Recs if you like Antigone...

Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.

I'm including books where a character's presence is minimal and every character, conflict, and theme leads back to them. Their absence feels loud. Their past decisions shape the present.

Open for recommendations that meet these parameters 💓 I haven't read all the books in this list but feel fairly confident about their inclusion here, if you believe one of these doesn't fit feel free to discuss in the comments

All fiction books that appear in the Tiny Bookshop catalogue! Would sort them by genre as I read along.

Some of the oldest stories/texts in the world

Here's a list of every book I studied, read, or was reccomended to read as part of my Writing and Literature BA - for eager academics, fellow writers & nostagic graduates💕 Let's milk my education💪

writers exploring life under war or dictatorship often explore these themes through the image of the desecrated corpse or perverted burial rite. the dead body is front and centre in these works, mostly from writers in the global south.

Have you read Modern Greek Myth Retellings and want to read the source of the information and myths or heard something online about a Greek Myth and wasn't sure if it's true and you don't know where to start. Here's this list Epics along with plays

Notes in the margins are a must. — Me, a neurotic literature degree holder

titles named after the main character of the novel.

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.

A study of the past

Shakespeare ain't the only playwright worth reading

A reading list that I thought I’d share consisting of all the books on the Brink Literacy Project’s tarot deck. I’m going for completionist and this is here for anyone who’d like to keep track and do the same, or who wants to read classic literature paired with tarot cards 🤗

(Apart from the first five, all books are in order, starting with the Major Arcana, and moving Ace to King through the Wands, Cups, Swords, and then Pentacles suit).

classic plays written in ancient greece

All the books in the little black classic collection from Penguin.

some of the most popular plays across centuries that everyone must read at least once in their lifetime

A collection classic works written in Ancient Greek, ranging from plays to novels to poetry.

Everything I read during my Classics BA at KCL

Probably auditioned with a monologue from one of these

List of Greek tragedies that have survived time for us to read (and the Satyr play Cyclops by Euripides). The works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.