#i wasnt gonna post because sharing books i love is alwasy so scary i feel like im giving away something personal but i love u and want u to

[heavenlyyshecomes]

recommend me some books that you’re convinced no one has heard of but you. books that don’t seem to have any fan base, or even independent people talking about them. your homegrown, organic, from-the-dirt little books if you please

i always somehow seem to find such books omg so i have a long list but i'm including some i've read recently that i loved!!

briefly, a delicious life, nell stevens (ghost of a teenager falls in love w george sand who's vacationing w her kids and chopin)

snake agent, liz williams (super fun one abt a detective pairing up w a demon from hell to solve crimes)

wylding hall, elizabeth hand (70s band goes to an isolated manor to record their album)

minor detail, adania shibli tr. elisabeth jacquette (read up summary + tws before reading because it's very heavy but amazingly executed)

angels & saints, eliot weinberger (about... angels and saints but surprisingly funny; interspersed with medieval 'grid poems' which are v beautiful too)

a month in siena, hisham matar (sort of a travelogue? or a snapshot of a trip to siena, v nice stuff about art)

one hundred shadows, hwang jungeun tr. jung yewon (strange, lucid, a dream, and one of my favourites)

tell them of battles, kings, and elephants, mathias enard tr. charlotte mandell (michaelangelo's time in constantinople, very decadent)