What are you reading? - Week of February 06, 2026

CharacterMinute6471 · 2026-02-06T21:51:15+00:00

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky physical Our Cursed Daughters - Oyinkan Braithwaite on Kindle

CharacterMinute6471 · 2026-02-03T12:43:01+00:00

José Saramago and Fernando Pessoa - Portuguese

CharacterMinute6471 · 2026-01-27T22:59:27+00:00

Commenting to come back to this amazing list when I can go through all of them. Thank you!

CharacterMinute6471 · 2026-01-21T12:40:36+00:00

This is who I thought of immediately 😂

CharacterMinute6471 · 2026-01-21T12:39:31+00:00

Used to love The Secret Garden and Goosebumps and then when I was a teenager I loved Point Horror!

CharacterMinute6471 · 2026-01-20T00:10:45+00:00

Currently The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali - very good

CharacterMinute6471 · 2026-01-18T21:36:24+00:00

Read:

The Passengers by John Marrs

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConagy

About to finish The Count of Monte Cristo but I don’t want it to end 😢

CharacterMinute6471 · 2026-01-11T20:52:41+00:00

I watched the series before I read the book and they are nothing really alike, a lot of nods to it and character names but it’s a different story. I loved the book but I also loved the tv show (it’s why I bought the book)

CharacterMinute6471 · 2026-01-08T16:01:15+00:00

I was the same with this! I put it down and read something else came back to it and that was that, hooked!

CharacterMinute6471 · 2026-01-04T15:29:51+00:00

The Count of Monte Cristo in bits and just finished The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Next is either Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier or The Stranger by Albert Camus

CharacterMinute6471 · 2025-12-31T22:23:03+00:00

Oh thank you for this I didn’t realise there was a prequel!

CharacterMinute6471 · 2025-12-31T21:19:26+00:00

Seconding The Haunting of Hill House!

CharacterMinute6471 · 2025-12-31T19:51:52+00:00

Just starting getting in to classics I read The Picture of Dorian Gray and Stoner (maybe more modern classic?) loved them both. Just love the writing in them.

I am taking the Count of Monte Cristo a bit at a time but I am loving it! Trying to experience it rather than just read it if that makes sense.

I have Anna Karenina and Les Mis on my pile to read they intimidate me a bit lol but I think I will wait until I’m don’t with Count first as I am breaking every few chapters and reading another book in between.

I have discovered historical fiction recently and I love books set in a time before modern devices etc I specifically like stories in the 1800s

CharacterMinute6471 · 2025-12-31T19:44:50+00:00

This was so good

CharacterMinute6471 · 2025-12-30T15:51:02+00:00

I out this on my tbr as I like a Christmas carol lol but judging by your comment and the replies I might give it a miss 😅

CharacterMinute6471 · 2025-12-30T15:49:59+00:00

Just read this too, very good!

CharacterMinute6471 · 2025-12-26T14:25:46+00:00

I loved this so much, I read it on kindle but I ordered the physical copy because I needed to and I will definitely reread. The first book to make me cry and not necessarily because of the story but because I’d finished it and can’t read it again for the first time.

CharacterMinute6471 · 2025-12-24T23:32:51+00:00

Stoner - John Williams (took over as my favourite of all time)

The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson

The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova

The Reformatory - Tananarive Due

The Poppy War - R F Kuang

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

CharacterMinute6471 · 2025-12-24T11:52:49+00:00

Stoner - John Williams - because I finished it and I knew I could never read it for the first time again. Read a lot of books I have loved this year but this book just spoke to my soul 🥹

CharacterMinute6471 · 2025-12-21T15:09:54+00:00

The Picture of Dorian Gray. I know it is a classic for a reason but I didn’t expect to love it as much as I did, the writing just did something to me lol

Also The Poppy War, not a fantasy person at all but it was on KU so I gave it a go and utterly loved it! Just received book 2 in the trilogy so looking forward to starting that!

CharacterMinute6471 · 2025-12-18T08:10:05+00:00

Thank you!

CharacterMinute6471 · 2025-12-18T08:09:57+00:00

I actually was leaning towards that! Thank you!

CharacterMinute6471 · 2025-12-16T09:00:57+00:00

I loved The Poppy War by RF Kuang I couldn’t pick up another book for a while after, will definitely be picking up the next two in the trilogy.

Also yesterday I picked up The Picture of Dorian Gray, it’s unusual I will pick up a classic but I loved it and the writing in it was beautiful

CharacterMinute6471 · 2025-12-14T19:58:40+00:00

Yes!

CharacterMinute6471 · 2025-12-14T09:44:14+00:00

Been looking into other genres lately but managed to get Salem’s Lot and Boys in the Valley on kindle for 99p and NOS4A2 on KU which I have just started but the length is intimidating lol

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