WELCOME TO ALI’S BOOKSHELF
FAVORITES, READING WISH LIST, & RECOMMENDATIONS
CURRENTLY READING
FICTION:
IRON GOLD, PIERCE BROWN
NEXT UP:
DARK AGE
DUNE
NON-FICTION:
ON STORIES, C.S. LEWIS
NEXT UP:
ELIZABETH I: COLLECTED WORKS
UNFILTERED
THEOLOGY:
THE PROBLEM OF PAIN, C.S. LEWIS
NEXT UP:
DUNE
THE KNIFE OF NEVER LETTING GO
HISTORY:
ELIZABETH AND MARY: COUSINS, RIVALS, QUEENS, JANE DUNN
NEXT UP:
THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS: A POLITICAL HISTORY
THE CAMBRIDGE CONCISE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
NEW PURCHASES:
THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS: A POLITICAL HISTORY, MARTIN HUME & DR. ANNA GROUNDWATER
DUNE, FRANK HERBERT
WISH LIST:
THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES
DRACULA
How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
CURRENT FAVES
RED RISING
My newfound favorite of this year.
I knew before I even started chapter 1 that I’d be obsessed, give me places on Mars with Greco-Roman names & Dramatis Personae as the prologue and I’m yours for life.
“I’ll be Odysseus. You be Achilles.”
“Achilles dies in the end.”
“Then learn from his mistakes.”
–Golden Son
RATINGS & REVIEWS
MY YEAR IN READING: MMXIX
LAST YEAR’S HIGHLIGHTS
#1 FAVORITE:
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
FINALLY READ:
The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
1984, George Orwell
UNEXPECTED FAVE:
The Waves, Virginia Woolf
UNFILTERED DISAPPOINTMENTS
BEHIND THE THRONE, K.B. WAGERS
Steady entertainment turned sour when I found out there was A HUGE PLOT ELEMENT THE AUTHOR NEVER MENTIONED BUT I WAS EXPECTED TO SOMEHOW KNOW?!?
INSPIRATION
ALL-TIME FAVORITES
YA
THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS
The books that inspired me to become a novelist.
After reading City of Bones, I started saying to myself, “If she can do it, I can do it.”
CLASSICS
THREE FAVORITE CLASSIC WORKS
JANE EYRE, CHARLOTTE BRONTE
FRANKENSTEIN, MARY SHELLEY
EMMA, JANE AUSTEN
OTHER FAVES:
Daniel Deronda, George Eliot
Romeo & Juliet, William Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
KID-LIT
BOOKS OF BAYERN, SHANNON HALE
These middle-grade novels were almost solely responsible for creating my passion for fiction.
My collection is made up of different editions and versions, but this series was one of my first ventures into fantasy. Who knew it’d bring me to where I am today?
CHILDHOOD FAVORITES
THE PAST IS A PLACE IN CALIFORNIA
INSPIRATIONS FOR MY FIRST NOVEL
EXPLORE
READING LISTS
PLAN TO
Dune, Frank Herbert
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley
The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness
HOPE TO
War & Peace, Leo Tolstoy
The Dry, Jane Harper
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
ALWAYS WANTED TO
A Room with a View, E.M. Forster
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
The Iliad, Homer
ALI RAE 