Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradMetamorphosis by Franz KafkaBartleby, the Scrivener by Herman MelvilleThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Hesperus Classics
125 books — 23 voters
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessLucky Jim by Kingsley AmisA Kestrel for a Knave by Barry HinesA Month in the Country by J.L. CarrThe Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor
Penguin Decades
20 books — 9 voters

Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu MiaojinLast Words from Montmartre by Qiu MiaojinConfessions of a Mask by Yukio MishimaLie With Me by Philippe BessonIf Not, Winter by Sappho
LGBTQ literature in English translation
253 books — 64 voters
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeAgainst Nature by Joris-Karl HuysmansLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
240 books — 201 voters

Ice by Anna KavanChristie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B.S. JohnsonThe Unfortunates by B.S. JohnsonImpossible Object by Nicholas MosleyThe Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard
British Experimental Novels 1940-1980
90 books — 43 voters
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezBig Book of Unique Names for Characters by Aimard R.MaknedaKing Lear by William ShakespearePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Books To Read (For Writers)
123 books — 23 voters

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman MelvilleThe Awakening by Kate ChopinThe Dead by James JoyceThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
Melville House Art of the Novella
60 books — 63 voters

Orson Welles by Mark W. EstrinHitchcock/Truffaut by François TruffautLynch on Lynch by David  LynchWoody Allen by Robert E. KapsisThe Rolling Stone Interviews by Joe Levy
Best Interview Books
272 books — 34 voters
Nomadic Subjects by Rosi BraidottiVolatile Bodies by Elizabeth GroszSenses of the Subject by Judith ButlerA Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities by ÅsbergWillful Subjects by Sara Ahmed
Subjectivity Reading List
23 books — 2 voters


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