a select list of books i own. mostly on here for cross-checking with the to-read books.
fiction
- a darker shade of magic
- a doll’s house
- all the ugly and wonderful things
- america is in the heart
- a perfect vintage
- a tale for the time being
- battle royale
- carol
- china dolls
- cold new climate
- dirty love
- dogeaters
- fangirl
- flowers in the attic
- good omens
- grotesque
- how to stop time
- i am a cat
- innocence
- innocents
- inside madeleine
- interpreter of maladies
- kim jiyoung born 1982
- lolita
- madonna in a fur coat
- may day eve and other stories
- mexican gothic
- milk fed
- murder your employer
- my dark vanessa
- my education
- mythology (edith hamilton)
- my year of meats
- naomi
- one day
- patrick melrose 1-2
- peony in love
- savaging the dark
- semi-sweet
- someone
- someone who will love you in all your damaged glory
- strong female character
- tampa
- the age of umbrage
- the deep end of the sea
- the divine comedy
- the fetishist
- the goldfinch
- the list
- the majesties
- the memory police
- the most precious substance on earth
- the night circus
- the notebook
- the reader
- the rehearsal
- the suicide shop
- the third love
- the virgins
- the virgin suicides
- the well of loneliness
- the woman warrior
- unaccustomed earth
- vintage veronica
- wednesday’s child
- what’s not to love?
- you deserve nothing
- you made a fool of death with your beauty
classics/-adjacent
- animal farm
- dracula
- emma
- lady chatterley’s lover
- oliver twist
- persuasion
- pride & prejudice
- songs of innocence and experience
- that glimpse of truth
- the bell jar
- the complete grimm’s fairy tales
- the lover
- the norton anthology of english literature
- the odyssey
- the picture of dorian gray
- the prelude 1799, 1805, 1850
- the sun also rises
nonfiction
- 25000 years of erotic freedom
- atomic habits
- attached
- bird by bird
- bullshit jobs
- essays in idleness and hojoki
- falling leaves
- finish
- friend or faux
- getting things done: the art of stress-free productivity
- how to be alone
- how to begin
- how to be parisian wherever you are
- how to date men when you hate men
- how to fail at almost everything and still win big
- how to stand up to a dictator
- i’m glad my mom died
- kinky history
- kokology
- lessons from dad
- london labor and the london poor
- modern romance
- monsters: a fan’s dilemma
- mother noise
- ninety-nine glimpses of princess margaret
- of love and other lemons
- on writing
- parallel lives
- plato’s symposium
- reflections on exile
- the art of gathering: how we meet and why it matters
- the big book of girl stuff
- the curated closet
- the diary of a bookseller
- the invention of murder
- the life-changing magic of tidying up
- the lonely hunter
- the number devil
- the pillow book
- tiny love stories
- victorian childhood
- we are never meeting in real life
- yes please
MG/YA
- an urgent message of wowness
- chinese cinderella
- diary of a wimpy kid 1
- diary of a wimpy kid 2: rodrick rules
- diary of a wimpy kid 3: the last straw
- diary of a wimpy kid 4: dog days
- diary of a wimpy kid 5: the ugly truth
- diary of a wimpy kid 6: cabin fever
- diary of a wimpy kid 7: the third wheel
- ghostgirl
- ghostgirl homecoming
- ghostgirl lovesick
- molly moon, micky minus, and the mind machine
- my almost epic summer
- now and zen
- princess academy
- project cain
- rebel
- reboot
- someday angeline
- the children of the king
- the incorrigible children of ashton place 1: the mysterious howling
- the incorrigible children of ashton place 2: the hidden gallery
- the slightly true story of cedar b hartley
- the witches
korean
- 나는 고양이 스토커
- 나는 나로 살기로 했다
- 별의 목소리
- 시마코 와 토모에
- 연애혁명
- 책 먹는 여우
sequential art
manga
- a side character’s love story 1-5 (digital)
- granny mischief 1
- granny mischief 2
- granny mischief 3
- kapibarasan volume 1
- kapibarasan volume 2
- leave it to pet
- my androgynous boyfriend vols 1-3 (digital)
- my lesbian experience with loneliness
- my solo exchange diary 1
- my solo exchange diary 2
- our precious conversations vols 1-7 (digital)
- sweat & soap 1
- sweat & soap 2
- sweat and soap 1-10 (digital)
- the way of the househusband 1
- until i love myself: the jouney of a nonbinary manga artist
western comics
- are you my mother
- big beautiful female theory
- but you have friends
- calvin and hobbes
- calvin and hobbes: it’s a magical world
- calvin and hobbes: lazy sunday book
- calvin and hobbes: the authoritative calvin and hobbes
- calvin and hobbes: the days are just packed
- calvin and hobbes: there’s treasure everywhere
- calvin and hobbes: the revenge of the baby-sat
- calvin and hobbes: weirdos from another planet
- dancing at the pity party
- dear brother
- diana: a graphic memoir
- gender queer
- himawari house
- how to love
- i was their american dream
- kid gloves
- messy roots
- my dirty dumb eyes
- sunday in the park with boys
- the art of the graphic memoir
- the secret to superhuman strength
- wrinkles
- zits: scrapbook 1
art books/photo books/fannish
- 100 masters of bishojo painting
- all about girls’ generation: paradise in phuket
- bart simpson’s guide to life
- boyfriend 1st photobook
- illustration file 2023
- journal 3
- the art of ducktales
- the art of encanto
- the art of mutant mayhem
- 편안하고 사랑스럽고 그래