80,072 books
—
298,184 voters
Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
“Why are you so beautiful, do you think? So hungry? So able to bend the wills of those around you? You are like the death flowers that grow rampant in your wake: lovely to look at, intoxicating even, but get too close and you will soon learn that there is something rank beneath. That’s what beauty often is, in nature. A warning. A disguise.”
― House of Hollow
― House of Hollow
“Nothing in her life had ever been neat or ordered. She slammed through the world, a tornado in the form of a girl, and left a trail of destruction behind her.”
― House of Hollow
― House of Hollow
“Grey was lightning, Vivi was thunder and I was the sea in the tempest.”
― House of Hollow
― House of Hollow
“Perhaps it is always restful to be around someone who does not expect anything from you beyond what is in your nature.”
― Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
― Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
“Here, then, is a central paradox in the way that ghosts work: to turn the living into ghosts is to empty them out, rob them of something vital; to keep the dead alive as ghosts is to fill them up with memory and history, to keep alive a thing that would otherwise be lost.”
― Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
― Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Moka’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Moka’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Moka
Lists liked by Moka