WHAT DO YOU MEAN ATSUSHI IS AKUTAGAWA'S REASON TO LIVE???? THAT ATSUSHI IS THE ONE TO REPLACE DAZAI IN

donna tartt’s reading list

In an interview, Tartt lists her favorite authors and the names of a few works. I have listed the most popular works from each author and the specific ones she recommended as well.

Homer

The Iliad

The Odyssey

Greek Poets and Tragedians

Argonautica

Antigone

Prometheus Bound

The Oresteia

Medea

Oedipus Rex

The Bacchae

The Frogs

Dante

Inferno

Purgatorio

Paradiso

Shakespeare

“I went back and read Macbeth and Hamlet during the pandemic”

Macbeth

Hamlet

Dickens

“Dickens was a part of my familial landscape, the air I breathed.”

A Tale of Two Cities

Great Expectations

Nabokov

Pale Fire

Lolita

Proust

In Search of Lost Time

Swann’s Way

Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

The Brothers Karamazov

Yeats

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

Borges

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth

Ethan Frome

Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited

Helena

Salinger

Catcher in the Rye

Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

Orlando

Edward St. Aubyn

The Patrick Melrose Novels

Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore

Norwegian Wood

Olga Tokarczuk

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Don DeLillo

White Noise

Underworld

W.G. Sebald

Austerlitz

The Rings of Saturn

Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

The White Album

Other Specific Books

Memoirs d’Outre-Tome by Chateaubriand

Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford

All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski

A Balcony in the Forest by Julien Gracq

Rereading the secret history years after the first time reading it is sending me right through the loop.

What do you mean Richard was asleep the whole time and barely asked any questions?! What do you mean this man thought getting hypothermia was a better option than asking literally anyone for help? What do you MEAN he didn’t pick up on the fact that his whole friend group was sleeping with each other???!?

we’re gonna be ok btw

girls don’t want boyfriends, girls want their fatal flaw, a morbid longing for the picturesque, to cause them to snap because “what could be more terrifying and beautiful to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely?”

Ok everyone let’s think beautiful thoughts about masculine women today.

the technocrat

turn the screen on give me my feeder plug me in, slide in the needle

i don't want anything i don't need anyone just another hit from the dopamine machine

turn it up a little louder i can still hear myself think this seat numbs my skin reminding me i'm still here

i have opinions on things i've never seen and thoughts about places i've never been

i talk like i know when i can't look in the mirror i hate hard and i hate loud and it makes me feel better

hate is human a human's all i am so don't act so shocked when i take what i want

i send my men to bleed in a country i've never seen for a resource i don't need just to increase the defense budget

cash runs hot, flows right out and it smells so divine if you want them out take a look at my wishlist

i don't wait till christmas to open my presents an icbm opens every door and i got this big red button

I really, REALLY, don't know what I would do without books.

"Astynax (the infant) was quiet and didn't cry when Odysseus was holding him and was even smiling and reaching out for him, because Odysseus was wearing his helmet, so he must have thought it was his father, Hector, picking him up."

Me after reading this take:

glossing over silver lines, with memories of forgotten times. how i wish i could go back re-walk the path we could together tread. i so miss the running red. seems i'm halfway done but i feel so dead.

Rooted in my mind