Recs if you like In Search of Lost Time...

size matters for this list, all these classics are more than 400 pages long. they are THICK. suggestions welcome, i am a very generous interpreter of the term "classic" normally but i'm starting with the golden oldies

Texts that teachers at Texas Tech have been warned not to teach

a non-exhaustive collection of works

A collection of books that impacted the future of their own genre. ✨️please make recommendations✨️ (Picking emojis for this was hard)

A list published by The Guardian on 5/16/2026, as voted on by authors, critics, and academics worldwide.

The Guardian Top 100 Best Novels

Every book or author mentioned in Ruth Ozeki’s “A Tale for the Time Being” in one convenient place

A list to deepen one’s understanding of cross-literary conversation from a 21st century author.

I created this list in the spirit of one of the central themes of the novel, that being that literature is a conversation through space and time. Writing is a kind of time travel, if only just to the future, and reading is one to the past.

Books that are banned, censored, removed from bookshops, marketplaces, and libraries, and writers that are considered as a threat to the authorities. Some called it a "Fahrenheit list".

the most beloved of classics!

a collection of fiction and nonfiction texts on gender, race, culture, history, politics that feel like absolute must reads

This website ranks global literature using "best of lists" from over 700 sources. I compiled this list with the nonfiction % set to 50%.

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

Books that read like a fluid stream of thought in a narrators mind. Comment your recommendations! I'm looking to expand on this list.

the popular books from tartt's favorite authors, alongside works specifically recommended by her. (as mentioned on tartt's Rivista Studio interview mainly, compiled very graciously by tumblr user ambxtxo)

Because if I can’t have my library full of Teyvat’s books, I may as well fill it with the inspiration.

Rory's books seen or mentioned in the series.