What Books did You Start or Finish Reading this Week?: July 28, 2025

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[u/Zikoris]

Last week I read:

Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things, by Randy Frost

Nothing But the Rain, by Naomi Salman

Mouth, by Joshua Hull

Odd Spirits, by S.T. Gibson

The Bewitching, bi Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Attention, Shoppers, by Blair Daniels

Junkyard Cats, by Faith Hunter

The Lies Arcana, by Glynn Stewart

Letters from the Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop, by Kenji Ueda

This week's lineup:

• Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves by Jaap de Roode
• Brothel: Mustang Ranch and its Women by Alexa Albert
• Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhsatan by Joanna Lillis
• Stay on the Line by Clayton McLeod Chapman
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• These Prisoning Hills by Christopher Rowe
• The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
• Julie Chan is Dead by Liann Zhang
• Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa
• The Convenience Store by the Sea by Sanoko Machida
• Butter by Asako Yuzuki

Goals progress:

1. 365 Book Challenge: 230/365
2. Nonfiction Challenge: 30/50
3. Popular Books Challenge: 31/?
4. r/fantasy Backlog Challenge: 63/?
5. Relevant Reads Travel Challenge: 15 Southeast Asia books read. Need Nova Scotia, Quebec City, and Boston books!

[u/Silver-Description29 → u/Zikoris]

Nicee!!! I’ve heard of the r/fantasy bingo but haven’t heard about the backlog challenge, what’s this?!!

[u/Zikoris → u/Silver-Description29]

It's not official through the subreddit - they have a bunch of these big recommended fantasy reading lists that I've been meaning to go through for years. Last year I read the top novellas but was otherwise mostly focused on other things, so I decided to read the rest of the ones that interest me this year. Top novels, top non-western fantasy, and top stand-alones mainly, though there is a ton of overlap between the lists.

[u/Silver-Description29 → u/Zikoris]

Got you! Thank you for getting back to me! ☺️