#ty bec 💖💗

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book asks! 2, 11 (cause you did make a poll about it), and 19 (be a hater pls)

2. top 5 books of all time?

- shirley jackson's the haunting of hill house

- jasper fforde's the eyre affair

- mary oliver's white pine

and then i feel like the rest of the spots would either rotate out titles from my favorite authors (willa cather, arthur miller, thomas king, etc) or are tentatively being filled by books i've read comparatively very recently and don't feel like i can give a book of all-time distinction to just yet (kate bornstein's gender outlaw, manda scott's dreaming the bull, erika swyler's the book of speculation, anne gardiner perkins' yale needs women)

11. what non-fiction books do you like if any?

ik i just answered this in the previous ask which is why i will now just be lobbing nonfic book recs into the ether bc the results of that poll are making me so sad!!! variety is the spice of life and hyperspecific nonfic is very dear to me

- liza mundy's code girls

- keith o'brien's fly girls

- mariana gosnell's zero 3 bravo

- leslie haynesworth & david toomey's amelia earhart's daughers

- michael azerrad's our band could be your life

- thomas & dorothy hoobler's the monsters: mary shelley & the curse of frankenstein

- vito russo's the celluloid closet

- selma blair's mean baby

19. most disliked popular books?

i love being a hater <3

i have a list of author's that are no-gos either bc i think their writing is ass or i refuse on principle to give them my precious time on earth (and sometimes both--colleen, klune, here's looking at y'all kids) but of books in particular nothing comes to mind as fast as riley sager's final girls, every time i see a new riley sager book it makes me feel genuinely hateful. also i'm sorry but i've never enjoyed a word that has come from gillian flynn it's all so fucking boring