Recs if you like Notes from Underground...
apart / a part
literary (or literary-leaning) fiction focused specifically on isolation, disconnection, loneliness — and what they teach us about life and humanity.
ft. recs from the community!
Lucy Dacus Recommendations 💛
Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.
assigned by frankie
almost every single book mentioned* on Frankie's Shelf youtube channel because their taste is wild and i love it.
updated as frankie posts. *mentioned as in the book is the focus of the video, listened in the description, or offhandedly said.
✨#1 Favorite Book✨ Submissions
Submissions submissively submitted by the Pagebound users forced to choose their ONE favorite book under manufactured duress.
The Big Bad Luddite Novel*
ANTI: fascism, ai, nfts, Big Tech, billionaires, surveillance states, optimization, algorithms, bot farms, technofeudalism, enshittification, exploitation, extractionism, planned obsolescence PRO: organized labor, punk, analog, solidarity, free speech, friction, degrowth, experimentation, right to privacy, right to repair, diy, material process, mutual aid, ecological living, the human hand, the human mind
*Short stories welcome. Looking for nonfiction? Check out The Big Bad Luddite List.
classic shorties
For when reading a classic feels too daunting. Classics under 200 pages!
bite-sized classics
classics (including modern classics) under 200 pages
Bleakness Is My Weakness
For when you need to wallow in melancholy and misery: a collection of pessimistic, cynical, downbeat, depressing, doom and gloom fiction for my disillusioned friends.
More to come!
Got the holiday blues? Check out my list Christmas with the Cranks!
Existential but Make It Funny
Books for when you’re laughing at life while quietly freaking out about it. Stories full of absurdity, awkwardness, and existential dread, perfect for anyone who’s ever thought, “WTF is even happening?"
English Major Humiliation Ritual
For pretentious academics, by pretentious academics, against pretentious academics.
Eastern European / Baltic / Balkan Lit ⋆༺𓆩☠︎︎𓆪༻⋆
Various titles, from Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Baltic, & Balkan authors.
Exploring Obsession
Fixations and obsessions
What’s in a name?
Books where we don’t know the MCs name (they are either the narrator or nobody addresses them by their name)
recs are welcome!
Books Referenced on LOST
Books mentioned or seen on ABC's LOST. List was compiled with the help of the coyote club. If you'd like a citation of a specific book being mentioned and how it relates to the show, click through to the list there. https://coyotemercury.com/the-lost-book-club/
Literature Major Curriculum
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.
Books that feel like black coffee
Bitter, unsweetened, impossible to forget!
books to give you aura points on your commute
whether you want to read performatively or invite a conversation or just read really cool books
No one knows how to be alive
A collection of books about people who are lost inside themselves. Alienated, detached, depressed, searching, unraveling or simply trying to figure out what the hell it means to be alive.
Dostoevsky's lovers
for when you just wanna feel WORSE
no happy endings
