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hi anon !! ofc u can ask !! <33 i study literature in uni, but not specifically english lit… sadly most of my assigned reading is western though :’3

Ah, I see! I could tell! 😀

Unfortunately, I don't study literature as my degree, but I could perhaps suggest some stuff I've enjoyed that maybe you might enjoy?

English Language Works:

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Toni Morrison, Beloved.

Nella Larsen, Passing.

Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room.

Anything by Rabindranath Tagore.

Non-English Language Works:

Cao Xue Qin (曹雪芹), Dream of the Red Chamber. (A classic, yes, but a goodie.)

Shota Rustaveli, The Knight in the Panther's Skin.

Yasunari Kawabata, The Master of Go.

Han Kang, The Vegetarian.

José Saramago, Blindness.

Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Dog.

Eileen Chang (short stories, especially).

Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes.

If you're up for it, personally, I think Plato's quite fun.

Oh, and I feel like you might enjoy this, too:

Carol Ann Duffy, Rapture.

These are just some things off the top of my head. Please don't feel obliged to read any of this ahaha

AAAAAA ANON…….. TYSM FOR TAKING THE TIME TO WRITE THIS OUT i’m getting so tempted to just buy a ton of these 😭😭😭 i recognize a lot of them too!! dream of the red chamber has been on my tbr for a while now, i’m just a lil intimidated by the lenght :’3 but i’d loveee to get into chinese lit eventually!!

i looked up some summaries and all of these sound so interesting …. i’m supposed to read a morrison book next week for uni hehe!! and i’ve read a bit by woolf & murakami too…. but most of these are new to me and that’s getting me so excited!!!

will def go back to this list whenever i decide to go on a book shopping spree >:33 tysm again anon!! i can already tell your taste is amazing hehe