Recs if you like 2666...
Niche Classics
Overlooked, lesser known classics from all over the world and of many genres.
This list also exists as a book club on Fable under the same name.
NYT Readers' Best 100 Books of the 21st Century
A mix of reader favorites and editorial picks from The New York Times—100 books that defined the 21st century.
half-glimpsed images: the novel in fragments
the fragmentary novel is constructed of fragments or vignettes, typically following images, thoughts, and feelings over a sequential series of events. in a world of disruption, displacement, and of time being swallowed and spat out by the machines of capitalism and colonialism, the fragmentary novel offers an alternative structure.
title borrowed from jenny offill. recommendations welcome.
Bleakness Is My Weakness
For when you need to wallow in melancholy and misery: a collection of pessimistic, cynical, downbeat, depressing, doom and gloom fiction for my disillusioned friends.
More to come!
Got the holiday blues? Check out my list Christmas with the Cranks!
TIME’s 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books
TIME’s list of “the most gripping, twist-filled, satisfying, and influential mystery and thriller books” running all the way back to the 1800s
NYT Reader's Choice Top 100 21st Century
NYT Top 100 of the 21st Century: Reader's Choice. In order as published in 2024
NYT Top 100 Books of the 21st Century
In order from #1 (My Brilliant Friend) to 100 (Tree of Smoke)
English Major Humiliation Ritual
For pretentious academics, by pretentious academics, against pretentious academics.
experimental lit
books with an experimental structure or narrative choices, metafiction, oulipo, postmodernism, etc.
I Like Big Books...
...and I cannot lie.
Mammoth books over 800 pages!
Disturbing Novel Iceberg - Tier 2
Tier 2 from the disturbing novel iceberg, inspired by the disturbing movie iceberg.
More taboo themes, more gore, and books that stick with you long after reading.
Postmodern literature
Books that exhibit key traits of, or helped develop, the Postmodern literary movement.
Not including criticism or theory.
Research trigger warnings before reading.
(Recommendations welcome)
NYT’s The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
A list published in 2024 by the New York Times, as voted on by 503 novelists, poets, critics, and other book lovers—with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review
The city is a character
litfic books where the city plays a big role
A Brief Research Project on God
Fiction that uses every means at its disposal to detail the Deity. MLA Formatted.
100 Best of the 21st Century
according to the New York Times
Classical Latin American Literature
NYT Readers' Choice Best Books of the 21st Century
How many have you read?
Sprawl; or an excessive Horizontality
New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century
The list of the 100 best books of the 21st century from the New York Times
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