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I was tagged by my beloved @thehauntedspiderslibrary to talk about my worst and best reads of 2025. Last year I’ve managed to read 168 books so it was a good year (only when it comes to reading but ok well XD)

January
• Nosferatu A Photonovel ★★★★☆
• The Night House ★★★☆☆
February
• The Vengeful Dead ★★★★★
• The Real Amityville Horror ★★★☆☆
March
• The Haunting of Blackwood House ★★★★★
• The Amityville Horror ★☆☆☆☆☆
April
• Dead Inside ★★★★★
• Butcher and Blackbird ★★☆☆☆
May
• The Lamb ★★★★★
• The Hotel ★★★☆☆
June
• Nestlings ★★★★★
• We Used to Live Here ★★☆☆☆
July
• Thirst ★★★★★
• The Lighthouse Witches ★☆☆☆☆
• The Silent Companions ★☆☆☆☆
August
• A Long Time Dead ★★★★★
• The Madness ★★★★☆
• The Bewitching of Aveline Jones ★★☆☆☆
September
• The Haar ★★★★★
• The Navajo Nightmare ★★★☆☆
October
• The Perfect Victim ★★★★★
• Bloom ★★★★☆
• Hard Luck Jenny ★☆☆☆☆
• Human Sacrifices ★★☆☆☆
November
• Something in the Walls ★★★★★
• The Exorcist ★★★★★
• A Girl Walks Into the Forest ★★★★☆
• Baby Teeth ★★★☆☆
December
• Dead of Winter ★★★☆☆
• Dear Hannah ★★☆☆☆

As always I will be tagging some of you but feel free to join in on the fun regardless 🥀🪦♥️

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𝕾𝖈𝖆𝖛𝖊𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖗 𝕳𝖚𝖓𝖙

The lovely @esmayrosalyne and @littleraereads tagged me in this fun challenge so I thought I'd give it a go. It was a lot harder than I thought it would be?!

🥀 ONE WORD TITLE
Voidwalker by @authorsamaclean

🥀 NAME IN THE TITLE
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by @veschwab

🥀 ANIMAL IN THE TITLE
Songbird of The Sorrows by @braideeottobooks

🥀 COLOUR IN THE TITLE
Silvercloak by @laurasteven

🥀 NUMBER IN THE TITLE
One Dark Window by @rmgillig

I've tagged a few pals to give this a go (if you fancy it!) but if you're not tagged and want to get involved, please do.

PS. This song is traumatising but it's been on a loop in my head since last Friday. Enjoy.

#bookstack #challenge #booklover #bookrecs #booksbooksbooks

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4 Books I Want To Live In🥀

👠Anna Karenina - Imperial Russia
This book is my absolute favourite... maybe it wouldn't be the perfect era to be a woman but I would love for at least a day to enjoy life in Imperial Russia.

🍎Twilight Saga - Forks, Washington
My teenage vampire loving heart has NEVER grown up! On my bucketlist for my life I still want to visit the actual film sites...

🇮🇪Normal People - Dublin, Ireland
I feel like there's no need to explain why I'd love to live in Dublin. This is my real life goal to live there oneday in a cottage.

🇪🇸The Shadow Of The Wind - Barcelona, Spain
The descriptions of the architecture in this book have made me fall inlove with the city! And who wouldn't want to live in Spain?!

🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀

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This book is my heart 🥀

"If you can still hear me wherever you are, my love, my tormentor, hear this: It was never my intention to murder you. Not in the beginning, anyway."

In my entire life... I've never read a book more lyrically, poetically and beautifully written.

There will be books I get rid of, re-purchase etc... but this book will NEVER be leaving my collection!

🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀

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"I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul." - Bram Stoker🥀

🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀

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Dracula Retellings🥀🧛🏻🩸♥️

🥀the historian
🥀the deathless girls
🥀dowry of blood
🥀dracula the undead
🥀carmilla
🥀madness
🥀lucy undying
🥀education in malice

🩸 What's your favourite vampire read?

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𝔅𝔬𝔬𝔨 𝔖𝔱𝔞𝔠𝔨

Creating a Jenga-style book stack from three-word-titled books was quite a fun challenge, and I’m pretty surprised by how many of them I actually own.

Thank you, my beloved @the.ghost_reader, for tagging me! As always, I’ve decided to tag some book besties as well ♥️

Do you have a favourite book with this type of title? Personally, I can’t decide since most of them are just sooo good.
I do, however, have a most hated one:
- The Amityville Horror
(I will try to post a review about it soon)

#thisdeliciousdeath #thisdeliciousdeathbook #shesalwayshungry #thenighthouse #paperbacksfromhell #blessyourheart #thenightcircus #edgarallanpoe #domstuszeptów #amityvillehorror #thefolcroftghosts #darcycoates #darcycoatesbooks #walkamongus #vampirebooks #twilight #midnightsun

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♥️ 𝕻𝖎𝖓𝖐 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕽𝖊𝖉 🩷

In honour of tomorrow being Valentine's Day, I wanted to make a pink stack or flatlay and... I have about 4 pink books. So pink & red (and black) it is.

BUT I think these books look stunning together and the covers are so pretty. I'm especially enamoured with the Anatomy cover - dusky pink, red, gothic, and an anatomical heart/dress? Stunning.

I've tagged a few accounts who I'd love to see give this a go, but don't feel obliged, likewise, if you want to get involved - please do!

#valentinesday #valentine #pinkandred #flatlay #bookflatlay #booksbooksbooks #booksta #bookworm #instabook #booksofinstagram #bookchallenge #romance #fantasy #books

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💥 Friday Flatlay - Trilogy Edition 💥

Thanks so much to @e_read_books for the tag

I am ashamed that I have so few completed trilogies on my shelves 😅🤣 I really should start prioritising finishing some series I have already started.

Trilogies Mentioned:
✨️ Once Upon a Broken Heart by @stephanie_garber
✨️ Caraval by @stephanie_garber
✨️ The Folk of the Air by @blackholly
✨️ Modern Faerie Tales by @blackholly
✨️ His Dark Materials by @philippullmanofficial

Tagging a few people, but anyone is welcome to give this a spin

#bookcommunity #booksofinstagram #readerofinstagram #booksbooksbooks #readmorebooks #flatlayfriday #bookish #booknerd #booklover

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✨Kiss, marry, kill tag✨
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Kiss, marry, kill but books - thanks for the tag @amorbidlongingforbooks 💖
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💋Kiss - books I enjoyed but won’t reread
* So far I’m 2 volumes deep into Proust’s In Search for Lost Time and while I’ll 100% read certain passages again sometime, I don’t think I’d ever reread the entire thing
* And then there were none bc what was so interesting about it was not knowing what was going on but now that I know the twist at the end I defo won’t revisit it anytime soon
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🕊️Marry - books I’ve reread multiple times
* The Princess Bride my beloved! Just finished my 7th or so (I lowkey lost count) reread last month
* Faust (and Faust II), tho I only reread my fav scenes
* The Great Gatsby
* Momo (first as a kid ofc and then again at 19 to rly grasp the deeper meanings and critique of our ✨capitalist system✨)
* Marathon Man (I’ve reread it this summer for like the 4th time bc the main character goes to Columbia university n actually knowing all the places mentioned in it enhanced the experience so much)
There’s a lot more bc I enjoy rereading books esp when the moment to reread them somehow fits whatever I’m getting up to
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🔪Kill - books I would literally kill if I could
Probs a lot of the books we had to read in school n not just bc we read them in school or bc of the way they were taught or smth but bc they genuinely sucked assss (Die Marquise von O., Sommerhaus, später, The Tortilla Curtain und wahrscheinlich Der Vorleser auch wenn ich letztere beiden nicht wirklich gelesen hab weil ich die Auszüge allein schon zu kacke fand)
Tbh I don’t think I’ve read a book during my free time of my own volition that I would kill bc I usually know my taste well enough to not get That badly surprised - even the books I disliked (like Cleopatra and Frankenstein or Normal People) I don’t hate with enough fervour to say I’d wanna kill them, they just weren’t for me but they weren’t atrocious, just pretentious imo
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💭what’s a book you hate with a passion?👀

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💚🩷 Wicked Green & Pink Stack 💚🩷

Thanks for the tag @melreadssbooks ! Wicked is one musical I want to see in Broadway before I die. I saw the movie and loved it (much more when I figured the sets are real and not CGI)

Will be tagging a few people, green and pink is such a gorgeous combo 😍

Books featured:
💚 Black Powder War by @naominovik
🩷 Foul Lady Fortune by @thechloegong
💚 Half A Soul by @oliviaatwaterauthor
🩷 Red, White & Royal Blue by @casey.mcquiston
💚 One Dark window by @rmgillig
🩷 Check & Mate by @alihazelwood
💚 A Far Wilder Magic by @allisonhsaft
🩷 Flawless by @authorelsiesilver
💚 The Gilded Ones by @namina.forna

#bookcommunity #wicked #greenandpink #pinkandgreen #readersofinstagram #booksofinstagram #fantasybooks #readmorebooks #bookish #booknerd

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✨️ Top 10 Books of 2024! ✨️

Thanks so much to @melreadssbooks! As always tagging a few people but anyone is welcome to join and share their top 10!

Honestly narrowing it down to 10 books was tough. And I will probably change my mind each time I think about it! 😭 This year was a good one with 95 books read and although the last two months found me in a bit of a slump (reading and general) I am very satisfied with it.

Books featured:
♡ A Forgery of Roses by @jessicaolson123
♡ The Wicked King by @blackholly
♡ The Ballad of Never After by @stephanie_garber
♡ Fable by @adrienneyoungbooks
♡ Legendborn by @tracydeonn
♡ Heartless by @marissameyerauthor
♡ If We Were Villians by @sureasmel
♡ Half a Soul by @oliviaatwaterauthor
♡ Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by @heather_fawcett
♡ A Far Wilder Magic by @allisonhsaft

#top10books #top10booksof2024 #favoritebooks #bookcommunity #booksofinstagram #readersofinstagram #booksbooksbooks #readmorebooks #fantasybooks #toptenbooks

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