Hey guys
Looking for some books recs. Here are some of my favourites:
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr
Slaughterhouse 5 by Vonnegut
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
Anything at all by Franz Kafka
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Anything at all by Toni Morrison
Her Body & Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Also – really really love David Lynch, if that’s anything. Thanks!
by GrrrrrrrArrrrggggggh
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You’d almost certainly enjoy Thomas Pynchon. The Crying of Lot 49 is a relatively easy introduction to his work and is just a cool story overall. It’s about a woman who finds out an ex of hers has died and that she was named executor to his estate. While investigating his assets in an attempt to execute his estate (in particular his shares in a cigarette company and a stamp collection he owned) she starts to believe in a conspiracy theory involving a multiple-hundreds-of-years old rivalry between two secret societies of mail carriers. The book shifts pretty dramatically in tone from straight up goofy sitcom shenanigans to anxious and paranoid the further she gets into the investigation.
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
Tender is the Flesh
Teh Gold FInch by Donna Tartt