books that i reach for even when im convinced ill never read again. authors and stories that reflect an aspect of me i can't properly articulate.
mix of things ive read & want to read.
created by laventown
last updated April, 2026
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
The Stranger
Albert Camus
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Life of a Stupid Man
Ryƫnosuke Akutagawa
Earthlings
Sayaka Murata
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Notes From a Dead House
F. Dostoyevsky
Death Register
No One Knows: Stories
Osamu Dazai
The Setting Sun
Self-Portraits
The Diary of a Madman, the Government Inspector, and Selected Stories
Nikolai Gogol
I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both
Mariah Stovall
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
No Longer Human
Notes from Underground
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
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