my bookshelf

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reading was my first love honestly like the first form of media that i really became obsessed with. i dont read as much as i did when i was younger but im trying to find time to get back in the groove.

here you will find some of the books ive read (too tedious to add everything, thats for goodreads), most of which i really like some i just wanted to include. for new reads ill update this tho fs. hover for a review/blurb about each title. they are categorized by topic.

current read: the siren of titans - kurt vonnegut, drawing on the right side of the brain

books read 2025: 2

goated

these are my fav books/must reads

1984

1984 - george orwell

1949   ★★★★★

my fav book ever it literally is real life. about living under an authoritarian hyper surveillance state.

the kite runner

the kite runner - khaled hosseini

2003   ★★★★★

beautiful and sad.

mother night

mother night - kurt vonnegut

1962   ★★★★★

love vonnegut. a historical fiction about an alleged nazi propogandist.

tcitr

the catcher in the rye - jd salinger

1951   ★★★★★

classic, about being an angsty teen

Book 5

the stranger - albert camus

1946   ★★★★★

on being an outcast

Book 5

thanks to my mother - schoschana rabinovici

1994   ★★★★★

very excellent holocaust autobiography. the kind of book you cant put down and very easy read, one of my first fav books

Book 5

twilight

2005   ★★★★★

idgaf i love this series. very much a classic i love vampires and reading this growing up

book covver

the perks of being a wallflower - stephen chobosky

2005   ★★★★★

7th grade CLASSIC made me love reading even more

the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime - mark haddon

2003   ★★★★★

classic

classics

Book 5

the sun also rises - ernest hemingway

1926  

read this book so long ago i forgot why i love it, but i remeber liking the writing style and remember the characters vividly. about a veteran in spain in love w a thot

Book 5

fahrenheit 451

1953  

dystopian

book covver

things fall apart - chinua achebe

1958   ★★★★★

one of those books that further radicalizes you

book covver

slaughterhouse 5 - kurt vonnegut

1969  

wacky story about man falling through time

book covver

animal farm - george owell

1945   ★★★★★

technically listned to it as an audiobook but that counts right, classic

book covver

the great gatsby - f scott fitzgerald

1925  

had to read this for class but fw it heavy, wrote a fire essay about it too

to kill a mockingbird - harper lee

1960   ★★★★☆

read in 9th grade for class, liked it

the absolutely true diary of a part-time indian - sherman alexie

2007   ★★★★☆

book covver

the alchemist

2005   ★★★☆☆

ngl this book is sooo overrated to me

autobiographies

a long way gone - ishmael beah

2007  

about a child soilder

maus - art spiegelman

1986   ★★★★★

i adore this book, a must read comic about surviving the holocaust

in my hands - irene gut opdyke

1999   ★★★★★

first read this in third grade, my first favorite book ever. holocaust autobio

night - ellie wisel

1956  

very beautiful book about surviving the holocaust, short

persepolis

2000  

i dont think i ever got to part two but i need to. about a woman in iran during the islamic revolution

anne frank

1929  

classic, i got to go to the place where she hid in amsterdam and it was so surreal

non fiction

book covver

the vignelli canon - massimo vignelli

2010  

my fav designer, nice intro to design book i think is a good starting point

book covver

grid system in graphic - josef muller brockman

1981  

the fucking goat of graphic design, great design resource for when youre learning

book covver

surrealism and painting - andre breton

1928  

the founder of surrealism (andre breton) wrote a book about the art movement

young adult

book covver

its kind of a funny story - ned vizzini

2006  

about a teen who goes to mental ward, eerie when you consider how the author died.

book covver

the fault in our stars - john green

2012  

modern classic even tho basic. i love john green as a person tbh ive read damn near every book. a book about teens in love w cancer

book covver

looking for alaska - john green

2005  

my fav john green book. about teen who goes to a boarding school

book covver

harry potter - jk rowling

1997  

classic series, my fav out the series was always the goblet of fire #cedricLover

book covver

world war z - max brooks

2006  

the world needs more zombie books. set up as an interviewer asking questions to diff people during the aftermath of the zombie war.

book covver

vampire academy -richelle mead

2007  

big fan of this series tbh s/o vampires

dystopian

matched

2010  

cute dystopian trilogy

the hunger games - suzanne collins

2008  

honetsly the best book is the first, same w the movies. i liked this series a lot tho as a kid

the giver - lois lowry

1993  

one of the first books i remember reading in my 3rd grade reading group.