Recs if you like The Death of the Heart...

Penguin asked its readers in 2022 for the must-read classics. This is that list!

I'm going to read every book every

I guess you could call it liminal...

Books about how nature endures and carries traces of us. These stories explore our connection to the natural world through decay, memory, and renewal.

Time Magazine’s All-Time Best 100 English Language Novels from 1923 to 2005 as published in 2005.

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.”)

Books I genuinely enjoy, but likely only read because I thought it would make me look/be smarter

A compilation of underappreciated or forgotten works of (mostly British) women writers of the 20th Century.

Books that were featured on an episode of Backlisted.

Dead white women authors are my ‘guilty’ pleasure. That is, I used to feel guilty about loving them when they were all I read. Then one year (sometime in the early 2000s), I made it a point to read only Asian and African fiction. I taught myself to appreciate books from these two continents and now I read Asian and African authors as much as I do white ones. Nevertheless, these are my favourite fiction and non-fiction books by DWM. The list will grow (I’ve read a lot of DWM).