Recs if you like Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)...
1001 Books to Read Before You Die
Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.
Lucy Dacus Recommendations 💛
Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.
Penguin's 100 Must-Read Classics
Penguin asked its readers in 2022 for the must-read classics. This is that list!
Penguin's 100 Must Read Classics
I'm going to read every book every
Pre-Information Age Transgressive Literature
Transgressive, perverted, depraved, debased writings from before the Information Age ~1967.
At times disgusting, ecstatic, abhorrent, funny, erotic, evil. Occasionally, actually way less shocking than the reaction from the time of their initial publication suggested.
Seek content warnings. I haven’t read them all and many I regret having in my brain. But I think they’re all intriguing, maybe not all important but they offer us a different view of the past.
Suggestions welcome!
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.
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.”)
Penguin's 100 Classics as Chosen by Readers
Edward Cullen’s TBR
For my soulless sparkler. You would LOVE these books.
Summer of Strange
Surreal stories for a bizarre summer
The Hipster Handbook
If you haven’t read these works, at least pretend you have.
List is from The Hipster Handbook by Robert Lanham (AKA I had this book in my own hipster days and wanted to keep a list of how many I actually read)
~ Flawless Writing ~
Heart the Lover
Every pretentious little name dropped book.
