Bookbug

Bookbug is a book club that was created by Maple and Vashti in December 2023, and i joined in December 2024, exactly a year later. Each month we read a new book, discuss it on discord, and write about it on our respective websites. This page is dedicated to my bookbug reviews, but they have also been indexed on the reviews page.

I've arranged (nearly) every book read by the bugs by month and year. The books i have read have been marked with a tulip [🌷], and the ones i have read and reviewed will contain a link to said review. The book we are currently reading will be marked with a sunflower [🌻].

As of January '26 i've begun bundling shorter reviews into a monthly log, and a few of my bookbug review might surface there, so if a link should redirect you to a seemingly unrelated page, seek out the caterpillar [🐛] to find the bookbug review.

2026

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January

Muriel Spark,
Not to Disturb (1971)

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February

Stefan Zweig,
Chess Story (1941)

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March

Jamaica Kincaid,
Annie John (1985)

2025

🌷 January Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (1972)	🌷 February Vladimir Nabokov, Despair (1936)	March Clarice Lispector, The Apple in the Dark (1961)
🌷 April Yukio Mishima, Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956)	🌷 May Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl (1982)	June Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (1982)
🌷 July Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (1847)	August Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (1971)	September Clarice Lispector, Agua Viva (1973)
October John Fowles, The Collector (1963)	November Laszlo Kasznahorkai, The Melancholy of Resistance (1989)	December Ousmane Sembene, God's Bits of Wood (1960)

2024

🌷 January Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman (2016)	🌷 February James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room (1956)	🌷 March Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
April Fydor Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground (1864)	May Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (1967)	June Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train (1950)
🌷 July Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927)	August Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin (1957)	September Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
October Kazuo Ishiguro, Pale View of the Hills (1982)	November Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (1881)	🌷 December Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)