Recs if you like Universal Harvester...

"What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight." — Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love

Fiction that embodies the experience of being Midwestern and full of big feelings: depression, yearning, being lost in a cornfield

audiobooks where the narrator is the author! any book goes, no matter the genre. there may be multiple versions of the audiobook, but at least one version has the author as narrator. please suggest more in the comments!

Horror books were cameras and journals may be all that remain

Books about haunted or cursed films, books, websites, etc

(ok bc to me jane schoenbrun is his aesthetic/creative offspring)

analogue horror, vhs, cult films, occult objects, static, exploitation, found footage, snuff

Books with shiny iridescent covers, because your shelf needs some sparkle. Sometimes also called "rainbow foil" or "holographic".

⚠️ You may need to check alternate covers since I can't set specific editions to display in the list (yet)!

If you know of an edition that has shiny bits that change colour in light, drop it in the comments!

When you follow the strange trails, they will take you who knows where.

from fiction to memoirs and everything in between, all of these books were written by (mostly recognizable) musicians!

As always, recommendations for additional titles are super appreciated! 🫶🏻

I have a whole tik tok on this divided into categories but here’s a compiled list