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Book 3 of 2026 (re-read): Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. 5⭐️📚 “Good. Proud. I am scary space monster. You are leaky space blob.” 💀 this book is incredible and the audio was a major enhancement to the print! I can’t wait for the film.
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2026 #projecthailmary #audiobook
Book cover for project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
January 14, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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Book 2 of 2026: Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green. 4⭐️ “We can do and be so much for each other—but only when we see one another in our full humanity, not as statistics or problems, but as people who deserve to be alive in the world.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2026 #johngreen
Book cover of everything is tuberculosis by John Green
January 13, 2026 at 4:59 AM
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Book 1 of 2026: The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl 5). 5⭐️ “Viva La revolución, Carl.” These books just get better and better. What an epic first read of the year!
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2026 #dungeoncrawlercarl #mattdinniman #princessdonut
Book cover of the butchers masquerade by Matt dinniman
January 10, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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Book 60 of 2025: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman. 4.5⭐️📚 “…this slow dissipation, the gradual abandonment of all expectations, a defeat that had killed everything without a battle.” This was brilliant.
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025
Book cover of I who have never known men by Jacqueline Harpman
December 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Book 59 of 2025 (re read): Golden Son by Pierce Brown. 5⭐️ “We will all die and the universe will carry on without care. All that we have is that shout into the wind - how we live. How we go. And how we stand before we fall.” That ending 😅
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #goldenson #graphicaudio
Book cover for golden son by Pierce brown
December 31, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Book 58 of 2025: Animal Farm by George Orwell. 4.25⭐️📚 “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” I read book this in JH but couldn’t really comprehend the themes. How shocking it is to re read today 😳
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #animalfarm #georgeorwell
Book cover of animal farm by George Orwell
December 30, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Book 57 of 2025: Stoner by John Williams. 4⭐️ “You must remember…what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history.”
#booksky #tbr #tbr2025
Book cover of Stoner by John Williams
December 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Book 56 of 2025: Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune. 4.5⭐️ “But I believe the greatest weapon we have at our disposal is our voices. And I am going to use my voice for you, and for me. Hate is loud. We are louder.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #ceruleansea #tjklune
Book cover of somewhere beyond the sea by Tj klune
December 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Book 55 of 2025 (re read): Red Rising by Pierce Brown. 4.75⭐️ “Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.” This series is so incredible. The #GraphicAudio version is epic!
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #redrising #piercebrown
Book cover for red rising by Pierce brown
December 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Book 54 of 2025: The Strength of the Few by James Islington. 5⭐️ “It is unpleasant, but this is the world you and I live in, now. Men must be bought or compelled, rather than relied upon to do the right thing.” That ending was insane
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #hierarchy #fantasy #jamesislington
Book cover for the strength of the few by James islington
December 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Book 53 of 2025: East of Eden by J. Steinbeck. 4.25⭐️ “Timshel…It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #eastofeden #steinbeck #classic
Book cover of east of Eden by John Steinbeck
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Book 52 of 2025: Alchemised by SenLinYu. 3⭐️ “Being alive is not the same as living. I hope someday you'll have a chance to realise the difference.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #alchemised #fantasy
Book cover of Alchemised by senlinyu
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Book 51 of 2025: 107 Days by Kamala Harris. 5⭐️ “It may take a while. But the fight for our country is always worth it. And we will win.” Wow.
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #107Days #KamalaHarris #mustread
Book cover of 107 Days by Kamala Harris
November 1, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Book 50 of 2025: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. 2.75⭐️ “‘[Fear] is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.’”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025
Book cover of the haunting of hill house by Shirley Jackson
October 29, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Book 49 of 2025: Origin by Dan Brown. 3.75⭐️ “...that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion...that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them“ #booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #origin #danbrown
Book cover of origin by Dan brown
October 23, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Book 48 of 2025: The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez. 4.25⭐️ “…that though today might seem special, there would be a tomorrow, and a day after that; that the best-case scenario of a well-spent life was the slow and steady unraveling of the heart’s knot”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #simonjimenez
Book cover of the vanished birds by Simon Jimenez
October 11, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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BlackRock will buy AES, one of the largest publicly traded utility companies in the U.S.

AES is a major power provider for Big Tech companies building out data centers.

Yes: while these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.
October 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Book 47 of 2025: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid. 5⭐️📚 “Happiness is so hard to come by. I don't understand why anyone would begrudge anyone else for managing to find some of it.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #atmosphere #taylorjenkinsreid
Book cover of Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
September 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Book 46 of 2025: Katabasis by R.F. Kuang. 4.75⭐️ “…this numbness? It wasn’t that Alice didn’t* care, it was that she had cared so much, and a thread had snapped. Some fundamental capacity was broken.” Real. This was excellent!
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #katabasis #rfkuang (edited for a typo)
Book cover for Katabasis by RF Kuang
September 22, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Book 45 of 2025: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab. 4⭐️📚 “‘Is it life,’ he counters, ‘if there is never death to balance it? Or is its brevity what makes it beautiful?’”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #vampires #buryourbonesinthemidnightsoil #veschwab
Book cover of bury our bones in the midnight soil by VE Schwab
September 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Book 44 of 2025: The Devils by Joe Abercrombie. 4⭐️📚 “He had never had much patience for religion. What was it, really, but superstition with money?” I thoroughly enjoyed this one!
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #thedevils #joeabercrombie
Book cover of the devils by Joe Abercrombie
September 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Book 43 of 2025: Normal People by Sally Rooney. 3.75⭐️📚 “Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #normalpeople #sallyrooney
Book cover of normal people by sally rooney
August 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Book 42 of 2025: The Hike by Drew Magary. 3.25⭐️ “The world changes, but people act the way people always do.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #thehike
Book cover of The Hike by Drew Magary
August 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Book 41 of 2025: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin. 3.75⭐️ “For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #theFifthSeason
Book cover of the fifth season by NK Jemisin
August 17, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Book 40 of 2025: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. 3.75⭐️ “If definitive proof emerges that we’re living in a simulation, the correct response to that news will be: So what. A life lived in a simulation is still a life.”
#booksky #booktok #tbr #tbr2025 #scifi #seaoftranquility
Book cover of sea of tranquility by Emily St. John mandel
August 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM