📚 Book Stuff

I get excited when I read about other people's reading journeys. So, take this as a page of ramblings about my growing love for reading.

2023 Reading Challenge

I read 17/15 books in 2023!

📚 All the books I read in order

  1. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry
  2. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  3. The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
  4. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
  5. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
  6. Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon
  7. Keep Going by Austin Kleon
  8. How to Stand Up To A Dictator by Maria Ressa
  9. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
  10. Trese: Murder on Balete Drive by Budjette Tan
  11. You Are Here (For Now) by Adam Kurtz
  12. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
  13. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by JK Rowling
  14. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  15. The Waves by Virginia Woolf
  16. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  17. Orlando by Virginia Woolf

📌 Reading Update (04/12/23). Here are the books I've already read and am currently reading:

  1. ✅ The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry
  2. ✅ The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  3. ✅ The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
  4. ☑ Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (re-read)
  5. ☑ The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

My 2023 TBR

  1. ✅ The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
  2. ✅ The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  3. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  4. ⏳ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
  5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
  6. ✅ The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry
  7. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  8. Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
  9. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
  10. ⏳ Behave The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
  11. The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data by David Spiegelhalter
  12. ⏳ 45 Techniques Every Counselor Should Know by Bradley Erford
  13. ⏳ The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World by Haemin Sunim
  14. The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos by Primitivo Mijares
  15. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault

These are the books I plan to read this 2023. This list will probably change and I'd end up reading entirely different books but I'm listing it anyway to have something to return to. I am already reading some of the books on this list, namely, The Bell Jar, The Art of Loving, Behave, and the Half-Blood Prince (yes, simultaneously, fite me).

2022 Reading Challenge

I successfully conquered this challenge by reading 12 books in 2022

📚 All the books I read in order

  1. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
  2. Range by David Epstein
  3. Atomic Habits by James Clear
  4. 1984 by George Orwell
  5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
  6. Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
  7. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
  8. Cultish by Amanda Montell
  9. Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung
  10. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  11. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  12. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling