Heather's bookshelf: read en-US Fri, 04 Jul 2025 11:16:53 -0700 60 Heather's bookshelf: read 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Moon Called (Mercy Thompson, #1)]]> 71811 289 Patricia Briggs 0441013813 Heather 4 4.14 2006 Moon Called (Mercy Thompson, #1)
author: Patricia Briggs
name: Heather
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 2025/07/04
date added: 2025/07/04
shelves: fantasy, urban-fantasy, own-it, favourite-authors
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<![CDATA[Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson, #3)]]> 1412138 I could smell her fear, and it satisfied something deep inside me that had been writhing under her cool, superior gaze. I curled my upper lip so she could get a good look at my sharp teeth. I might only weigh thirty or so pounds in my coyote shape, but I was a predator...

Mechanic Mercy Thompson can shift her shape - but not her loyalty. When her former boss and mentor is arrested for murder and left to rot behind bars by his own kind, it's up to Mercy to clear his name, whether he wants her to or not.

Mercy's loyalty is under pressure from other directions, too. Werewolves are not known for their patience, and if Mercy can't decide between the two she cares for, Sam and Adam may make the choice for her...]]>
287 Patricia Briggs 0441015662 Heather 4 4.34 2008 Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson, #3)
author: Patricia Briggs
name: Heather
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 2024/07/14
date added: 2025/07/04
shelves: fantasy, urban-fantasy, own-it, currently-reading
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<![CDATA[Callahan's Secret (Callahan's, #3)]]> 218681 192 Spider Robinson 0812572297 Heather 5 own-it, sci-fi, short-stories 4.21 1986 Callahan's Secret (Callahan's, #3)
author: Spider Robinson
name: Heather
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1986
rating: 5
read at: 2025/07/03
date added: 2025/07/03
shelves: own-it, sci-fi, short-stories
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<![CDATA[The Callahan Chronicals (Callahan's, #1-3)]]> 34270 Callahan's Crosstime Saloon is the neighborhood tavern to all of time and space, where the regulars are anything but: time travelers, talking dogs, alcoholic vampires, cybernetic aliens--and a group of people who really, truly care about each other. It's the rare kind of place where bad pun are as appreciated as good conversation.

Time Travelers Strictly Cash is their policy, but then again everybody pays cash at Callahan's. Lay your money on the bar, name your poison, step up to the line drawn on the barroom floor, and after drinking make a toast and throw the glass into the fireplace. It's an odd tradition (don't worry about the cost--Callahan gets the glasses at a bulk discount), but one's that's led to some interesting stories.

Callahan's Secret may be something even the regulars would never guess. then again, it may be as simple as listening to those post-toast stories. After-all, like Callahan says, shared pain is lessened and shared joy in increased--a simple concept that could, after a few drinks, lead to saving the world....

This omnibus edition contains the trio of books that introduced the world to Mike Callahan, Jake Stonebender, Doc Webster, Mickey Finn, Fast Eddie Costigan, Long-Drink McGonnigle, Ralph Won Wau Wau and the rest of the regulars of Callahan's Place in the stories that helped Spider Robinson to win both a John W. Campbell Award and a legion of fans.
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400 Spider Robinson 0812539370 Heather 5 own-it, short-stories, sci-fi 4.31 1988 The Callahan Chronicals (Callahan's, #1-3)
author: Spider Robinson
name: Heather
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1988
rating: 5
read at: 2025/07/03
date added: 2025/07/03
shelves: own-it, short-stories, sci-fi
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The Stolen Queen 211025454 From New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis, an utterly addictive new novel that will transport you from New York City’s most glamorous party to the labyrinth streets of Cairo and back.

Egypt, 1936: When anthropology student Charlotte Cross is offered a coveted spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, she leaps at the opportunity. But after an unbearable tragedy strikes, Charlotte knows her future will never be the same.

New York City, 1978: Eighteen-year-old Annie Jenkins is thrilled when she lands an opportunity to work for iconic former Vogue fashion editor Diana Vreeland, who’s in the midst of organizing the famous Met Gala, hosted at the museum and known across the city as the “party of the year.” Though Annie soon realizes she’ll have her work cut out for her, scrambling to meet Diana’s capricious demands and exacting standards.

Meanwhile, Charlotte, now leading a quiet life as the associate curator of the Met’s celebrated Department of Egyptian Art, wants little to do with the upcoming gala. She’s consumed with her research on Hathorkare—a rare female pharaoh dismissed by most other Egyptologists as unimportant.

That is, until the night of the gala. When one of the Egyptian art collection’s most valuable artifacts goes missing . . . and there are signs Hathorkare’s legendary curse might be reawakening.

As Annie and Charlotte team up to search for the missing antiquity, a desperate hunch leads the unlikely duo to one place Charlotte swore she’d never return: Egypt. But if they’re to have any hope of finding the artifact, Charlotte will need to confront the demons of her past—which may mean leading them both directly into danger.]]>
352 Fiona Davis 0593474279 Heather 0 3.88 2025 The Stolen Queen
author: Fiona Davis
name: Heather
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/07/03
shelves: egyptology, highly-recommended, mystery, to-read
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<![CDATA[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Callahan's, #1)]]> 218677

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon contains the following stories, virtually all of which were published in Analog 카지노싸이트 Fiction and Fact:

* "The Guy With the Eyes"
* "The Time-Traveler"
* "The Centipede's Dilemma"
* "Two Heads Are Better Than One"
* "The Law Of Conservation of Pain"
* "Just Dessert"
* "A Voice is Heard in Ramah..."
* "Unnatural Causes"
* "The Wonderful Conspiracy"]]>
205 Spider Robinson 0812572270 Heather 5 own-it, short-stories, sci-fi 4.17 1977 Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (Callahan's, #1)
author: Spider Robinson
name: Heather
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1977
rating: 5
read at: 2025/07/02
date added: 2025/07/02
shelves: own-it, short-stories, sci-fi
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<![CDATA[Time Travellers Strictly Cash (Callahan's, #2)]]> 146842 256 Spider Robinson 0812572289 Heather 5 4.22 1981 Time Travellers Strictly Cash (Callahan's, #2)
author: Spider Robinson
name: Heather
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1981
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Callahan's Lady (Lady Sally's #1; Callahan's #4)]]> 218671
Wife of time traveling bartender Mike Callahan, and employer of some of the most unusual and talented performing artists ever to work in the field of hedonic interface, Her Ladyship has designed her House to be an "equal opportunity enjoyer," discreetly, tastefully and joyfully catering to all erotic tastes and fantasies, however unusual. Like her famous husband, Lady Sally doesn't even insist that her customers be "human."..as long as they have good manners.

Small wonder, then, that she and her staff encounter beings as unique and memorable as the superhuman Colt, whose banner never, ever flags...Diana, the deadly dominatrix who "cannot" be disobeyed...Tony Donuts, the moronic man-monster even the Mafia doesn't want to mess with...or Charles, the werewolf with a distinct difference...]]>
308 Spider Robinson 0671318314 Heather 4 own-it, sci-fi, short-stories 4.22 1989 Callahan's Lady (Lady Sally's #1; Callahan's #4)
author: Spider Robinson
name: Heather
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1989
rating: 4
read at: 2025/07/02
date added: 2025/07/02
shelves: own-it, sci-fi, short-stories
review:
I just really want to swim around in Spider Robinson's brain for a while. It seems like a very kind and interesting place to be.
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<![CDATA[The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)]]> 13658
Alder seeks advice from Ged, once Archmage. Ged tells him to go to Tenar, Tehanu, and the young king at Havnor. They are joined by amber-eyed Irian, a fierce dragon able to assume the shape of a woman.

The threat can be confronted only in the Immanent Grove on Roke, the holiest place in the world and there the king, hero, sage, wizard, and dragon make a last stand.

Le Guin combines her magical fantasy with a profoundly human, earthly, humble touch.]]>
211 Ursula K. Le Guin 044101125X Heather 5 4.17 2001 The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
name: Heather
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2001
rating: 5
read at: 2025/07/02
date added: 2025/07/02
shelves: own-it, fantasy, nebula, world-fantasy-award, mythopoeic-award
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On the Edge (The Edge, #1) 6329547
Rose thought if she practiced her magic, she could build a better life for herself. But things didn’t turn out how she planned, and now she works a minimum wage, off the books job in the Broken just to survive. Then Declan Camarine, a blueblood noble straight out of the deepest part of the Weird, comes into her life, determined to have her (and her power).

But when a terrible danger invades the Edge from the Weird, a flood of creatures hungry for magic, Declan and Rose must work together to destroy them—or they’ll devour the Edge and everyone in it.]]>
309 Ilona Andrews 0441017800 Heather 5 4.03 2009 On the Edge (The Edge, #1)
author: Ilona Andrews
name: Heather
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2009
rating: 5
read at: 2025/07/02
date added: 2025/07/02
shelves: urban-fantasy, own-it, fairy-tales, romance
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I raced through this book so quickly, I was so caught up in it. The romance really creeped me out at the beginning, but most of my concerns were addressed in the narrative.
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<![CDATA[Lady Slings the Booze (Lady Sally's, #2; Callahan's, #5)]]> 218678 352 Spider Robinson 0743435788 Heather 4 4.21 1992 Lady Slings the Booze (Lady Sally's, #2; Callahan's, #5)
author: Spider Robinson
name: Heather
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1992
rating: 4
read at: 2018/03/03
date added: 2025/07/02
shelves: own-it, sci-fi, currently-reading
review:
The rating might change as I keep thinking about this book. I preferred the short story format of the previous books. I also found a lot of Spider's musings on rape and how it should be punished to be . . . distasteful at best, and downright awful at worst. I need to think further before I can articulate it better than that.
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<![CDATA[Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)]]> 13659
The Finder
Darkrose and Diamond
The Bones of the Earth
On the High Marsh
Dragonfly]]>
280 Ursula K. Le Guin 0441011241 Heather 4 4.07 2001 Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
name: Heather
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2001
rating: 4
read at: 2014/09/28
date added: 2025/06/30
shelves: own-it, ya, fantasy, currently-reading
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<![CDATA[Maiden, Mother, Crone: A Collection]]> 173404091
This beautiful volume contains the award-winning novellas A Pocketful of Crows, The Blue Salt Road and Orfeia. Fully illustrated by Bonnie Helen Hawkins, with a brand new introduction by the author and three original short stories, this is a landmark collection which gloriously reimagines traditional British folktales into a timely, relevant and powerful new stories.]]>
592 Joanne Harris 1399614002 Heather 0 4.00 Maiden, Mother, Crone: A Collection
author: Joanne Harris
name: Heather
average rating: 4.00
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/06/30
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Bury Your Gays 195790870 From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding story about what it takes to succeed in a world that wants you dead.

Misha is a jaded scriptwriter who has been working in Hollywood for years, and has just been nominated for his first Oscar. But when he's pressured by his producers to kill off a gay character in the upcoming season finale―"for the algorithm"―Misha discovers that it's not that simple.

As he is haunted by his past, and past mistakes, Misha must risk everything to find a way to do what's right―before it's too late.]]>
295 Chuck Tingle 1250874653 Heather 4 horror 4.11 2024 Bury Your Gays
author: Chuck Tingle
name: Heather
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2025/06/30
date added: 2025/06/30
shelves: horror
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<![CDATA[Bitch In a Bonnet: Reclaiming Jane Austen From the Stiffs, the Snobs, the Simps and the Saps, Volume 1]]> 13530283
“Hilarious…Rodi’s title is a tribute. He’s angry that the Austen craze has defanged a novelist who’s ‘wicked, arch, and utterly merciless. She skewers the pompous, the pious, and the libidinous with the animal glee of a natural-born sadist’…Like Rodi, I believe Austen deserves to join the grand pantheon of gadflies: Voltaire and Swift, Twain and Mencken.” Lev Raphael, The Huffington Post]]>
424 Robert Rodi 0983484465 Heather 0 3.88 Bitch In a Bonnet: Reclaiming Jane Austen From the Stiffs, the Snobs, the Simps and the Saps, Volume 1
author: Robert Rodi
name: Heather
average rating: 3.88
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/06/30
shelves: literary, own-it, currently-reading
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Summer in Orcus 32182098
Summer in Orcus is a free serial released twice weekly, by the award-winning author T. Kingfisher.]]>
386 T. Kingfisher Heather 5 fantasy, own-it, fairy-tales 4.40 2017 Summer in Orcus
author: T. Kingfisher
name: Heather
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2025/06/30
date added: 2025/06/30
shelves: fantasy, own-it, fairy-tales
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The Twisted Ones 42527596 When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods.

When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be?

Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. That would be horrific enough, but there’s more—Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants…until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself.

Alone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors—because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they’re looking for you. And if she doesn’t face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale.

From Hugo Award–winning author Ursula Vernon, writing as T. Kingfisher.]]>
385 T. Kingfisher 1534429573 Heather 4 horror 3.60 2019 The Twisted Ones
author: T. Kingfisher
name: Heather
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2025/06/30
date added: 2025/06/30
shelves: horror
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<![CDATA[Jolene (Elemental Masters, #15)]]> 52878264
Anna May Jones is the daughter of a coal miner. When her father succumbs to Black Lung, the coal company wastes no time in turning the family out of their home. In desperation, Anna May's mother sends her to live with her Aunt Jinny, a witchy-woman and an Elemental Master, in a holler outside of Ducktown.

As she settles into her new life, Anna May finds herself falling for a stonemason with such a talent for stonecarving that people come all the way from Memphis to commission statues and tombstones from him. But he's not content with his current skill—he wants to learn to carve stone so well it looks real.

When the stonemason disappears on a quest to fulfill his ambition, it is up to Anna May to follow and find him, armed with the new abilities Aunt Jinny has taught her. To save the man she loves, Anna May must journey into the mountain—and confront the horrors that lurk in the darkness of the mine.]]>
320 Mercedes Lackey 0756412145 Heather 5 3.84 2020 Jolene (Elemental Masters, #15)
author: Mercedes Lackey
name: Heather
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2025/04/24
date added: 2025/06/29
shelves: fairy-tales, fantasy, historical, i-want-to-be-a-witch, own-it, i-want-to-create, forest-witch, gentle, book-quilt, gardening
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Bryony and Roses 25566132
But when Bryony is caught in a snowstorm and takes refuge in an abandoned manor, she stumbles into a house full of dark enchantments. Is the Beast that lives there her captor, or a fellow prisoner? Is the house her enemy or her ally? And why are roses blooming out of season in the courtyard?

Armed only with gardening shears and her wits, Bryony must untangle the secrets of the house before she—or the Beast—are swallowed by them.
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224 T. Kingfisher Heather 5 fairy-tales, gardening 4.07 2015 Bryony and Roses
author: T. Kingfisher
name: Heather
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/03
date added: 2025/06/29
shelves: fairy-tales, gardening
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A House with Good Bones 60784409 A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explores the dark, twisted roots lurking just beneath the veneer of a perfect home and family.

"Mom seems off."

Her brother's words echo in Sam Montgomery's ear as she turns onto the quiet North Carolina street where their mother lives alone.

She brushes the thought away as she climbs the front steps. Sam's excited for this rare extended visit, and looking forward to nights with just the two of them, drinking boxed wine, watching murder mystery shows, and guessing who the killer is long before the characters figure it out.

But stepping inside, she quickly realizes home isn’t what it used to be. Gone is the warm, cluttered charm her mom is known for; now the walls are painted a sterile white. Her mom jumps at the smallest noises and looks over her shoulder even when she’s the only person in the room. And when Sam steps out back to clear her head, she finds a jar of teeth hidden beneath the magazine-worthy rose bushes, and vultures are circling the garden from above.

To find out what’s got her mom so frightened in her own home, Sam will go digging for the truth. But some secrets are better left buried.]]>
247 T. Kingfisher 1250829798 Heather 4 horror, gardening 3.65 2023 A House with Good Bones
author: T. Kingfisher
name: Heather
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2025/06/29
date added: 2025/06/29
shelves: horror, gardening
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Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4) 13661
Once, when they were young, they helped each other at a time of darkness and danger and shared an adventure like no other. Now they must join forces again, to help another in need -- the physically and emotionally scarred child whose own destiny has yet to be revealed.]]>
281 Ursula K. Le Guin 1416509631 Heather 4 4.03 1990 Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4)
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
name: Heather
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1990
rating: 4
read at: 2025/06/29
date added: 2025/06/29
shelves: fantasy, ya, own-it, mythopoeic-award
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<![CDATA[The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3)]]> 13667 259 Ursula K. Le Guin 141650964X Heather 5 4.13 1972 The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3)
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
name: Heather
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1972
rating: 5
read at: 2025/06/28
date added: 2025/06/28
shelves: fantasy, own-it, ya, mythopoeic-award
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The Moorchild 309480
As Saaski grows up, memories from her forgotten past with the Folks slowly emerge. But so do emotions from her human side, and she begins to realize the terrible wrong the Folk have done to the humans she calls Da and Mumma. She is determined to restore their child to them, even if it means a dangerous return to the world that has already rejected her once.]]>
241 Eloise Jarvis McGraw 068982033X Heather 0 3.98 1996 The Moorchild
author: Eloise Jarvis McGraw
name: Heather
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/06/28
shelves: gentle, i-want-to-be-a-witch, to-read
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<![CDATA[Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Stories]]> 17707691 Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro

Haunted Castles is the definitive, complete collection of Ray Russell's masterful Gothic horror stories, including the famously terrifying novella trio of 'Sardonicus', 'Sanguinarius', and 'Sagittarius'. The characters that sprawl through Haunted Castles are frightful to the core: the heartless monster holding two lovers in limbo; the beautiful dame journeying down a damned road toward depravity (with the help of an evil gypsy); the man who must wear his fatal crimes on his face in the form of an awful smile. Engrossing, grotesque, perverted, and completely entrancing, Russell's Gothic tales are the best kind of dreadful.]]>
235 Ray Russell 0143124013 Heather 4 horror, short-stories 4.05 1985 Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Stories
author: Ray Russell
name: Heather
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1985
rating: 4
read at: 2025/06/27
date added: 2025/06/27
shelves: horror, short-stories
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<![CDATA[A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)]]> 13642
Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.]]>
183 Ursula K. Le Guin Heather 5 own-it, fantasy 4.02 1968 A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
name: Heather
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1968
rating: 5
read at: 2025/06/26
date added: 2025/06/27
shelves: own-it, fantasy
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<![CDATA[The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)]]> 13662
Then a wizard, Ged Sparrowhawk, comes to steal the Tombs’ greatest hidden treasure, the Ring of Erreth-Akbe. Tenar’s duty is to protect the Ring, but Ged possesses the light of magic and tales of a world that Tenar has never known. Will Tenar risk everything to escape from the darkness that has become her domain?]]>
180 Ursula K. Le Guin 0689845367 Heather 5 4.12 1971 The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
name: Heather
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1971
rating: 5
read at: 2025/06/26
date added: 2025/06/27
shelves: fantasy, ya, own-it, mythopoeic-award
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<![CDATA[A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking]]> 54369251
But Mona’s life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona’s city, preying on magic folk, and it appears that Mona is his next target. And in an embattled city suddenly bereft of wizards, the assassin may be the least of Mona’s worries…]]>
306 T. Kingfisher 1614505241 Heather 4 4.02 2020 A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
author: T. Kingfisher
name: Heather
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2025/06/26
date added: 2025/06/26
shelves: fantasy, i-want-to-be-a-witch, i-want-to-create, juvenile, mythopoeic-award
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<![CDATA[Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2)]]> 14061955 Alternative Cover Edition #1

Darkness never dies.

Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret. But she can’t outrun her past or her destiny for long.

The Darkling has emerged from the Shadow Fold with a terrifying new power and a dangerous plan that will test the very boundaries of the natural world. With the help of a notorious privateer, Alina returns to the country she abandoned, determined to fight the forces gathering against Ravka. But as her power grows, Alina slips deeper into the Darkling’s game of forbidden magic, and farther away from Mal. Somehow, she will have to choose between her country, her power, and the love she always thought would guide her—or risk losing everything to the oncoming storm.]]>
435 Leigh Bardugo Heather 4 3.81 2013 Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2)
author: Leigh Bardugo
name: Heather
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2013
rating: 4
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date added: 2025/06/26
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<![CDATA[Ruin and Rising (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #3)]]> 14061957 Alternative Cover Edition #1

The capital has fallen.

The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne.

Now the nation's fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army.

Deep in an ancient network of tunnels and caverns, a weakened Alina must submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat and the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Yet her plans lie elsewhere, with the hunt for the elusive firebird and the hope that an outlaw prince still survives.

Alina will have to forge new alliances and put aside old rivalries as she and Mal race to find the last of Morozova's amplifiers. But as she begins to unravel the Darkling's secrets, she reveals a past that will forever alter her understanding of the bond they share and the power she wields. The firebird is the one thing that stands between Ravka and destruction—and claiming it could cost Alina the very future she’s fighting for.]]>
432 Leigh Bardugo Heather 5 fantasy, ya 3.97 2014 Ruin and Rising (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #3)
author: Leigh Bardugo
name: Heather
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2014
rating: 5
read at: 2025/06/26
date added: 2025/06/26
shelves: fantasy, ya
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<![CDATA[Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)]]> 37834723 Alternative cover edition of ISBN13: 9780805094596.

Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.

Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.

Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha . . . and the secrets of her heart.

Shadow and Bone is the first installment in Leigh Bardugo's Grisha Trilogy.]]>
358 Leigh Bardugo 0805094598 Heather 4 3.85 2012 Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
author: Leigh Bardugo
name: Heather
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2012
rating: 4
read at: 2025/06/23
date added: 2025/06/23
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<![CDATA[Owlknight (Owl Mage Trilogy, #3)]]> 14007 450 Mercedes Lackey 0886779162 Heather 5 3.99 1999 Owlknight (Owl Mage Trilogy, #3)
author: Mercedes Lackey
name: Heather
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1999
rating: 5
read at: 2025/06/22
date added: 2025/06/22
shelves: kick-ass-women, own-it, fantasy, i-want-to-be-a-witch, i-want-to-create, forest-witch
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<![CDATA[Owlsight (Owl Mage Trilogy, #2)]]> 176790 450 Mercedes Lackey 0886778034 Heather 5 4.00 1998 Owlsight (Owl Mage Trilogy, #2)
author: Mercedes Lackey
name: Heather
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1998
rating: 5
read at: 2025/06/19
date added: 2025/06/19
shelves: kick-ass-women, fantasy, own-it, i-want-to-be-a-witch, i-want-to-create, forest-witch
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<![CDATA[Flowers, Birds, and Unicorns: Medieval Needlepoint]]> 1607002 128 Candace Bahouth 0810933160 Heather 4 embroidery, want-to-buy 4.00 1993 Flowers, Birds, and Unicorns: Medieval Needlepoint
author: Candace Bahouth
name: Heather
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1993
rating: 4
read at: 2025/06/19
date added: 2025/06/19
shelves: embroidery, want-to-buy
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Faust 406373 Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seeks to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last forever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephistopheles and must serve him after death. In this first part of Goethe’s great work, the embittered thinker and Mephistopheles enter into their agreement, and soon Faust is living a rejuvenated life and winning the love of the beautiful Gretchen. But in this compelling tragedy of arrogance, unfulfilled desire, and self-delusion, Faust heads inexorably toward an infernal destruction.]]> 503 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 0385031149 Heather 3 3.91 1790 Faust
author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
name: Heather
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1790
rating: 3
read at: 2017/08/26
date added: 2025/06/19
shelves: victoriana, own-it, literary, religious-fiction, skimmed
review:
I was getting next to nothing out of the audiobook, so I'm going to try again once I have time to read this slowly and carefully, as it deserves.
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<![CDATA[Owlflight (Owl Mage Trilogy, #1)]]> 14009 342 Mercedes Lackey 0886778042 Heather 5 3.99 1997 Owlflight (Owl Mage Trilogy, #1)
author: Mercedes Lackey
name: Heather
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1997
rating: 5
read at: 2025/06/17
date added: 2025/06/17
shelves: kick-ass-women, fantasy, own-it, i-want-to-be-a-witch, i-want-to-create, forest-witch
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Princess Academy 220908934 This deluxe twentieth anniversary edition of the beloved modern classic, Princess Academy, will feature stunning sprayed edges, a brand new cover, and a letter from the author!

What if you had a chance to become a Princess?

Miri lives high atop a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have lived a simple life, working in the quarry. But everything changes when word arrives that the prince of the kingdom will choose his princess from among the village girls.

A makeshift academy is set up on the mountain and every eligible girl must attend and learn how to become a proper princess. Soon Miri finds herself confronted with a harsh academy mistress, bitter competition among the girls, and her own conflicting desires. Being chosen could give her everything she ever wanted, but does Miri really want to leave her home and family behind for a royal life?]]>
288 Shannon Hale 1547618353 Heather 0 to-read 4.65 2005 Princess Academy
author: Shannon Hale
name: Heather
average rating: 4.65
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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shelves: to-read
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Needlework Antique Flowers 1483621 Decorative Victorian Needlework. Inspired by actual perennial favorites and heirloom flowers, Bradley accurately charts old roses, pansies, tulips, lilies, snowdrops, poppies, peonies, and cheerful sunflowers. Brilliant color photographs shot on location in Provence highlight the timeless charm of these needlework designs. Full-color photographs.]]> 0 Elizabeth Bradley 0517593718 Heather 4 embroidery, own-it 4.50 1993 Needlework Antique Flowers
author: Elizabeth Bradley
name: Heather
average rating: 4.50
book published: 1993
rating: 4
read at: 2025/06/15
date added: 2025/06/15
shelves: embroidery, own-it
review:

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<![CDATA[Decorative Victorian Needlework: Over 25 Charted Designs]]> 1254364 168 Elizabeth Bradley 080695583X Heather 4 4.09 1990 Decorative Victorian Needlework: Over 25 Charted Designs
author: Elizabeth Bradley
name: Heather
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1990
rating: 4
read at: 2025/06/15
date added: 2025/06/15
shelves: crafts, non-fiction, own-ebook, embroidery, own-it
review:

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<![CDATA[Homemade, best made (Reader's Digest General Books)]]> 326699 352 Reader's Digest Association 0762100761 Heather 5 4.09 Homemade, best made (Reader's Digest General Books)
author: Reader's Digest Association
name: Heather
average rating: 4.09
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2025/06/15
date added: 2025/06/15
shelves: cookbooks, crafts, own-it, sewing
review:

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<![CDATA[Simple Style: Fresh Looks for a Pure Natural Home]]> 313625 160 Lyndsay Porter 1842153021 Heather 3 decorating, own-it 3.00 2000 Simple Style: Fresh Looks for a Pure Natural Home
author: Lyndsay Porter
name: Heather
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2000
rating: 3
read at: 2025/06/15
date added: 2025/06/15
shelves: decorating, own-it
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The Incandescent 217387935 Naomi Novik's Scholomance series meets Plain Bad Heroines in this sapphic dark academia fantasy by instant national and international bestselling author Emily Tesh, winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

"Look at you, eating magic like you're one of us."

Doctor Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood Academy and one of the most powerful magicians in England. Her days consist of meetings, teaching A-Level Invocation to four talented, chaotic sixth formers, more meetings, and securing the school's boundaries from demonic incursions.

Walden is good at her job―no, Walden is great at her job. But demons are masters of manipulation. It’s her responsibility to keep her school with its six hundred students and centuries-old legacy safe. And it’s possible the entity Walden most needs to keep her school safe from―is herself.]]>
432 Emily Tesh 1250835011 Heather 0 4.05 2025 The Incandescent
author: Emily Tesh
name: Heather
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/06/14
shelves: academia, upcoming-favourites, to-read
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<![CDATA[Ruby Fever (Hidden Legacy, #6)]]> 39909230
An escaped spider, the unexpected arrival of an Imperial Russian Prince, the senseless assassination of a powerful figure, a shocking attack on the supposedly invincible Warden of Texas, Catalina’s boss... And it’s only Monday.

Within hours, the fate of Houston—not to mention the House of Baylor—now rests on Catalina, who will have to harness her powers as never before. But even with her fellow Prime and fiancé Alessandro Sagredo by her side, she may not be able to expose who’s responsible before all hell really breaks loose.]]>
380 Ilona Andrews 0062878409 Heather 4 own-it, urban-fantasy 4.43 2022 Ruby Fever (Hidden Legacy, #6)
author: Ilona Andrews
name: Heather
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2025/06/13
date added: 2025/06/13
shelves: own-it, urban-fantasy
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Some Desperate Glory 58388343 While we live, the enemy shall fear us.

All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the all-powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the Majoda their victory over humanity.

They are what’s left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. But when Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to the nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows she must take humanity’s revenge into her own hands.

Alongside her brother’s brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, she escapes from everything she’s ever known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined.

A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is award-winning author Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel.]]>
438 Emily Tesh 1250834988 Heather 0 4.00 2023 Some Desperate Glory
author: Emily Tesh
name: Heather
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/06/13
shelves: hugo, sci-fi, currently-reading
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<![CDATA[Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)]]> 49053880
The nightmare that Alessandro has fought since childhood has come roaring back to life, but now Catalina is under threat. Not even his lifelong quest for revenge will stop him from keeping her safe, even if every battle could be his last. Because Catalina won't rest until she stops the use of the illicit, power-granting serum that's tearing their world apart. ]]>
392 Ilona Andrews 0062878360 Heather 4 urban-fantasy, own-it 4.37 2020 Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)
author: Ilona Andrews
name: Heather
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2025/06/13
date added: 2025/06/13
shelves: urban-fantasy, own-it
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<![CDATA[Sapphire Flames (Hidden Legacy, #4)]]> 41088576
But behind the scenes powerful forces are at work, and one of them is Alessandro Sagredo, the Italian Prime who was once Catalina’s teenage crush. Dangerous and unpredictable, Alessandro’s true motives are unclear, but he’s drawn to Catalina like a moth to a flame.

To help her friend, Catalina must test the limits of her extraordinary powers, but doing so may cost her both her House–and her heart.]]>
359 Ilona Andrews 0062878336 Heather 4 urban-fantasy, own-it 4.23 2019 Sapphire Flames (Hidden Legacy, #4)
author: Ilona Andrews
name: Heather
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2025/06/13
date added: 2025/06/13
shelves: urban-fantasy, own-it
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<![CDATA[Diamond Fire (Hidden Legacy, #3.5)]]> 39320167
Catalina Baylor is looking forward to wearing her maid of honor dress and watching her older sister walk down the aisle.  Then the wedding planner gets escorted off the premises, the bride’s priceless tiara disappears, and Rogan's extensive family overruns his mother’s home.  Someone is cheating, someone is lying, and someone is plotting murder.

To make this wedding happen, Catalina will have to do the thing she fears use her magic.  But she’s a Baylor and there’s nothing she wouldn't do for her sister's happiness.  Nevada will have her fairy tale wedding, even if Catalina has to tear the mansion apart brick by brick to get it done.]]>
160 Ilona Andrews Heather 4 own-it 3.5 stars 4.14 2018 Diamond Fire (Hidden Legacy, #3.5)
author: Ilona Andrews
name: Heather
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2025/06/11
date added: 2025/06/11
shelves: own-it
review:
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<![CDATA[An Old, Cold Grave (Lane Winslow #3)]]> 34696033 The third book in the popular Lane Winslow mystery series by an author the Globe and Mail has called a -writer to watch.-

It's early spring of 1947 in idyllic King's Cove, and the Hughes ladies, mere et filles, are gardening and sorting through the jars of food that have been put up for the winter. But while cleaning up after the roof of their root cellar has caved in slightly, they are horrified to discover a small skeletal hand embedded in the mess. Panicked, they call Lane Winslow, the ex-British secret service agent, and, not without some misgivings about the state of their tense relationship, Lane calls Inspector Darling.

Before long the police crew discover the body of a young child buried almost 40 years before. Who is the child, and why has it not been buried in the local cemetery? Inspector Darling, already busy dealing with a teenage girl who has gone on a destructive rampage at a local mill, asks Lane for help in unearthing the long-forgotten secrets of the early life of the tiny town, and the identity of the long-forgotten child.

This delightful new historical mystery series will appeal to fans of Maisie Dobbs and Bess Crawford.]]>
352 Iona Whishaw 1771512407 Heather 4 historical, mystery 3.96 2017 An Old, Cold Grave (Lane Winslow #3)
author: Iona Whishaw
name: Heather
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2025/06/11
date added: 2025/06/11
shelves: historical, mystery
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<![CDATA[Death in a Darkening Mist (Lane Winslow #2)]]> 32202653 The second instalment in the Lane Winslow mystery series; for fans of the Maisie Dobbs and Bess Crawford series.

On a snowy day in December 1946, Lane Winslow—a former British intelligence agent who’s escaped to the rural Canadian community of King’s Cove in pursuit of a tranquil life—is introduced to the local hot springs. While there she overhears nearby patrons speaking Russian. When one of those patrons is found dead in the change room, Lane’s linguistic and intelligence experience is of immeasurable value to the local police force in solving the murder.

The investigation points to the Soviet Union, where Stalin’s purges are eliminating enemies, and the reach of Stalin’s agent snakes all the way into a harmless Doukhobor community. Winslow’s complicated relationship with the local police inspector, Darling, is intensified by the perils of the case—and by the discovery of her own father’s death during the war.

The case comes to a frantic and shocking end with a perilous nighttime journey along treacherous snow-covered roads.

“Iona Whishaw is an exciting addition to Canada’s fine roster of mystery writers. I’m already planning to read [Killer in King’s Cove] again, and this time I’ll read the teaser for Whishaw’s next novel provided at the end. A debut mystery by an author destined for awards.” –Don Graves, Canadian Mystery Reviews blog]]>
384 Iona Whishaw 1771511710 Heather 4 historical, mystery 4.02 2017 Death in a Darkening Mist (Lane Winslow #2)
author: Iona Whishaw
name: Heather
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2025/06/10
date added: 2025/06/10
shelves: historical, mystery
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<![CDATA[What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)]]> 127306440
Retired soldier Alex Easton returns in a horrifying new adventure.

After their terrifying ordeal at the Usher manor, Alex Easton feels as if they just survived another war. All they crave is rest, routine, and sunshine, but instead, as a favor to Angus and Miss Potter, they find themself heading to their family hunting lodge, deep in the cold, damp forests of their home country, Gallacia.

In theory, one can find relaxation in even the coldest and dampest of Gallacian autumns, but when Easton arrives, they find the caretaker dead, the lodge in disarray, and the grounds troubled by a strange, uncanny silence. The villagers whisper that a breath-stealing monster from folklore has taken up residence in Easton’s home. Easton knows better than to put too much stock in local superstitions, but they can tell that something is not quite right in their home. . . or in their dreams.]]>
151 T. Kingfisher 1250830850 Heather 4 horror 3.78 2024 What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)
author: T. Kingfisher
name: Heather
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2025/06/10
date added: 2025/06/10
shelves: horror
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<![CDATA[What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)]]> 58724626
What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.

Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.]]>
165 T. Kingfisher 1250830753 Heather 5 3.85 2022 What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
author: T. Kingfisher
name: Heather
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2025/06/10
date added: 2025/06/10
shelves: fantasy, horror, hugo, historical
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Daggerbound (Swordheart, #2) 231425241 T. Kingfisher Heather 0 upcoming-favourites, to-read 3.00 2026 Daggerbound (Swordheart, #2)
author: T. Kingfisher
name: Heather
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2026
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/06/09
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Wolf Worm 231126842 Something darker than the devil stalks the North Carolina woods in Wolf Worm, a new gothic masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author T. Kingfisher.

The year is 1899 and Sonia Wilson is a scientific illustrator without work, prospects, or hope. When the reclusive Dr. Halder offers her a position illustrating his vast collection of insects, Sonia jumps at the chance to move to his North Carolina manor house and put her talents to use. But soon enough she finds that there are darker things at work than the Carolina woods. What happened to her predecessor, Halder’s wife? Why are animals acting so strangely, and what is behind the peculiar local whispers about “blood thiefs?”

With the aid of the housekeeper and a local healer, Sonia discovers that Halder’s entomological studies have taken him down a dark road full of parasitic maggots that burrow into human flesh, and that his monstrous experiments may grow to encompass his newest illustrator as well.

"Kingfisher is not afraid to twist the knife."―The Washington Post]]>
288 T. Kingfisher 1250829828 Heather 0 upcoming-favourites, to-read 5.00 2026 Wolf Worm
author: T. Kingfisher
name: Heather
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2026
rating: 0
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Snake-Eater 226943506 In an isolated desert town, a young woman seeking a fresh start is confronted by ancient gods, malevolent supernatural forces, and eccentric neighbours. A witty horror-tinged fantasy, perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Chuck Tingle, and Rachel Harrison.

When Selena travels to the remote desert town of Quartz Creek in search of her estranged Aunt Amelia, she is desperate and short of options. Fleeing an unhappy marriage, she has exactly twenty-seven dollars to her name, and her only friend in the world is her dog, Copper.

On arrival, Selena learns Amelia is dead. But the inhabitants of Quartz Creek are only too happy to have a new resident. Out of money and ideas, Selena sees no harm staying in her aunt's lovely house for a few weeks, tending to her garden and enjoying the strange, desolate beauty of the desert. The people are odd, but friendly, and eager to help Selena settle into her new home.

But Quartz Creek's inhabitants share their town with others, old gods and spirits whose claim to the land long predates their human neighbours. Selena finds herself pursued by disturbing apparitions, visitations that come in the night and seem to want something from her.

Aunt Amelia owed a debt. Now her god has come to collect.]]>
271 T. Kingfisher 1662525095 Heather 0 upcoming-favourites, to-read 4.31 2025 Snake-Eater
author: T. Kingfisher
name: Heather
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Witch King (The Rising World, #1)]]> 61885085 "You idiot. I'm the demon."
Kai's having a long day in Martha Wells' Witch King...

After being murdered, his consciousness dormant and unaware of the passing of time while confined in an elaborate water trap, Kai wakes to find a lesser mage attempting to harness Kai’s magic to his own advantage. That was never going to go well.

But why was Kai imprisoned in the first place? What has changed in the world since his assassination? And why does the Rising World Coalition appear to be growing in influence?

Kai will need to pull his allies close and draw on all his pain magic if he is to answer even the least of these questions.

He’s not going to like the answers.]]>
415 Martha Wells 1250826799 Heather 4 hugo, fantasy 3.60 2023 Witch King (The Rising World, #1)
author: Martha Wells
name: Heather
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2025/06/07
date added: 2025/06/07
shelves: hugo, fantasy
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Divining the Leaves 214369381 From critically acclaimed author Shveta Thakrar comes a beautifully imagined contemporary fantasy about two teens, one a believer of magic who yearns to belong, the other a skeptic searching for an escape, who find themselves embroiled in a twisty world of court intrigue when they venture into a forest ruled by yakshas, mysterious woodland spirits drawn from Hindu and Buddhist folklore.

Plant-loving Ridhi Kapadia and popular Nilesh Batra were friends once.

Now, seventeen and alone, Ridhi blends natural perfumes, wears flower crowns, and wanders her local woods, listening for the leafy whispers of her beloved trees. Pleading for the yakshas to admit her into their enchanted forest kingdom, where she knows she truly belongs.

After learning his parents’ perfect marriage is a sham and getting suspended from school, a heartsick Nilesh lands at Ridhi’s doorstep—the last thing either of them wants. So when a pretty yakshini offers him the distraction of magic, the same magic he mocked Ridhi for believing in, he jumps at it.

Furious, Ridhi strikes a bargain with a noblewoman named Sulochana. In return for helping restore her reputation, Sulochana will turn Ridhi into the yakshini she yearns to be—and teach her to divine the trees’ murmurs.

But when Nilesh ends up trapped in the yakshas’ realm, Ridhi realizes the leaves might be telling a disturbing story about the forest her heart is rooted in—one that, even if the two of them band together, threatens to shred the future like so many thorns.]]>
416 Shveta Thakrar 006325526X Heather 0 highly-recommended, to-read 3.53 2025 Divining the Leaves
author: Shveta Thakrar
name: Heather
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)]]> 40864002 ASIN B08H831J18 moved to the more recent edition

Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-awareness, laid down their tools, wandered, en masse into the wilderness, never to be seen again. They faded into myth and urban legend.

Now the life of the tea monk who tells this story is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered. But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how. They will need to ask it a lot. Chambers' series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?]]>
151 Becky Chambers Heather 5 4.24 2021 A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
author: Becky Chambers
name: Heather
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2025/06/06
date added: 2025/06/06
shelves: sci-fi, gentle, own-it, solarpunk
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<![CDATA[A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)]]> 40864030
They hope to find the answers they seek, while making new friends, learning new concepts, and experiencing the entropic nature of the universe.

Becky Chambers's new series continues to ask: in a world where people have what they want, does having more even matter?

They're going to need to ask it a lot.]]>
152 Becky Chambers Heather 5 4.40 2022 A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)
author: Becky Chambers
name: Heather
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2025/06/06
date added: 2025/06/06
shelves: gentle, sci-fi, own-it, solarpunk
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<![CDATA[Tea You at the Altar (Tomes & Tea, #3)]]> 211004860 The Princess Bride meets Travis Baldree in Tea You at the Altar, the third cosy fantasy in Rebecca Thorne's bestselling Tomes & Tea series. Our sapphic adventurers must navigate the ultimate maelstrom – their own wedding!

Kianthe and Reyna are ready to finally walk down the aisle, and in just seven days their wedding of a wifetime will become a reality. There's still so much to do but, like all best-laid plans, everything seems to be going awry.

Their baby dragons are causing mayhem in the town of Tawney, and Kianthe’s uptight parents have invited themselves to the wedding. Yet, worst of all, Reyna has become embroiled in a secret plot to overthrow Queen Tilaine. The world seems against them – and how are they going to live long enough to say ‘I do’?]]>
336 Rebecca Thorne 1250333253 Heather 4 fantasy, gentle 4.29 2025 Tea You at the Altar (Tomes & Tea, #3)
author: Rebecca Thorne
name: Heather
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2025
rating: 4
read at: 2025/06/04
date added: 2025/06/04
shelves: fantasy, gentle
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<![CDATA[In the Shadow of Spindrift House]]> 43895838
For Harlowe Upton-Jones, life has never been a straight line. Shipped off to live with her paternal grandparents after a mysterious cult killed her mother and father, she has grown up chasing the question behind the curve, becoming part of a tight-knit teen detective agency. But “teen” is a limited time offer, and when her friends start looking for adult professions, it’s up to Harlowe to find them one last case so that they can go out in a blaze of glory.

Welcome to Spindrift House.

The stories and legends surrounding the decrepit property are countless and contradictory, but one thing is clear: there are people willing to pay a great deal to determine the legal ownership of the house. When Harlowe and her friends agree to investigate the mystery behind the manor, they do so on the assumption that they’ll be going down in history as the ones who determined who built Spindrift House—and why. The house has secrets. They have the skills. They have a plan. They have everything they need to solve the mystery.

Everything they need except for time. Because Spindrift House keeps its secrets for a reason, and it has no intention of letting them go.

Nature abhors a straight line.

Here’s where the story bends.]]>
197 Mira Grant 1596069228 Heather 5 own-it, horror 3.58 2019 In the Shadow of Spindrift House
author: Mira Grant
name: Heather
average rating: 3.58
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2023/07/12
date added: 2025/06/04
shelves: own-it, horror
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<![CDATA[Storm Breaking (Mage Storms, #3)]]> 143180 463 Mercedes Lackey 0886777550 Heather 5 4.07 1996 Storm Breaking (Mage Storms, #3)
author: Mercedes Lackey
name: Heather
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1996
rating: 5
read at: 2025/06/03
date added: 2025/06/03
shelves: kick-ass-women, fantasy, own-it, own-audiobook
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<![CDATA[Storm Rising (Mage Storms, #2)]]> 13998 412 Mercedes Lackey 0886777127 Heather 5 4.03 1995 Storm Rising (Mage Storms, #2)
author: Mercedes Lackey
name: Heather
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1995
rating: 5
read at: 2025/06/03
date added: 2025/06/03
shelves: kick-ass-women, fantasy, own-it, own-audiobook
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<![CDATA[A Pirate's Life for Tea (Tomes & Tea, #2)]]> 75646557
While searching for stolen dragon eggs, newly engaged couple Kianthe and Reyna find themselves smack-dab in the middle of a swashbuckling love story.

On one side is Serina, a failed farmer turned river pirate. Her booty? Wheat, grains, and the occasional jar of imported tea leaves. It's quite the embarrassment to Diarn Arlon, the powerful lord of the Nacean River, and he'll conscript anyone to bring her to justice. Especially Kianthe, the elemental mage who just crashed his party, and her somewhat-scary fiancée.

Begrudgingly, the couple joins forces with Bobbie, one of Arlon's constables--who happens to be Serina's childhood friend. Bobbie is determined to capture the pirate before anyone else, but it would be a lot easier if Serina didn't absolutely loathe her now.

As Kianthe and Reyna watch this relation-shipwreck from afar, it quickly becomes apparent that these disaster lesbians need all the help they can get. Luckily, matchmaking is Reyna's favorite past time. The dragon eggs may have to wait.]]>
444 Rebecca Thorne Heather 4 gentle, own-it 4.12 2023 A Pirate's Life for Tea (Tomes & Tea, #2)
author: Rebecca Thorne
name: Heather
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2025/06/03
date added: 2025/06/03
shelves: gentle, own-it
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<![CDATA[The Enchanted Sole; Legendary Socks for Adventurous Knitters]]> 7428870 128 Janel Laidman 0981497233 Heather 5 knitting, own-it 4.36 2009 The Enchanted Sole; Legendary Socks for Adventurous Knitters
author: Janel Laidman
name: Heather
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2009
rating: 5
read at: 2025/06/03
date added: 2025/06/03
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The Summer Prince 13453104
Together, June and Enki will stage explosive, dramatic projects that Palmares Tres will never forget. They will add fuel to a growing rebellion against the governments strict limits on new tech. And June will fall deeply, unfortunately in love with Enki. Because like all Summer Kings before him, Enki is destined to die.]]>
289 Alaya Dawn Johnson 0545417791 Heather 0 solarpunk, to-read 3.57 2013 The Summer Prince
author: Alaya Dawn Johnson
name: Heather
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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Ecotopia 550165 Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society.

Ecotopia was founded when northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the Union to create a “stable-state” ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Now, twenty years later, this isolated, mysterious nation is welcoming its first officially sanctioned American visitor: New York Times-Post reporter Will Weston.

Skeptical yet curious about this green new world, Weston is determined to report his findings objectively. But from the start, he’s alternately impressed and unsettled by the laws governing Ecotopia’s earth-friendly agenda: energy-efficient “mini-cities” to eliminate urban sprawl, zero-tolerance pollution control, tree worship, ritual war games, and a woman-dominated government that has instituted such peaceful revolutions as the twenty-hour workweek and employee ownership of farms and businesses. His old beliefs challenged, his cynicism replaced by hope, Weston meets a sexually forthright Ecotopian woman and undertakes a relationship whose intensity will lead him to a critical choice between two worlds.

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181 Ernest Callenbach 0553348477 Heather 0 solarpunk, to-read 3.59 1975 Ecotopia
author: Ernest Callenbach
name: Heather
average rating: 3.59
book published: 1975
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Legacy (The Biodome Chronicles, #1)]]> 59654175 She lives in an experimental world meant to save us all.
He's an Outsider from a dying, technology-choked society.
A chilling secret binds their lives—and hearts—together

Siblings Leaf and Willow Oak Watson live in an experimental medieval village. Sealed inside New Eden Township since infancy, their generation was created to build a sustainable nature-rich world. One devoid of Outsider technology.

One that believes death will give way to life.

Until their father's shocking death forces them to question their very existence.

Now everyone in their peaceful town is suspect. Risking banishment, the siblings search for clues, leading them to Fillion Nichols, an Outsider with a disturbing link to their family. A young man Willow feels a strong, unexplainable bond to. A strong connection Fillion has felt for six years—since she died inside his family's test world. Or so he thought.

Their encounter launches Fillion into a battle with his haunted past and programmed future as he rushes to decode the many dangerous secrets that bind their families together—a necessity if they're all to survive.

Worlds collide in an unforgettable quest for truth, unfolding a story rich in mystery, betrayal, and love.

Are you ready to discover what is real?
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501 Jesikah Sundin Heather 0 solarpunk, to-read 3.50 2014 Legacy (The Biodome Chronicles, #1)
author: Jesikah Sundin
name: Heather
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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Island 5130 Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and—to his amazement—give him hope.]]> 354 Aldous Huxley 0060085495 Heather 0 solarpunk, to-read 3.87 1962 Island
author: Aldous Huxley
name: Heather
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1962
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation]]> 35235851
Edited by Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland, Sunvault focuses on the stories of those inhabiting the crucial moments when great change can be made by people with the right tools; stories of people living during tipping points, and the spaces before and after them; and stories of those who fight to effect change and seek solutions to ecological disruption.

Contributors include Elgin Award nominee Kristine Ong Muslim, New York Times bestselling author Daniel José Older, James Tiptree, Jr. Award winner Nisi Shawl, World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhar, and Lambda Literary Awards finalist A.C. Wise, as well as Jess Barber, Santiago Belluco, Lisa M. Bradley, Chloe N. Clark, Brandon Crilly, Yilun Fan and translator S. Qiouyi Lu, Jaymee Goh, José M. Jimenez, Maura Lydon, Camille Meyers, Lev Mirov, joel nathanael, Clara Ng, Sara Norja, Brandon O’Brien, Jack Pevyhouse, Bethany Powell, C. Samuel Rees, Iona Sharma, Karyn L. Stecyk, Bogi Takács, Aleksei Valentín, T.X. Watson, Nick Wood, and Tyler Young.]]>
253 Phoebe Wagner 193779475X Heather 0 solarpunk, to-read 3.61 2017 Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation
author: Phoebe Wagner
name: Heather
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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Orion Shall Rise 1547127 463 Poul Anderson 0671720902 Heather 0 solarpunk, to-read 3.60 1983 Orion Shall Rise
author: Poul Anderson
name: Heather
average rating: 3.60
book published: 1983
rating: 0
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Way Station 190999
More than a hundred years before, an alien named Ulysses had recruited Enoch as the keeper of Earth's only galactic transfer station. Now, as Enoch studies the progress of Earth and tends the tanks where the aliens appear, the charts he made indicate his world is doomed to destruction. His alien friends can only offer help that seems worse than the dreaded disaster. Then he discovers the horror that lies across the galaxy...]]>
210 Clifford D. Simak 0020248717 Heather 0 to-read, hugo, solarpunk 4.02 1963 Way Station
author: Clifford D. Simak
name: Heather
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1963
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Suncatcher: Seven Days in the Sky]]> 20370001 456 Alia Gee 1626468370 Heather 0 solarpunk, to-read 3.76 2014 Suncatcher: Seven Days in the Sky
author: Alia Gee
name: Heather
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: The Complete Series]]> 15800525 Box Set | Book 1 | Book 2 ]

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is an epic fantasy tale written and illustrated by legendary Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki, creator of My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle. A modern masterpiece, the entire series is now available in this deluxe box set containing two hardcover volumes with interior color pages and a bonus poster.]]>
1104 Hayao Miyazaki 1421550644 Heather 0 solarpunk, to-read 4.76 1995 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: The Complete Series
author: Hayao Miyazaki
name: Heather
average rating: 4.76
book published: 1995
rating: 0
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Remnant Population 96284
With everything she needs to sustain her, and her independent spirit to buoy her, Ofelia actually does start life over–for the first time on her own terms: free of the demands, the judgments, and the petty tyrannies of others. But when a reconnaissance ship returns to her idyllic domain, and its crew is mysteriously slaughtered, Ofelia realizes she is not the sole inhabitant of her paradise after all. And, when the inevitable time of first contact finally arrives, she will find her life changed yet again–in ways she could never have imagined...]]>
326 Elizabeth Moon 034546219X Heather 0 4.06 1996 Remnant Population
author: Elizabeth Moon
name: Heather
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[A Door Into the Ocean : A 카지노싸이트 Fiction Novel]]> 128851066 0 Joan Slonczewski Heather 0 solarpunk 3.80 1986 A Door Into the Ocean : A 카지노싸이트 Fiction Novel
author: Joan Slonczewski
name: Heather
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1986
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World]]> 40011887 284 Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro 0998702293 Heather 0 solarpunk, to-read 3.30 2013 Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World
author: Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro
name: Heather
average rating: 3.30
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures]]> 56906532 340 Christoph Rupprecht 1734054522 Heather 0 solarpunk, to-read 3.70 2021 Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures
author: Christoph Rupprecht
name: Heather
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters]]> 52523765 326 Sarena Ulibarri 1732254680 Heather 0 solarpunk, to-read 3.86 2020 Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters
author: Sarena Ulibarri
name: Heather
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers]]> 39075794 290 Sarena Ulibarri 0998702277 Heather 0 solarpunk, to-read 3.75 2018 Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers
author: Sarena Ulibarri
name: Heather
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12)]]> 205048105 153 Lois McMaster Bujold Heather 5 4.51 2024 Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12)
author: Lois McMaster Bujold
name: Heather
average rating: 4.51
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2024/08/27
date added: 2025/06/01
shelves: fantasy, own-audiobook, i-want-to-create, own-it
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Zahrah the Windseeker 1257586
In this exciting debut novel by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, things aren't always what they seem -- monkeys tell fortunes, plants offer wisdom, and a teenage girl is the only one who stands a chance at saving her best friend's life.

-from the Hardcover edition]]>
308 Nnedi Okorafor Heather 0 solarpunk, to-read 4.14 2005 Zahrah the Windseeker
author: Nnedi Okorafor
name: Heather
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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Another Life 117681537
Galacia Aguirre is Mediator of Otra Vida, a quasi-utopian city on the shores of a human-made lake in Death Valley. She resolves conflicts within their sustainable money-free society, and keeps the outside world from meddling in their affairs.
When a scientific method of uncovering past lives emerges, Galacia learns she’s the reincarnation of Thomas Ramsey, leader of the Planet B movement, who eschewed fixing climate change in favor of colonizing another planet.
Learning her reincarnation result shakes the foundations of Galacia’s identity and her position as Mediator, threatening to undermine the good she’s done in this lifetime.

Fearing a backlash, she keeps the results secret while dealing with her political rival for Mediator, and outsiders who blame Otra Vida for bombings that Galacia is sure they had nothing to do with. But under the unforgiving sun of Death Valley, secrets have a way of coming to light.]]>
162 Sarena Ulibarri 177768238X Heather 0 solarpunk, to-read 3.99 2023 Another Life
author: Sarena Ulibarri
name: Heather
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)]]> 25563522 Winner of the 30th anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel.

Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed, stand-alone novel Children of Time, is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.

Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age – a world terraformed and prepared for human life.

But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare.

Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?

"Children of Time is a joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human." - Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls.]]>
609 Adrian Tchaikovsky Heather 0 solarpunk 4.37 2015 Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
name: Heather
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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Woman on the Edge of Time 772888
But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a dystopian society of grotesque exploitation. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow...]]>
376 Marge Piercy 0449210820 Heather 0 3.94 1976 Woman on the Edge of Time
author: Marge Piercy
name: Heather
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1976
rating: 0
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<![CDATA[A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)]]> 29475447
But she's not alone, not really. Pepper, one of the engineers who risked life and limb to reinstall Lovelace, is determined to help her adjust to her new world. Because Pepper knows a thing or two about starting over.

Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that, huge as the galaxy may be, it's anything but empty.]]>
365 Becky Chambers 1473621445 Heather 5 sci-fi, own-it, solarpunk 4.35 2016 A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
author: Becky Chambers
name: Heather
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2018/09/07
date added: 2025/06/01
shelves: sci-fi, own-it, solarpunk
review:
4.5 stars. I really wanted to see more of the Wayfarer crew again. I think Chambers' writing is a bit stronger with a larger cast. I loved the character building in this book, and the focus on ethics and what it's like to be an outsider in this society.
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Dune (Dune, #1) 44767458
When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.]]>
658 Frank Herbert 059309932X Heather 0 solarpunk 4.33 1965 Dune (Dune, #1)
author: Frank Herbert
name: Heather
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1965
rating: 0
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Binti (Binti, #1) 25667918 For the first time in hardcover, the winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award!

With a new foreword by N. K. Jemisin

Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs.

Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse, and Binti's stellar travel will bring her within their deadly reach.

If Binti hopes to survive the legacy of a war not of her making, she will need both the the gifts of her people and the wisdom enshrined within the University, itself -- but first she has to make it there, alive.

The Binti Series
Book 1: Binti
Book 2: Binti: Home
Book 3: Binti: The Night Masquerade]]>
96 Nnedi Okorafor 0765384469 Heather 4 hugo, sci-fi, solarpunk 3.81 2015 Binti (Binti, #1)
author: Nnedi Okorafor
name: Heather
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2018/10/26
date added: 2025/06/01
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To Be Taught, If Fortunate 43190272
Ariadne is one such explorer. As an astronaut on an extrasolar research vessel, she and her fellow crewmates sleep between worlds and wake up each time with different features. Her experience is one of fluid body and stable mind and of a unique perspective on the passage of time. Back on Earth, society changes dramatically from decade to decade, as it always does.

Ariadne may awaken to find that support for space exploration back home has waned, or that her country of birth no longer exists, or that a cult has arisen around their cosmic findings, only to dissolve once more by the next waking. But the moods of Earth have little bearing on their mission: to explore, to study, and to send their learnings home.

Carrying all the trademarks of her other beloved works, including brilliant writing, fantastic world-building and exceptional, diverse characters, Becky's first audiobook outside of the Wayfarers series is sure to capture the imagination of listeners all over the world.]]>
153 Becky Chambers 0062936018 Heather 5 4.19 2019 To Be Taught, If Fortunate
author: Becky Chambers
name: Heather
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2020/12/15
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<![CDATA[Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)]]> 32802595
Tessa chose to stay home when her brother Ashby left for the stars, but has to question that decision when her position in the Fleet is threatened.

Kip, a reluctant young apprentice, itches for change but doesn't know where to find it.

Sawyer, a lost and lonely newcomer, is just looking for a place to belong.

When a disaster rocks this already fragile community, those Exodans who still call the Fleet their home can no longer avoid the inescapable question:

What is the purpose of a ship that has reached its destination?]]>
359 Becky Chambers 1473647606 Heather 4 4.10 2018 Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)
author: Becky Chambers
name: Heather
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2019/03/26
date added: 2025/06/01
shelves: sci-fi, hugo, own-it, solarpunk
review:
3.5 stars. This was more slice-of-life than adventure.
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<![CDATA[The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)]]> 22733729
Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she’s never met anyone remotely like the ship’s diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, their noble captain.

Life aboard the Wayfarer is chaotic and crazy—exactly what Rosemary wants. It’s also about to get extremely dangerous when the crew is offered the job of a lifetime. Tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet is definitely lucrative and will keep them comfortable for years. But risking her life wasn’t part of the plan. In the far reaches of deep space, the tiny Wayfarer crew will confront a host of unexpected mishaps and thrilling adventures that force them to depend on each other. To survive, Rosemary’s got to learn how to rely on this assortment of oddballs—an experience that teaches her about love and trust, and that having a family isn’t necessarily the worst thing in the universe.]]>
518 Becky Chambers 1500453307 Heather 5 4.15 2014 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
author: Becky Chambers
name: Heather
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2014
rating: 5
read at: 2018/09/02
date added: 2025/06/01
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The Martian 18007564
Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.

After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.

Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old “human error” are much more likely to kill him first.

But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills — and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit — he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?

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384 Andy Weir 0804139024 Heather 5 4.41 2011 The Martian
author: Andy Weir
name: Heather
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2011
rating: 5
read at: 2024/01/21
date added: 2025/06/01
shelves: sci-fi, own-it, own-audiobook, gentle, solarpunk
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Always Coming Home 201901 Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers. More than five years in creation, it is a novel unlike any other.

A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast. The author makes the inhabitants of the valley as familiar, as immediate, as wholly human as our own friends or family.

Spiraling outward from the dramatic life story of a woman called Stone Telling, Le Guin's Always Coming Home interweaves wry wit, deep insight and extraordinary compassion into a compelling unity of vision.]]>
525 Ursula K. Le Guin 0520227352 Heather 3 4.06 1985 Always Coming Home
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
name: Heather
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1985
rating: 3
read at: 2017/08/27
date added: 2025/05/31
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Imago (Xenogenesis, #3) 60934 Human and Oankali have been mating since the aliens first came to Earth to rescue the few survivors of an annihilating nuclear war. The Oankali began a massive breeding project, guided by the ooloi, a sexless subspecies capable of manipulating DNA, in the hope of eventually creating a perfect starfaring race. Jodahs is supposed to be just another hybrid of human and Oankali, but as he begins his transformation to adulthood he finds himself becoming ooloi—the first ever born to a human mother. As his body changes, Jodahs develops the ability to shapeshift, manipulate matter, and cure or create disease at will. If this frightened young man is able to master his new identity, Jodahs could prove the savior of what’s left of mankind. Or, if he is not careful, he could become a plague that will destroy this new race once and for all.]]> 220 Octavia E. Butler 0446603635 Heather 4 sci-fi, own-it, solarpunk 4.20 1989 Imago (Xenogenesis, #3)
author: Octavia E. Butler
name: Heather
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1989
rating: 4
read at: 2014/04/15
date added: 2025/05/31
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<![CDATA[Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis, #1-3)]]> 60926 746 Octavia E. Butler 0446676101 Heather 4 own-it, sci-fi, solarpunk 4.35 1987 Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis, #1-3)
author: Octavia E. Butler
name: Heather
average rating: 4.35
book published: 1987
rating: 4
read at: 2014/04/15
date added: 2025/05/31
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<![CDATA[Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)]]> 116249
Nuclear war had nearly destroyed mankind when the Oankali came to the rescue, saving humanity—but at a price. The Oankali survive by mixing their DNA with that of other species, and now on Earth they have permitted no child to be born without an Oankali parent. The first true hybrid is a boy named Akin—son of Lilith Iyapo— and to the naked eye he looks human, for now. He is born with extraordinary sensory powers, understanding speech at birth, speaking in sentences at two months old, and soon developing the ability to see at the molecular level. More powerful than any human or Oankali, he will be the architect of both races’ intergalactic future. But before he can carry this new species into the stars, Akin must decide which unlucky souls will stay behind.

At once a coming-of-age story, science fiction adventure, and philosophical exploration, Butler’s ambitious and breathtaking novel ultimately raises the question of what it means to be human.]]>
277 Octavia E. Butler 0446603783 Heather 4 sci-fi, own-it, solarpunk 4.20 1988 Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
author: Octavia E. Butler
name: Heather
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1988
rating: 4
read at: 2014/04/13
date added: 2025/05/31
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Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1) 60929
The Oankali survive by genetically merging with primitive civilizations—whether their new hosts like it or not. For the first time since the nuclear holocaust, Earth will be inhabited. Grass will grow, animals will run, and people will learn to survive the planet’s untamed wilderness. But their children will not be human. Not exactly.]]>
248 Octavia E. Butler 0446603775 Heather 4 4.15 1987 Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
author: Octavia E. Butler
name: Heather
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1987
rating: 4
read at: 2014/04/12
date added: 2025/05/31
shelves: sci-fi, own-it, kick-ass-women, solarpunk
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<![CDATA[Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)]]> 60932 Parable of the Sower continues the story of Lauren Olamina in socially and economically depressed California in the 2030s. Convinced that her community should colonize the stars, Lauren and her followers make preparations. But the collapse of society and rise of fanatics result in Lauren's followers being enslaved, and her daughter stolen from her. Now, Lauren must fight back to save the new world order.]]> 448 Octavia E. Butler 0446610380 Heather 5 4.31 1998 Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
author: Octavia E. Butler
name: Heather
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1998
rating: 5
read at: 2021/01/23
date added: 2025/05/31
shelves: nebula, own-it, sci-fi, religious-fiction, solarpunk
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<![CDATA[Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)]]> 52397
Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others.

When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed and she is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind.]]>
345 Octavia E. Butler 0446675504 Heather 4 4.21 1993 Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
author: Octavia E. Butler
name: Heather
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1993
rating: 4
read at: 2017/07/19
date added: 2025/05/31
shelves: own-it, sci-fi, nebula, solarpunk
review:
This book is seriously unsettling. It was written in 1993, but feels like it could have been written this year because the future it predicts is so current. Octavia E. Butler was willing to confront issues head on that many people have been burying their heads in the sand over for over 20 years. As I was reading the book, I was simultaneously thinking how unlikely this must be (hello denial!) and thinking that all of this has happened all over the world throughout history. We live in a period of immense and unsustainable wealth, and by all predictive factors it cannot last. What will come next?
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The Left Hand of Darkness 18423 The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants spend most of their time without a gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.

Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.]]>
304 Ursula K. Le Guin Heather 5 4.11 1969 The Left Hand of Darkness
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
name: Heather
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1969
rating: 5
read at: 2010/01/01
date added: 2025/05/31
shelves: sci-fi, own-it, hugo, nebula, tiptree, solarpunk
review:

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<![CDATA[A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)]]> 164154 334 Walter M. Miller Jr. 0060892994 Heather 0 solarpunk 3.99 1959 A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
author: Walter M. Miller Jr.
name: Heather
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1959
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/05/31
shelves: solarpunk
review:

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The Word for World Is Forest 276767 160 Ursula K. Le Guin Heather 5 own-it, sci-fi, solarpunk 4.06 1972 The Word for World Is Forest
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
name: Heather
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1972
rating: 5
read at: 2019/09/01
date added: 2025/05/31
shelves: own-it, sci-fi, solarpunk
review:

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