- A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
- Music of the Swamp by Lewis Nordan
- Facing the Music by Larry Brown
- Let the Dead Bury Their Dead by Randall Kenan
- Airships by Barry Hannah
- Big World by Mary Miller
- The Stories of Breece DJ Pancake by Breece DJ Pancake
- Crapalachia by Scott McClanahan (kinda stories)
- Poachers by Tom Franklin
- The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure by Jack Pendarvis
These are essays but How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon.
I'm sure I'm missing a few.
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For short stories: Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño, he makes all his stories feel like an adventure, they stretch decades and lifetimes.
Cathedral by Raymond Carver, really highlights the sadness and absurdity of regular life with characteristically dry and comic style.
Short Novels:
I've recommended Kokoro by Sōseki on here before, but it's really great.
Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers is a great novel. Some really good Southern gothic.
Jan 20, 2025
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Fiction:
In Watermelon Sugar-Richard Brautigan.
Bad Girls-Camila Sosa Villada.
Death in her Hands-Ottesa Moshfeg.
Mist-Miguel de Unamuno.
Animal-Lisa Taddeo.
This is Pleasure-Mary Gaitskill.
Death With Interruptions-José Saramago.
The Family of Pascual Duarte-Camilo José Cela (This one is extremely violent and graphic, so beware).
Flowers in the Attic-V.C Andrews.
100 Years of Solitude-Gabriel García Marquez.
Non-fiction:
Running With Scissors-Augusten Burroughs.
Educated-Tara Westover.
I’m Glad My Mom Died-Jennette McCurdy.
May 30, 2024
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orbital - samantha harvey
the mortal and immortal life of the girl from milan - domenico starnone
small things like these AND foster - both by claire keegan
five-carat soul - james mcbride (short stories but they go by quick)
lie with me - philippe besson
if an egyptian cannot speak english - noor naga
the boy and the dog - hase seishū
home - toni morrison
scattered all over the earth AND the emissary - both by yoko tawada
franny and zooey- j. d. salinger
the black tree atop the hill - karla yvette
the white card - claudia rankine
Jan 20, 2025
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love seeing all these animals on trail cameras
Jan 22, 2024
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kind of corny but still good wisdom. it's about battling the internal resistance to doing your work. i used to re-read it as a form of resistance, actually
May 8, 2024
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documentary about a man who lived with grizzly bears in the alaskan wild. he filmed himself for several years until one of the bears killed him.
Jan 24, 2024