if you could only read ten books for the rest of your life, what would they be? (you have a similar taste in literature to mine and I'm curious)
Hmm… This is a really hard question, mind you.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
It was inevitable that I’d pick it. It’s one of my all-time favourite books and one that has shaped me as a person, perhaps more than one would think. I couldn’t live without it.
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
A book that keeps on giving; this book is so complex and yet so simple that every time you look at it, you notice something new. Quite literally, it’s a book that you can’t read twice, because by the time you’re finished with the second read-through, the book has changed and so have you.
Romanticism: An Anthology edited by Duncan Wu
Is this cheating? Probably, but technically it’s only one book though. It has my favourite Romantics and their lives and work and I couldn’t live without it, I don’t think. I need Romanticism in my life and this book provides it.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Again, technically it’s only one book. Hamlet is one of my all-time favourite plays and generally, I love Shakespeare. Another book that keeps on giving.
An Anthology of Greek Drama
Technically one book again. I could never live without Greek myth stuff and this one has my favourite authors in it so really, no surprise here.
Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
This is a marvellous book and it’s an interesting take on the whole ‘The Devil is a thing that’s happening’ angle. Quite a bit different from, say, Paradise Lost, and other biblical myth based stories, but perhaps a lot more fun than most.
Teeth by Hannah Moskowitz
I would take a bullet for this book. It’s so sweet and sad and it hurts me in all the right ways. Never let that pain stop.
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Oh man. Another book that keeps on giving. Again, this is biblical myth based, but it’s really different from Master and Margarita. I love it loads and in a way, it was the gateway book to the sort of literature I prefer to read nowadays.
I don’t really even have words to describe this book. How can I describe something that fundamentally changed my heart and the way I view the world? I can’t, not really.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
One of my first favourite books. I read it when I was 9 or 10; I really really loved it and I haven’t stopped loving it yet. I probably never will.
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