Books Regina Mills would read:
1. Crime and Punishment, she understands the madness of it all too well. She relates to the ideas of guilt and anger and impulsivity, having toyed with those feelings more than ever in her early days of being the evil queen.
2. All the Bronte novels- gothic novels have her heart and basically everything the Brontes wrote made her feel a little bit less alone in her marriage to the king. 'Wuthering Heights' appealed to her greatly, especially when Heathcliffe dug up Catherines grave, and how Heathcliffe gradually turned into a monster. She also loved 'Jane Eyre', having felt understood when she read about Jane and Mrs Reed, and relating to Rochester trying to keep his secret wife in the attic in the sense that she kept a version of herself secret.
3. Pride and Prejudice, you just know she loved the drama of it and being able to see at least one person have a happy ending, even if sheāll never admit it. She thought her own life may have gone this way, until Daniel died. I imagine she was quite a big Jane Austen fan before all of the tragedy. Sometimes, even when she was the evil queen and the mayor of storybrooke, she'd reread it for those moments of lightness it brought her.
4. Lolita; trying to love someone and being taken advantage of; leopold being seen as a gentle king when he was not to her, not that it mattered to anyone; screaming, crying, having fits of anger and rage and still no one would listen to her; being too young for the situation she found herself in.
5. The haunting of hill house, she read this in her first few years of the curse and was enchanted by it, and when the series came out she went feral, loving the haunting feel to it.
6. The Secret History, the dark feeling appeals to her, and if her cursed memories of going to university were actually real, she easily could have seen herself going down the same route, of murdering one of her friends. She loved the expression of ancient language, it assured her that whilst the world was moving on, she was going to be okay.
7. Great Expectations, she understands Miss Havisham, and also relates to Pip over never being good enough and always being made fun of by her elders.
8. A streetcar named desire, because she relates to Blanche wayyy to much having once lived in a fanciful world with costume jewellery, and trying to convince herself that she was the evil queen and that by being the way she was, she could be happy.
9. The Bell jar, she loves reading dark books and as a result this one is her fave because sheās been there, she's had the same struggles. The raw youth of the book reminds her of when she was young. But the ending scared her, because no matter how good things look, they could always end up wrong.
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