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just some of my favorite stories. pls holler at me about any of these, or about your favorite stories

  • "a rose for emily," william faulkner
  • the bell jar, sylvia plath
  • "beneath the cherry trees," motojirou kajii
  • bird box, josh malerman
  • "the box social," james reaney
  • "the cask of amontillado" & "hop-frog," edgar allan poe
  • child of god, cormac mccarthy (i hate myself for adding this bc generally i loathe mccarthy & his writing)
  • "the children’s story," James Clavell
  • the complete fairy tales of the brothers grimm
  • the complete poems, emily dickinson
  • the complete stories, flannery o'connor
  • the crucible, arthur miller
  • "don't press charges and i won't sue," charlie jane anders
  • "each thing i show you is a piece of my death," gemma files & stephen j. barringer
  • ficciones & the aleph & other stories, jorge luis borges
  • fly by night & cuckoo song, frances hardinge
  • the girl with all the gifts, m. r. carey
  • "half-hanged mary," margaret atwood
  • the heart is a lonely hunter, carson mccullers
  • "hell is the absence of god," ted chiang
  • "how to get back to the forest," sofia samatar
  • kafka on the shore & hard-boiled wonderland, haruki murakami
  • the lake, banana yoshimoto
  • "lamb to the slaughter," roald dahl
  • "leeks," "hell screen," & "the spider's thread," ryuunosuke akutagawa
  • the little prince, antoine de saint-exupéry
  • lolita, vladimir nabokov (block me if you think this book was meant as an actual romance rather than a critique of child abusers, thanks!)
  • long live the tribe of fatherless girls, t kira madden
  • "the lottery," "the renegade," and "trial by combat," shirley jackson; def recommend checking out The Lottery and Other Stories
  • mama black widow, iceberg slim
  • the metamorphosis, franz kafka
  • the physicists, friedrich dürrenmatt
  • pop. 1280, jim thompson
  • "samsa in love," haruki murakami
  • scum villain's self-saving system, mo dao zu shi, and tian guan ci fu, mo xiang tong xiu
  • seven japanese tales & the gourmet club, junichiro tanizaki
  • the stepford wives, ira levin
  • streetcar named desire, tennessee williams
  • "there is no place for sorrow in the kingdom of the cold," seanan mcguire
  • the tokyo zodiac murders, soji shimada
  • "trifles," susan glaspell
  • what it means when a man falls from the sky: stories, lesley nneka arimah
  • "where are you going, where have you been," joyce carol oates (congrats to JCO on the only good thing she ever wrote)

i promise i'm reading at least 10 books at any given time but please recommend me some more

apr 15 2017 ∞
oct 23 2023 +