Recs if you like The Hours...
1001 Books to Read Before You Die
Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.
Queer Classics: English Literature Edition
The queer agenda has taken over your English lesson and the compulsory reading list to make you disgustingly educated and gay af 🏳️🌈
Based off having to study older books that have monumental impact 💥 Will keep updating the curriculum, CLASS IS IN SESSION 🔊
let’s do the time warp again!
these books explore queer space and time, rejecting hetero temporality and spatiality across fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry. inside, you’ll find genderqueer immortals, spirits dipping in and out of linear reality, and queer meditations on bodies and aging. recommendations, as always, are very much welcome.
Queer Classics
Books featuring LGBTQ+ characters and/or themes that are considered to be classics in one way or another
award winning, no matter the medium!
these books won a major award, then their on-screen adaptations went on to win one, too!
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winners
(Most) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners since 1918!
alphabet soup group
Books on my TBR with LGBTQIA+ characters or themes.
Stonewall Book Awards and Honors
I thought it would be nice to have all of them in one long list.
Pulitzer winners
Overdue Podcast readalong
Keeping up with the 700+ books featured on Overdue since 2013
Banned in Russia
Books that are banned, censored, removed from bookshops, marketplaces, and libraries, and writers that are considered as a threat to the authorities. Some called it a "Fahrenheit list".
it’s a movie and a book!
all books that have been adapted to another medium. mostly film and TV but other adaptations might get mixed in.
books that feel like autumn
solely based on vibes
Books Straight from a English Literature Syllabus
All these books are taken from various courses I've taken as English Literature undergrad! Contains both well known classics and ones you probably have never heard of. (work in progress)
Aids and HIV Fiction
Curated mix of powerful HIV/AIDS-themed fiction from around the world, spanning decades, ages, and genres. Engaging, insightful, and emotionally resonant reads.
Books that Meryl Streep has starred in
These are all books and plays that have been turned into films or stage productions, what they all have in common is that Meryl Streep has starred in them. Disclaimer: some films have been loosely based on the books.
Stonewall Book Awards for Literature
Given to one adult fiction title per year since 1990. Newest winners at the top.
They made an opera out of THIS?
Books that have been adapted into operas. Seriously
English Literature (UIO)
The literature I’ve read for my bachelor’s in English Literature at the University of Oslo (2023-2026)
Beautiful Melancholy
For when you want to curl up with a sad story that'll quietly break your heart, but may also remind you how beautiful life can be.
