i'm writing this here because it means i can CATEGORISE THINGS instead of lumping everything into a storygraph i don't use
On The Shelf:
- More Bugs (Em Reed)
- Titus Groan (Mervyn Peake)
- I cannot be good until you say it (Sanah Ahsan) [poetry]
- Spring Snow (Yukio Mishima)
- Earthsea: The First Four Books (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- He Who Drowned The World (Shelley Parker-Chan)
- I Want That Twink OBLITERATED! (various) [short stories]
- Hallelujah Now (Terence Davies)
- The City and the City (China Mieville)
- My Struggle 1 (Karl Ove Knausgaard)
- Butter (Asako Yuzuki)
- The Age of Doubt (Pak Kyongni)
To Buy or Borrow:
- Rivers of London (Ben Aaronovitch)
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky, TL: Michael Katz)
- Absalom, Absalom! (Wiliam Faulkner) <- check the lit thread to see if there's a more suitable starter Faulkner
- River of Teeth (Sara Gailey)
- Literally just, Dune? I've not read Dune? (Frank Herbert)
- If I Were Erol (Kaan K) [poetry]
- Beauty Is A Wound (Eka Kurniawan)
- The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa)
- A Memory Called Empire (Arkady Martine)
- Dinosaurs On Other Planets (Danielle McLaughlin) [short stories]
- In The Miso Soup (Ryu Murakami) <- or other Murakamis
- Between Two Fires (Christopher Buehlman)
- Rakesfall (Vajra Chandrasekera) (24/04/2025)
- A/S/L (Jeanne Thornton)
- Stag Dance (Torrey Peters)
- Trauma Plot (Jamie Hood)
- Realistic Fiction (Anton Solomonik)
- Worthy of the Event: An Essay (Vivian Blaxell)
- Authority (Andrea Long Chu)
- Unsex Me Here (Aurora Mattia)
- 2 Trans 2 Furious (Tuck Woodstock, Niko Stratis)
- Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity (Lee Mandelo)
It's Not Out Here Yet (In Paperback, Anyway):
Chinese Poetry :
- Du Fu: A Life In Poetry (David Young)
- The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry: From Ancient to Contemporary, The Full 3000-Year Tradition (Tony Barnstone, Chou Ping)
- Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (Eliot Weinberger)
- The Lantern and the Night Moths: Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets in Translation (Yilin Wang)
Manga/Comics:
- MADK (Suzuri Ryo)
- Sleeping Dead (Asada Nemui) <- I should read every Nemui.
- Mitsuya Sensei no Keikakuteki na Edzuke (Matsumoto Ayaka)
- The Metalhead Next Door (Mamita)
- The Popular Mangaka and the Depressed Mangaka (Eno Sumi)
- Land of the Lustrous (Haruko Ichikawa)