- top 10 manifestos
- top 10 works of terminally online fiction
- top 10 video essays (am sort of a video essay hater but these are good)
- top 10 japanese woodblock prints
- top 10 asmr videos
- top 10 songs of 2024
- top 10 sci-fi short stories
- top 10 seattle coffee shops
- top 10 substack essays
- top 10 modern painters
let me know if any of these seem especially hype…
Related Recs
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According to one Mouse:
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - a magical, mysterious book unlike any other I’ve read and possibly my favourite of all time. A story told in journal entries of Piranesi, a man who lives in a huge labyrinth filled with statues.
Memorial by Bryan Washington - a gorgeous tender story of a gay couple told from both sides. Stunningly empathetic and just perfect in its humanity, and use of food as character and relationship device.
Milkfed by Melissa Broder - a weird bisexual masterpiece. Sex, food, obsession.
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli - a history of quantum physics written by the man known as “the poet of physics”. written so as to be understood by anyone, mostly to tell us that even the physicists cannot fully grasp the reality of it.
Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith - ghost story depicting a decade of Vietnamese folklore and history. Magical, powerful, mysterious. I couldn’t believe it when I found out this was a debut novel and when I finished it I just sort of sat there for a while.
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield - a woman’s wife comes back from sea, but she is changed, and continues to change. Gay, magical realism. A beautiful allegory that can be read in a day.
White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Smith - surrealist retellings of fairytales by my all time favourite short story writer
Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit - a memoir and potent exploration the silencing and erasure of women by men
Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh - all three of her books her 5 stars, she’s not missed yet. Blue Ticket is like Margaret Atwood meets Angela Carter. Dystopian feminist speculative fiction told with an almost surreal minimalism at times and almost magical vibrancy at others.
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi - a scientist born of immigrant parents studying addiction, after her brother died at its hands. Grapples with grief, faith, identity, religion and love with unparalleled skill and tenderness.
Jul 15, 2024
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1-5 star ratings as i go
feel free to comment recs (preferably horror, poetry, sci-fi)
time is a mother - ocean vuong ★★★★
real life - brandon taylor ★★★★★
100 love sonnets - paolo neruda
bliss montage - ling ma
exhalation - ted chiang
the employees - olga ravn
✴ to reread/deeper look ✴
cyberfeminism index - mindy seu
untethering the web - published by pioneer works
ミッフィーと歩いた60年 (60 years walking with miffy) - shunji morimoto
my meteorite - harry dodge
Dec 29, 2024
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seeing if this is a good way to keep track-- will post a rec for the good ones!
malpertuis - jean ray ⭐⭐
the true deceiver - tove jansson ⭐⭐⭐⭐
girl online - joanna walsh ⭐️
the summer book - tove jansson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
nightbitch - rachel yoder ⭐️⭐️
motherthing- ainslie hogarth ⭐️⭐️⭐️
[quickly revisiting of mice and men] ⭐⭐⭐⭐
the left hand of darkness - ursula k. le guin ⭐⭐⭐⭐
the animal lover's book of beastly murder - patricia highsmith ⭐⭐⭐⭐
parable of the sower - octavia butler ⭐⭐⭐⭐
several people are typing - calvin kasulke ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
parable of the sower - octavia butler ⭐️⭐️⭐️
adversarially evolved hallucinations - trevor paglen ⭐⭐⭐⭐
the factory - hiroko oyamada ⭐️⭐️
incidents around the house - josh malerman ⭐️⭐️⭐️
earthlings - sayaka murata ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Jan 15, 2024
Top Recs from @nofedway
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people seemed to like the list I posted, so I figured I would start posting some of my own lists. these will be in alphabetical order unless otherwise stated…
1. “a town called panic”: absurdist, belgian, inner child
2. “across the spider-verse”: dazzling, metamodernist, dense
3. “fantastic mr. fox”: cozy, whimsical, thoughtful
4. “kubo and the two strings”: crafty, liminal, adventurous
5. “loving vincent”: hand-painted (!), enveloping, thrilling
6. “song of the sea”: irish, mythical, luminous
7. “the book of life”: wooden, vibrant, feel-good
8. “the lego movie”: unexpected, thought-provoking, silly
9. “tom & jerry: shiver me whiskers!”: silly, funny, stupid
10. “world of tomorrow”: black humor, thought-provoking, existential
if you would like an elevator pitch for any of these, just leave a comment!
Dec 22, 2024
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ik only allowing one image per rec is part of the vibe but it would be cool if you could sorta chain image recs together, twitter style. mostly I’m just trying to make painting recs in the future without it being a hassle
Dec 23, 2024