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1001 Books to Read Before You Die
Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.
the allegory is political
a collection of novels that use allegory, dystopia, and satire to examine power, control, propaganda, surveillance, and the fragility of truth. blurring the lines between fiction and reality, these stories reflect the political anxieties of both their own eras and ours.
as always welcome to suggestions !
books insufferable people claim to have read
puts beret on a jaunty angle ‘why yes i went to Oxbridge and go skiing on my holibobs with papa, why do you ask?’ takes a hit of tobacco flavoured vape, puts asterisk in margin of the obscure classic i’m ‘reading’
the list for people who want to look ‘well read’ and need some books to name drop - look no further
if you have read them, more power to you, but this is explicitly about the people who claim to have read them but can’t read instructions on pasta
Bleakness Is My Weakness
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!
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Lili's & Aleksandr's Bookshelf
For when you want to live inside the brain wrinkle that Anna Maria Volkova folded for you while you read her novel, Games.
literary snobbery
stereotypical "literature" and books that may not be given that title by society but i think are worthy of it
Books in “ a little history of literature”
added as i read the book
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