#Dr. John Eliot Miller

[kaleb-is-definitely-sane]

Hii i needed some classic book recommendations even tho im currently reading crime and punishment by fyodor dostoevsky cant seem to finish it reader's block ig if thats a thing? So im just tryna find books which would get me back at reading. Greek/classic Literature/ dark academia/ classic thriller and mystery into these stuff right now so yeah!

Sorry for sending such a big ask lol.

Hey Anonie. No problem lol. Now, I haven't read all those I'm about to list, but I know people (and have read people) that have and like them greatly so: (in no particular order)

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Othello by William Shakespeare

Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

The Bakkhai by Euripides (Anne Carson translation)

Medea by Euripides (I unfortunately don't have a translation to recommend)

The Oresteia by Any of the 3 Greek tragedians Honestly (see above)

The Iliad by Homer (Fagles translation)

The Odyssey by Homer (Fagles translation)

The Aeneid by Virgil (Fagles translation)

Omeros by Derek Walcott

Wise Children by Angela Carter

The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott. Fitzgerald

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The Woodlander by Thomas Hardy

Adam Bede by George Eliot

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Romola by George Eliot

Tess of D'Uberville by Thomas Hardy

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

The Theban Trilogy by Sophocles

The Turn of the Shrew by Henry James

Daisy Miller by Henry James

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien

The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

The Mystery of the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

King Lear by William Shakespeare

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Hearts and Lives of Men by Fay Weldon

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Ulysses by James Joyce

Beloved by Toni Morrison

@maryoliverdotcom @memory-the-unconscious do yall have any suggestions??

[thepenguinandthefiend]

My F/Os

Since I've decided to become a self-ship blog now, here's a list of my f/os. There will likely be more added later.

Romantic F/Os:

Zatanna Zatara (DC comics) {no sharing} Johanna Mason (Hunger Games) {no sharing} Desire (The Sandman) {no sharing} Elektra Natchios (Marvel comics) {no sharing} Bucky Barnes (MCU) {sharing iffy} Illyana Rasputin (X-Men) {no sharing} Bill Potts (Doctor Who) {sharing ok} Dean Winchester (Supernatural) {no sharing} Mazikeen (Lucifer) {sharing iffy} Remy LeBeau (X-Men) {sharing iffy} Gareth Ritter (Brain Dead) {no sharing} Vanessa Morales (In the Heights) {sharing iffy} Faith Lehane (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) {sharing ok} Elsa Bloodstone (Marvel Comics) {no sharing} Boodikka (Green Lantern) {sharing ok} Felicity Smoak (Arrow) {sharing iffy} Lena Luthor (Supergirl) {sharing iffy} Emilia Rothschild (Jack of All Trades) {sharing ok} Shotzi (WWE) {no sharing} Finn Balor (WWE) {no sharing} Abadon (AEW) {no sharing} Tulip O'Hare (Preacher) {sharing ok} Queen Emeraldas (Galaxy Express 999) {sharing ok} Dr. Kimiyo Hoshi (DC Comics) {sharing iffy} Darby Allin (AEW) {no sharing} Jenny Green (Dead Boy Detectives) {sharing iffy} Bleez (Green Lantern) {sharing ok} Klaus Hargreeves (Umbrella Academy) {no sharing} Harley Quinn (DC Comics) {sharing iffy} Poison Ivy {sharing iffy}

Queer-Platonic F/Os:

America Chavez (Young Avengers) Ella Lopez (Lucifer) Finnick Odair (Hunger Games) Hartley Rathaway (Flash/DC comics) Kate Bishop (Young Avengers) Monica Rambeau (Marvel Comics/MCU) Larissa Duan (Check, Please) Roxie Richter (Scott Pilgrim) Shvaughn Erin (Legion of Superheroes) Bling Mag (Repo: the Genetic Opera) Drew McIntyre (WWE) Yelena Belova (Marvel Comics) Ianto Jones (Torchwood) Benny Lafitte (Supernatural) Carla (In the Heights)

Platonic F/Os:

Kon-El (DC comics) Eliot Waugh (The Magicians) Jonathan Crane (DC comics) Wallace Wells (Scott Pilgrim) Ragdoll (Secret Six) Yukio Okumura (Blue Exorcist) Winn Schott Jr. (Supergirl) Edward Nygma (Gotham) William Poindexter (Check, Please) Jaysen Caulfield (Icebreaker) Onomatopoeia (DC comics) Topher Brink (Dollhouse) Danhausen (AEW) Roy Harper (DC comics/Arrowverse) Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice: the Musical)

Familial F/Os:

Alfred Pennyworth (DC comics) [grandfather] The Master (Doctor Who) [father] Wanda Maximoff (Marvel comics) [mother] Ursula (The Little Mermaid) [mother] Queen of Hearts (Alice in Wonderland) [mother] Bruce Wayne (DC comics) [father] Pietro Maximoff (Marvel comics) [uncle] Lorna Dane (Marvel comics) [aunt] Erik Lensher (Marvel comics) [grandfather] John Constantine (DC comics/Arrowverse) [older brother] Leon Kennedy (Resident Evil) [older brother] Leonard Snart (DC comics/Arrowverse) [older brother] Lisa Snart (DC comics/Arrowverse) [older sister] Kent Parson (Check, Please) [older brother] Dick Grayson (DC comics) [older brother] Jason Todd (DC comics) [older brother] Enjolras (Les Miserables) [twin brother] Tim Drake (DC comics) [younger brother] Damian Wayne (DC comics) [younger brother] Stephanie Brown (DC comics) [younger sister] Cassandra Cain (DC comics) [younger sister] Duke Thomas (DC comics) [younger brother] Billy Kaplan (Young Avengers) [younger brother] Tommy Shepherd (Young Avengers) [younger brother] Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) [adopted brother] Dirk Gently (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) [cousin] Graham Miller (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) [cousin] Percy de Rolo (Vox Machina) [cousin] Luna Maximoff (Marvel comics) [cousin] 10K (Z-Nation) [son] Lonnie Machin (DC comics) [son] Andrew Wells (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) [adopted son] Giovanni Zatara (DC Comics) [father-in-law] Piotr Rasputin (X-Men) [brother-in-law] Teddy Altman (Young Avengers) [brother-in-law] Sam Winchester (Supernatural) [brother-in-law] Adam Milligan (Supernatural) [brother-in-law] Dream (Sandman) [brother-in-law] Death (Sandman) [sister-in-law] Delirium (Sandman) [sister-in-law] Despair (Sandman) [sister-in-law] Destiny (Sandman) [brother-in-law] The Prodigal (Sandman) [brother-in-law] Luther Hargreeves (Umbrella Academy) [brother-in-law] Diego Hargreeves (Umbrella Academy) [brother-in-law] Allison Hargreeves (Umbrella Acadmy) [sister-in-law] Five Hargreeves (Umbrella Academy) [brother-in-law] Ben Hargreeves (Umbrella Academy) [brother-in-law] Viktor Hargreeves (Umbrella Academy) [brother-in-law/best friend]

Pet F/Os:

Lockheed (X-Men) Dex-Starr (DC comics) Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland)

[bookquest2024]

100 Books to Read Before I Die: Quest Order

The Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

Under The Net by Iris Murdoch

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

A Passage to India by EM Forster

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

1984 by George Orwell

White Noise by Don DeLillo

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Oscar And Lucinda by Peter Carey

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré

Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Ulysses by James Joyce

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Are You There, God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Herzog by Saul Bellow

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes

A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul

A Dance to The Music of Time by Anthony Powell

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Little Women by Louisa M Alcott

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

Watchmen by Alan Moore

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Money by Martin Amis

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

[cromwelll]

Happiness is a Full Bookshelf 😊📚

My goal is to collect every Penguin Classic that has a black spine and cover, white title, and orange author name because they’re sooo aesthetically pleasing to me. My fun challenge of collecting/amassing them is by finding them exclusively through secondhand purchases (resale shops, ebay, garage sales, used bookstores, etc.) Then I only have to shell out $0-$7 each instead of $10-$30 each!

Penguin Classics

A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrick Ibsen

A Nietzsche Reader by Fredrich Nietzsche

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Dolye

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

All My Sons by Arthur Miller

Angel of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin**

BUtterfield 8 by John O'Hara

Caleb Williams by William Godwin

Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London*

Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer*

Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple by Susanna Rowson

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker

Confessions by Saint Augustine

Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line by Charles W. Chestnut

Consolation of Philosophy by Ancius Boethius

Crucible by Arthur Miller

Daisy Miller by Henry James

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane

Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley**

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck**

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Hedda Gabler and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen

History of The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë*

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman*

Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw

Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell

Memoirs by William Tecumseh Sherman

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka*

Middlemarch by Geroge Eliot

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Mysteries by Knut Hamsun

Narrative of the Lige of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave by Frederick Douglas

Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle*

Nineteenth-Century American Poetry

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Odyssey by Homer**

On Liberty and the Subjection of Women by John Suart Mill

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Passing by Nella Larsen

Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant

Portable Sixties Reader

Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne**

Seize the Day by Saul Bellow

Silas Marner by George Eliot

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Song of Roland

Summer by Edith Wharton

Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

The Aeneid by Virgil

The Ancien Régime and the Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville

The Bhagavad Gita

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Epic of Gilgamesh

The Guide by R.K. Narayan

The Habor by Ernest Poole

The Hound of Baskerville by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Iliad by Homer

The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings by Olaudah Equiano

The Lais of Marie de France

The Marquise of O—and Other Stories by Heinrich Von Keist

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The Odyssey by Homer

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli*

The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturlson

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Three Theban Plays by Sophocles

To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Utopia by Thomas More

Villette by Emily Brontë

A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

Washington Square by Henry James

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Non-Penguin Classics

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath**

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank*

Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood**

House on Mango Street by Sander Cisneros

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Last Man by Mary Shelley

The Song og Bernadette by Franz Werfel

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien*

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Collections, Compilations, Biographies, and Anthologies

100 Best-Loved Poems (American & British)

101 Great American Poems

A Book of Love Poetry

English Romantic Poetry (1996)

Final Harvest by Emily Dickinson

Five Metaphysical Poets

John Donne

George Herbert

Henry Vaughn

Richard Crashaw

Andrew Marvell

Four Great Comedies of the Restoration & 18th Century

Four Great Elizabethan Plays

Great Poems by American Women

Great American Short Stories (1985)

Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction by Joseph Conrad

• “Youth”

• Heart of Darkness

• “Amy Foster”

• “The Secret Sharer

17. Louisa May: A Modern Biography by Martha Saxton

18. Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

19. Possibilities of Poetry (1970)

20. Selected Poetry by D.H. Lawrence

21. Selected Writings by Gertrude Stein

22. Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)

23. Short Shorts: An Anthology of the Shortest Stories (1983)

24. Short Story Masterpieces (American & British, 1982)

25. Six American Poets (Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, Williams, Frost, Hughes)

26. Six Great Sherlock Holmes Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

• “A Scandal in Bohemia”

• “The Red-headed League”

• “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”

• “The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb”

• “The Final Problem”

• “The Adventure of the Empty House”

27. Six Plays of Strindberg

28. Tales of Henry James by Henry James

• “The Aspern Papers”

• “The Pupil”

• “Brooksmith”

• “The Real Thing”

• “The Middle Years”

• “In the Cage”

• “The Beast in the Jungle”

• “The Jolly Corner”

29. Ten Plays by Euripides

30. The Essential Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

31. The Complete Plays of John M. Synge by John M. Synge

32. The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories

33. The Underground Railroad by William Still

34. The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (1990)

35. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

36. The Novels by Samuel Beckett

• Molloy

• Malone Dies

•The Unnamable

37. Victorian Love Stories (1997)

Literary Criticism

38. Women & Fiction (1975)

39. Barchester Towers and The Warden by Anthony Trollope

On Poetry and Poets by T.S. Eliot

Speaking of Chaucer by E. Talbot Donaldson

Symbolism and American Literature by Charles Feidelson, Jr.

* = Started & didn’t finish (yet)/Read parts

** = Read ≥5 years ago

Strike-through = Read

Updated: June 17, 2024

Total count: 162

[boldlycrookedsalad]

Continuing Literary Canon

100. Federico Garcia Lorca, Blood Wedding

101. Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

102. Albert Camus, The Stranger

103. Eugene Ionesco, The Bald Soprano

104. William Butler Yeats

105. George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

106. Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

107. Joseph Conrad

108. D.H. Lawrence

109. Virginia Woolf

110. James Joyce

111. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

112. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

113. W. H. Auden

114. George Orwell, 1984

115. Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis

116. The Trial

117. Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage

118. Thomas Mann

119. Andrei Bely, Petersburg

120. Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

121. Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago

122. Edwin Arlington Robinson

123. Robert Frost

124. Edith Wharton

125. Willa Cather

126. Gertrude Stein

127. Wallace Stevens, "Sunday Morning"

128. Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie

129. Sherwood Anderson

130. T.S. Eliot - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

131. "The Waste Land"

132. "The Hollow Men"

133. "The Journey of the Magi"

134. Katherine Anne Porter

135. Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night

136. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

137. William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury

138. Ernest Hemingway -The Old Man and the Sea

139. A Farewell to Arms

140. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

141. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

142. Eudora Welty

143. Flannery O'Connor

144. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

145. J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

146. Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire

147. The Glass Menagerie

148. Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

149. Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

150. Joyce Carol Oates

151. Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint

152. John Updike - A&P

153. The Witches of Eastwick

[xandromedan]

AO3 WRAPPED RAGHH tagged by @scattered-winter <3

Q: how many words have you written this year?

A: probably in the 50k-100k range but I haven't been counting

Q: how many works have you published this year?

A: three! ...I think

Q: what work are you most proud of?

A: oh gosh, probably my trc00q au which I haven't finished, probably will never finish, and will definitely (probably) never post

Q: what work of yours has the most hits?

A: continues to be vermillion! we're almost at 50k hits which is CRAZY to me

Q: favourite title you used?

A: "art theft is the sexiest crime" and "dr sexy", neither of which have been posted

Q: which artist have you pulled the most from?

A: definitely depends. ive listened to a LOT of mac miller this year (top 0.005%) but in terms of inspiration probably hozier with the new album

Q: pairing you wrote the most for this year?

A: still making a foray into slash, but almost certainly ghostsoap

Q: favourite pairing you wrote for this year?

A: how could i possibly pick?? jk it's eliot/hardison/parker

Q: what work was the quickest to write?

A: in terms of what got published, "soaked in"

Q: what work took you the longest to write?

A: in terms of what got published, still "my heart lept from me". in terms of what hasn't, i'm still working on so many that i don't think any of them are the definitive longest

Q: what is your longest fic of the year?

A: "my heart lept from me"

Q: shortest fic of the year?

A: "soaked in"

Q: favourite character you wrote this year?

A: um. all of them? ronan lynch, though. he's my little guy.

Q: one pairing you want to explore more next year?

A: ALL OF THEM. but seriously, i want to write more in 2024, i think that's something that was missing this year. i've been leaning into hannibal pretty aggressively so that will definitely have something happen, but maybe john/rodney and more of the leverage ot3 too.

Q: how many kudos in total did you get this year?

A: 1463 <3

Q: which work has the most comments:

A: still vermillion!

Q: did you do any collaborative works this year?

A: no

Q: most common category?

A: gen. next year...we'll see ;)

Q: what do you listen to while writing?

A: anything and everything.

Q: favourite line/passage you wrote this year?

A: "I awake as a child every new year / At midnight, asleep, and at dawn / Every year I have ever lived catches up to me / And runs ahead"

We would tag all the same people but anyone who wants to do it can use me for reference <3

[marifer853]

Adoro tener a estas dos maravillas gentes en un grupo de Messenger y WhatsApp :””” 

@stephydrawsstuff @lovingberry Aunque el shipp no es cannon adore dibujarlas con mis nenes ;U;

[frustrationinexcelsis]

In light of the recent thing with the Gatsby and the public domain and all that, I have elected to put together a roadmap of notable works that will enter the public domain per US copyright law in the next few decades, up to 2060.

Each work will enter the domain at the beginning of the year it is listed under.

2022: Winnie-the-Pooh (A.A. Milne); The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)

2023: The Colour Out of Space (H.P. Lovecraft)

2025: All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)

2026: The Maltese Falcon (Dashiel Hammett); Last and First Men (Olaf Stapledon)

2027: The Whisperer in Darkness (H.P. Lovecraft)

2028: Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

2030:  Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie); Mary Poppins (P.L. Travers)

2031: Little House on the Prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder)

2032: Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner); Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell); The Story of Ferdinand (Munro Lead); At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Shadow Out of Time (H.P. Lovecraft)

2033: Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck); The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)

2034: The Sword in the Stone (T. H. White); Appointment with Death and Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Agatha Christie)

2035: Finnegans Wake (James Joyce); The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck); Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Robert L. May); Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (T.S. Eliot); Murder Is Easy, And Then There Were None, and The Regatta Mystery (Agatha Christie)

2036: For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway); Lassie Come-Home (Eric Knight); The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)

2037: Curious George (Margret and H.A. Rey)

2039: The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry); The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (H.P. Lovecraft)

2041: Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren)

2043: Doctor Faustus (Thomas Mann); A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)

2045: Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell); Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)

2046: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis); I, Robot (Isaac Asimov); Gormenghast (Mervyn Peake)

2047: The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger); Prince Caspian (C.S. Lewis)

2048: The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway); Charlotte’s Web (E. B. White); The Borrowers (Mary Norton); The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (C.S. Lewis)

2049: Farenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury); The Silver Chair (C.S. Lewis)

2050: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers (J.R.R. Tolkien); Lord of the Flies (William Golding); The Horse and His Boy (C.S. Lewis)

2051: The Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkien); The Magician’s Nephew (C.S. Lewis); Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)

2052: Old Yeller (Fred Gipson) The Last Battle (C.S. Lewis)

2053: Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand); The Cat in the Hat and How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (Dr. Seuss)

2055: A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller, Jr.); Starship Troopers (Robert A. Heinlein)

2056: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee); One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and Green Eggs and Ham (Dr. Seuss)

2057: Catch-22 (Joseph Heller); Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein); Solaris (Stanislaw Lem); James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl)

2058: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey); A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess); The Man in the High Castle (Philip K. Dick); A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle)

2059: Planet of the Apes (Pierre Boulle); Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak); Clifford the Big Red Dog (Norman Bridwell)

2060: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl); The Giving Tree (Shel Silverstein)

[optimiist]

𝚒’𝚍  𝚔𝚎𝚎𝚙  𝚊𝚗  𝚎𝚢𝚎  𝚘𝚗  𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖  ;   that  there  is  LIONEL  MILLER  ,  notorious  for  being  (  resentful  )  and  (  tense  )  ,  but  there  are  times  when  he  can  be  (  considerate  )  and  (  self-effacing  )  .   i've  heard  that  he  could  pass  as  a  YUSUF GATEWOOD  doppelganger  ,  but  i  don't  see  it  .   the  (  thirty-eight  )  year - old  cis man has  been  in  town  for  (  his entire life  )  and  they  are  an  (  english professor  )  by  day  and  murder  suspect  by  night  .   they  tend  to  spark  images  of  an endless collection of the romantics - from the john donnes of the world to the carson mccullers’ ,  the perfect leather-on-tweed stereotype , being a willing human doormat to those with bright eyes and a kind smile , rehearsing the humphrey bogart but ending up the victor laszlo , a secret even worse than murder: …your favorite movie is the abomination of 2019  .   you’ll  know  when  they  walk  by  because  they  always  seem  to  be  blasting  as  time  goes  by  by  DOOLEY WILSON  .   it  truly  explains  why  they're  known  as  THE  SECRET  ADMIRER  .

TO KNOW:

born to a single mother, lionel was lucky in never joining the daddy issues™ club. nonetheless, his mother’s status still deeply affected him. with all of the men he watched go in and out of her life, none staying around long enough for him to call his true role model, he found a very thin line - but it was still a line and he knew exactly which side he wanted to be on. the line? separated the good men from the toxic men. and, of course, he wanted to be a good man!

it should be noted that his mother worked in the local library ( he was unaware of why it was named what it was named for quite a while - he thought it was just named after abraham lincoln and some other guy ). naturally, he spent most of his youth reading authors all the way from shel silverstein to lewis carroll to… most importantly… t.s. eliot. why is this the most important? you may ask yourself.

he unironically likes cats. the book it was based on… the musical… even the 2019 movie… there are very few people he’d ever admit it to, but… his favorite movie is cats (2019).

ANYWAY, as he grew, he matured into the catalogs of writers such as john donne, william shakespeare, tennessee williams, carson mccullers…

he was fucked!!

the authors and the poets and the playwrights all gave him a sense of what love is, what love must be. he began writing poetry, attempting to mimic donne’s subtle style. this both helped and harmed him when he met the girl he was totally sure would be the love of his life: chastity. she was gorgeous and kind and had bright eyes… 

he prepared a speech asking her out and rehearsed it every morning. just in case he forgot, he even wrote it down on notecards. but, when the time came, he was always just too… frozen. 

he didn’t shoot his shot on time - before he knew it, ethan kim was dating the girl he’d psyched himself out of asking out one too many times. 

although it was difficult for him to try to see chastity as just a friend ( perhaps friendly acquaintance at most on her part ), he did his best… especially when ethan enlisted him to help him get the girl™.lionel had plenty of moral qualms about it, but… ultimately, money was money. libraries didn’t make much. even the smallest amount would help. 

not to mention, it was an excellent way to see if he… would’ve been successful in asking her out. in words, at least.

he’d give ethan poems he’d already written, soliloquies he’d been inspired to write, and just… ultimately give him the advice that all of the romantics had given him throughout the years.

when chastity was murdered, his heart :( shattered :( died along with her but more poetically :( while his alibi checked out - he had been in the library writing a poem in donne’s style, the subject inspired by mccullers’s ‘the lover v. the beloved’ tangent in the ballad of the sad café, and he won! there were some areas in which they could poke holes: his mother, who clearly wouldn’t want her son to go to jail, was the only eye witness, they had no way of proving the date he submitted the poem, etc., etc. but, for the most part, his alibi was pretty solid.

this idiot didn’t profess his love until she was dead. WAYYYYY too late to shoot ur shot buddy!!

anyway, he’d already gotten accepted into college - thank god because he, otherwise, would not have been in the state to write a worthy application. he chose local for his undergrad. 

along the way, he found some new people to love. or try to love. it wasn’t exactly the actual relationship that made it hard for him to ‘get over’ chastity, what considering they’d never had one, rather the literal death and lack of closure.

but, come grad school, he met the woman he would be able to call his wife!! she was lovely and kind and beautiful and had such bright eyes. after only two years of dating, he proposed (granted, he’d been prepping… for an entire year... ) and!! she said yes!!

with an english professor slot (yes, slot) opening up at the university, they returned to taunwick. it was absolutely perfect, if you were to ask him. he could help his mom as libraries went the way of the dodo, he could potentially start a family (they were considering adoptive), he had a job he loved!!

but... then there’s that whole problem of the reunion… and, while he’s been doing well in taunwick, what in spite of the reminders of chastity… this could be yikes central for his marriage!! which is why it’s gonna be submitted to the main in .5 seconds!! 

and that’s what you missed on glee!

TL;DR:

hopeless romantic who will never admit that he unironically likes all forms of cats.

CONNECTION IDEAS:

** (open to any gender unless otherwise specified)

his wife (f): WILL BE BEING SENT INTO THE MAIN.

people he tried to love: as was previously mentioned, when he entered undergrad, he desperately tried to find people he could love just as much as he figured he’d loved chastity. only real requirement would be that they would’ve both gone to the local university at the same time!!

opposites attract: he’s meek, easy to unnerve… give me this. give me 13 going on 30’s main friendship.

neighbor: pretty self-explanatory!! they live in the suburbs next door to he and his wife… both of whom are disgustingly domestic!! 

couple friends: pls this idea just makes me laugh. we love the failed version of this connection where… it’s their last resort… they’re desperate… everyone else is trying to induct them into having a foursome… they just want a wholesome friendship… this is the closest they’re getting!!

students: let’s hear it for all the younger characters out there!!

more to come!!

FURTHER:

for a bit of a better idea:

pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/idkimnewwastaken/lionel-not-richie/

playlist (the final song is a lil treat): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7vYatuuQmEWxcKvs2CBjCa?si=_XQCKYGsRz2jujfMT7V1BQ

musing tag: https://optimiist.tumblr.com/tagged/lionel-%7C-musings.

mini stats (to be later extended): optimiist.tumblr.com/ls (the font is strangely huge rn but… don’t feel like fixing it at this moment in time :\ )

[the-lone-dreamer]

A reading list inspired by the literary references and shout-outs from Mtv’s Daria 

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller 

Moby Dick by Herman Melville 

The Iliad by Homer

Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 

The World of Goya  Richard Schickel

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman

No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

Orpheus in the Underworld by Ovid

The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories by Edgar Allen Poe

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie 

King Lear by William Shakespeare 

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 

On Moral Fiction by John Gardner

The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut  

1984 by George Orwell 

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin

The Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen 

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain 

The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg 

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 

The Gulag Archipelago by  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre 

Hamlet by William Shakespeare 

The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

The Medium is the Message by Marshall Mcluhan 

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth  

The Call of the Wild by Jack London 

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinback

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 

The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance 

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham 

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton

Silas Marner by George Eliot  

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe 

Animal Farm by George Orwell 

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron 

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

Our American Cousin by Tom Taylor

The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant 

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner 

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

The Man In the Iron Mask By Alexandre Dumas

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 9.1

Holidays

American Chess Day

Bahti Meskerem (Eritrea)

Building and Code Staff Appreciation Day

Chicken Boy Day

Constitution Day (Slovakia)

Creation Day

Day of Knowledge (Estonia, Russia)

Disaster Prevention Day (Japan)

Draft Horse Day

Emma M. Nutt Day (a.k.a. Nutt Day)

Flag Day (Honduras)

Ginger Cat Appreciation Day

Global Talent Acquisition Day [1st Wednesday]

International Day of Awareness of the Dolphins of Taiji

Journalist Day (Taiwan)

Kanto Earthquake Memorial Day (Japan)

Knowledge Day (Armenia, Estonia, Russia, Ukraine)

Mary Had a Little Lamb Day

National Acne Positivity Day

National Child Identity Theft Awareness Day

National Little Black Dress Day

National No Rhyme or Reason Day

Onam (Hindu harvest festival; India)

Partridge Day (UK)

Pink Cadillac Day

Presidential Message Day (Mexico)

Random Acts of Kindness Day (NZ)

Revolution Day (Libya; 1969)

Rites of Moawita (Elder Scrolls)

Save Japan’s Dolphins Day

Sing A Silly Song In Bed Day

Teacher’s Day (Singapore)

Tourist Day

Toy Tips Executive Toy Test Day

Veteran’s Day (Poland)

Wattle Day (Australia)

World Letter Writing Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Cherry Popover Day

National Cherry Popover Day

National Gyro Day

National Tofu Day (UK)

Oyster Season begins

1st Thursday in September

Cabernet Day [Thursday before Labor Day]

Independence Days

Alberta Province Day (Canada; 1905)

Saskatchewan Province Day (Canada; 1905)

Uzbekistan (a.k.a. Mustaqillik Kuni); from USSR, 1991)

Feast Days

Constantius (Costanzo) of Aquino (Christian; Saint)

Dalton (Positivist; Saint)

David Pendleton Oakerhater (Anglican Communion)

Ecclesiastical New Year (Orthodox Christian)

Feast of Macuilxochitl (5 Flower God; Mexico)

Felix, Donatus, Arontius, Honoratus, Fortunatus, Sabinianus, Septimus, Januarius, Vitalis, Satyrus, abd Repostius, 12 brothers (Christian; Martyrs)

Festival of Juno Regina and Jupiter Liber (Ancient Rome)

Fiacre (France, Ireland; Christian; Saint) [also 8.30]

Firminus II (Christian; Saint)

Gideon the Judge (Christian; Saint)

Giles (Christian; Saint)

Hobbit Remembrance Day (Pastafarian)

Loup (a.k.a. Lupus or Lew) of Sens (Christian; Saint)

Nivard (a.k.a. Nivo; Christian; Saint)

Ramalamadingdong begins (Church of the SubGenius)

Simeon Stylite (Eastern Orthodox)

Sixtus of Reims (Christian; Saint)

Terentian (a.k.a. Terrence; Christian; Saint)

Uncle Ermisimo (Muppetism)

Verena (Christian; Saint)

Vibiana (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Historically Unlucky Day [7 of 11]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Arsenic and Old Lace (Film; 1943)

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (Film; 1947)

Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins (Novel; 2009) [#2]

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, by Thomas De Quincey (Autobiography; 1821)

The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen (Novel; 2001)

Dug Days (Animated TV Series; 2021)

A Farewell to Kings, by Rush (Album; 1977)

Dr. Feelgood, by Mötley Crüe (Album; 1989)

The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje (Novel; 1992)

A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway (Novel; 1929)

Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton (Novel; 1911)

Idiocracy (Film; 2006)

Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1599)

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov (Novel; 1955)

Middlemarch, by George Eliot (Novel; 1871)

The Old Man and the Sea (Short Story; 1952)

Private Eyes, by Hall & Oates (Album; 1981)

The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran (Poems; 1923)

Rear Window (Film; 1954)

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, by John le Carré (Novel; 1963)

The Stepford Wives, by Ira Levin (Novel; 1972)

Swordfishtrombones, by Tom Waits (Album; 1983)

Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller (Novel; 1934) What a Wonderful World, by Louis Armstrong (Song; 1967)

Worth Dying For, 15th Jack Reacher book, by Lee Child (Novel; 2010)

Today’s Name Days

Ruth, Verena (Austria)

Damyan, Damyana, Kozma, Kuzman (Bulgaria)

Aron, Estera, Oliver, Predrag, Šimun (Croatia)

Jaroslava (Czech Republic)

Theobaldus (Denmark)

Eha, Ehala, Hämarik (Estonia)

Aaro, Aaron (Finland)

Aaron, Esther, Goulwen, Thierry (France)

Ägidius, Ruth, Verena (Germany)

Anargyros, Argyris, Damianos, Kosmas (Greece)

Annamária, Tihamér (Hungary)

Caio (Italy)

Imants, Ingars, Intars, Teobalds (Latvia)

Julijus, Liepa, Tautrimas, Tautrimė (Lithuania)

Ask, Embla (Norway)

Aaron, Bogusław, Halina, Klarysa, Marian, Niegosława, Teobald (Poland)

Diana (Slovakia)

Aarón, Ester, Esther, Leonor, Oliverio, Simeón (Spain)

Aron, Mirjam (Sweden)

Debbie, Deborah, Debra, Edgar, Edgardo, Giles, Josh, Joshua, Josue, Ruth (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 244 of 2022; 121 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 35 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 27 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Guìyuè), Day 6 (Ding-Si)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 5 ʼĔlūl 5782

Islamic: 4 Ṣafar 1444

J Cal: 4 Aki; Threesday [4 of 30]

Julian: 19 August 2022

Moon: 29% Waning Crescent

Positivist: 20 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Dalton]

Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 7 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 72 of 90)

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 9 of 31)

Calendar Changes

September (Gregorian Calendar) [Month 9 of 12]

[brookston]

Holidays 9.1

Holidays

American Chess Day

Bahti Meskerem (Eritrea)

Building and Code Staff Appreciation Day

Chicken Boy Day

Constitution Day (Slovakia)

Creation Day

Day of Knowledge (Estonia, Russia)

Disaster Prevention Day (Japan)

Draft Horse Day

Emma M. Nutt Day (a.k.a. Nutt Day)

Flag Day (Honduras)

Ginger Cat Appreciation Day

Global Talent Acquisition Day [1st Wednesday]

International Day of Awareness of the Dolphins of Taiji

Journalist Day (Taiwan)

Kanto Earthquake Memorial Day (Japan)

Knowledge Day (Armenia, Estonia, Russia, Ukraine)

Mary Had a Little Lamb Day

National Acne Positivity Day

National Child Identity Theft Awareness Day

National Little Black Dress Day

National No Rhyme or Reason Day

Onam (Hindu harvest festival; India)

Partridge Day (UK)

Pink Cadillac Day

Presidential Message Day (Mexico)

Random Acts of Kindness Day (NZ)

Revolution Day (Libya; 1969)

Rites of Moawita (Elder Scrolls)

Save Japan’s Dolphins Day

Sing A Silly Song In Bed Day

Teacher’s Day (Singapore)

Tourist Day

Toy Tips Executive Toy Test Day

Veteran’s Day (Poland)

Wattle Day (Australia)

World Letter Writing Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Cherry Popover Day

National Cherry Popover Day

National Gyro Day

National Tofu Day (UK)

Oyster Season begins

1st Thursday in September

Cabernet Day [Thursday before Labor Day]

Independence Days

Alberta Province Day (Canada; 1905)

Saskatchewan Province Day (Canada; 1905)

Uzbekistan (a.k.a. Mustaqillik Kuni); from USSR, 1991)

Feast Days

Constantius (Costanzo) of Aquino (Christian; Saint)

Dalton (Positivist; Saint)

David Pendleton Oakerhater (Anglican Communion)

Ecclesiastical New Year (Orthodox Christian)

Feast of Macuilxochitl (5 Flower God; Mexico)

Felix, Donatus, Arontius, Honoratus, Fortunatus, Sabinianus, Septimus, Januarius, Vitalis, Satyrus, abd Repostius, 12 brothers (Christian; Martyrs)

Festival of Juno Regina and Jupiter Liber (Ancient Rome)

Fiacre (France, Ireland; Christian; Saint) [also 8.30]

Firminus II (Christian; Saint)

Gideon the Judge (Christian; Saint)

Giles (Christian; Saint)

Hobbit Remembrance Day (Pastafarian)

Loup (a.k.a. Lupus or Lew) of Sens (Christian; Saint)

Nivard (a.k.a. Nivo; Christian; Saint)

Ramalamadingdong begins (Church of the SubGenius)

Simeon Stylite (Eastern Orthodox)

Sixtus of Reims (Christian; Saint)

Terentian (a.k.a. Terrence; Christian; Saint)

Uncle Ermisimo (Muppetism)

Verena (Christian; Saint)

Vibiana (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Historically Unlucky Day [7 of 11]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Arsenic and Old Lace (Film; 1943)

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (Film; 1947)

Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins (Novel; 2009) [#2]

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, by Thomas De Quincey (Autobiography; 1821)

The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen (Novel; 2001)

Dug Days (Animated TV Series; 2021)

A Farewell to Kings, by Rush (Album; 1977)

Dr. Feelgood, by Mötley Crüe (Album; 1989)

The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje (Novel; 1992)

A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway (Novel; 1929)

Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton (Novel; 1911)

Idiocracy (Film; 2006)

Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1599)

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov (Novel; 1955)

Middlemarch, by George Eliot (Novel; 1871)

The Old Man and the Sea (Short Story; 1952)

Private Eyes, by Hall & Oates (Album; 1981)

The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran (Poems; 1923)

Rear Window (Film; 1954)

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, by John le Carré (Novel; 1963)

The Stepford Wives, by Ira Levin (Novel; 1972)

Swordfishtrombones, by Tom Waits (Album; 1983)

Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller (Novel; 1934) What a Wonderful World, by Louis Armstrong (Song; 1967)

Worth Dying For, 15th Jack Reacher book, by Lee Child (Novel; 2010)

Today’s Name Days

Ruth, Verena (Austria)

Damyan, Damyana, Kozma, Kuzman (Bulgaria)

Aron, Estera, Oliver, Predrag, Šimun (Croatia)

Jaroslava (Czech Republic)

Theobaldus (Denmark)

Eha, Ehala, Hämarik (Estonia)

Aaro, Aaron (Finland)

Aaron, Esther, Goulwen, Thierry (France)

Ägidius, Ruth, Verena (Germany)

Anargyros, Argyris, Damianos, Kosmas (Greece)

Annamária, Tihamér (Hungary)

Caio (Italy)

Imants, Ingars, Intars, Teobalds (Latvia)

Julijus, Liepa, Tautrimas, Tautrimė (Lithuania)

Ask, Embla (Norway)

Aaron, Bogusław, Halina, Klarysa, Marian, Niegosława, Teobald (Poland)

Diana (Slovakia)

Aarón, Ester, Esther, Leonor, Oliverio, Simeón (Spain)

Aron, Mirjam (Sweden)

Debbie, Deborah, Debra, Edgar, Edgardo, Giles, Josh, Joshua, Josue, Ruth (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 244 of 2022; 121 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 35 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 27 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Guìyuè), Day 6 (Ding-Si)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 5 ʼĔlūl 5782

Islamic: 4 Ṣafar 1444

J Cal: 4 Aki; Threesday [4 of 30]

Julian: 19 August 2022

Moon: 29% Waning Crescent

Positivist: 20 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Dalton]

Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 7 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 72 of 90)

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 9 of 31)

Calendar Changes

September (Gregorian Calendar) [Month 9 of 12]

[areistotle]

Hey guys! This post has been coming for a really long time, I’m sorry to have kept you all waiting but university readings have kept me very very busy! I have compiled a list of books which are classics (in their own way, some even being modern classics). Books that I’ve read and loved or other people in my life have loved have been italicised and this list includes links to my favourite covers/the edition of the book that I own since you all ask me where I buy my books from on my bookstagram (and that is from book depository!). I hope you enjoy this, stay bookish 📚

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 

The Great Gatsby; Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 

A Tale of Two Cities; Bleak House; Great Expectations; Major Works by Charles Dickens

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer 

The Four Tragedies and The Four Histories; The Complete Works by William Shakespeare

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Northanger Abbey; Persuasion; Pride and Prejudice; Emma; Sense and Sensibility; Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (*cough* my name is mentioned here *cough*)

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery 

Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 

Tess of the D'Urbervilles; Far from the Madding Crowd; Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Middlemarch by George Eliot

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis 

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Stranger; The Fall; The Myth of Sisyphus; The Plague by Albert Camus

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Beowulf

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Candide by Voltaire

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Bhagavad Gita

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Paradise Lost  by John Milton

The Divine Comedy by Dante

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

To the Lighthouse; Mrs. Dalloway; A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

The Trial; Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Antigone by Sophocles

The Republic by Plato

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Utopia by Thomas More

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

The Epic of Gilgamesh

The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Harry Potter by JK Rowling

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Confessions by St Augustine of Hippo

The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

A Passage to India; A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins

The Plays by Christopher Marlowe

Norwegian Wood; Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Secret History; The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

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Friendly reminder that the FBI Files are publicly available - updated weekly as FOIA Requests are processed.

Direct Links to A-P (August 4th 2017)

The Vault Index

The FBI has converted many FOIA documents to an electronic format (PDF), and they may be viewed below. In the case of voluminous pages, only summaries or excerpts from the documents are online. Subjects are sorted alphabetically by first name. You can also use your browser's find feature to locate subjects on the page.

Al Capone Animal Mutilation Ali Hasan Al-Majid Al-Tikriti (Chemical Ali) Albert Anastasia ACLU Aristotle Onassis American Friends Service Committee Aryan Nation Anna Nicole Smith Anthony Blunt Alfred Kinsey Abner Zwillman Albert Einstein Anthony Spilotro ABSCAM Arthur Flegenheimer (Dutch Schultz) Alcatraz Escape Alcoholics Anonymous Al Gore, Sr. Amerithrax Anwar Nasser Aulaqi Amelia Boynton Abbie Hoffman Adolf Hitler Asian American Political Alliance Amelia Mary Earhart Andrew Phillip Cunanan Anthony Salerno All American Anti Imperialist League American Nazi Party Arthur Rudolph Aryan Brotherhood Atlanta Child Murders Aryan Circle Almighty Latin Kings Abe Fortas Arthur R. "Doc" Barker Arnold Palmer Armando Florez Ibarra Alvin Francis Karpis Attempted Assassination of President Ronald Reagan Alger Hiss Ariel Sharon Art Modell

Black September Bertolt Brecht Billy Carter Bishop Fulton Sheen Bonus March Barker-Karpis Gang Summary Bloods and Crips Gang Bonnie and Clyde Black Dahlia (Elizabeth Short) Basque Intelligence Service Bugsy Siegel Bayard Rustin Benjamin Hooks Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee Black Guerilla Family Black Mafia Family Bernard Baruch Black Panther Party BOMBROB Betty Shabazz Bureau Aviation Regulations Policy Directive and Policy Guide Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn Bettie Page Billy Martin Barker/Karpis Gang

Caryl Chessman Cardinal Francis Spellman Cambridge Five Spy Ring Carmine John Persico, Jr. Custodial Detention Clyde A. Tolson Clark Gable Charles Manson Council on Foreign Relations Charles Lindbergh Clarence Smith (aka 13x) Clarence Darrow Carl Sagan Carmine Galante Conference Cost Reporting and Approvals to Use Nonfederal Facilities Policy Directive 0927D Charlie Chaplin Casey Kasem Cartha DeLoach Christopher (Biggie Smalls) Wallace Charles "Chuck" Wendell Colson Contract for Assistance Regarding Syed Farooks iPhone Charlie Wilson Courtney Allen Evans Claudia Johnson Carlo Gambino Christic Institute Cesar Chavez Clergy and Laity Concerned about Vietnam Charles Rebozo Charles Kettering Claudia Jones Christian Identity Movement Carl Sandburg Charles (Sonny) Liston Columbine High School Criminal Profiling Coretta Scott King Charles Arthur (Pretty Boy) Floyd Custodial Detention Headquarters Carlos Fuentes COINTELPRO Custodial Detention Security Index

Danny Kaye David Koresh Daily Worker Dinah Shore Dorothy Dandridge Duquesne Spy Ring Director Comey Letter to Congress Dated October 28, 2016 Diversity and Inclusion Program Policy Guide Policy Directive 0842D Daniel David "Dan" Rostenkowski Daniel Inouye Daniel Schorr Demonstrations against Lyndon B. Johnson Desi Arnaz Diana, Princess of Wales D. Milton Ladd Dr. Samuel Sheppard Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower Director Comey Letter to Congress Dated November 6, 2016 David Hahn Debbie Reynolds David Howell Petraeus Daniel Patrick Moynihan D. B. Cooper

Erich Fromm Emmett Till E. B. (William) Dubois Extra-Sensory Perception Eliot Ness Electronic Recordkeeping Certification Policy Guide 0800PG Edward Irving "Ed" Koch Elizabeth Taylor Everette Hunt Edward Abbey Elizabeth Arden Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington Elvis Presley Eugene McCarthy Eddie Cantor Eleanor Roosevelt Evelyn Frechette Eric Wright (Eazy-E, EZ E) El Rukns Elijah Muhammad Ernest Hemingway Eugene “Gene” Curran Kelly Explanation of Exemptions

FBI Miami Shooting, April 11, 1986 Frances Perkins Fred Hampton Frank Capone FBI History Francis Gary Powers Frank Sinatra FBI Technical Surveillance Countermeasures Classification Guide Fred W. Phelps, Sr FBI Ethics and Integrity Program Policy Directive Policy Guide FBI Student Programs Policy Guide 0805 PG Fannie Lou Hammer Frank Rosenthal FBI Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide (DIOG) FBI Undercover Operations FBI Terrorist Photo Album Five Percenters Frank Wortman FBI Use of Global Positioning System (GPS) Tracking Frank Malina FDPS FBI Sign Language Interpreting and Reading Program 0889D FBI Seal Name Initials and Special Agent Gold Badge 0625D FOIA DISCLAIMER Fidel Castro Freedom Riders FBI Assistance Provided to Local Law Enforcement During the Black Lives Matter Movement FBI Recreational Association(s) 0465D FOIA Requests Containing the Word Trump Fritz Julius Kuhn Fred G. Randaccio Fred C. Trump

George (Bugs) Moran Greenlease Kidnapping George (Machine Gun) Kelly Groucho Marx Guy Hottel Gov. Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, Sr. Gene Siskel German American Federation/Bund Geraldine Ferraro Gangster Disciples Grace Kelly Greenpeace George Jackson Brigade Guantanamo (GTMO) George Burns George Lester Jackson General Douglas MacArthur General Telecommunications Policy 0862D George S. Patton, Jr. Gay Activist Alliance Ghost Stories: Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Illegals Gamergate Gregory Scarpa, Sr George Orson Welles George Steinbrenner

Hugo Black Henry Louis (H.L.) Mencken Henry A Wallace Herbert Khaury (Tiny Tim) Highlander Folk School Hanns Eisler Henry Miller Howard Zinn Huey Percy Newton HEARNAP Honoraria Policy 0867D Herman Barker Harold Glasser Hubert H. Humphrey Helen Keller Harland David "Colonel" Sanders Hindenburg Harry S. Truman Hillary R. Clinton Howard Robard Hughes, Jr

Interpol Irgun Zvai Leumi Irving Berlin Impersonation of Bhumibol Adulyadej Imperial Gangsters I Was a Communist for the FBI (Motion Picture) Irwin Allen Ginsberg Ian Fleming Irving Resnick

Jack Soble Jefferson Airplane Jack Benny Jack the Ripper Jesse James James Cagney John F. Kennedy Jr. John Murtha Joseph Aiuppa Jonestown (RYMUR) Summary Joseph Lash John Ehrlichman John L. Lewis John (Jake the Barber) Factor Joseph P. (Joe) Kennedy, Sr. John Steinbeck John Arthur (Jack) Johnson Janis Joplin Jimmy Hoffa Jessica Mitford Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer Jack Anderson John Wilkes Booth Joe Paterno Jay David Whittaker Chambers John Joseph Gotti, Jr James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix James Baldwin Joseph Losey John Siegenthaler Jeannette Rankin Jack Roosevelt Robinson Judith Coplon James Joseph Brown John Wayne (Marion Robert Morrison) Jerry Garcia Jane Addams John Chancellor John Wayne Gacy Jack Roosevelt (Jackie) Robinson John D. Rockefeller, III John Dillinger John (Handsome Johnny) Roselli John Profumo (Bowtie) J. Edgar Hoover Julius and Ethel Rosenberg J. Edgar Hoover Appointment and Phone Logs Jesse Helms Jonestown J. Edgar Hoover Official and Confidential (O&C) Files Joe Louis Joan Alexandra Rivers Jack Dempsey John Denver James Farmer James McDougal John Updike Jerry Heller Josephine Baker Joseph Paul "Joe" DiMaggio John Winston Lennon

Kent State Katherine Oppenheimer Kent State Shooting Ken Eto Kansas City Massacre Kiss

Lady Bird Johnson Louis Allen Leander Perez, Sr. Legal Handbook for FBI Special Agents Louis (Lepke) Buchalter Liberace Lyndon B. Johnson Laboratory Reference Firearms Collection Policy LD0020D Louie Louie (The Song) Louis Francis Costello Lucia Stepp Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Lillie Belle Allen League of Women Voters Lillian (Lily) Hellman Lester Joseph Gillis (Baby Face Nelson) Lenny Bruce Lucille Ball Luis Buñuel Louis Terkel Langston Hughes Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev Leon Trotsky Leonard Bernstein Lloyd William Barker

Marilyn Monroe Motion Picture Copyright Infringement Mississippi Burning (MIBURN) Case Michael (Mike) Royko Martin Luther King, Jr. Melvin Purvis Malcolm X Muriel Rukeyser Marilyn Sheppard Madalyn Murray OHair Mack Charles Parker Mexican Mafia Mafia Monograph Morris and Lona Cohen Medgar Evers Moorish Science Temple of America Mary Jo Kopechne (Chappaquiddick) Majestic 12 Marian Anderson Michael Jackson Machine Gun Kelly Murray Humphreys Michael Hastings Michael Whitney Straight Melvin Belli Marvin Gaye Marlene Dietrich Malcolm Little (Malcolm X) Meir Kahane Mario Savio Mohammed Khalifa MAOP Margaret H. Thatcher Myron Leon "Mike" Wallace Miami Boys Mario M. Cuomo Muammar Qadhafi Mattachine Society Meyer Lansky Mickey Mantle MIOG Mark Felt Martin Dies, Jr. Muhammad Ali Marcus Garvey

Nikola Tesla Norman Mailer Neil Armstrong National Rifle Association (NRA) New Alliance Party Nuestra Familia National Security Letters (NSL) National States Rights Party NAACP National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) National Organization for Women (NOW) Nation of Islam Nelson Mandela National Gang Threat Assessment Next Generation Identification Monthly Fact Sheets Non-Retaliation for Reporting Compliance Risks Naming and Commemorating FBI Buildings and Spaces 0910D

Osage Indian Murders Owen Lattimore OKBOMB Original Knights of the KKK

Pearl Buck People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) President Richard Nixon's FBI Application Purple Gang (aka Sugar House Gang) Project Blue Book (UFO) Philip Ochs Protests in Baltimore, Maryland, 2015 Pablo Escobar Patriot Act Paul Harvey Paul Robeson, Sr. Pulse Nightclub Shooting Personal Services Contracts Policy Directive 0957D Percy Sutton Pentagon Spy Case Policy: Custodial Interrogation for Public Safety Policy Directive 0481D Physical Fitness Program Policy Directive and Policy Guide 0676PG

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Reading List! (Not of the YA or NA Genre)

Yesterday I got a question in my ask about any wisdom from yours truly and I said to read more things that challenge your worldview and force you out of your comfort zone. I gave a short list of suggested books but I have expanded it upon request. So here you go!

-Confessions, by Augustine (I read this at least three or four times a year, it’s an autobiography and testimonial based in a Christian worldview but valuable for anyone in my opinion) 
-The Art of War, by Sun Tzu 
-The Analects, by Confucius 
-Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand 
-Plutarch’s Lives vol. one and two (autobiography) 
-Socrates: A Man for Our Times, by Paul Johnson 
-No Hiding Place: An Autobiography & Asylum: An Alcoholic Takes the Cure, by William Seabrook (this book man… read it.) -Ann Judson: The Missionary Life for Burma (Ann Judson is one of my personal heroes) -Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston -Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, by Edward Albee (a play, necessary read in my opinion) -Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller (yet another play, I’m a theater person and honestly that’s a whole separate list) -1984, by George Orwell (most people read this in high school but if you haven’t DO IT) -Night, by Elie Wiesel (much more well known as of late, but it you haven’t read it it will change your life. Read it twice a year at LEAST) -The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden, both by John Steinbeck -Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan (fun fact: this book has NEVER been out of print since first being published) -Anthem, by Ayn Rand -A Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woolf -The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood (holy SHIT) -The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka -A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking -A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael, by Elisabeth Eliot (Elisabeth Eliot is one of my other big heroes, honestly if you like or are interested in any Christian literature read this - you don’t have to be a believer to appreciate it) -The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, by Giorgio Vasari (literally SO COOL) -The Man Without a Country, by Edward E. Hale (if you’re like me and got interested in early American history thanks to Hamilton, READ THIS) -12 Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup (I don’t care if you’ve seen the movie or haven’t, read this) -Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Dr. King -Hunger, by Knut Hamson (reading this is an odd experience on it’s own, even more odd knowing that Hamson was a Nazi sympathizer) -Why Don’t We Learn from History, and Strategy, both by BH Liddell Hart (I haven’t read these yet but apparently they are a must) -Ask the Dust, by John Fante -Death Be Not Proud, by John Gunther (a profound reading experience) -Losing the War, by Lee Sandlin (I haven’t read this yet either, apparently it’s an essay about WWII that’s a necessary read for everyone. My theater professor recommended it and I trust the hell out of him. I think it’s free online) -The Measure of My Days, by Florida Scott Maxwell (READ THIS) -The Power Tactics of Jesus Christ and Other Essays, by Jay Haley (I promise, this isn’t what you expect it to be)

That’s it for now! Hope this list helps someone expand their reading comfort zone!

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The Big Meta Book List

9.5 | Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell 9 | Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov 9 | Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce 9 | The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9 | Midnight’s Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie 8.9 | Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley 8.9 | The Sound and the Fury (1929) by William Faulkner 8.8 | The Lord of the Rings (1954) by J.R.R. Tolkien 8.8 | The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck 8.8 | Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen 8.6 | Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy 8.6 | Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison 8.6 | The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger 8.6 | Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller 8.6 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 8.6 | Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell 8.5 | Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess 8.5 | To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee 8.5 | The Hobbit (1937) by J.R.R. Tolkien 8.5 | Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 8.5 | The Little Prince (1943) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 8.5 | Les Miserables (1862) by Victor Hugo 8.4 | To the Lighthouse (1927) by Virginia Woolf 8.4 | On the Road (1957) by Jack Kerouac 8.4 | War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy 8.4 | Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison

8.3 | The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka 8.3 | Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell 8.3 | The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 8.3 | Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Bronte 8.3 | Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding 8.2 | Slaughterhouse Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut 8.2 | Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickens 8.2 | The Master and Margarita (1973) by Mikhail Bulgakov 8.2 | The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus 8.2 | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll 8.2 | Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad 8.2 | Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 8.2 | The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) by Alexandre Dumas 8.2 | Hamlet by William Shakespeare 8.2 | Don Quixote (1605) by Miguel de Cervantes 8.2 | Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Bronte 8.2 | East of Eden (1952) by John Steinbeck 8.2 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey 8.1 | The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) by Oscar Wilde 8.1 | The Name of the Rose (1980) by Umberto Eco 8.1 | The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood 8.1 | Middlemarch (1874) by George Eliot 8.1 | The Idiot (1869) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 8.1 | The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann 8.1 | The Old Man and the Sea (1952) by Ernest Hemingway 8.1 | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979) by Douglas Adams 8.1 | The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker 8.1 | Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker 8.1 | Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury 8 | Fairy Tales (1812) by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 8 | Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright 8 | Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace 8 | American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis 8 | For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway 8 | The Fault in Our Stars (2012) by John Green 8 | And Then There Were None (1939) by Agatha Christie 8 | Persuasion (1818) by Jane Austen 8 | Rebecca (1938) by Daphne du Maurier 8 | The War of the Worlds (1898) by H.G. Wells 8 | The Kite Runner (2003) by Khaled Hosseini 8 | House of Mirth (1905) by Edith Wharton 8 | Journey to the End of the Night (1932) by Louis-Ferdinand Celine 8 | Of Mice and Men (1937) by John Steinbeck 8 | Lonesome Dove (1985) by Larry McMurtry 8 | Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas 8 | Pale Fire (1989) by Vladimir Nabokov 8 | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1915) by James Joyce 8 | The Hunger Games (2008) by Suzanne Collins 8 | Emma (1815) by Jane Austen 8 | The Godfather (1969) by Mario Puzo 7.9 | Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack London 7.9 | Sons and Lovers (1913) by D.H. Lawrence 7.9 | A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) by John Irving 7.9 | The Stand (1978) by Stephen King 7.9 | Little Women (1868) by Louisa May Alcott 7.9 | Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh 7.9 | Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell 7.9 | Sense and Sensibility (1811) by Jane Austen 7.9 | Mrs Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf 7.9 | Diary of a Young Girl (1947) by Anne Frank 7.9 | Othello by William Shakespeare 7.9 | Maus by Art Spiegelman 7.9 | Absalom, Absalom! (1936) by William Faulkner 7.9 | King Lear by William Shakespeare 7.9 | Of Human Bondage (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham 7.9 | Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert 7.9 | Leaves of Grass (1855) by Walt Whitman 7.9 | A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens 7.9 | As I Lay Dying (1930) by William Faulkner 7.9 | Odyssey by Homer 7.9 | Gulliver’s Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift 7.9 | Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley 7.9 | Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe 7.9 | Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton

7.9 | Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers 7.9 | Harry Potter (1997) by J.K. Rowling 7.9 | Tropic of Cancer (1934) by Henry Miller 7.8 | Iliad by Homer 7.8 | Watership Down by Richard Adams 7.8 | Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston 7.8 | Where the Wild Things Are (1963) by Maurice Sendak 7.8 | Room With a View (1908) by E.M. Forster 7.8 | Charlotte’s Web (1952) by E.B. White 7.8 | Green Eggs and Ham (1988) by Dr. Seuss 7.8 | Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry 7.8 | A Song of Ice and Fire (1996) by George R.R. Martin 7.8 | Oliver Twist (1837) by Charles Dickens 7.8 | Blindness (1995) by Jose Saramago 7.8 | In Search of Lost Time (1927) by Marcel Proust 7.8 | Passage to India (1924) by E.M. Forster 7.8 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) by Stephen Chbosky 7.8 | The Secret Garden (1911) by Frances Hodgson Burnett 7.8 | The Lorax (1971) by Dr. Seuss 7.8 | The Pillars of the Earth (1989) by Ken Follett 7.8 | The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame 7.8 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) by Milan Kundera 7.8 | The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis 7.8 | The Help (2009) by Kathryn Stockett 7.8 | Matilda (1988) by Roald Dahl 7.8 | Black Beauty (1877) by Anna Sewell 7.8 | House of Leaves (2000) by Mark Z. Danielewski 7.8 | Bell Jar (1963) by Sylvia Plath 7.8 | Watchmen (1987) by Alan Moore 7.8 | Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon 7.8 | Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson 7.8 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) by Roald Dahl 7.8 | The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) by Arthur Conan Doyle 7.8 | American Gods (2001) by Neil Gaiman 7.8 | Sophie’s Choice (1979) by William Styron 7.8 | The Magus (1977) by John Fowles 7.8 | Flowers for Algernon (1959) by Daniel Keyes 7.8 | Schindler’s List (1982) by Thomas Keneally 7.8 | Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie 7.8 | It (1986) by Stephen King 7.8 | Tender Is the Night (1934) by F. Scott Fitzgerald 7.8 | World War Z (2006) by Max Brooks 7.8 | Life of Pi (2001) by Yann Martel 7.8 | Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) by Robert A. Heinlein 7.8 | Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 7.8 | Book of Mormon by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 7.8 | American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser 7.8 | Moby-Dick (1851) by Herman Melville 7.8 | Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa 7.8 | A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens 7.8 | The Kingkiller Chronicle (2007) by Patrick Rothfuss 7.8 | All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) by Erich Maria Remarque 7.7 | A Fine Balance (1995) by Rohinton Mistry 7.7 | Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) by Baroness Orczy 7.7 | The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1969) by Eric Carle 7.7 | Bleak House (1853) by Charles Dickens 7.7 | The Giving Tree (1964) by Shel Silverstein 7.7 | Howards End (1910) by E.M. Forster 7.7 | Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) by A.A. Milne 7.7 | Anne of Green Gables (1908) by Lucy Maud Montgomery 7.7 | The Heroes of Olympus (2010) by Rick Riordan 7.7 | His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman 7.7 | Fight Club (1996) by Chuck Palahniuk 7.7 | The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy 7.7 | Metamorphoses by Ovid 7.7 | Giver (1993) by Lois Lowry 7.7 | Looking for Alaska (2005) by John Green 7.7 | The Day of the Jackal (1971) by Frederick Forsyth 7.7 | Roots (1976) by Alex Haley 7.7 | Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy 7.7 | The Sheltering Sky (1949) by Paul Bowles 7.7 | Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert 7.7 | Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 7.7 | Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 7.7 | The Thorn Birds (1977) by Colleen McCullough 7.7 | Good Omens (1990) by Terry Pratchett 7.7 | Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson 7.7 | Fifty Shades of Grey (2011) by E.L. James 7.7 | The Red and the Black (1830) by Stendhal 7.7 | The Book Thief (2006) by Markus Zusak 7.7 | The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 7.7 | Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce 7.7 | Ficciones (1956) by Jorge Luis Borges 7.7 | Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 7.7 | Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe 7.7 | The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy 7.7 | I, Claudius (1934) by Robert Graves 7.7 | Atlas Shrugged (1957) by Ayn Rand 7.7 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick 7.7 | The Green Mile (1996) by Stephen King 7.7 | The Shining (1977) by Stephen King 7.7 | Aeneid by Virgil 7.7 | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994) by Haruki Murakami 7.7 | Mansfield Park (1814) by Jane Austen 7.7 | Women in Love (1920) by D.H. Lawrence 7.7 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) by Robert M. Pirsig 7.7 | A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) by Khaled Hosseini 7.7 | Cat in the Hat (1985) by Dr. Seuss 7.7 | Outsiders (1967) by S.E. Hinton 7.6 | Zorba the Greek (1946) by Nikos Kazantzakis

7.6 | Trainspotting (1993) by Irvine Welsh 7.6 | Time Machine (1895) by H.G. Wells 7.6 | We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003) by Lionel Shriver 7.6 | Macbeth by William Shakespeare 7.6 | The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien 7.6 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (2003) by Mark Haddon 7.6 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000) by Michael Chabon 7.6 | Night (1956) by Elie Wiesel 7.6 | The Woman in White (1860) by Wilkie Collins 7.6 | Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare 7.6 | The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003) by Audrey Niffenegger 7.6 | Man’s Search for Meaning (1946) by Viktor Emil Frankl 7.6 | Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan 7.6 | In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote 7.6 | Breakfast of Champions (1973) by Kurt Vonnegut 7.6 | Fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen 7.6 | Perfume (1985) by Patrick Suskind 7.6 | V for Vendetta (1989) by 7.6 | Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) by Jules Verne 7.6 | Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 7.6 | The Tin Drum (1959) by Gunter Grass 7.6 | The BFG (1982) by Roald Dahl 7.6 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1985) by Dr. Seuss 7.6 | Candide (1759) by Voltaire 7.6 | Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) by D.H. Lawrence 7.6 | Fountainhead (1943) by Ayn Rand 7.6 | Nostromo (1904) by Joseph Conrad 7.6 | Little Princess (1905) by Frances Hodgson Burnett 7.6 | Holes (1998) by Louis Sachar 7.6 | Mere Christianity (1952) by C.S. Lewis 7.6 | Phantom Tollbooth (1961) by Norton Juster 7.6 | David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens 7.6 | Goodnight Moon (1947) by Margaret Wise Brown 7.6 | The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick 7.6 | Time to Kill (1989) by John Grisham 7.6 | Steppenwolf (1927) by Hermann Hesse 7.6 | Cryptonomicon (1999) by Neil Stephenson 7.6 | The Remains of the Day (1989) by Kazuo Ishiguro 7.6 | Norwegian Wood (1987) by Haruki Murakami 7.6 | The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 7.6 | James and the Giant Peach (1961) by Roald Dahl 7.6 | Dubliners (1914) by James Joyce 7.6 | Doctor Zhivago (1957) by Boris Pasternak 7.6 | Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943) by Betty Smith 7.6 | Memoirs of a Geisha (1997) by Arthur Golden 7.6 | Essential Rumi by Rumi 7.6 | Buddenbrooks (1901) by Thomas Mann 7.6 | Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) by Thomas Hardy 7.6 | Hiding Place (1971) by Corrie Ten Boom 7.6 | The Princess Bride (1973) by William Goldman 7.6 | All the King’s Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren 7.6 | The Maltese Falcon (1930) by Dashiell Hammett 7.6 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain 7.6 | Ouran High School Host Club by Bisco Hatori 7.6 | Plague (1947) by Albert Camus 7.6 | Jurassic Park (1990) by Michael Crichton 7.6 | The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson 7.6 | Shogun (1975) by James Clavell 7.6 | A Town Like Alice (1950) by Nevil Shute 7.6 | Ambassadors (1903) by Henry James 7.6 | Blood Meridian (1985) by Cormac McCarthy 7.6 | No Country for Old Men (2005) by Cormac McCarthy 7.6 | The Castle (1926) by Franz Kafka 7.6 | Phantom of the Opera (1910) by Gaston Leroux 7.6 | Middlesex (2002) by Jeffrey Eugenides 7.6 | The Book of the New Sun (1994) by Gene Wolfe 7.6 | Vanity Fair (1848) by William Makepeace Thackeray 7.6 | Heidi by Johanna Spyri 7.6 | Bluest Eye (1970) by Toni Morrison 7.6 | Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand 7.6 | Pippi Longstocking (1945) by Astrid Lindgren 7.6 | The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969) by John Fowles 7.6 | North and South (1855) by Elizabeth Gaskell 7.6 | Percy Jackson & the Olympians (2005) by Rick Riordan 7.6 | Gilgamesh by 7.6 | The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare 7.6 | Millennium series by Stieg Larsson 7.6 | Cat’s Cradle (1963) by Kurt Vonnegut 7.6 | Northanger Abbey (1817) by Jane Austen 7.6 | The Secret History (1992) by Donna Tartt 7.5 | Screwtape Letters (1942) by C.S. Lewis 7.5 | Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare 7.5 | The World According to Garp (1978) by John Irving 7.5 | A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) by John Kennedy Toole 7.5 | Birdsong (1993) by Sebastian Faulks 7.5 | Dandelion Wine (1957) by Ray Bradbury 7.5 | Light in August (1932) by William Faulkner 7.5 | The Glass Castle (2005) by Jeannette Walls 7.5 | People’s History of the United States (2010) by Howard Zinn 7.5 | Lamb by Christopher Moore 7.5 | Water for Elephants (2006) by Sara Gruen 7.5 | Moneyball (2003) by Michael Lewis 7.5 | Three Men in a Boat (1889) by Jerome K. Jerome 7.5 | Jungle (1906) by Upton Sinclair 7.5 | The Forever War (1974) by Joe Haldeman 7.5 | Le Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac 7.5 | Number the Stars (1989) by Lois Lowry 7.5 | Siddhartha (1951) by Hermann Hesse 7.5 | Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams 7.5 | Misery (1987) by Stephen King