#god the power that i'm imbued with when my pretentious side is given permission to go ham

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Ksbdjdk Okay I'm really really sorry for sending ANOTHER ask but also, I would kill for book recs because I finished the sun also rises last week and I'm dying, I need more (even though the amount of books on my to-read list is already way too much lmao)

the sun also rises is one of my favourites!! tbh i have some very controversial hemingway opinions (in that i love him lmao.... my cat is named after his son!) if you liked that I'd also rec~

fitzgerald - very different writing style, but deals with a lot of similar themes. the great gatsby, of course, but for this particular rec list i would suggest tender is the night

save me the waltz which was zelda fitzgerald's only published book and the things she does with imagery is just??? god she was so underrated

a moveable feast -- this is hemingway's memoirs from his time living in 1920s paris and it is one of my all time favourite books, i've read in a thousand times. THE book to read if you want something else flavoured like the sun also rises though

nightwood by djuna barnes, a brilliant modernist writer (this book has the added benefit of being terribly gay)

their eyes were watching god by zora neale hurston -- an all time classic of the harlem renaissance. janie crawford is a protagonist that will stick with you forever

everybody behaved badly is a newer book that is sort of a biography of the writing of the sun also rises

the autobiography of alice b. toklas which is kind of like gertrude stein's a moveable feast (all of her contemporaries hated it lmao)

mrs dalloway by virginia woolf if another of my favourites, another brilliant modernist novel

the short stories of katherine mansfield -- hemingway was a huge fan! and i think you can see that reflected a lot in his work

all of anais nin's paris diaries <3 <3 <3

the awakening by kate chopin predates modernism slightly but i think heralded its coming in a lot of ways

the overcoat and other stories by nikolai gogol -- this might be the wildest swing on this list, but i think there are so many stylistic and emotional similarities between hem's work and gogol's. again, hemingway was a fan, and i think you can really see it comparing them! the overcoat is also just such a lovely, bitter, human little story

i'd be completely remiss if i didn't at least mention ulysses by james joyce here but it is frankly an exhausting book to get through. don't get me wrong it can be completely rewarding! but it's also exhausting lol