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Giving the Devil His Due by Rebecca Brewer
The Persephone Book of Short Stories by E.M. Delafield, Penelope Fitzgerald, Mollie Panter-Downes, Helen R. Hull, Frances Towers, Irène Némirovsky, Susan Glaspell, Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Pauline Smith, Dorothy Whipple, Diana Gardner, Norah Hoult, Diana Athill, Penelope Mortimer, Phyllis Bentley, Georgina Hammick, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Berridge, Kay Boyle, Malachi Whitaker, Shirley Jackson, Katherine Mansfield, Elizabeth Spencer, Betty Miller, Margaret Bonham, Angelica Gibbs
A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
Dracula by Bram Stoker

Mainly reads fiction books that are adventurous, emotional, and mysterious.

Typically chooses medium-paced books that are <300 pages long.

Read recently
Displacement by Kiku Hughes
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
Nimona by ND Stevenson
Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel by Lisa Cron

To-Read Pile
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Stray City by Chelsey Johnson
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Owned books

Challenges

2023 Reading Goal

75 books

61% (46 books)

2023 Pages Goal

25,000 pages

55% (46 books), 13,761 pages

Hosted challenges
Film / Cinema / Movie Lover's Reading Challenge

18 prompts | 13 participants | 30 books added

2023 Sapphic / Lesbian / WLW / Queer Woman Reading Challenge

12 prompts | 9 participants | 19 books added