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 🖤
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jane austen’s bookshelf
these are (some of) the books mentioned in jane austen’s bookshelf by rebecca romney, who uncovers the female authors before and of austens time that may have inspired her
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100 Gothic Classics
A list of 100 gothic classics which covers over 250 years of literature, from the high-drama castles of the 1700s to the psychological "New Gothic" of today.
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Gothic Fiction available for free on Project Gutenberg
Gothic novels and short stories in the Public Domain, available as free eBooks on gutenberg.org and standardebooks.org
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✨classics✨ for the goblins, ghouls, and monsters
All ye who enter here, To venture forth is to seek the disturbed, the wretched, the curse. You forsake the comfort for which you came from and enter into the depths of bone chilling literature. Ye hath been warned.
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Classic Eighteenth Century Books
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I Think I’m Gonna Die in this House
Somebody save her!!!!
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reading for gothic literature class
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