Recs if you like Candide: or, Optimism...

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

Made for busy adults who wanted to read various World Classics but have little time and energy left after a long day 🫡

Working TBR-list for me (as a busy adult with unwarranted responsibilities) 🫠💤

Not letting capitalism hinders my desire to read 🙂‍↔️📖 Open for suggestions!

These are books that I’ve read or heard about that give me John Darnielle vibes iykyk. Flawed characters, Classical allusions, sacrilegious undertones, religious overtones, romantics in spite of themselves, etc.