Mae McDermott

https://maekelsamcdermott.wordpress.com/

https://www.goodreads.com/maekm4

Mae’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (364)
currently-reading‎ (5)
read‎ (184)
to-read-fiction‎ (81)
penguin-random-house‎ (51)
ladieeeez‎ (46)
to-read-graphic‎ (45)
ich-liebe‎ (44)
building-a-canon‎ (38)
to-read-poetry‎ (33)
that-shit-hurt‎ (32)
hello-beautiful-writing‎ (31)

that-s-gayyyy‎ (25)
simon-schuster‎ (19)
harpercollins‎ (17)
macmillan‎ (14)
to-read-nonfiction‎ (14)
hachette‎ (10)
to-read-essays‎ (9)
dark-horse-comics‎ (7)
the-mental-health-shelf‎ (7)
to-read-stories‎ (6)
it-s-called-book-learning‎ (5)
knopf-publishing‎ (5)

first-second‎ (4)
grove-atlantic‎ (4)
scholastic‎ (4)
graywolf-press‎ (3)
w-w-norton‎ (3)
abrams-books‎ (2)
boom-studios‎ (2)
milkweed-editions‎ (2)
oni-press‎ (2)
to-read-hybrid‎ (2)
two-dollar-radio‎ (2)
uchicago-press‎ (2)

ugly-duckling-presse‎ (2)
alice-james-books‎ (1)
bloomsbury‎ (1)
boa-editions‎ (1)
broadview-press‎ (1)
cavankerry-press‎ (1)
chickadee-books‎ (1)
coffee-house-press‎ (1)
copper-canyon-press‎ (1)
dalkey-archive-press‎ (1)
dreamspinner-press‎ (1)
farrar-straus-and-giroux‎ (1)

Stats | More…

Mae is Currently Reading

Mae McDermott is currently reading

Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)

by Agatha Christie

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Nov 21, 2025 10:55AM

Mae McDermott is currently reading

Felon: Poems

by Reginald Dwayne Betts

bookshelves: w-w-norton, to-read-poetry, currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Aug 31, 2025 11:49AM

Mae McDermott is currently reading

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

bookshelves: currently-reading, ladieeeez

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Jun 08, 2025 12:26PM

See all 5 books that Mae is reading…

“From a young age, her life has been abnormal; she knows that. But so much is covered over in time now, the way leaves fall and cover a piece of earth, and eventually mingle with the soil. Things that happened to her then are buried in the earth of her body.”
― Sally Rooney

1 likes

“A lot of times when I think I’m being self-sufficient, I’m really just learning to live without the things that I need.”
― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here

155 likes

“I was yours before we even met and I’ll be yours until we die.”
― K. Ancrum, Icarus

12 likes

“I was made for you; I was born for you, and you’re still standing before me acting like you’re not worthy.”
― K. Ancrum, Icarus

6 likes

“You think I’d know art, and not know this?” Icarus said. He pressed closer, still. “There have been men like you before we had words for it.”
― K. Ancrum, Icarus

9 likes

More of Mae’s quotes…