Riot Days
Maria Alyokhina // 2017 // political memoir
The Outline trilogy
Rachel Cusk // 2014 // literary
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson // 1959 // Gothic horror
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell // 1960 // juvenile fic, survival
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk // 2009 // mystery
Malina
Ingeborg Bachmann // 1971 // literary
Our Share of Night
Mariana Enriquez // 2019 // horror
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka // 1915 // surreal fantasy
The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa // 1994 // dystopian
Deathless
Catherynne M. Valente // 2011 // historical fantasy
Autobiography of Red
Anne Carson // 1998 // narrative poetry
Kaddish & Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg // 1961 // poetry collection
Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor // 2017 // literary
A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth Ozeki // 2013 // literary
Fairyland series
Catherynne M. Valente // 2011 // children's fantasy
The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories
Angela Carter // 1979 // Gothic fairy tales
Poor Things
Alasdair Gray // 1992 // satirical sci-fantasy
Lapvona
Ottessa Moshfegh // 2022 // historical fic
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath // 1963 // autofiction
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer // 2014 // sci-fi horror
The Awakening
Kate Chopin // 1899 // literary
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman // 1995 // dystopian
After Dark
Haruki Murakami // 2004 // magical realism
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys // 1966 // historical fic
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut // 1969 // sci-fi satire
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke // 2020 // fantasy-mystery
The Wall
Marlen Haushofer // 1963 // dystopian
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami // 1994 // magical realism
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley // 1818 // Gothic horror
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer // 2013 // ecology essays
Favorite Writers
Ray Bradbury, Rachel Cusk, Mariana Enriquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kazuo Ishiguro, Shirley Jackson, Franz Kafka, Han Kang, Natsuo Kirino, Fernanda Melchor, Haruki Murakami, Yoko Ogawa, Catherynne M. Valente, Kurt Vonnegut.