📑Sources

In ascending order by link publication date

🎶References:

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1984 — George Orwell — 🔗Link (Spotify) A Wild Sheep Chase — Haruki Murakami — 🔗Link (Spotify)

📖Recommendations:

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7-21-2023 — 🔗Link (TikTok) My Year of Rest and Relaxation — Ottessa Moshfegh

7-24-2023 — 🔗Link (TikTok) I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream — Harlan Ellison The Passion — Jeanette Winterson | 🔗Full Review (TikTok) Roadside Picnic — Arkady Strugatsky The Stranger — Albert Camus

9-12-2023 — 🔗Link (TikTok) Men without Women — Haruki Murakami

6-13-2025 — 🔗Link (TikTok) Memoirs of a Geisha — Arthur Golden On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous — Ocean Vuong The Elephant Vanishes — Haruki Murakami The Trouble With Being Born — Emil M. Cioran Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies — Jared Diamond A Moveable Feast — Ernest Hemingway

9-26-2025 — 🔗Link (yall.ong) The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera

11-5-2025 — 🔗Link (YouTube) (1) A book to give your younger self: Norwegian Wood — Haruki Murakami (2) A book you would take to a deserted island: A Gentleman in Moscow — Amor Towles (3) A book to give your mom: Babel — R.F. Kuang (4) A book you've always wanted to read but never have: The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession — Leo Tolstoy (5) Wild Card: This Is Your Mind on Plants — Michael Pollan Bonus: Fathers and Sons — Ivan Turgenev

1-12-2026 — 🔗Link (Instagram story) Ignorance — Milan Kundera

4-13-2026 — 🔗Link (Twitch VOD) The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession — Leo Tolstoy Chess Story — Stefan Zweig Wars, Guns, and Votes — Paul Collier Immortality — Milan Kundera Two Novellas — Theodore Fontane Amsterdam — Ian McEwan

8-25-2026 — 🔗Link (032c Magazine) The House of the Spirits — Isabel Allende Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age — Raphael McCormack