Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
mel
https://www.goodreads.com/melinda_reads
to-read
(177)
currently-reading (7)
read (250)
did-not-finish (6)
food-writing (0)
fantasy (66)
nonfiction (61)
young-adult (52)
currently-reading (7)
read (250)
did-not-finish (6)
food-writing (0)
fantasy (66)
nonfiction (61)
young-adult (52)
romance
(24)
self-help (24)
contemporary (20)
favourites (19)
romantasy (16)
historical-fiction (13)
mythology-retellings (13)
classics (11)
self-help (24)
contemporary (20)
favourites (19)
romantasy (16)
historical-fiction (13)
mythology-retellings (13)
classics (11)
“Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead."
"Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.”
― Clockwork Angel
"Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.”
― Clockwork Angel
“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
― The Last Olympian
― The Last Olympian
“Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women.”
― Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
― Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
mel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at mel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
138 books
|
3 friends
761 books
|
44 friends
1,792 books
|
13 friends
138 books
|
36 friends
614 books
|
32 friends
13 books
|
1 friend
30 books
|
1 friend
188 books
|
4 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by mel
Lists liked by mel