Recs if you like The Garden Party and Other Stories...
Classics you didn't know were Gay🏳️🌈
Classics (modern and old) of all genres that featured Queer characters or storylines or notable queer subtext. Inspired by my lecturer's statement regarding my lit degree reading list: "You don't have to be queer to be a Modernist, but it sure helps!"😂 Please comment recs so I can keep adding to this!
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Classics by Women Authors
This list includes Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Louisa May Alcott, and L M Montgomery
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NZ Lit 101: Our Literary Taonga
Let me share with you some of Aotearoa NZ’s most important and influential works.
You’ll find these books and authors covered in classrooms. They’re classics and represent a portion of Aotearoa's literary taonga (treasure).
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books in "why be happy when you could be normal?"
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
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She Who Wrote
The female writers the canon has “forgotten” about (or wilfully ignored / pushed out / side tracked)
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Short Story Collections Where Things Are Wrong
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Aotearoa New Zealand on the Page
Whether it be the authors, the characters, the setting, or the country itself, these books are some of the essential reads of Aotearoa New Zealand. Fiction to nonfiction, prose to poetry, the stories of our people and our land are here. This list is ever-growing, and I will continue to add to it as I read more pukapuka from our shores.
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Where To Start With: A Handy Guide by the Guardian
The first book from each of the authors profiled as part of the Guardian’s “Where to start with” series. https://www.theguardian.com/books/series/where-to-start-with
Each book represents the chosen entry point.
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