I have been seeing a lot of books gaining popularity on the internet recently (thanks to BookTube & Booktok?) and therefore, I did what I always do, added them to my TBR list!

Here are some of them that I hope to read this year:

📖 Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

“In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.

We meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of this offer… but the journey into the past does not come without risks…”

📖 My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

“Our narrator should be happy, shouldn’t she? She’s young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart… It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?”

📖 I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee

“Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what to call it? - depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgmental of others…

Recording her dialogues with her psychiatrist over a twelve-week period, and expanding on each session with her own reflective micro-essays, Baek begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions, and harmful behaviors that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse.”

Let me know if you have any other recommendations! 🫶🏽