The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
My personal favourite from her, but whenever anyone asks which of her books to read, I still say The Secret History. My copy of TGF is from Shakespeare and Co, so it has the cool little stamp, but unfortunatley I spilled a purple highlighter over it.
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Just as amazing as the film. So well written, and it’s a short and easy read. I’ve decided I’m going to annotate my copy soon, I’m completely obsessed to the point of it being irritating to the people around me.
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Insanely basic, I know, but the Fig Tree analogy just really resonated with me. I have two copies of the book, one is illustrated, and it’s one of my prettiest.
Anyway, I know I have insanely basic favourites, so if anyone has any recs similar to these lmkkkk 🤗
Sep 25, 2024
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(in no order / hierarchy)
crush - richard siken
fahrenheit 451 - ray bradbury
devotions - mary oliver (or any of her stuff)
annihilation - jeff vandermeer
we do this til we free us - mariame kaba
hunger games series - suzanne collins (the nostalgiaaa but also genuinely good)
this is water - david foster wallace (it’s a book but not technically a book i guess?)
dear god. dear bones. dear yellow. - noor hindi
this is how you lose the time war - amal el-montar & max gladstone
the prophet - khalil gibran
pride & prejudice - jane austen
the tragedy of heterosexuality - jane ward
sharp objects - gillian flynn
the great gatsby - f. scott fitzgerald
elite capture: how the powerful took over identity politics - olúfémi o. táíwò
Sep 24, 2024
I answered someone’s ask with my favorite books but thought I would make a post with them, too. I’m a pretty strict book rater, so I don’t have a ton of five star books but I’m going to list a few of my favorites in a variety of genres in case you haven‘t read them yet. I’m going to link a couple that I especially loved:
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut - This is one of those books that if I could read any book for the first time again, it would be this one.
We Are All the Same in the Dark by Julia Heaberlin - Such an amazing book, mystery/thriller/contemporary suspense.
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote - This one is true crime and it kind of broke my heart but that’s also how you know the writer did a good job sometimes, especially with non-fiction.
Crush by Richard Siken - This one is one of my favorite poetry collections. I also love the collected poems of T.S. Eliot for poetry.
Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh - The story of a young sociologist studying a Chicago gang from the inside. This is a very unique read.
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle - If you haven’t already read it, it’s such a good read. I know Sherlock Holmes is something that’s been re-adapted so many times in media but the actual books are so well-written, fun, witty.
And if you read one of these you totally have to come back and let me know what you thought!
Jan 21, 2025
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Favorite books in no real order
•Gilgamesh (David ferry translation)
•The passion according to GH by Clarice lispector
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Burton Raffel translation)
•le princesse de Clèves by mme de Lafayette
•mrs dalloway//Orlando//the waves - all by virginia Woolf
•paradise lost by John Milton
•autobiography of red by Anne Carson
•the poetics of space by gaston bachelard
•house of leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
•theory of colors//metamorphosis of plants by Goethe
•meno//symposium//republic by Plato
•ethics of ambiguity By simone de beauvoir
•invisible monsters by chuck Palahniuk
Bonus: not a book but: the wasteland by ts Elliot
Sep 24, 2024
Top Recs from @layla
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Video someone you love whilst they talk. Record the sound of the birds singing at your grandparents’ house, the sound of traffic in the distance. Write about literally anything, or even just make notes of what you think. Make shitty art, whether it’s poetry or painting or music. One day, you’ll be glad that you have more than just photos to remember your life by; there’ll be evidence you lived.
May 17, 2024
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I can’t cope I need more movies I need to watch them I need to log them I need to rate them I need to review them I need to read everyone else‘s cooler and more witty reviews
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