#their vendetta against the gothic romantics wounded me personally 😂

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oooh book rec time! 📚

- house of leaves (so good, but can be confusing considering its ergodic literature!)

- the kite runner (top tier, very emotional tho)

- sula (omg, toni morrison is a god, this book was amazing and very sad)

- Ishmael (amazing book, really makes you look at life in a different light, think everyone needs to read it at least once!)

- the viscount who loves me (but any of the bridgerton books really, im partial to romancing mr. bridgerton too though)

- anerican prometheus (this is a biography about oppenheimer but it really is pure poetry as well, and i recommend robert oppenheimer letters and recollections as well, just because oppies own writing is something to behold)

- rabbit and robot (a book from my childhood technically but still has to make the list just because of how utterly hilarious it is)

- ethan frome (such a sad beautiful story, very poetic and tragic)

- girl from nowhere (this has nothing to do with the netflix series lol, but its a pretty good suspensful spy thriller romance!)

- where the crawdads sing (very very interesting and the twist at the end is def amazing)

- the sound of waves (this novel was translated into english from japanese and it's a very beautiful, simple and life loving romance)

those are all i can think of right now but I also of course have to recommend the classics such as the great gatsby and dr. jekyll and mr hyde!

your last sentence flashing me back to the unhinged dni @arthurwilde showed me this morning that had gatsby, to kill a mockingbird, frankenstein, dracula, wuthering heights, and the phantom of the opera listed as "irredeemable media" (along with the magic schoolbus and garfield..?). 🤓 i'm surprised jekyll and hyde wasn't on there too. what did the classics ever do to that person?! i have read and enjoyed them, lock us up for literary crimes!

thank you so much for this list and your thoughts, i appreciate it and am always glad to have new things to add to my to-read ideas!!! ❤📖