Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Here After by Amy Lin
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Lies And Weddings by Kevin Kwan
Funny Story by Emily Henry
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
I'm A Fan by Sheena Patel
Also throwing in my current read, A Lady For A Duke by Alexis Hall. I hear that it gets kinda slow in the middle, which I'm coming up on, but the first half alone makes it one of the greatest romances I've ever read.
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- My Manservant and Me - Hervé Guibert
- Breast and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- The Years - Annie Ernaux
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Nov 5, 2024
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i read 90 books in 2024 and here are the ones i enjoyed the most or i found to be the most thought provoking
Slow Days Fast Company by Eve Babitz
Penance by Eliza clark
Perfume by Patrick Süskind
The house of grief by Helen Garner
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
The Secret History by Donna Tartt (a reread but still loved)
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stewart
Beloved by Toni Morrison
My year of rest and relaxation by Otessa Mosfegh
The bell jar by Sylvia plath
Death and the penguin by Andrey Kurkov
What I’d rather not think about by Jente Posthuma
Going Dark by Julia Ebner
Chlorine by Jade Song
Jan 1, 2025
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This year I couldn't read that many books because of the thesis, but I read some, aside from everything I recommended under the section On Reading, from my profile in case you want to check it out.
· A Little Life- Hanya Yanagihara: my controversial opinion is that it was meh. I was expecting to have a divisive opinion like almost all of the people who read it but I thought the conversations were a bit monotonous and because there's a behavioral pattern that goes for 800 pages, I sort of already knew what to expect. Like every time Jude feels a little bit of happiness I would go in my head like all right, what's the other traumatic event that follows?😒 It didn't need to be 800 pages long but I still enjoyed the plot.
· Blindness-José Saramago: José Saramago is such a good writer for chaos. Loved Death with Interruptions as well. I think these are two of my favorite books.
· Carmilla-Sheridan Le Fanu. Loved it. I'm biased because I love vampires, but still. Now I want to read Carmen María Machado's edition I found out exists because someone commented it to me under their post.
· Cat Person-Kristen Roupenian. One of my favorite short stories.
· Heaven-Mieko Kawakami: the descriptions of bullying were pretty brutal but there's something about this book that made me go meh. Maybe it's because I thought it was so matter of fact that I didnt feel the prose was particularly moving.
· How To Win Friends And Influence People-Dale Carnegie. (My humiliation rituals are not for you to comment on). I've applied some of the advice and it works, who would've known?
· Soy Una Tonta por Quererte-Camila Sosa Villada. Read this collection of short stories after her book Bad Girls, which remains superior before my eyes, even though I enjoyed most of the stories.
· The Garden of Time-JG Ballard. Read this because I wanted to understand that MET Gala theme. Enjoyed it.
· The Yellow Wallpaper-Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Probably my favorite short story ever.
Jan 1, 2025
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Seeing everything at a concert. Touching the ceiling for a really good stretch. Giving your own dad a curfew. Being tall is really it
Mar 8, 2024
A master at writing genre fiction as literary fiction. Multiple narratives, stellar characters, a time-hopping, pre- and post-apocalyptic plot, and a killer miniseries adaptation to watch once you’re finished
Mar 7, 2024
