#tsh book

[urfavoritedcwhore]

“you’re so real lux” they all say in unison

[alexandrarosa]

What happened after Goethe’s “The Sorrows of Young Werther” and Donna Tartt’s “The Secret History” has literally the same energy but a slightly different vibe

[charlotlie]

bitches be like “this is the best piece of literature i have ever read” and it’s either a book that took them six weeks to finish or a fanfic they read at 3 AM

[0bsessiv3s0ul]

I can't wait for Autumn 🍂🍁

[bleeding-daydream]

[old-habits-die-screaming]

oh to be immortal and be able to consume every piece of knowledge and literature ever

[lets-throw-bacchanal]

My 2 fav book genres are: what the fuck richard and what the fuck andrew

[joytri]

anarchism and god complex

[k1ti]

“I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive” defines me. Without obsession, I experience profound emptiness.

[notacluedo]

henry winter doodle

[urfavoritedcwhore]

“it’s starting to smell like pumpkin spice!”

“it’s starting to smell like scary movies!”

no.

it’s starting to smell like, the snow in the mountains was melting and bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to realize the gravity of our situation.

[alexandrarosa]

The Diana and Actaeon reference on the cover of The Secret History is honestly some galaxy brain design

[ambxtxo]

donna tartt’s reading list

In an interview, Tartt lists her favorite authors and the names of a few works. I have listed the most popular works from each author and the specific ones she recommended as well.

Homer

The Iliad

The Odyssey

Greek Poets and Tragedians

Argonautica

Antigone

Prometheus Bound

The Oresteia

Medea

Oedipus Rex

The Bacchae

The Frogs

Dante

Inferno

Purgatorio

Paradiso

Shakespeare

“I went back and read Macbeth and Hamlet during the pandemic”

Macbeth

Hamlet

Dickens

“Dickens was a part of my familial landscape, the air I breathed.”

A Tale of Two Cities

Great Expectations

Nabokov

Pale Fire

Lolita

Proust

In Search of Lost Time

Swann’s Way

Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

The Brothers Karamazov

Yeats

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

Borges

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth

Ethan Frome

Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited

Helena

Salinger

Catcher in the Rye

Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

Orlando

Edward St. Aubyn

The Patrick Melrose Novels

Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore

Norwegian Wood

Olga Tokarczuk

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Don DeLillo

White Noise

Underworld

W.G. Sebald

Austerlitz

The Rings of Saturn

Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

The White Album

Other Specific Books

Memoirs d’Outre-Tome by Chateaubriand

Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford

All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski

A Balcony in the Forest by Julien Gracq

[chaoticmiserablelover]

Richard was really giving y/n energy when he almost died from hypothermia and needed to be saved by a big smart man with dark hair.

[papenathys]

A lot of people forget that TSH was not just an aesthetic book. It was gross. Gross shit happens. There is very rancid inner monologues, drugs, animal deaths, plenty of throwing up, sweating, bleeding and embarassing, uncomfortable sex and desire. It was not just some hot white people in tweed coats quoting Homer and Virgil back and forth. And that's why Saltburn feels like a spiritual successor to it in the way a lot of the dark academia books of the 2020s do not.

[girlintodust]

tortured soul