Pauline’s book recs : a MASTERPOST
Shit, it’s 2020 and I’ve updated this Behemoth again. There’s both old and new in here. If you’re having problems with links overlapping, it is most likely the app/dashboard glitching—try the permalink version, and everything should work out, even on mobile. And of course, HAVE FUN.
Ressources : where to find books online?
CLASSICAL LITERATURE (ANTIQUITY)
Where should I start? The fundamental works
Where should I start? The mythology-oriented works
Where should I start? Mythology, but make it non-greek
Where should I start? The translation edition
A very touristic overview of Ancient Greek literature
Different texts for Antigone
Different texts for Elektra
Different texts and translations for The Odyssey
CLASSIC [? who cares] BOOKS (ALL ERAS)
First things first : a few favourites
And works in translation : a few more favourites
Where should I start? My first classics
A very touristic overview of literature reading
Modern classics
Reading women : a few favourites ; wait, much more
Reading men : a few favourites
Children literature : a few favourites ; more
Experimental literature
Where should I start? English and US literature
Where should I start? Modern Italian literature
Where should I start? German and Austrian literature
Where should I start? Russian literature
Where should I start? Irish literature
I’m terribly unknowledgeable about? Japanese literature
Where should I start? Renaissance literature
Where should I start? French literature for intermediate level
Where should I start? French Medieval literature
Where should I start? Victorian literature
Where should I start? Contemporary literature
Reading classics to children
Children literature for adults (?)
A bit of myth, a bit of fairy tale
Short-length classics ; more here
Short stories
One last thing: books I don’t want to check out
POETRY
First things first : a few favourites
Second things second : a bunch of recs
Where should I start? Poetry
Learning French? Easy French poetry
Lesbian French poetry
Russian poetry : a few favourites
Narrative poems ; much more
Mystic poems
Poems about separation
Poems about love
Poems about happiness
Poems about exile
Poems about poetry
DRAMA
First things first : a few favourites
NON-FICTION
First things first : a few favourites ; more recent
On feminism (it’s old)
On translation
On literary analysis and adaptation
On first-level literary analysis and French movements
On biographies and diaries ; more here ; and more?
On writing theory and another one
On art history
On reader-response theory
Very lacking, but on female history
On witches
On Sufism
Literary interviews
Essays
YEARLY SUMMARY
Best of 2018 : Prose
Summary of 2018
Best of 2017 : Fiction
Best of 2017 : Poetry
Best of 2016 : Fiction
Best of 2016 : Poetry
2016 Summer reading list
2015 - 2016 awaited releases
Best of 2015 : Fiction
Best of 2015 : Poetry
THEMATIC LISTS
By character
Works featuring Persephone
Works featuring Kassandra
Works featuring male protagonists written by women
Works featuring the House as a character
Works featuring mermaids
Works featuring the femme fatale archetype
Works featuring female villains
Works with Nature as a character
Works with supernatural entities as a human double
Works with introspective characters
Works with narcissistic characters
Romances featuring softer male protagonists
Trope : Star-crossed lovers
Trope : Friends to lovers
Trope : Villainous love
Trope : Toxic mother figure
Trope : adaptating Beauty and the Beast
Trope : adaptating Bluebeard
By theme
LGBTQ+ (a terribly old and lacking list)
Books taking place in a single building
Books taking place in one House
Books taking place in a high school
Books about seeing into the Future
Books by the sea (and the few pirates)
Books set in Paris
Books about girlhood
Books about introspection and self-discovery
Books about melancholy and sadness
Books about happiness and hope
Books with symbolism and atmosphere
Books about moral corruption and spiritual decadence
Books about sex politics and philosophy
Books about the female rage
Books about or taking place during World War I
Books featuring suicides
Poems for mothers
Poems about poetry
Great love stories
Unusual love stories
Idealised, bittersweet love ; more
By genres
Rewriting Greek and Roman myths
Rewriting Fairy Tales ; and again
Writing and rewriting Arthuriana
Favourites free-to-play text-based games
Gothic and neo-gothic
Southern Gothic
Magical realism
Dystopias
Young Adult
Horror novels (but check the gothic instead)
Crime novels
Medieval historical fiction
Just, like, sappy stuff
By context
Beach reading
Travel reading
Halloween reading (spooky!)
Winter reading
Summer reading ; another
Lockdown reading (you can still ask!)
By book
Books similar to The Secret History
Books similar to Wuthering Heights ; again
Books similar to A Grief Observed
Books similar to The Brothers Karamazov
Books similar to On Being Ill
Books similar to Eros the Bittersweet
Books similar to Dracula
Excerpts similar to Dido and Aeneas parting in the Aeneid
Recommended editions of Romeo and Juliet
Recommended editions of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Recommended editions of Wuthering Heights
Recommended translations of Tristan and Yseult
Lit criticism on Dorian Gray
Lit criticism on Sonnets to Orpheus
Books adapted to the screen (1)
Books adapted to the screen (2)
By author
Favourite French writers
Favourite Contemporary writers
What to read? By Women French writers
What to read? By Anne Carson
(And some prep reading for Anne Carson)
What to read? By Richard Siken
What to read? By Roland Barthes
What to read? By Agatha Christie
What to read? By E. A. Poe
What to read? By Daphné du Maurier
What to read? By Sylvia Plath
What to read? By Priya Sarukkai Chabria
What to read? By Hélène Cixous
What to read? On and by Branwell Brontë
If you love Anne Carson
If you love Angela Carter
If you love Louise Glück
If you love Virginia Woolf
If you love Sylvia Plath
If you love Marguerite Duras
If you love Emile Zola
If you love Colette
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Hélène Cixous, from Poetry in painting: writings on contemporary arts and aesthetics
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Las élites adoran las revoluciones que se limitan a cambios estéticos.
Thomas Frank
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Siempre es falso el futuro: tenemos demasiada influencia sobre él
Elías Canetti
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¿Has visto un ciclo en televisión de cine en tiempos de Franco?
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Cuando el fuego se ahogue en unas lágrimas...
Leiva
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The Red Sun Gnaws at the Spider, 1948, Joan Miro
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Chimera, 1884, Gustave Moreau
Medium: watercolor
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Barcelona, Spain, 1937.
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Female fighter from lebanese civil war.
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La Ilustración es tan destructiva como le reprochan sus enemigos románticos. Ella se encuentra a si misma sólo si rechaza el último compromiso con estos enemigos y se atreve a abolir el falso absoluto, el principio ciego de dominio.
Adorno, Th., y Horkheimer, M. (1947). Dialéctica de la Ilustración. Madrid: Trotta, p. 95
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La policía es un humanismo
Houellebecq, M. Plataforma. Barcelona: Anagrama
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“Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Roberto Ricci for From Hell’s Heart: An Illustrated Celebration of the Works of Herman Melville.
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Cuanto mayor es la belleza, más profunda es la mancha
Bataille, Georges (1957). El erotismo. Barcelona: Tusquets, p. 109
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Anxiety, 1894, Edvard Munch
Medium: oil,canvas
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La vocación de la palabra no es crear el amor, sino la división y el odio, la palabra separa a medida que se formula.
Houellebecq, M. (2019). Serotonina. Barcelona: Anagrama, p. 80
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