Fiction
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“They say that when I was born, all the wild geese flew down from the sky, and the fish sank beneath the waves, having forgotten how to swim. Even the lotus flowers in out gardens quivered and turned their heads away, so ashamed they were of their own diminished allure in my presence.” I thoroughly
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The stories that are familiar will always be our favorites. This was another HRCYED challenge pick for me as it was a 2025 Booktube award winner (top 3). I will be honest and say I probably would not have picked this title up without the nudge of the challenge but I’m so glad I did!
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A home is never finished, it’s only saved from decay. There are two kinds of people in this world: those who live with shame, and those who die from it. It’s 1915 and Adelaide Henry has decided to leave her parents’ farm in southern California and head north, to claim a homestead of 100 acres,
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When X—an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter—falls dead in her office, her widow, CM, wild with grief and refusing everyone’s good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Pulsing with suspense and intellect while blending nonfiction and fiction, Biography of X is a roaring epic that plumbs the depths
The Emporium of Forgotten Threads 