The Legend of 1900

oh my this is a huge undertaking since this is an ask w actual financial stake butokay anon if your taste is anything like mines, i highly recommend buying books of these categories:

books chock full of subtext, unreliable narrators that you can read over and over again that would whittle the pages thin:

the secret history by donna tartt (the og)

the goldfinch by donna tartt

queen’s thief series by megan whalen turner

night film by marissa pessl

howl’s moving castle by diana wynne jones

books that (i find) are gorgeous to read:

deathless by cat valente (predictable to my very bones!)

the museum of innocence by orhan pamuk

in the presence of absence by mahmoud darwish

autobiography of red by anne carson

crush by richard siken

the amberlough dossier by lara elena donnelly

the city of brass by s.a. chakraborty

the bloody chamber and other stories by angela carter

bluets by maggie nelson

the paper menagerie and other stories by ken liu

the golem and the jinni by helene wecker

in cold blood by truman capote

and the mountains echoed by khaled hosseini