Reading Masterpost
I get loads of questions about what I’m reading, where the excerpts I post on my snapchat and instagram are from etc.. so here is my books/poetry masterpost! This is a mix of my favorites and what’s in my queue, it includes poetry, classics, memoirs, novels. x
A Happy Death by Albert Camus
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag
An Exclusive Love by Johanna Adorn
Antigua, Penny, Puce by Robert Graves
Ballistics by Billy Collins
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Bits of Paradise by F Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald
Blood Tin Straw by Sharon Olds
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles
CP Cavafy Collected Poems by CP Cavafy
Crush by Richard Siken
Eve’s Hollywood by Eve Babitz
Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon
Heaven and Other Poems by Jack Kerouac
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
In Praise of Older Women by Stephen Vizinczey
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Journals by Keith Haring
Junky by William S Burroughs
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Love Me Back by Merrit Tierce
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre
No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay
Oh the Glory of It All by Sean Wilsey
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Queer by William S Burroughs
Recipes for Sad Women by Hector Abad
Said the Manic to the Muse by Jeanann Verlee
Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Sunlight on Cold Water by Francoise Sagan
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Tender Is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Beautiful and Damned by F Scott Fitzgerald
The Bell Jar by Silvia Plath
The Bones Below by Sierra Demulder
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
The Diary of Frida Khalo by Frida Khalo
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Holy Terrors by Jean Cocteau
The Island by Aldous Huxley
The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
The Last Love Song by Tracy Daugherty
The Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem
The Seven Ages by Louise Gluck
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
View with a Grain of Sand by Wislawa Szymborska
Widow Basquiat by Jennifer Clement