Hello ! I want to try and read one book per week during 2024 and I’d love some suggestions to start the year. I’m a bit picky so I have a hard time finding something that piques my interest. Here are my all time favorites :
– Written On the Body (Jeanette Winterson)
– Narcissus and Goldmund (Hermann Hesse)
– The Portrait of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
– Carmilla (Sheridan Le Fanu)
I’m open to absolutely everything, fiction, non-fiction, number of pages, genre etc…doesn’t matter. If it looks interesting, I’ll read it ! Thanks in advance !
by inmar6
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You seem to like gothic classics to me, so here’s some of my recs: Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, Perfume by Patrick Süskind and The Phantom of The Opera by Gaston Leroux
À rebours, Huysmans
Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda (for a female vampire a la Carmilla, but contemporary)
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (for the Gothic vibes)
Here are a few of my recent 5-star titles in no particular order:
The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds –Caroline Van Hemert
The Big Picture –Sean Carrol
Thinking, Fast and Slow –Danny Kahneman
I Contain Multitudes –Ed Yong
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going –Vaclav Smil
Enlightenment Now –Steve Pinker
The Hacking of the American Mind –Robert Lustig
The End of the World is Just the Beginning –Peter Zeihan
Pale Blue Dot –Carl Sagan
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time –Dava Sobel
The Uninhabitable Earth –David Wallace-Wells
Justice For Animals –Martha Nussbaum
This is Vegan Propaganda –Ed Winters
Psych: The Story of the Human Mind –Paul Bloom
Never Split the Difference –Chris Voss
If you like Dorian Gray then you might like Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier, or maybe one of her other novels called “My Cousin Rachel”!!! They are slow burns but are quintessential creepy gothic.
Needle in a haystack by casey jordan