Recs if you like Nine Stories...

Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.

Qwordy's Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 Numerical Titles Prompt You must find titles with the words one through ten, plus one more of a random number 11 books total This is an on going list and always open for recommendations

January: memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, The Copenhagen Trilogy

February: classic literature Anna Karenina, Of Mice and Men, The Old Man and the Sea, The Master and Margarita

March: art criticism Ways of Seeing, On Photography

April: nature writing Braiding Sweetgrass, Upstream

May: journal/diary/letters A Diary of a Young Girl

June: book with an adaptation Lord of the Flies, Persuasion, Catch-22

July: cultural criticism The Fire Next Time, Regarding the Pain of Others

August: women in translation The Summer Book, The Door

September: an essay collection Bad Feminist

October: a play Midsummer Night's Dream, The Importance of Being Earnest

November: gothic literature Carmilla

December: short stories Nine Stories, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Tenth of December, Ficciones, Interpret of Maladies

I wanted to differentiate from my anthology list which includes books with multiple authors whereas as this list is books with one author :)

Inspired (or Incensed, you decide which) by the Guardian's Top 100 Novels of all Time, my bookclub decided to do our OWN top 100 list! Collected via a Google Form, each member submitted their top 10 books of all-time. We didn't limit to just fiction, and did accept entire series as "one book" — because honestly, picking is hard! As I can't order these by vote count, this is just all of them with no particular order whatsoever. Who knows, maybe we'll do this again sometime — enjoy!