Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Here After by Amy Lin
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Lies And Weddings by Kevin Kwan
Funny Story by Emily Henry
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
I'm A Fan by Sheena Patel Also throwing in my current read, A Lady For A Duke by Alexis Hall. I hear that it gets kinda slow in the middle, which I'm coming up on, but the first half alone makes it one of the greatest romances I've ever read.
i read 90 books in 2024 and here are the ones i enjoyed the most or i found to be the most thought provoking Slow Days Fast Company by Eve Babitz
Penance by Eliza clark
Perfume by Patrick Süskind
The house of grief by Helen Garner
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
The Secret History by Donna Tartt (a reread but still loved)
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stewart
Beloved by Toni Morrison
My year of rest and relaxation by Otessa Mosfegh
The bell jar by Sylvia plath
Death and the penguin by Andrey Kurkov
What Iād rather not think about by Jente Posthuma
Going Dark by Julia Ebner
Chlorine by Jade Song
According to one Mouse: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - a magical, mysterious book unlike any other Iāve read and possibly my favourite of all time. A story told in journal entries of Piranesi, a man who lives in a huge labyrinth filled with statues. Memorial by Bryan Washington - a gorgeous tender story of a gay couple told from both sides. Stunningly empathetic and just perfect in its humanity, and use of food as character and relationship device. Milkfed by Melissa Broder - a weird bisexual masterpiece. Sex, food, obsession. Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli - a history of quantum physics written by the man known as āthe poet of physicsā. written so as to be understood by anyone, mostly to tell us that even the physicists cannot fully grasp the reality of it. Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith - ghost story depicting a decade of Vietnamese folklore and history. Magical, powerful, mysterious. I couldnāt believe it when I found out this was a debut novel and when I finished it I just sort of sat there for a while. Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield - a womanās wife comes back from sea, but she is changed, and continues to change. Gay, magical realism. A beautiful allegory that can be read in a day. White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Smith - surrealist retellings of fairytales by my all time favourite short story writer Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit - a memoir and potent exploration the silencing and erasure of women by men Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh - all three of her books her 5 stars, sheās not missed yet. Blue Ticket is like Margaret Atwood meets Angela Carter. Dystopian feminist speculative fiction told with an almost surreal minimalism at times and almost magical vibrancy at others. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi - a scientist born of immigrant parents studying addiction, after her brother died at its hands. Grapples with grief, faith, identity, religion and love with unparalleled skill and tenderness.
In fact theyāre working against you, especially women of colour. 84% of Tinder users are men, Bumbleās earnings have gone down hugely since its IPO (thereby further increasing their need to make a profit off subscriptions), Hinge is hiding hot people behind a paywall. People are sick of getting lovebombed and ghosted. But we donāt need themāthereās more to life than appsāand people are beginning to seek connections in person again.