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+#+TODO: WANT(w) READING(r) | READ(d) ABANDONED(a)
+
+* WANT The Left Hand of Darkness
+:PROPERTIES:
+:AUTHOR:  Ursula K. Le Guin
+:ISBN:    978-0441478125
+:COVER:   covers/left-hand.jpg
+:FORMAT:  ebook
+:REC_BY:  Alex
+:REC_NOTE: Le Guin at her most human
+:RATING:  
+:ADDED:   [2026-04-01]
+:ID:      9a2b-lhd
+:END:
+
+* WANT Dune
+:PROPERTIES:
+:AUTHOR:  Frank Herbert
+:ISBN:    978-0441172719
+:COVER:   covers/dune.jpg
+:FORMAT:  hardcover
+:REC_BY:  Everyone
+:REC_NOTE: 
+:RATING:  
+:ADDED:   [2026-05-10]
+:ID:      7f3c-dun
+:END:
+
+* WANT Piranesi
+:PROPERTIES:
+:AUTHOR:  Susanna Clarke
+:ISBN:    
+:COVER:   
+:FORMAT:  
+:REC_BY:  
+:REC_NOTE: 
+:RATING:  
+:ADDED:   [2026-06-01]
+:ID:      5e8d-pir
+:END:
+
+* READING Use of Weapons
+:PROPERTIES:
+:AUTHOR:  Iain M. Banks
+:ISBN:    978-0316029193
+:COVER:   covers/use-of-weapons.jpg
+:FORMAT:  audiobook
+:REC_BY:  Priya
+:REC_NOTE: If you liked Player of Games, this one will wreck you
+:RATING:  
+:ADDED:   [2026-02-20]
+:ID:      8c1e-uow
+:END:
+:LOGBOOK:
+- State "READING" from "WANT" [2026-03-01]
+:END:
+- [2026-03-02] The two-track structure is doing something I can't name yet.
+- [2026-03-07] Zakalwe's competence reads as a wound.
+- [2026-03-09] The chapter numbering. Oh.
+
+* READ Ancillary Justice
+:PROPERTIES:
+:AUTHOR:  Ann Leckie
+:ISBN:    978-0316246620
+:COVER:   covers/ancillary.jpg
+:FORMAT:  ebook
+:REC_BY:  
+:REC_NOTE: 
+:RATING:  5
+:ADDED:   [2025-11-15]
+:ID:      3a1b-aj
+:END:
+:LOGBOOK:
+- State "READ" from "READING" [2026-01-10]
+- State "READING" from "WANT" [2025-11-20]
+:END:
+- [2025-11-22] The pronoun game is a genuinely fresh take on identity.
+- [2025-12-05] Justice of Toren's multi-body perspective is unsettling.
+- [2026-01-08] The tea set. Perfect ending.