Recs if you like All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)...
Fluent in Spanglish // Hablo espanglΓ©s
Books that use the language itself as a narrative and literary device, switching from English to Spanish and back again in a variety of ways, from light sprinklings for flavor and atmosphere to requiring the reader to be functionally bilingual to fully understand. Suggestions always welcome!
Literary Fiction for Recovering Horse Girls
I can promise you there will be horses in these books. I cannot promise you will enjoy how they are in these books.
Hell is other (young) people
Unsettling or gritty books featuring portraits of troubled youth, with varying elements of horror.
Everythingβs Bigger in Texas
Books that take place in the Lone Star State
The Wild West
Classic Western novels set in the Frontier. If you liked Red Dead Redemption, read these books.
Includes fiction and non-fiction
your dad has most likely watched the live actions
(bonus points if he made you watch them with him!)
Westerns
Cowboys, horses, and native Americans
Books to identify myself by
Books Iβm willing to make my entire personality Or that I think about regularly despite the passage of time and my short attention span
Gilmore Girls Complete Reading List
The Folio Society Collection
A list of all the books that the Folio Society has made special editions of.
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy
TikTok to Faulkner
I saw a Josh Johnson tiktok about getting through the American Literary tradition and wanted to make this list to track the 14 recommended readings in order.
Link to the order to read in: https://compendiumshow.substack.com/p/a-readers-guide-from-tiktok-to-faulkner
Maeve Wiley + Rory Gilmore
Maeve Wiley (Sex Education) + Rory Gilmore (Gilmore girls)
Where To Start With: A Handy Guide by the Guardian
The first book from each of the authors profiled as part of the Guardianβs βWhere to start withβ series. https://www.theguardian.com/books/series/where-to-start-with
Each book represents the chosen entry point.
Read (June 2026 onwards)
Books of Literary Merit
Great for AP Literature, going to college, or tastefully expanding your library.
