Recs if you like The Golden Notebook...
1001 Books to Read Before You Die
Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.
Books About Books 📚
Bibliophilia at its best - books about books, readers, libraries, bookstores!
Stories about Stories
This list is for stories about stories, including the more obvious "books-about-books", but also books about who gets to tell stories, what versions of stories become "truth", and other story-based themes. *While not intended to be strictly fantasy, this list does lean heavily into this genre due to my personal reading tastes. **Suggestions welcome!
Women Authors of the Nobel Prize
A year-long reading project dedicated to the women who won the Nobel Prize in Literature. By reading one book from every Nobel laureate woman, we celebrate intellectual courage and the lasting impact of women’s words across cultures and generations.
Nobel prize winners in literature (authors)
Awarded annually to an author from any country, since 1901.
This list contains popular books from all the award winning authors.
Awards from 1901 -2025
women classics
classics written by women
Postmodern books that will leave you questioning
Books that exhibit key traits of, or helped develop, the Postmodern literary movement, many of which are experiemental. Not including criticism or theory. Research trigger warnings before reading.
(Recommendations welcome)
The Guardian’s The 100 Best Novels of All Time
A list published by The Guardian on 5/16/2026, as voted on by authors, critics, and academics worldwide.
Top 100 Books! (According to The Guardian)
The Guardian Top 100 Best Novels
Time Magazine’s All-Time Best 100 Novels
Time Magazine’s All-Time Best 100 English Language Novels from 1923 to 2005 as published in 2005.
Books about books
Books about books because there are never enough books
Feminist Reading List for Sisterhood
a mix of nonfiction theory and culture writing and feminist novels
Literary Modernism
Originating in the late 1800s and continuing until the end of World War II, works of the modernism movement feature new and innovative styles, a break from traditional writing, and attempts to recontextualize literature in response to both the devastation of the series of global conflicts between 1900-1950 and the emergence of new technology, ideas, and world order. Subgenres of modernism include absurdism, surrealism, dadaism, and stream of consciousness.
Time Magazine All Time 100 Novels
Time Magazine’s compilation of the 100 best novels published since 1923.
(101 because “The Berlin Stories” is an omnibus of “Mr Norris Changes Trains” and “Goodbye To Berlin.”)
bible
Quilts
Books with seemingly disparate stories which are woven together
English 170R - Selected Obscure/Eclectic Fictions
A course syllabus for David Foster Wallace's class "English 170R-Selected Obscure/Eclectic Fictions" Spring '03
The Guardian's 100 Best Novels of All Time
In May 2026 the Guardian published a list of the 100 greatest novels published in English of all time. The list was created based on votes from authors, critics, and academics.
Due to an error, the list originally included The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley instead of The Stranger by Albert Camus. Both are included here, as an unofficial 101 best novels
Feminist Literature
Political, Cultural Stories. This is a very uneducated list as its a subject I want to delve into (in the sense of literature) that I haven't yet. I haven't read this books! please comment suggestions and collaborate on this list if it is something you are passionate about.
Normal people- every book mentioned
This is every book mentioned in Normal People by Sally Rooney
