Recs if you like The Red Pony...

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!

Got the holiday blues? Check out my list Christmas with the Cranks!

Equestrian fiction for Horse Girls of all ages. Only including the first book in a series to prevent this list from getting out of control.

from the wikipedia: free indirect discourse is "the literary technique of writing a character's first-person thoughts in the voice of the third-person narrator." the character's voice is mediated through the narrator. it moves from one character's perspective to another to an omniscient narrator's perspective and back again, often subtly and naturally.

this list is based on the titles in the wiki article, many I have not read, so please give recs if you know of any!!!

The major works of John Steinbeck for the completionist.

Horse girls, unite! These books feature horses, sort of.

Adding books that are mentioned in Matilda by Roald Dahl

Every book that Lemony Snicket mentions in All the Wrong Questions

Mostly mysteries and other stories that have that central thread of pet ownership. There may be romance, horror, or something else but pets are somehow involved or take up space on the cover (not always).

These are the books I read and still remember how they made me feel, both during and after reading them