#but no i've never read dracula
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Reading List (Latest Update April 9, 2025)
The full list of books I'm interested in reading. Spoiler before you open the read-more: This list has 500+ entries so it's a tad long.
I'm pretty much constantly adding things to all of my lists- hence why I'm amending when this was last updated to the title itself- and will update this post anytime I update the wheel I use to randomize my next choice, which usually happens after I've added or subtracted a significant number of options.
Beowulf
Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism; Third Edition
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
I Am Not Sick I Don’t Need Help! by Xavier Amador, Ph.D
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
Andersen’s Fairy Tales by H.C Andersen
The Whispering Dark by Kelly Andrew
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Animorphs Series by K.A Applegate
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
The Witchwood Knot by Olivia Atwater
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Emma by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
Bunny by Mona Awad
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Borderline by Mishell Baker
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Just Above My Head by James Baldwin
Crash by J.G Ballard
North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud
Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac
The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
I’m With the Band by Pamela Des Barres
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron
Gateways to Abomination by Matthew M. Bartlett
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
The Stone in the Skull by Elizabeth Bear
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone De Beauvoir
The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett
Art of Fiction by Walter Besant and Henry James
Pushkin; A Biography by T.J Binyon
The Etched City by K.J Bishop
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
Out of Africa by Karen Blixen
In the Vanisher’s Palace by Aliette De Bodard
Dandelion Daughter by Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay
Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen
Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman
The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Slewfoot by Brom
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown
Sonnets From The Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner
The Serpent and the Rose by Kathleen Bryan
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
Notes of a Dirty old Man by Charles Bukowski
Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Pontypool Changes Everything by Tony Burgess
Song of the Simple Truth by Julia de Burgos
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler
American Predator by Maureen Callahan
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carre
Through the Woods by Emily Carrol
An Oresteia translated by Anne Carson
Glass, Irony, and God by Anne Carson
The Vorrh by B. Catling
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The City of Brass by SA Chakraborty
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Moliere Biography by H.C Chatfield-Taylor
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Journey to the West by Wu Cheng-en
Wicked Fox by Kat Cho
The Awakening by Kat Chopin
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco
Finna by Nino Cipri
The Divinity Student by Michael Cisco
The Black God’s Drums by P. Djeli Clark
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Parasite by Darcy Coates
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Swimming With Giants by Anne Collet
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova
The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Inherit the Wind by Linda Cushman
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
Dreadnought by April Daniels
The Devourers by Indra Das
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Bones & All by Camille Deangelis
The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Memory Palace by Nate Dimeo
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Toad by Katherine Dunn
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
A Little Bit of Auras by Cassandra Eason
The New Bottoming Book by Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy
The New Topping Book by Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
The Collected Stories by Welty Eudora
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Introducing Evolutionary Psychology by Dylan Evans and Oscar Zarate
A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Sanctuary by William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
It Devours! by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
Time and Again by Jack Finney
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Johnny Tremain by Esther Hoskins Forbes
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
A Passage to India by E.M Forster
Tsumiko and the Enslaved Fox by Forthright
The Diary of Anne Frank
Lies (and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them) by Al Franken
River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
At Fear’s Altar by Richard Gavin
Count Zero by William Gibson
The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
Neuromancer by William Gibson
One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
The Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone
Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Marathon Man by William Goldman
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
Come Closer by Sara Gran
The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin
Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
My Life in Orange by Tim Guest
The Library of the Unwritten by A.J Hackwith
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Empire of Light by Alex Harrow
The Little Locksmith by Katherine Butler Hathaway
City of Lies by Sam Hawke
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bride by Ali Hazelwood
Descendant of the Crane by Joan He
Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
Dune Series by Frank Herbert
Cover-Up by Seymour M. Hersh
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
The Outsiders by S.E Hinton
The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
The Rule of Magic by Alice Hoffman
Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
The Iliad by Homer
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Songbook by Nick Hornby
To Escape the Stars by Robert Hoskins
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison
Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt
Warrior Cats Series by Erin Hunter
The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Hur
The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley
The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Daisy Miller by Henry James
False Bingo by Jac Jemc
The City We Became by N.K Jemisin
The Fifth Season by N.K Jemisin
Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
Howl’s Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones
My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
Hell on Wheels by Raven Kaldera
Kneeling in Spirit by Raven Kaldera
Real Service by Raven Kaldera and Joshua Tenpenny
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Hunger by Alma Katsu
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Out of Control by Kevin Kelly
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Liu Ken
Ironweed by William Kennedy
You By Caroline Kepnes
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Very Best of Caitlin R Kiernan
Carrie by Stephen King
Christine by Stephen King
Cujo by Stephen King
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
The Shining by Stephen King
The Stand by Stephen King
Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Sir James Knowles and Sir Thomas Malory
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Gidget by Frederick Kohner
The Cipher by Kathe Koja
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
Extravagance by Gary Krist
Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff
Babel by R.F Kuang
The Poppy War by R.F Kuang
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
False Hearts by Laura Lam
The Wide, Carnivorous Sky by John Langan
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Changeling by Victor Lavelle
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by David Herbert Lawrence
Lies of the Fae by M.J Lawrie
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
Jade City by Fonda Lee
Forest of Souls by Lori M. Lee
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Dirt; Confessions of the Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
The Complete Pyramids by Mark Lehner
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin
Human Errors by Nathan H. Lents
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
Small Island by Andrea Levy
A Ruin of Shadows by L.D Lewis
Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti
Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
Let the Right One In by John Lindquist
Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
His Black Tongue by Mitchell Luthi
The Hike by Drew Magary
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Gregory Rabassa
A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin
Property by Valerie Martin
North Woods by Daniel Mason
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
The Group by Mary McCarthy
Women in the Picture by Catherine McCormack
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Rapture by Claire McGlasson
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Quattrocento by James McKean
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
Penric’s Progress by Lois McMaster Bujold
Terms of Endearment Larry McMurtry
The Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi
A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L Mencken
My Life as Author and Editor by H.L Mencken
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyer
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Iron Council by China Mieville
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
The Life of Edna by St. Vincent Millay
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Sexus by Henry Miller
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Slade House by David Mitchell
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed
No One Will Come Back For Us by Premee Mohamed
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Barrington Moore Jr.
The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Jazz by Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami
In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng
The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Vurt by Jeff Noon
Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Bernard Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
The Morningside by Tea Obreht
The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
Twelve Nights at Rotter House by J.W Ocker
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Flowers of the Sea by Reggie Oliver
Starvation Heights by Gregg Olsen
How To Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
Chouette by Claire Oshetsky
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
White Is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Certain Dark Things by M.J Pack
The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon Padgett
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker
Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
Gormenghast Series by Mervyn Peake
The West Passage by Jared Pechacek
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
How the Light Gets In by Jolina Petersheim
The Song the Owl God Sang by Benjamin Peterson
A Mankind Beyond Earth by Claude A. Piantadosi
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodie Piccoult
We Owe You Nothing by Punk Planet
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
Witchmark by C.L Polk
Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Truth and Beauty by Ann Pratchett
Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett
The Carpet People by Terry Pratchett
The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
Enough To Make You Blush by Princess Kali
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
Juniper and Thorn by Ava Reid
I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
High Moor by Graeme Reynolds
Sybil by Schreiber Flora Rheta
The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
If We Were Villains by M.L Rio
Stiff by Mary Roach
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry M. Robert
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Language Construction Kit by Mark Rosenfelder
The Planet Construction Kit by Mark Rosenfelder
The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful by Milo Rossi
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Lisa and David by Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D
The Hacker and the Ants by Rudy Rucker
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
The Sunshine Court by Nora Sakavic
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Sallinger
Franny and Zooey by J.D Sallinger
The Man Who Collected Machen by Mark Samuels
Ariah by B.R Sanders
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Vicious by V.E Schwab
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
Bhagavad Gita by Graham M. Schweig
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Love Story by Erich Segal
The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Unless by Carol Shields
City Come A-Walkin’ by John Shirley
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Crush by Richard Siken
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The Terror by Dan Simmons
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Oil! by Upton Sinclair
Mindfucking Mindfully by Sir Ezra
Of Sorrow and Such by Angela Slatter
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Flinch by Julien Smith
Chlorine by Jade Song
Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria
Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza
Why Christianity Must Change or Die by John Shelby Spong
Last Breath by Peter Stark
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Earle Stegner
Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
City Under the Moon Hugh Sterbakov
Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
Goodbye, Again by Jonny Sunday
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susane
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom
Curiosity by Joan Thomas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
Walden by Henry D. Thoreau
An Affair of Poisons by Addie Thorley
Secrets of the Flesh by Judith Thurman
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Sisyphean by Dempow Torishima
Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes
Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
The Strange Bird by Jeff Vandermeer
Bondage For Every Body by Evie Vane
Crier’s War by Nina Varela
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne
The Last Empire- Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
Candide by Voltaire
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Anomia by Jade Wallace
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Fire in the Sky; The Walton Experience by Travis Walton
Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L Wang
The Graduate by Charles Webb
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells
The Invisible Man by H.G Wells
The Time Machine by H.G Wells
The War of the Worlds by H.G Wells
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Prophesy Deliverance by Cornel West
Educated by Tara Westover
Ship of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
The Code of the Woosters by P.G Wodehouse
Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
The Electric Koolaid Test by Tom Wolfe
Old School by Tobias Wolff
John Dies at the End by David Wong
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dolloway by Virginia Woolf
Bitch; In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
The Black Tides of Heaven by Jy Yang
Negative Space by B.R Yeager
Beneath the Moon by Yoshi Yoshitani
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Tomorrow, and Tommorow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
#spiced#reading list#when i say i have a special interest in special interests this is where that gets me#i particularly love this list because i have all of the wheel of time series and it's one of my favorites ever#but no i've never read dracula
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Happy first day of Dracula Daily to all who celebrate
#I've never actually read it so I'm super excited to experience it this way#dracula#dracula daily#wish it wasn't substack but what are you gonna do
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Arthur at Lucy's death bed à la Branson and Sybil
idk it just happened, I'm sorry
Also what is with Stoker pulling a Hamlet on us in these chapters? Like Lucy's mom, Arthur's father, Mina and Jonathan's father figure, and then Lucy, all dead within the same few days. Bro chill
#cw SAD!#they deserved so much better#I've really come to love arthur on my second/third reading#I watched downton abbey yeeaars ago and never actually finished it lol so idk why this heartbreak resurfaced but it fits#dracula#dracula daily#re: dracula#arthur holmwood#lucy westenra#dracula fanart#my art#don't steal pls
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This meme features official art of Curse of Strahd and some art from my favorite artists: @casketsanctum , @calebisdrawing , @vodoriga-art , @anae-art , @luckyblackcatxiii. I am very happy to discover Ravenloft and see the work of such amazing artists!
#curse of strahd#strahd von zarovich#cos#dnd#dnd oc#dungeons and dragons#ravenloft#I was never charmed by vampires#As a teenager when choosing between them and werewolves I always chose werewolves#And where am I now?#I've watched every film adaptation of Dracula#I started reading the original novel and Carmilla#I'm watching analyses of vampire fashion as portrayed in each vampire film#I read Strahd's diaries (with plans to read the entire collection on Ravenloft)#I'm translating Romanian forums about the meaning of their folk patterns to accurately convey the idea in my art#And all because of this terrible man!!!#I love him
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DAMN y'all weren't fucking kidding Carmilla is gay as FUCK
#Finally got around to starting listening to bloody fm/re:dracula's miniseries of Carmilla#had been meaning to READ it since I first heard of it through Tumblr literally about 10 years ago and never have#despite having a link to a free website or pdf of it saved all that time#but holy shit yeah this is the lesbianist thing I've ever heard#it also has the same thing as Dracula where a modern reader has so much genre awareness and the characters have none it's nearly painful#it is so blindingly frustratingly obvious what is going on re: people being vampires and preying on mortals from the very beginning LMAO#oh Laura...#draco speaks
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the worst part about being hopelessly in love is that he's in literally everything
#he's been in every book i've tried to read#every person i've tried to meet#every new thing growing out of the ground this spring#he was the reader in if on a winter's night#he was jonathan harker in dracula#he was benitez in conclave#he is shalimar in shalimar the clown#he's in the cute costco employee i see every thursday#he's the dutch bros employee taking my order#the sprouts on the grape vines#the calamansi branches reaching for the sky#the hummingbirds the bees the dragonfly i saw once and never again since#he's the white light on waxy leaves#the sunlight that warms me#it's too much sometimes....#*
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Dracula Daily Day 1: Harker didn't sleep well because of 'queer dreams', huh 🤨🏳️🌈 (linguistic drift, I know, but it's funny)
#dracula#dracula daily#I've read excerpts of dracula before but never the entirety & it was a long while ago
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Tapping into my dark past (time spent taking pictures of books for social media (instagram)) to show you all how completely normal I'm being about Dracula right now





#flip open any page i've read and there's a 60% chance you'll find at least a paragraph of my thoughts there lmao#like this genuinely isn't the worst of it#you should see the sheer amount of tabs (which I'd put in on my previous readthrough)#anyway the important lesson here is to never allow me near a book with a pencil#dracula daily#alys.txt#alys reads#?? i guess i'm making a book tag now lol
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Google having free-of-charge eBooks is both the best and the worst thing that could ever have happened to me.
#personal#books#i mean... great for my work as a teacher. one of my student actually wants to explore Victorian literature#and this is helping immensely given that libraries here have a scarcity of English language books#but also how am I ever being productive again now that I can just... READ EVERYTHING???#like... she wants to do Dracula and Frankenstein... I've never read either! Now I get to#and it's WORK so I can't even feel guilty about reading for hours on end
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how do I get over my fear of annotating books please
#i've had that hardcover copy of dracula for over a year and during my first rereading of it i highlighted some passages i like but#i'd like to read it again AND actually annotate it#thing is that i've never done that before 😳 and i would have no problem doing it on any other book#but because this is both an important book and a valued possession to me i'm afraid of ruining it
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I would genuinely like to know if there's another way to read Dracula's "I can love" (while staring specifically at Jonathan Harker) line, other than homoerotic.
Like, is there some context of the times that I'm missing out on, or is it really just how it seems, how I originally understood it?
#I've never read any or sort of Victorian literature before so I'm in new waters. And I'm wondering about the lens with which I should#Be viewing it. Additional context to my modern perspective#Dracula#Dracula novel#Chit-chat#Literary analysis#Victorian literature
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daily kestrel 247:
Luna decided that she did not want to do the work today, her engine light and low tire pressure light came on within a few miles of each other on my way into work, so that and the rain should have been an early indication that today would be rough. some children did NOT want to nap today so nap time was hell, but we all survived a truly chaotic humpday (even though I did not get to watch chaos humpday I channeled it for sure)
I treated myself to Starbies in between picking up Paige's meds and American deli on the way home, and I added a shooter bottle of maker's mark to my soda, which was a good choice. I cashed in on a massage from Peyton and took a shower to finish the relaxation process. we officially decided not to do any more surgery on Peggy so I sent the vet an email letting them know and thanking them, and I couldn't decide which cute picture of Peggy to attach, so I attached two
I started working on the cat toy d12, which I should hopefully finish tomorrow, I got the sides cut and based and labeled so I know how to lay them out when I start sewing them tomorrow. Peyton is running with the idea of cat toy dice and has already figured out how I can make all the other dice for a full set, but we'll have to see how this first one turns out before I get too carried away. I think I'm going to add a piece of twine behind each of the seams to help give them structure and reinforce them.
Peyton went back downstairs to consume raspberries and Paige is sleeping in her bed tonight because she still feels like poop. I went downstairs after typing this to beg a few raspberries but I did not get there in time, they were already gone
#Wednesday#may#suffice to say i did not mow the lawn today#it was still kinda wet and I was not up for the extra work#the most annoying little gremlin in the class (the one who did not sleep AT ALL today and woke up several people)#also crawled under my legs while i was leaning on a cabinet and wiped his nose on the back of my calf today#and i have never been so close to saying “what the fuck dude” to a two year old#oh i also caught up on Dracula daily today#the re:dracula podcast is a great way to do it btw#i always felt like I never had the time to consistently read them but i do have a consistent commute#so i will def keep up with it this way#I'm finally understanding the context to all the memes I've been seeing for years
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10 read in full, 12 if you count in part. Many of these were because of school, admittedly.
How many have you read?
The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
#in fact the only two i read 100% of my own volition were Harry Potter and Dracula#technically I have never read the book Bram Stoker wrote but#I've read every word in it just in a different order than he arranged it#so I still think that counts
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#I may be a dumbass#I...have never actually read Dracula before. the only vampire story I've ever read (iirc) Is 'Salem's Lot#poll#vampire
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I bought Frankenstein by Mary Shelley because of my tiny little obession about the 1996 Doctor Who TV Movie.
#So many other medias I have watched surrounding the Frankenstein mythos. All of that and I've never been inclined to watch/read Frankenstein#But the movie everyone hates but is actually really good??????????#Well I made a purchase.#My brain melts over sexy parallels like the ones provided in this movie. I had to buy the book!#8th Doctor#1996 Doctor Who TV Movie#Doctor Who tv movie#Sentiments of a vampire.#This does mean I've been convinced to read Frankenstein before being convinced to read Dracula.#Which I think is so funny considering....well......I'm me.#eighth doctor
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I've now read the opening to Dracula more times than I can count. What strikes me this time is how very open-minded Jonathan is. He has his prejudices (the women with the "clumsy waists", the grumbles about the delayed train) but they're minimal.
It's not just that he experiences everything with wide-eyed delight, it's that he actively wants more of these experiences:
... the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country
He's almost certainly never left the UK before; it's plausible that he's never left England. But he's so keen to explore the world and learn more about it.
This isn't just an important work trip for him. It's an unprecedented opportunity to visit places he might have thought he would never get the chance to see.
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