Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierI Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Enchanted April by Elizabeth von ArnimCold Comfort Farm by Stella GibbonsExcellent Women by Barbara Pym
A Middlebrow Syllabus
100 books — 78 voters
Chess by Stefan ZweigIn the Penal Colony by Franz KafkaThe Machine Stops by E.M. ForsterBabylon Revisited by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft
Penguin Mini Modern Classics
50 books — 55 voters

The Trial by Franz KafkaThe Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz KafkaThe Castle by Franz KafkaLetter to the Father / Brief an den Vater by Franz KafkaAmerika by Franz Kafka
The Schocken Kafka Library
14 books — 9 voters
Giovanni’s Room by James BaldwinFirst Love by Ivan TurgenevThe Kreutzer Sonata by Leo TolstoyBonjour Tristesse by Françoise SaganA Russian Affair by Anton Chekhov
Penguin Great Loves
21 books — 38 voters

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongAn American Marriage by Tayari JonesTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeSuch a Fun Age by Kiley ReidThe White Album by Joan Didion
High Low book recommendations
193 books — 7 voters
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann RadcliffeThe Italian by Ann RadcliffeThe Monk by Matthew Gregory LewisThe Castle of Wolfenbach by Eliza ParsonsThe Necromancer, or The Tale of the Black Forest by Karl Friedrich Kahlert
Jane Austen: The "Horrid" Novels
11 books — 26 voters

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred WatsonMiss Buncle's Book by D.E. StevensonSomeone at a Distance by Dorothy WhippleThe Making of a Marchioness, Part I and II by Frances Hodgson BurnettMariana by Monica Dickens
Best Persephone Books
151 books — 167 voters
Desire by Haruki MurakamiDepression by William StyronRace by Toni MorrisonWork by Joseph HellerDeath by Julian Barnes
Vintage Minis
43 books — 21 voters

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathConvenience Store Woman by Sayaka MurataConversations with Friends by Sally RooneyBoy Parts by Eliza  Clark
women vs the void
252 books — 621 voters
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga TokarczukFlights by Olga TokarczukMinor Detail by Adania ShibliHurricane Season by Fernanda MelchorStill Born by Guadalupe Nettel
Fitzcarraldo Editions
150 books — 56 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovPerfume by Patrick SüskindBreakfast at Tiffany's by Truman CapoteThe Day of the Triffids by John WyndhamThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Penguin Essentials
95 books — 18 voters
Worshipping with a Camera by Gordon IllgH is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldWaterlog by Roger  DeakinThe Old Ways by Robert MacfarlaneThe Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
British and Irish Nature Writing
253 books — 215 voters


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