Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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finalized my reading for the year! hope you end up picking up one of these titles :)

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Books Mentioned:
Talkative Man by R.K. Narayan:
goodreads.com/book/show/958028.Talkative_Man?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima:
goodreads.com/book/show/62794.Confessions_of_a_Mask?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_21
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin:
goodreads.com/book/show/13651.The_Dispossessed?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_16
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner:
goodreads.com/book/show/207300960-creation-lake?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=uLgrg6UsnC&rank=1
The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies by Roland Barthes:
goodreads.com/book/show/23062.The_Eiffel_Tower_and_Other_Mythologies?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=RaFHf8alsC&rank=1
Notes on Shapeshifting by Gabi Abrão:
goodreads.com/book/show/60906958-notes-on-shapeshifting?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_22
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney:
goodreads.com/review/show/6797358364
Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino:
goodreads.com/book/show/55922488-cinema-speculation?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_19
Dancing on My Own by Simon Wu:
goodreads.com/book/show/199534683-dancing-on-my-own?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_17
Hampton Heights by Dan Kois:
goodreads.com/book/show/199743722-hampton-heights?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_15
Misrecognition by Madison Newbound:
goodreads.com/book/show/199797748-misrecognition?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_7
The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey by Astrid Dahl:
goodreads.com/book/show/214152353-the-really-dead-wives-of-new-jersey?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_25
Down the Drain by Julia Fox:
goodreads.com/review/show/6561071877
The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya:
goodreads.com/book/show/202102022-the-hypocrite?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightening by Keiran Godard:
goodreads.com/book/show/171732053-i-see-buildings-fall-like-lightning?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_36
Hallelujah Junction by John Adams:
goodreads.com/book/show/4620309-hallelujah-junction?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=8PwuJE3Bt6&rank=1
Vague Predictions and Prophecies by Daisuke Shen:
goodreads.com/book/show/192631225-vague-predictions-prophecies?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=mOGy7BfFmk&rank=1
Women by Chloe Caldwell:
goodreads.com/book/show/200307455-women?ref=nav_sb_ss_2_11
The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter:
goodreads.com/book/show/216522659-the-imagined-life?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_24
Don’t Be a Stranger by Susan Minot:
goodreads.com/book/show/205436030-don-t-be-a-stranger?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_19
Ecstacy by Alex Dimitrov:
goodreads.com/book/show/215805777-ecstasy

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