Recs if you like Endgame...
assigned by frankie
almost every single book mentioned* on Frankie's Shelf youtube channel because their taste is wild and i love it.
updated as frankie posts. *mentioned as in the book is the focus of the video, listened in the description, or offhandedly said.
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!
Got the holiday blues? Check out my list Christmas with the Cranks!
Absurdist fiction for the end of the world.
Because if I don’t laugh I’ll cry. The more absurd the better, and suggestions welcome.
Books that give that X-Files vibe
Books that remind me of Mulder and Scully and their wild x-file hunting days. Suggestions welcome. I’m forever chasing that high.
classic irish literature
classics literature written by irish writers
strange lit
Books that are not conventional; whether ergodic, esoteric, weird, before-its-time, fever-dreamy, or any combination of these
Existentialist and Absurdist Fiction
Absurdist and existentialist fiction confronts the central tension of human life: our relentless search for meaning in a universe that offers none. These works explore freedom, alienation, responsibility, and the burden of choice. Characters often stand alone against indifferent systems, silent gods, or their own fractured consciousness. You can suggest works in comments section below
Theatre of the Absurd
„Nothing is funnier than unhappiness … it‘s the most comical thing in the world.“
A selection of well-known plays of the Theatre of the Absurd. Here human existence lacks meaning and purpose and we keep running in circles.
solitaire reading list
books mentioned in Solitaire by Alice Oseman
Oxford Reading List for English
Found this online - a reading list of a first year English course at Oxford University. Wanted to create this for my own enjoyment and figured someone else might like it too! I only added the fiction and poetry books and I also did not add any companions.
The last bit (from bottom up to Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway) are required reading - top half is recommended.
A Dark Academia Character’s Favourite Books
Not a list of dark academia books, but a list of books a character in a dark academia book would love. The melancholy, the classics, the literary, the slightly eerie.
