To Read List

The Official List of books I'm currently reading and intend to read. Suggestions are welcome!

Currently Reading

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Boundaries of Her Body by Debran Rowland
Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Stack

Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Record of the Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
The Dream Gatherer by Kristen Britain
Spelunking Through Hell by Seanan McGuire
Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire
Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi
The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
Paula by Isabel Allende
Baptism of Fire by Andzrej Sapkowski
One Dance With a Duke by Tessa Dare
The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Mirrorsight by Kristen Britain
Flatland by Edwin A Abbott
The City We Became by NK Jemisin
The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Penric's Travels by Lois McMaster Bujold
In the Cities of Coin and Spice by Catherynne M Valente
The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

The List

Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
Mandelbrot the Magnificent by Liz Ziemska
The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K LeGuin
Technically Wrong by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti
Persepolis Rising by James SA Corey
Tiamat's Wrath by James SA Corey
Spook by Mary Roach
Grunt by Mary Roach
Gulp by Mary Roach
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
Geisha, A Life by Mineko Iwasaki

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