Recs if you like Steppenwolf...
1001 Books to Read Before You Die
Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.
Bleakness Is My Weakness
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!
Classic Literature around the World
The intention of this list is to highlight classic literature from around the World. This is excluding the USA and UK from this list because they get enough attention. (Just kidding but also... not 🤭)
Curated by the PB community from 🔗this PB club post please check out this club post for the original recommendation and any possible additions that I haven't added to the list.
Any suggestions welcome! I am special requesting suggestions from Central and South America, Africa, and Asia. As long as the book is considered classic literature in your country, I want to hear about it!
German Classic Literature
a non-exhaustive collection of works
Books that defined & influenced their genres
A collection of books that impacted the future of their own genre. ✨️please make recommendations✨️ (Picking emojis for this was hard)
Exploring Obsession
Fixations and obsessions
Kafkaesque
: of, relating to, or suggestive of Franz Kafka or his writings especially: having a nightmarishly complex, bizarre, or illogical quality
Kafka’s books examine themes of anxiety, alienation, and the powerlessness of the individual. This list includes titles with similar subject matter.
ennui
capturing feelings of discontent, dissatisfaction, or existentialism one book at a time
No one knows how to be alive
A collection of books about people who are lost inside themselves. Alienated, detached, depressed, searching, unraveling or simply trying to figure out what the hell it means to be alive.
destigmatizing mental health
books on mental health that alleviate judgment and encourage empathy, sometimes with humor, sometimes with an allegorical plot, and mostly with immersive, insightful storytelling.
Tough Guy Book Club
All books read by Tough Guy Book Club since 2014. The club that wants men to Read More, Talk More, and have more Friends.
intellectually deliciousss
here to make your brain cells tingle !! stories that unravel and take root in your mind as time goes on
Beautiful Melancholy
For when you want to curl up with a sad story that'll quietly break your heart, but may also remind you how beautiful life can be.
Strong Impressions
a list of books that left me with a really strong impression, so that I can vividly remember how I felt while reading them; cannot describe it in any other way but they left me with a feeling of strangeness
Pynchon adjacent
Books that kinda scratch the Pynchon itch. Pls suggest more
Unmendable
“I can fix you”
er ist's.
wenn wir uns selbst fehlen, fehlt uns doch alles.
Counterpunch's 100 Best Novels, in Translation, Since 1900
