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Currently reading (3)
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations by William Ury
The Fact Checker by Austin Kelley

Mainly reads fiction books that are reflective, emotional, and dark.

Typically chooses medium-paced books that are <300 pages long.

Read recently
Yours, Eventually by Nura Maznavi
Life Hacks for a Little Alien by Alice Franklin
Creep: A Love Story by Emma van Straaten
Lion by Sonya Walger

To-Read Pile
5 starstar iconreads
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Heartstopper Volume 2 by Alice Oseman
The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries by Jessa Crispin
Human Resources: Poems by Ryann Stevenson

Challenges

2025 Reading Goal

50 books

14% (7 books)

2025 Pages Goal

10,000 pages

12% (7 books), 1,234 pages

2025 Hours Goal

150 hours

19% (7 books), 28.75 hours

Hosted challenges
The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winners

36 prompts | 2 participants | 2 books added

The PEN/ Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story Winners

47 prompts | 10 participants | 5 books added

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Winners

43 prompts | 11 participants | 43 books added

National Book Award Winners for Translated Literature

27 prompts | 12 participants | 28 books added

National Book Award Winners for Fiction

94 prompts | 59 participants | 108 books added

The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winners

18 prompts | 11 participants | 18 books added