Recs if you like Faust...

Stories that traded chapters for showtunes! From literary classics to contemporary novels these books found a second life under the Broadway lights! Please let me know any that I've missed!! (Note on curation: I've been cross checking titles with Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) which is Broadway's official archive)

ANTI: fascism, ai, nfts, Big Tech, billionaires, surveillance states, optimization, algorithms, bot farms, technofeudalism, enshittification, exploitation, extractionism, planned obsolescence PRO: organized labor, punk, analog, solidarity, free speech, friction, degrowth, experimentation, right to privacy, right to repair, diy, material process, mutual aid, ecological living, the human hand, the human mind

*Short stories welcome. Looking for nonfiction? Check out The Big Bad Luddite List.

Works I would consider german literary classics. "German" in this context means "written in German", not "written by a German author", therefore Swiss, Austrian, and other authors will also be included on this list, provided they wrote their works in German.

fiction works featuring deals, agreements, trades, and contracts with the Devil (capital D), a spirit, or some demonic entity

a non-exhaustive collection of works

Every book depicted on PBS's Wishbone (1995–1997)

Meet the literature read in German schools or considered to be part of basic literature education. Old and modern.

deals with the devil throughout literature (in short, faust is everywhere)

Name generators my beloveds. Just a list made by someone whose D&D characters were mostly christened with the help of RNG. The one and only criterion: Title is a first/given name (or nickname too)! Some are verified by the book actually containing a character with that name.

This website ranks global literature using "best of lists" from over 700 sources. I compiled this list with the nonfiction % set to 50%.

Books from Namjoon's pictures and videos. It's a place to keep track but I'll add everything slowly.

yeah it’s cliche but i do like a lot of these books. both books that fit the dark academia genre and books dark academics would read.

Books relating to the Faust legend or Faustian Bargains. Morally ambiguous characters. Getting what you asked for, but at what price?

(Almost) all books cited to be a part of the gothic genre, or having a part in creating the gothic genre (including the supernatural, romantic, and pre- & -post subgenres), in H.P Lovecraft's 28,000-word essay, “Supernatural Horror in Literature,” which is mostly based on Edith Birkhead's historical study, The Tale of Terror.

These novels, stories, plays, and poems are “fertile in the element of the weird.”

For those who might want to take a deep-dive into [part of] the genre's development.

We often talk about what Rizal wrote, but what did the National Hero consume to write so well? To think in that way? Rizal was known to be a voracious reader, getting it from his parents ("[My parents] urged me to read and understand them [books]") and then spending hours in libraries overseas. From his letter to Blumentritt (Nov. 8, 1888): "The Indio, in general, is very fond of reading and studying…”

Books mentioned in Welcome to Hyunam-dong's Bookshop (adding as I go)

Others not here:

• Escort of Light 빛의 호위 (Cho Haejin)
• Too Bright Outside for Love (Kim Keumhee)
• A Standing Woman (Park Wan-Suh)

Classic tales of war, fate, and freedom! Exploring humanity’s struggle, moral grayness, and the tragic cost of survival in books that scream AOT.