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If you feel like you’ve seen this alread, that’s normal. This list of recommendation has been previously posted on my first account @praestantias which has been deleted for some reasons. So here I am, reposting it. 

Hating how elitist and eurocentric the dark academia community became, I would truly appreciate that you leave some recommendation of book written by people of color, for I noticed that I am guilty of the eurocentric part, but I am really want to educate myself and read more non-white books. 

Thank you for your suggestions!

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“To be a sailor of the world bound for all ports,”

— Walt Whitman, ‘A Song of Joys’ from the section ‘Calamus’ in Leaves of Grass

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“I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

— William Butler Yeats, from “Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (Scribner, 1996)

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“All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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this is how to save america from hurricane dorian:

turn it into a painting and then stab it :)

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Write Drunk. Edit sober.

Ernest Hemingway

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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.

Kurt Vonnegut

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the great gatsby does it for me, folks. ain’t nothin like it out there.

every time i re-read a book, a book i already know too well, i start to miss it the second i finish the last line, the second i’ve put it face down on my shelf. it starts leaving a hole in my heart that can only be filled up and healed when the words i miss are in front of me again.

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perhaps in another dimension, the distance between us would not stretch across miles upon miles of rocks and plains. perhaps in another dimension, the distance between us would merely be a feet. perhaps in another dimension, the distance between us would merely be a lip’s touch.

oh, how i wish to be in that dimension.

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all this wishing and yearning comes with a hefty price. as the distance between us magnify and time zone differences quadruple, our heartstrings tug and near the brink of cessation. 

the more frequently i check my phone for your notification, and am greeted with an empty lock screen, i just find myself checking my phone less often. i find myself thinking of you less. it hasn’t even been one month but already we are inching towards growing apart...all i ask, and all i hope is for us to never cease contact even if such communication lessens to mere “good morning”s and “good night”s. i want you to know that i will never tire of hearing your voice, of seeing your name illuminate my barren lock screen.

you’re my favorite notification. always. and just because you’re all the way over there, and I’m all the way over here, doesn’t mean that I can’t love you.

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finding him was finding someone i didn’t know i was searching for. when i found him, something in me clicked perfectly, like the final jigsaw puzzle i spent ages looking for. he had come into my life too late, and had left too soon.

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it has only been one month since we last saw each other. i know that number must be minuscule compared to many others, but no matter, i miss you. i am beginning to forget the smell of your cologne, the feeling of your arms around me, and the scruff of your chin as i caress your face. good thing i’m good at reimagining “dead” situations. i miss you, baby.

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we lOvE it when basic human freedoms are considered to be radical left conspiracies😤 this country is desperately lacking in compassion and understanding in how other first world countries function.

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adding most of these to my to-read list! i’ve been so preoccupied lately with,,,life but i really need to get back on my reading grind and satiate the logophile and literature geek in me.

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo