The Long List

Directly from the Notes app on my phone — every book I want to read gets listed here since 2024. Once I’ve read it, I give it a star rating. No stars yet = still on the TBR. Scroll away!

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Fantasy & Romantasy

ACOTAR ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🧚🏼🌶️🌶️
Fourth wing ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🐉
Rhapsodic (4) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (KU) 🧜🏼‍♀️🌶️
Crescent City (3) SJM ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🧚🏼📲
Throne of Glass (8) SJM ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🧚🏼🌎
Serpent and the wings of night (2) Carissa broadbent (KU) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🧛🏻
Quicksilver (2+) Callie hart ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (KU) 🧚🏼
Trial of the Sun Queen (4) Nisha J Tuli (KU) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🎲
Spark of the everflame series (4) Penn Cole (KU) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🧚🏼🌎
Blood and Steel (4) – Legends of Thezmarr – Helen Scheurerer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🥷🏼
Iron & Embers – Ashes of Thezmarr – Helen Scheurerer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🥷🏼
One Dark Window (2) Rachel Gillig ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🌎
Metal slinger Rachel Schneider ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (KU) 🌪️
Zodiac academy (12 books) ⭐️⭐️ 🃏
Caraval (4) Stephanie Garber ⭐️⭐️⭐️
When The Moon Hatched (2) Sarah A. Parker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🐉🌎
Daughter of No Worlds (3) Carissa Broadbent (KU) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Shield of Sparrows Devney Perry ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🌎
Fear the Flames (2) Olivia rose darling ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🐉
The Knight and The Moth (2+) Rachel Gillig ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🌎🃏
A Fate Inked in Blood (2) Danielle L Jensen ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🌎🧜🏼‍♀️
On Wings of Blood (3) Briar Boleyn ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📚🧛🏻🐉
Dire Bound (3) Sable Sorensen (KU) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🐺
From Blood and Ash (7) Jennifer Armentrout ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (DNF)
Empire of Flames and Thorns (5) Marion Blackwood (KU) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🐉
The Wolf King (2+) Laura Palphreyman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🐺
The Bridge Kingdom (2) Danielle L Jensen ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🌎🌪️
Wild Reverence Rebecca Ross ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Road of Bones (3 of 5) Demi Winters
Rain of Shadows and Endings (4) Melissa K Roehrich (KU) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (DNF)
Rose in Chains (2) Julie Soto
Gild (6) Raven Kennedy (KU) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🃏🧜🏼‍♀️
The Silversmith LJ Claren ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Of Blades and Wings (3) Eliza Raine (KU) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Cruel Prince Holly Black
We Who Will Die Stacia Stark ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🎲
Never Keep (4) Caroline Peckham ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🥷🏼🌎
The Ever King series (3 of 6) LJ Andrews ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🏴‍☠️
Because I Killed Him Edith Birde ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🤖
Throne of the Fallen Kerri Manascalco
A Requiem for Fallen Stars Hazel Wilkes
Hollow Caroline Peckham Susanne Valenti
Where Oceans Burn (2) Casey Bond
A Fire in the Sky Sophie Jordan
The Will of the Many (3) James Islington
The Ascended (2) Bree Grenwich and Parker Lennox
Web of Vows and Vengeance (3) Aria Ashbrook ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A Tongue so Sweet and Deadly (4) Sophia St. Germain
Of Flames and Fallacies
Arcana Academy (2) Elise Kova
King of Scars (Grishaverse) Leigh Bardugo
Enigma – Ru Nyx (KU)
Spark the Flames Ivy Asher
Pestilence Laura Thalassa
Land of Wolves (2) Invi Wright ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🐺
Blood and Betrayals (KU)
The Poison Daughter ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Red Queen (5) Victoria Aveyard
The Wolf and the Crown of Blood Elizabeth May
Shadow and Bone (3) Leigh Bardugo
The Rose Bargain
The divine and the cursed (5) JE Reed (KU)
To steal a bride Daniela A Mera
The beasts we bury DL Taylor
The Dark Mirror Samantha Shannon
Divine Rivals (2) Rebecca Ross
Lightlark (4) Alex Aster
Bewitched (3) Laura Thalassa (KU)
The moonlight healers Elizabeth Becker
Shatter me Tahereh Mafi
The blackened blade
To Touch a Silent Fury RA Sandpiper
Kingdom of Shadows and Wings (4) Nina Frost (KU)
Promised in Fire (3) Jasmine Walt
Book of Azrael Amber V Nicole
The Scars Within
Heavenly bodies Imani Erriu
Dark Fever Karen Marie Moning
Psycho shifters Jasmine Mas
Avalon Tower (3) CN Crawford (KU)
These Wicked Lies Miranda Joy
Daggermouth HM Wolfe
Of Wings and Briars Elayna Gallea
The Everlasting Alix E. Harrow
Six of Crows (2) Leigh Bardugo
Worthy of Fate AN Caudle
Wish Sara Flanagan (KU)
A Dance of Lies Brittney Arena
Between Life & Death Jaclyn Kot
Powerless Lauren Roberts
City of gods and monsters
The Protector Guild (demon hunters)
A Wrecking of Salt and Fire LK Condos
Glass and Bone Celaena Cuico
The hero of ages Brandon Sanderson
Blood Orange Karina Halle
A darker shade of magic VE Schwab
White Horse Black Nights Evie Marceau
A dawn of onyx
Inked in ashes
Shadow in the Ember Jennifer L Armentrout
Queen of Roses Briar Boleyn
House of Bane and Blood (2) Alexis L Menard
Burn For Me (3) Ilona Andrews
Wolves of Summer Eva Chase
Kiss of the Black Flame Helen Scheuerer
Silver Wings Golden Games Evie Marceau
Riftborne (2) Grenwich & Lennox
Amid Clouds and bones Ella Fields
A Dance of Fates Eevy A
A Promise of Fire (3) Amanda Bouchet
The Umbra King Jamie Applegate Hunter
Nector of the Wicked (2) Ella Fields
Bury our bones in the midnight soil VE Schwab
Court of Shadows CN Crawford
Our Vicious Oaths NE Davenport
House of beating wings Olivia Wildenstein
Blood over Bright Haven MI Wang
These Hollow Vows (2) Lexi Ryan
In the Veins of the Drowning (2) Kalie Cassidy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Conform Ariel Sullivan
Marked by Masks and Secrets (2) Maggie Sunseri 🧛🏼‍♂️
Touch of Gold and Madness KL Devore
King of Battle and Blood by Scarlett St. Clair
Kingdom of the Wicked (3) Kerri Maniscalco
Timeborne Sara Samuels
The Veiled Kingdom Holly Renee
A Kingdom of Stars and Shadows Holly Renee
Eternal Reign (7) Caroline Peckham
Kissed by the Gods Caty Rogan
Frost (2) CN Crawford (KU)
Court of Ravens and Ruin Eliza Raine
Flame & Sparrow (2) SM Gaither
Stalked by Seduction and Shadows (2) Maggie Sunseri
A Forbidden Alchemy Stacey McEwan

Romance

Elsie Silver Chestnut Springs series (flawless, heartless, powerless, reckless, hopeless) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Off campus series Elle Kennedy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Magnolia Parks
Emily Henry
Abby Jimenez summer trilogy
Ugly love
The things we leave unfinished
The idea of you
Love story Emily Henry
Emerald lake Elsie Silver
Daisy Jones and the Six
The unselected journals of Emma Lion

Mystery

Daisy Darker
The Butcher and the Blackbird
Flicker in the Dark
Broken Country

When you need a good cry

Theo of Golden

Classics

Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen
Emma — Jane Austen
Persuasion — Jane Austen
Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë
Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
Dracula — Bram Stoker
The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde
1984 — George Orwell
Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
The Art of War — Sun Tzu
Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
The Odyssey — Homer
The Iliad — Homer
The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers — Alexandre Dumas
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle (started)
The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway
A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens
The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde
Walden — Henry David Thoreau
The Republic — Plato
Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Little Women — Louisa May Alcott
Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë
Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee
The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald