A post for my book recommendations, to be continuously updated as I read and remember more. Because without reading, I would not be writing.
All time favourites are marked with a ☆
All are sorted by genre and will be linked (if able) to their Goodreads pages so that you can dig deeper into whatever catches your eye.
(ps if you have a Goodreads account, you can add me here)
Anthology/Short Story Collections
Behold This Dreamer - Walter de la Mare ☆
Love Letters of Great Men - Ursula Doyle
Difficult Women - Roxane Gay
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu
The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami
Essays
Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay ☆
Bluets - Maggie Nelson ☆
On Freedom - Maggie Nelson
In Praise of Shadows - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Malleable Forms - Meeka Walsh ☆
Fiction (Classic)
Persuasion - Jane Austen ☆
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell ☆
Siddhartha - Hermen Hesse
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera ☆
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Fiction (Modern)
All’s Well - Mona Awad ☆
Bunny - Mona Awad
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
The Pisces - Melissa Broder
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
For Today I Am A Boy - Kim Fu
The Vegetarian - Han Kang
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova ☆
Fall on Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
The Road - Cormac McCarthy ☆
Under the Hawthorne Tree - Ai Mi
The Song of Achilles - Madeleine Miller ☆
After Dark - Haruki Murakami ☆
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami
1Q84 - Haruki Murakami ☆
Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
Boy, Snow, Bird - Helen Oyeyemi
Mr. Fox - Helen Oyeyemi ☆
A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki
The Overstory - Richard Powers ☆
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Blindness - José Saramago
How To Be Both - Ali Smith
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt ☆
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Ru - Kim Thúy
Brooklyn - Colm Tóibín
Big Fish - Daniel Wallace
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
Horror/Thriller
The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
Gerald’s Game - Stephen King
The Shining - Stephen King
Audition - Ryū Murakami
I’m Thinking of Ending Things - Iain Reid
Manga/Graphic Novels
Basilisk - Futaro Yamada, Maseki Sagawa
Death Note - Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
Eureka Seven - Jinsei Kataoka, Kazuma Kondou
Lore Olympus - Rachel Smythe
Nana - Ai Yazawa ☆
Paradise Kiss - Ai Yazawa
Uzumaki - Junji Ito
xxxHolic - CLAMP
Memoirs/Journals
Speak, Okinawa - Elizabeth Miki Brina
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty
I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - Azar Nafisi
Henry and June - Anaïs Nin ☆
The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls ☆
Non-Fiction (General)
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking - Susan Cain
The Red Market - Scott Carney
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern - Stephen Greenblatt
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right - Jane Mayer
The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson
The Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr, E.B White
Non-Fiction (Philosophy/Spiritual)
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge - Carlos Castañeda
Silence: In the Age of Noise - Erling Kagge ☆
The Kybalion - Three Initiates ☆
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo - Chögyam Trungpa
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
Poetry Collections
I Love My Love - Reyna Biddy
Let Us Compare Mythologies - Leonard Cohen
The Prophet - Khalil Gibran
The Anatomy of Being - Shinji Moon
The Beauty of the Husband - Anne Carson ☆
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth - Warsan Shire
Night Sky with Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong
Speculative Fiction
Dune - Frank Herbert
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel ☆
Battle Royale - Koushun Takami
True Crime
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders - Vincent Bugliosi
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote ☆
Young Adult
A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray ☆
The Diviners - Libba Bray
The Sun is Also a Star - Nicola Yoon
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'Nobody with naturally wavy hair can be trusted'
...Gintama the Final movie spoilers...
The movie was spectacular, it exceeded my expectations by far. The animation, ost's, the sound effects and the scenes were quite a preformance and worked so well together. I've been a Gintama fan for a while so this made me quite sentimental... Had to pause the movie and replay some scenes due to its magnificence.
I especially want to talk about the Gintoki vs. Utsuro fight. It was phenomenal, not only the flawless animation but the fight itself. Together, Gintoki and Takasugi not only defeated Utsuro but also transcended time-space, it left me beffuddled.
"Humans are hollow beings. But because they know that, they take root in the hearts of others, never fading, even after death and continue to live forever, is it?" - Utsuro
This fight made me respect Takasugi even more that I already did. And his last moments with Gintoki and the overflow of the memories were beautiful, mesmerizing.
Last part I want to talk about is the ending, the "Tama' POV" or "the narration" it was so well written with many plot twists till the end, what is famous for Gintama series.
If I said I wasn't crying I would be lying, it was beautiful until the end, thank you Sorachi sensei and everyone for this wild ride and a masterpiece that I am not afraid to say had a huge impact on the manga and anime evolution. It was ahead of its time.
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