let the less-loving one be me

Anonymous asked, "desperate for book recs from you. i remember someone asking you for recommendations or about your faves fairly recently, but i can't for the life of me find it in your archive, so if you could link me to the said ask or list whatever pops into your head right now, i'd be so grateful."

Okay, here, take ten books I love that I forget to talk about when I’m making Top Lists:

The Passion, Jeanette Winterson
Better Than Running At Night, Hilary Frank*
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
The Witch books in the Discworld series, Terry Pratchett
Oryx & Crake, Margaret Atwood (although The Blind Assassin seriously put up a fight for favorite Maggy book)
The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
Dance Dance Dance, Haruki Murakami
and all of Anaïs Nin’s stuff but esp. her diaries

*This keeps escaping my Top YA Picks lists because I’m not even sure if it’s in print, but it’s just a year or so out of print if so and it’s findable in libraries—and: collegiate rather than high school stories! sexual frankness! feelings about art! sharp-minded narrator; strikingly restrained prose! It’s one of my all-time-forevers and I really ought to talk about it more.

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galateas said: i thought i was the only one in the world who had read ‘the eyre affair’. one of my most-read books of all time.
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ahkna said: A+ choices. I love a lot of these books.
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tvismydj said: Nin’s Spy in the House of Love: I die howling of laughter every time I get to “like purple vulvas of the night.” THAT WILL NEVER STOP BEING HILARIOUS. NEVER.
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falulatonks said: if anon wants your YA recs: hotelsongs.tumblr.com/p… !!!! i have that open in a tab still because all of your recs are the best.
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gematriya said: omg BETTER THAN RUNNING AT NIGHT I FORGOT THAT EXISTED
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