Definitely Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. My best friend and I absolutely love the 2005 film and I have been wanting to read the book for years at this point. I’m determined to get this super pretty OwlCrate edition because look at the purple oh my goodness it’s stunning, so I keep putting it off until I have a copy of this edition. Makes total sense, I know.

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas. I enjoyed ACOTAR but when I read ACOMAF, oh my god, I loved it so much. Something about this sequel just changed my entire viewpoint on the series and I knew I was hooked. And when Mor got introduced? I was an absolute goner. This is absolutely one of my favorite books of all time and definitely one of my favorite sequels!

Damned by Chuck Palahniuk. I know I’ve talked before about how this book traumatized me when I was younger and it’s the absolute truth. It made me panic about my own mortality and I was so messed up from it for quite a long time. I never even read the sequel because I didn’t want to think about dying all over again. I’ve considered going back to this and reading the sequel now that I’m older, because I’ve gone through cancer and spine surgery and made it out mostly okay, but I don’t know if I’m mentally stable enough at 30 years old to be traumatized all over again!

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang. If you’ve read and enjoyed it, then you get it. It’s such a fantastic book and I could probably rant forever about it because the writing was incredible, the characters were so well-written and I loved how much I hated June, and I feel like it was great commentary on the publishing industry and how unbalanced it really is as a whole. Plus there’s now the opportunity to ask someone if they’ve read Yellowface or to tell them they’re in their Juniper Song era and I love that.

Monstress by Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda. I’ve wanted to read this series for years but for some reason, I still haven’t picked it up. The art style is stunning and the storyline sounds like something I’d enjoy so I really don’t know why I haven’t read it yet!

Alejandra’s husband from The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro. Matthew was literally the worst and I didn’t even want to mention his name because he was that awful. My heart was constantly breaking every single time she tried to communicate with him, and as the book went on you find out that he’s always been like this and he is the worst, in case I didn’t say that already.

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. I haven’t read this absolute beast of a book (I will eventually) but with the amount of people that still talk about it four years after release, it leads me to believe that it’s not only good, it’s surely a classic at this point. This is definitely a book I think of when I’m thinking of fantasy books so I think it’s safe to say it’s a classic fantasy book now.

Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes. I absolutely loved this spooky space book, oh my god. I got to be on a blog tour for it last year and I’m so glad I had the opportunity because it introduced me to an author that I’m now considering an auto-buy author because her first book was just that good to me. If you’re a fan of space and horror, then you’ll like this book! 

If you’re new here, hi, I collect different editions of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab. My collection is up to I believe 19 copies currently and it’s still growing! I absolutely love all of the beautiful covers and foreign editions, and I even did a blog post with a collection of all of the editions (or as many as I could find, rather, because I probably missed a lot I don’t know about!) and I even shared some photos of my collection along because I love talking about them.

All of them? I’m not sure what book to pick for this prompt, honestly. I feel like all of the books I read are filled with wonderful characters and they’re all unique and original in their own ways. 

It’s a toss-up between Animal Crossing: New Horizons and both The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and the sequel, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

 I had never played an Animal Crossing game (that I can remember) prior to New Horizons, but just like everyone else, I played this during the quarantine in 2020 and it basically helped me stay sane during that time period. I have so many hours in that game and it’s still one I can go back to occasionally and enjoy because it’s just so calming and cute. It also got me into the more cozy farming games so I love that I got introduced to a new genre and new games because of ACNH! 

Both Legend of Zelda games are also special for two fairly big reasons. I played Breath of the Wild while going through chemotherapy in 2017\2018 and it was a huge source of happiness during a time where I was really struggling both physically and mentally. Both my husband and I played it together and it was so helpful to have something to focus on and keep me from just being a potato in between appointments and treatments. And now, Tears of the Kingdom came out right before my spine surgery so I’ve been playing it throughout my recovery process and it has been such a beautiful journey so far. It feels like these two games have been there for me during two really hard times in my life and I’m so happy that I have them to replay and remember.

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