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65 books

Books to ruin your week

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
All the Light We Cannot See
The Heart's Invisible Furies
The Goldfinch
Normal People
The Likeness
Special Topics in Calamity Physics

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3 books

Did Not Finish

Mistborn: The Final Empire
Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
My Brilliant Friend

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62 books

Fuck, marry, kill characters

Tipping the Velvet
Trainspotting
Hopscotch
A Separate Peace
2666
Wolf Hall
The Complete Maus

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53 books

Memoirs I wish I'd written (but not lived)

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Running With Scissors
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson
Crying in H Mart
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

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8 books

Nonfiction that slaps

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Poverty, by America
Homesick for Another World
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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68 books

Oh, grow up (coming-of-age)

The God of Small Things
The Joy Luck Club
Rabbit, Run
Poor Things
The Hours
Being and Nothingness
The Thirteenth Tale

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131 books

Owned

Adiós, hasta mañana
Truth in Advertising
The Teller of Small Fortunes
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Intermezzo
A Court of Mist and Fury
Project Hail Mary

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63 books

Poetic prose at its profoundest (profoundest?)

The Binding
Swing Time
The Friend
A Wizard of Earthsea
My Name Is Red
Tropic of Cancer
Tender Is the Flesh