Recs if you like Notes from Underground...
apart / a part
literary (or literary-leaning) fiction focused specifically on isolation, disconnection, loneliness โ and what they teach us about life and humanity.
ft. recs from the community!
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Lucy Dacus Recommendations ๐
Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.
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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.
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#1 Favorite Book Submissions
Over the cold dead bodies of the Pagebound users forced to choose their ONE favorite book under manufactured duress.
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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.
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bite-sized classics
classics (including modern classics) under 200 pages
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classic shorties
For when reading a classic feels too daunting. Classics under 200 pages!
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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!
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Existential but Make It Funny
Books for when youโre laughing at life while quietly freaking out about it. Stories full of absurdity, awkwardness, and existential dread, perfect for anyone whoโs ever thought, โWTF is even happening?"
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Eastern European / Baltic / Balkan Lit โเผบ๐ฉโ ๏ธ๏ธ๐ชเผปโ
Various titles, from Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Baltic, & Balkan authors.
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Exploring Obsession
Fixations and obsessions
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Whatโs in a name?
Books where we donโt know the MCs name (they are either the narrator or nobody addresses them by their name)
recs are welcome!
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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/
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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.
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Books that feel like black coffee
Bitter, unsweetened, impossible to forget!
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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
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Masculinity in Crisis: Men, Anomie, Alienation
Literary novels that explore crises of masculinity. Particularly interested in outsiders, weirdos, and capitalist alienation in books where the self is in conflict with the masculine ideal, the masculine ideal itself is in flux, or the masculine ideal has been rendered obsolete. Protagonists must be men, they can be criminals or saints, sympathetic or malicious, angry or sad. Veering more towards novels published recently/post-WW2.
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Dostoevsky's lovers
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๐ฆClassics that still feel alive๐ฆ
These stories were written decades (sometimes centuries) ago, yet they still understand us โ love, loneliness, ambition, fear, hope. If youโve ever wanted to try classics but didnโt know where to start, this is a gentle door in.
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for when you just wanna feel WORSE
no happy endings
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