Recs if you like The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)...

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

books featured in the cozy video game “tiny bookshop”

All fiction books that appear in the Tiny Bookshop catalogue! Would sort them by genre as I read along.

Here's me keeping track of (most) of the books mentioned in this non-fiction adventure, for the good of all of us.

There is also a reading list at the back of the book, but I think I got them all.

A list featuring classic hardboiled detective capers—largely cynical novels (and a few story collections) hailing primarily from the 20’s-50’s, populated by quick thinking and hard drinking detectives, femme fatales, gangsters, murders, and periodic guns fights; where coffee is served late at night, and there is almost always an abundance of cigarette smoke…

I know there are already several lists with a California theme, but I am hoping this acts as a syllabus of sorts for books that deal with the core myth, history, violence, dream, and contradiction of California. Suggestions are welcome!

we have crime! we have thunderstorms! we have quicksand! we have romance sub plots! we have old timey investigators! we have some sexism and racism that definitely needs to be addressed by modern audiences…

(almost) every book in the game: tiny bookshop

Time Magazine’s All-Time Best 100 English Language Novels from 1923 to 2005 as published in 2005.

Keeping up with the 700+ books featured on Overdue since 2013

This is a list of (most) every book mentioned in the video game 'Tiny Bookshop'

Stuff featured in Tiny Bookshop. Will add more as I continue to play.

Time Magazine’s compilation of the 100 best novels published since 1923.

(101 because “The Berlin Stories” is an omnibus of “Mr Norris Changes Trains” and “Goodbye To Berlin.”)

MUNA wrote the song it gets so hot. And these are books that feel like that song. Literally and metaphorically.

The sun or summer or heatwave is a character or an oppressive force. Or the city of LA is a character or an oppressive force or a key setting. Or a combo of both. Or it’s a book MUNA have recommended. Or it’s just a bit steamy 🥵

i'm so obsessed with this series bro

Other books and plays referenced within Erin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea.

See notes for information on references. (Tk)

🚧 In Progress !! 🚧 - Confirming and noting exact place / theme / etc of referenced material. Pulling from others lists atm / online until I do.

Adding the starless sea so this list can be found by those looking at the book! 👀 ✨

Books saved the narrator in "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal" by Jeanette Winterson. Books may yet save us. This is a list of all the books mentioned & referenced in the novel. Feel free to comment any that I missed

List of classics for those interested in the genre.

This is the list from The Atlantic. "In 1868, a little-known writer by the name of John William DeForest proposed a new type of literature, a collective artistic project for a nation just emerging from an existential conflict: a work of fiction that accomplished “the task of painting the American soul.” It would be called the Great American Novel, and no one had written it yet, DeForest admitted. Maybe soon."

All books read by Tough Guy Book Club since 2014. The club that wants men to Read More, Talk More, and have more Friends.