Recs if you like Tropic of Cancer...

Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.

Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.

Penguin asked its readers in 2022 for the must-read classics. This is that list!

I'm going to read every book every

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 English Language Novels from 1923 to 2005 as published in 2005.

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.”)

For my soulless sparkler. You would LOVE these books.

Surreal stories for a bizarre summer

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)

Every pretentious little name dropped book.