Recs if you like Goodbye to Berlin...

In honor of my Canadian queen Catherine O'Hara tragically passing away today, I wept (literally, I am unwell, y'all), and then felt inspired to make a list of books that I think Moira would like. Please give me ideas, I am thinking books that are/contain the following: dramatic and theatrical, VERBOSE vocabulary paired with profanity, female rage/female empowerment, sly humor, dark and twisty, possible nods to The Industry, excellent accessories required.

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

Stories that traded chapters for showtunes! From literary classics to contemporary novels these books found a second life under the Broadway lights! Please let me know any that I've missed!! (Note on curation: I've been cross checking titles with Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) which is Broadway's official archive)

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 🖤

Books featuring LGBTQ+ characters and/or themes that are considered to be classics in one way or another

The queer agenda has taken over your English lesson and the compulsory reading list to make you disgustingly educated and gay af 🏳️‍🌈 p.s. fierce allies welcome

Will keep updating the curriculum, CLASS IS IN SESSION 🔊

As a massive bookworm and theatre nerd, this list was inevitable.

Queer backlist fiction, written before the 2000s

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.”)

Theater has long drawn inspiration from books, with works across time, genre, and subject matter having stage adaptations. You're sure to know some big names, but others might surprise you! How many have you seen?

List of classics for those interested in the genre.

Every book that has been adapted into a movie covered by the Blank Check podcast

a list for autofiction and meta-fiction ☆ books where the main character is the narrator/author, or the main character is aware of such fact

warning: 4th walls will be broken

A reading list compiled by the author and shared in 2015.

I want to diversify my reading expierience to broaden my horrizon. So i wanna read as many books from as many different countries as possible ✨️💕

It's not limited to a genre so it may get a little wild, i'll try to update as i go along 🤍

Books about and set during the Weimar era, including those from the era.

You’re a mirrorball, sometimes it doesn’t feel so glamorous, it’s hard to be at a party when you feel like an open wound, cry your eyes violet, you’re down bad crying at the gym, it was not convenient, if they call you a "slut!" it might as well be worth it for once, they told you all of your cages were mental so you got wasted like all your potential, if the shoe fits walk in it 'til your high heels break, they kicked out the stage lights but you’re still performing, your hometown skeptics called it champagne problems, say you’ll remember me