Recs if you like Long Day’s Journey into Night...

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!

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

A list of notable plays written throughout history. Not only do these make for great stage productions, they're also fantastic reads.

Marilyn Monroe was known as an avid reader with a deep love of literature. She took literature courses at UCLA, married a playwright, and was (in?)famously photographed reading Ulysses in a park. It's said that her divorce to Arthur Miller stemmed from an incident in which he insulted her intelligence. Supposedly, she amassed a 1000+ book collection at the height of her reading that she was very proud of. Here are the books known to be a part of her beloved personal library.

plays I think everyone should read! special attention paid to: scripts you can still get a lot out of with just what’s on the page, careful curation from our most prolific/famous playwrights, diversity in many forms

These authors won for all their life’s work, but here’s each of their most notable books to get you started!

Not all authors are listed.

:D Maybe you'll like some variety not seen from booktok