REAL FOR CLOUD ATLAS. that’s top 2 for me

• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Blew my mind like no other work of fiction.
• Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky.
• Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami.
• Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger.
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.

Infinite Jest - DFW
The Tunnel - William H. Gass
Lost Futures - Mark Fisher
Franny and Zoey - JD Salinger
Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami

Pimp by Iceberg Slim
G-Spot by Noire
Tales From Da Hood by Nikki Turner
Pleasure by Eric Jerome D***ey
The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
To the Lighthouse
The Idiot
Jane Eyre
As I Lay Dying

The Lord of the Rings
The Great Gatsby
On The Road
The Secret History
Inherent Vice

Serious runner ups:

The Dark Tower (sort of not fair since it's seven books)
Watchmen (it's a comic so doesn't really apply)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

no order but:

based on a true story - norm macdonald
democracy in america - tocqueville
the fire next time - james baldwin
roadside picnic - strugatsky brothers
seeing like a state - james c. scott

No order:

Knausgard - My Struggle
Kafka - The Metamorphosis
Hamsun - Hunger
Melville - Bartleby
Zweig - Chess story

HM:

Orwell - 1984
Nescio - Amsterdam Stories

The 48 Laws of Power
The Art of Seduction
The 33 strategies of war
Ego is the enemy
The obstacle is the way

This a jail essentials reading list

tf is this? andrew tate manifesto?

Tuesdays with morrie
For one more day
The nightingale
The five people you meet in heaven
Never let you go
if you wanna have a good cry read these books

Mitch Albom always got heaters

Literally read every book by except like two. Tuesdays and one more day had me straight sobbing. I started reading that book literally the day XXX was killed

Damnnnn that had to of been crazy at that time

I don’t read much.

But these ones immediately come to mind:

1. Gravity’s Rainbow
2. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
3. The Catcher in the Rye
4. The Disaster Artist
5. The Great Gatsby

carver underrated

I started reading Bukowski and he seems to share Carver’s ability to distill something to its pure essence. I like that style.

Lmaoooo art of Seduction/48 laws is actually banned in some prisons

Beloved
Moby D***
Infinite Jest
Love Medicine
Gravity’s Rainbow

HMs: To the Lighthouse / The Brothers Karamazov

Right now I'd say (fiction)
1. One Hundred Years Of Solitude
2. Wind Up Bird Chronicles
3. Oryx and Crake
4. The Stranger
5. Cloud Atlas

this is literally my want to read list. Sirens of Titan looks so sick ive been meaning to pick it up

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