Firestarter by Stephen King. Not much of a Stephen King fan, and something about the way an Asian person was described within the first few pages of the book convinced me Firestarter was going to be a highlight reel of everything I already didn’t enjoy in the few books of his I’d managed to finish up until that point.

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

…aaaaand at the opposite end of the literary spectrum:

Vicious by VE Schwab (the only one of this author’s books I actually enjoyed)

Not particularly religious, but I loved the depiction of God in The Sword and the Stone section

“a scaffolding of the heart” is such a lovely way to describe books like these

I remember reading Watership Down twice in a row when I was little, and loving it even more the second time around. Read it a few more times when I was older, and now recommend it to almost everyone I meet…I love the thought he put into the rabbits’ myths and language!

The Amulet of Samarkand (Book 1 in the Bartimaeus Trilogy) by Jonathan Stroud

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

Been wanting to reread them recently as an adult! Excited to see how my perception of the story/characters has changed…

For me it’s the books I haven’t finished and most likely won’t any time soon…so probably Red Rising.

The Murderbot Diaries! Read the first one a while back and then read the rest of the series over the course of a week this year…what an amazingly relatable character :`)

Also The Death of Vivek Oji. Wish I hadn’t read it on a train because multiple strangers saw me weeping but ah well…

I read it for my senior thesis in highschool! I’d love to reread it now that I’m an adult…

My favourites have already been mentioned (The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate by Ted Chiang, This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone), but The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz was interesting!

I love her Murderbot series so much, been wondering if I should try her Raksura books?

Sky, specifically the palace, in NK Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms.

the world of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant.

the castle in Howl’s Moving Castle!

so many different locations in the second half of The Neverending Story.

I’d read that list lol couldn’t make it past the first chapter…