bookshelf

my library. each cover is the edition that i own/have read.
you can click on some of the books to read my thoughts on them. they're very brief and spoiler-free (unless otherwise stated.)

currently reading:

it will take me a long time to finish reading.

The Only Good Indians SGJ

read:

just the ones that stuck out to me or ones that i really liked.

if you'd like to see other books i've read see my storygraph.

Cain: A Mystery GGB
Great Expectations CD
Maurice EMF
The Song of Achilles MM
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic AB
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous OV
Stone Butch Blues LF
Hamlet WS
Cyrano de Bergerac ER
The Yellow House MG
A Lesson Before Dying EJG
Wuthering Heights EB

still on the shelf, unread:

they're collecting dust under my bed...

Death In Venice and Other Stories TM
Piers Plowman WL
Lust for Life IS
The Agony and The Ecstasy IS
The Terror DS
In Cold Blood TC
The Mabinogion Anon
Faust Volume I and II JWG
Wuthering Heights EB
The Farthest Shore UKL
The Crucible AM
Frankenstein MS
CASH JC
Knights of the Black and White JW
Standard of Honor JW
Daddy Long Legs JW
The Lion in Winter JG
The Canterbury Tales GC
Le Morte D'Arthur TM
Twins BW
Beowulf SH
Madhouse at the End of the Earth JS
All Quiet on the Western Front EMR
Nausea JPS
The Ghosts of Rose Hill RMR
The Complete Poems of John Keats JK
Grendel JG
The Divine Comedy DA
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The Only Good Indians

by Stephen Graham Jones

Currently up to chapter 3. It's pretty good so far.

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Cain: A Mystery

by Lord Byron

Actually listened to an audiobook of this. I would like to read it myself someday. It's been a while since I heard the audiobook so there isn't much I remember.

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Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

A book that was required reading for high school English/Literature when I was a freshman. I did like it, though. Miss Havisham was kinda girlbossing.

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Maurice

by E.M. Forster

I had no idea that there was a movie adaptation until a good number of years after I finished reading this book.
It's quite somber. A number of moments stuck with me, particularly the ones where Maurice struggles with internal homophobia and sexuality. Dude was going THROUGH it.

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The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller

I think the hype is well-deserved. Super bittersweet story about Achilles and Patroclus's relationship and the quotes that people tend to pull from this book are even more potent in context.

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

by Alison Bechdel

Great read. I chose to write about this book for one of my finals.

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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

by Ocean Vuong

I like Vuong's poetry, so I also wanted to check out this book, which was also lauded amongst his fans. It's semi-autobiographical, and is written as a series of letters to the narrator's mother.
I sometimes wonder if my relationship with my grandmother would've been similar had she lived past my infancy.
This one ruined me.

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Stone Butch Blues

by Leslie Feinberg

Really, really tough (so many horrible things happen) but amazing read. Also a snapshot into the queer community in certain areas between the late 50s - 80s.

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Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

My favorite Shakespeare work (for now?). This depressed little slayboy does NOT stop talking.

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Cyrano de Bergerac

by Edmond Rostand

Bro deserved better.

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The Yellow House

by Martin Gayford

Super decent biography about the last years in van Gogh's life. I've yet to read other bios about him, but I really enjoyed this one. Paul Gaugin was some kind of bitch though.

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A Lesson Before Dying

by Ernest J. Gaines

Another somber read. Filled me with frustration and sadness and a bit of rage, but ultimately it's a very moving book. I read it in high school, so I do think I should read it again and (re-) gather my thoughts on it.

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Wuthering Heights

by Emily Bronte

Read this one in high school. Might be one of my favorite assigned readings too, lmao. Heathcliff is such a freak, but he's also kind of a little meow meow.
He's definitely pathetic.
Yeah I'd haunt a guy like that.