Recs if you like The Decameron...
books to claim to have read to look insufferable
puts beret on a jaunty angle ‘why yes i went to Oxbridge and go skiing on my holibobs with papa, why do you ask?’ takes a hit of tobacco flavoured vape, puts asterisk in margin of the obscure classic i’m ‘reading’
the list for people who want to look ‘well read’ and need some books to name drop - look no further if you have read them, more power to you, but this is explicitly about the people who claim to have read them but can’t read instructions on pasta
consider this a shopping list 🖤
Italian Classic Literature
a non-exhaustive collection of works
medieval literature for beginner’s
A list of medieval classics for those who are new to the genre. This list isn’t fully finished; recommendations welcome!
Long Classics
People who like to read long books rise up! These are classics that are longer than 500 Pages. Feel free to recommend more!
Literature Major Curriculum
I study literature and this has been my curriculum through the years. OBS: Curriculums change depending on school and country, etc. Updating as I go along.
The black death
Slowly adding books that are about/set during the 14th century outbreak of plague
Italian Literature ⊹ ࣪✧₊⁺🇮🇹⋆.˚🕰️୨ৎ
Recommendations welcomed! This list will be updated as needed.
7 Deadly Sins: Lust
Books where obsession and power dynamics are central themes.
Medieval Girl Summer
I send a pestilence and plague
into your house into your bed into your streams into your streets into your drink into your bread upon your cattle on your sheep upon your oxen in your field into your dreams into your sleep until you break until you yield
summer reads
stories of excess, sensuality, pleasure, adventure, reactivity, and eros, as well as stories that reflect the feeling of a summer holiday or the lethargy and fatigue of late summer
So your niche interest is the plague
Nonfiction and fiction about the black plague
Classic literature from italy🇮🇹 💐
WIP! recommendations open🌺💗
Surviving Romanian Literature
Trying to pass my exams
Books in “ a little history of literature”
added as i read the book
pandemics
dystopian, fictional books about pandemics. wear a respirator friends <3
my 2027 reading menu
Rather than a TBR I like to have a list of menu options
Eccentric literature
Narration interrupted by the narrator, bawdy humor, irreverence, plot development prioritized over content, genre failure, parody... If you can think of other titles, they are welcome to the list!
shelf
all the books I own
Books mentioned in No 6
Not finished yet
