Recs if you like Venus in Furs...

Just a fun little list of books that have inspired songs. Please list the book and the song with the artist in your suggestions, or if it's a concept album based on a book, just include the book and the album with the artist. I will not be including any books by JKR, Neil Gaiman, or Orson Scott Card, or songs by Iced Earth. Will not be adding musicals based on books, songs written for films based on books, or songs that are classic poems to music.

Transgressive, perverted, depraved, debased writings from before the Information Age ~1967.

At times disgusting, ecstatic, abhorrent, funny, erotic, evil. Occasionally, actually way less shocking than the reaction from the time of their initial publication suggested.

Seek content warnings. I haven’t read them all and many I regret having in my brain. But I think they’re all intriguing, maybe not all important but they offer us a different view of the past.

Suggestions welcome!

Books where obsession and power dynamics are central themes.

Pairings books to read together two at a time to create a better understanding of the book and a better analysis of the themes, concepts either through harmony or friction. *Will comment the core theme exploration point for each if anyone’s interested 💛

Everyone hates a psychosexual relationship until they got a really good one going

popular, semi popular or once popular german language lit that I find interesting. also, schiller >>> goethe, so no faust 😊

[this list is in progress] !!