Your blog is absolutely breathtaking. Is there any way you could give me a list of reading recommendations? 💛
i don’t agree with everything these books say (some of them are quite controversial) but they are interesting reads.
Dark AcademiaThe Secret History by Donna Tartt, If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio, Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo, The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, The Liar by Stephen Fry, Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay.
ClassicsThe Aeneid by Virgil (Frederick Ahl’s translation), The Odyssey by Homer (Emily Wilson’s translation), Memorial by Alice Oswald, The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.
Poets & Poetry (I can’t narrow a single poem per poet down :’))Wilfred Owen, Anne Carson, Paradise Lost by John Milton, Dante’s Inferno, Rūmī, The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, W. H. Auden, Lord Tennyson, Siegfried Sassoon, Dylan Thomas, Carol Ann Duffy, Philip Larkin, Allen Ginsburg, Oscar Wilde, D. H. Lawrence, Sylvia Plath, John Keats.
FantasyGood Omens by Neil Gaimen & Terry Pratchett, The Lord of the Rings (series) and The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, The Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
PlaysRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Hamlet by Shakespeare, Macbeth by Shakespeare, Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, The History Boys by Alan Bennett, Catiline His Conspiracy by Ben Jonson, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.
FictionMaurice by E. M. Forster, Dead Babies by Martin Amis, The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Code Name: Verity by Elizabeth Wein, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, On The Road by Jack Kerouac, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Atonement and Nutshell by Ian McEwan, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh.
Non-FictionA Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, Meditations by Descartes, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis, The Establishment and Chavs by Owen Jones.
