-Pride- Ibi Zoboi
-Beau Dupont (If I See You Again Tomorrow)
-Jesper Fahey(Grishaverse-Six Of Crows)
-Memphis Campbell(The Diviners Series)
-Jordyn Jones (Louder Than Words)
-Smith Parker (I Kissed Shara Wheeler)
8b. LATINX MAIN CHARACTERS-REPRESENTATION
Jude & Taryn Duarte (The Folk Of The Air Series starting with The Cruel Prince),
Alex Claremont-Diaz & June Claremont-Diaz (Red, White & Royal Blue),
Lila Reyes ( A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow ),
Infinity Son-Infinity Cycle Series, (many!)
This Is Why They Hate Us,
The First to Die at the End,
Rufus Emeterio (They Both Die At The End),
Cemetery Boys
9. THE PROTAGONIST WEARING GLASSES REPRESENTATION
-David Kostyk (Shadow And Bone/Grishaverse)
-Emma Morley (One Day)
-Lewis Barnavelt (Lewis Barnavelt Series)
-Harry Potter (Harry Potter Series)
-Mateo Torrez (They Both Die At The End)
-Elle Argent (Heartstopper)
-Dev Deshpande (The Charm Offensive)
-Mark Bailey (You Should Be So Lucky)
-August Landry (One Last Stop),
-Alex Claremont-Diaz (Red, White & Royal Blue),
10. MUSLIM REPRESENTATION
-A Very Large Expanse Of Sea/AVLEOS-Tahereh Mafi
-An Emotion Of Great Delight/AEOGD-Tahereh Mafi
-All My Rage-Sabaa Tahir
-An Ember In The Ashes Series-Sabaa Tahir
-How It All Blew Up-Arvin Ahmadi
-Other Words for Home-Jasmine Warga
-My Heart and Other Black Holes-Jasmine Warga
11. NARCISSISTIC/ABUSIVE PARENT REPRESENTATION
-Aaron Warner (Shatter Me Series)
-Adam Kent (Shatter Me Series)
-Wylan Van Eck (Six Of Crows, Grishaverse)
-Ness Arroyo / Eduardo Iron (Infinity Cycle Series-Infinity Son + Infinity Reaper + Infinity Kings)
-Evie O’Neill (The Diviners Series)
-Henry DuBois IV (The Diviners Series),
-Maxon Schreave (The Selection Series)
-Cardan Greenbriar (The Folk Of The Air Series)
-Jude Duarte (The Folk Of The Air Series)
-Sydney Sage (VA-Bloodlines)
-Adrian Ivashkov (Va-Bloodlines)
-Prince Kamran of Ardunia (This Woven Kingdom Series)
-James & Lydia Beaufort (Maxton Hall Trilogy, Save Me Series)
-Winter Young(Stars and Smoke & Icon and Inferno),
-Ridley Everlasting (Verona Comics),
+The Thief Lord-Cornelia Funke
+The Dark We Know-Wen-yi Lee
12. VEGAN REPRESENTATION
-Luce Lucinda Price (Fallen Series)
-Emil Rey (Infinity Cycle Series- Infinity Son+ Infinity Reaper + Infinity Kings)
-Bea (The Law of Inertia),
13. JEWISH PEOPLE REPRESENTATION
-Sam Lloyd/Sergei Lubovitch (The Diviners Series)
-Mabel Rose (The Diviners Series)
-Nora Holleran (Red, White & Royal Blue),
-Just One Day-Year-Night series by Gayle Forman
14. ASIAN PEOPLE REPRESENTATION
-Only a Monster by Vanessa Len
-The Diviners Series-Libba Bray
-James (The Law of Inertia),
-Kira-Kira-Cynthia Kadohata
-Memoirs of a Geisha-Arthur Golden
-The Dark We Know-Wen-yi Lee
15. LOSS/ GRIEF REPRESENTATION
-The Devouring Gray Duology-Christine Lynn Herman
-History Is All You Left Me + Infinity Cycle Series-Adam Silvera
-An Emotion of Great Delight-Tahereh Mafi
-The Diviners Series-Libba Bray
-Grishaverse-Leigh Bardugo
-Red, White & Royal Blue- Casey McQuiston
-The Pairing- Casey McQuiston
-The Shadow Of The Wind- C R Zafón
-They Both Die At The End + The First To Die At The End-Adam Silvera
-This Woven Kingdom Series- Tahereh Mafi
-One Day-David Nicholls
-Artemis Fowl Series-Eoin Colfer
-Airman-Eoin Colfer
-Fallen Series-Lauren Kate
-Anne Of Green Gables Series- Lucy M Montgomery
-Stars and Smoke & Icon and Inferno-Marie Lu
-London on My Mind-Clara Alves
-You Should Be So Lucky-Cat Sebastian
-Kira-Kira-Cynthia Kadohata
-As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow-Zoulfa Katouh
-The Dark We Know-Wen-yi Lee
15b. BAD MENTAL HEALTH/ DEPRESSION/ SUICIDAL THOUGHTS/SELF-HARM
-Shatter Me Series- Tahereh Mafi
-The Diviners Series-Libba Bray
-History Is All You Left Me-Adam Silvera
-They Both Die At The End + The First To Die At The End-Adam Silvera
-Infinity Son (and the rest of the Infinity Cycle Series)- Adam Silvera
-Grishaverse-Leigh Bardugo
-Red, White & Royal Blue- Casey McQuiston
-One Day- David Nicholls
-The Devouring Gray Duology-Christine Lynn Herman
-Vampire Academy & Bloodlines Series-Richelle Mead
-Unforgiven-Lauren Kate(From Fallen Series) WHOLE Fallen Series actually!
-An Emotion of Great Delight-Tahereh Mafi
-My Heart and Other Black Holes-Jasmine Warga
-The Law of Inertia-Sophie Gonzales
-Verona Comics-Jennifer Dugan
-Anne Of Green Gables Series-L M Montgomery
-Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy
-The Dark We Know-Wen-yi Lee
16. WRITERS/AUTHORS REPRESENTATION
-Anne Shirley (Anne Of Green Gables Series)
-Daniel Sempere (The Shadow Of The Wind-The Cemetery Of Forgotten Books Series)
-Julian Carax (The Shadow Of The Wind)
-Emma Morley (One Day)
-David Martin (The Angel’s Game-The Cemetery Of Forgotten Books Series)
-Memphis Campbell (The Diviners Series)
-Orion Pagan (The First To Die At The End)
-Prince Henry- Henry George Edward James Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor of Wales(Red White&Royal Blue)
17. FRIENDSHIP/ FOUND-FAMILY REPRESENTATION
-Shatter Me Series- Tahereh Mafi
-The Diviners Series-Libba Bray
-The Folk Of The Air Series-Holly Black
-Infinity Son (and the rest of the Infinity Cycle Series)- Adam Silvera
-GRISHAVERSE-Leigh Bardugo
-Artemis Fowl Series-Eoin Colfer
-Airman-Eoin Colfer
-Red, White & Royal Blue- Casey McQuiston
-The Devouring Gray Duology-Christine Lynn Herman
-Vampire Academy & Bloodlines Series-Richelle Mead
-Fallen Series- Lauren Kate
-The Thief Lord-Cornelia Funke
-The Keys To The Kingdom Series-Garth Nix
-The Supernaturalist-Eoin Colfer
-One Last Stop- Casey McQuiston
-I Kissed Shara Wheeler- Casey McQuiston
-I Wish You All The Best-Mason Deaver
-Anne Of Green Gables Series- Lucy M Montgomery
-The Outsiders- S. E. Hinton
-Just One Day & Year & Night-Gayle Forman
-The Midnight Palace- C. R. Zafón
-The Dark We Know-Wen-yi Lee
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