High quality writing. Something you can’t forget. One of a kind. Like when you read and go… Woah.
My examples: We Have Always Lived In the Castle by Shirley Jackson, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, any Virginia Woolf.
Queer, disabled, BIPOC authors are most welcome (tired of them whities)
by somethingwasoncetold
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Moby Dick
The Picture of Dorian Grey
The Divine Comedy
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
{{Their Eyes Were Watching God}}
I’ve always found the opening lines among the most poetic start to a book:
“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.
Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.”
A “Journal of an Ordinary Grief” by a Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish is unforgettable
**Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe** by Benjamin Alire Saenz
LGBT Hispanic (I think) author who is also a poet.
alone with you in the ether and the atlas six are both by olivie blake and have gorgeous prose.
*One Hundred Years of Solitude* by Gabriel García Márquez
*The God of Small Things*
by Arundhati Roy
*On Earth We are Briefly Gorgeous* by Ocean Vuong
*The Great Gatsby* by F. Scott Fitzgerald
What a truly disgusting way to finish your post. Hope your racist view of literature will collapse and make you feel small and foolish in the process.
Here are my rec’s:
Kerouac
Thomas Wolfe (not Tom)
Boris Pasternak
Herman Melville
Flaubert
Turgenev