Recs if you like The Idiot...

Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.

size matters for this list, all these classics are more than 400 pages long. they are THICK. suggestions welcome, i am a very generous interpreter of the term "classic" normally but i'm starting with the golden oldies

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!

📍title inspired by @erintripsey's lists Audiobooks narrated by Brighton, England's Simon Vance! I'm a fan of his narration of Bram Stoker's Dracula and wanted to compile a list of more books narrated by him. He has a smooth English accent, lighter tone for feminine characters, and distinct variations with other UK/European accents.

Fun Fact: He's been an audiobook narrator since age 6, when he did a reading of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne!

Inspired to create a list by a post from @mmyth, I thought it would be nice to have a list of quest books you can download and read for free via Internet Archive. Recommendations gladly accepted. Happy reading ya'll!

(Please note this will ONLY contain books found through Internet Archive and no other sources, I don't want to run into possible mistakes and copyright headaches.)

Update: This list will also include books you can borrow through Open Library, a part of Internet Archive.

For when you want to live inside the brain wrinkle that Anna Maria Volkova folded for you while you read her novel, Games.

Various titles, from Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Baltic, & Balkan authors.

A mix of different books that all centre around the “dark academia” genre ✨

How do you go about defining good and bad and morality

A mix of fiction and nonfiction to make you broaden your perspective or maybe just contemplate your definition of evil and righteous.

Suggested additions are welcome in the comments. I will do my own research before adding them.

Included in this list are titles that contain Bible references, themes of redemption, and the struggle between good and evil.

Not included: Christian romance 🚫🚫🚫

Russian books I need to read in order to be incredibly pretentions and expand my understanding of world literature.

Books that capture or embody existential philosophy- can include nihilism and absurdism two branches of existentialism

classic literature that feels like running through a field in a long skirt or writing ink-stained poems at midnight, elegant prose, moral themes, academia, mostly from between 1500-1900 (a few exceptions)

some timeless classics that everyone honestly should read at least once.

Bittersweet books/books with open to interpretation endings.

i feel like everyone should read these at least once in their life