Depending on the vibe you’re after, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame is a favorite, so cozy and entertaining, as well as The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings books - very near and dear to my heart and so fun to read! Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier is one of the craziest, tensest, most atmospheric books I’ve read, ever. And The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov is an absolute trip, fantastical, satirical, and feverish to the extreme. All very different from the other but each so good in their own way!
Random books from very different genres I think about a lot:
- And Then There Were None (Or literally any book by Agatha Christie)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- City of Brass
- Books by Garth Nix (I loved them as a kid)
- A series of unfortunate events
- Howl's Moving Castle
- Chess (Stefan Zweig)
- 1984
- Shogun
- The Golden Compass
these are all kinda books i enjoyed during my late elementary school years:
the fog diver series by joel ross — i had a fascination with steampunk things as a child and this let me dive headfirst into the thick of it tales from outer suburbia by shaun tan — or anything shaun tan for that matter. his art is incredible and daydreaming with his works was such fun. i used to take this book out of my elementary school library almost every week just to stare at the pages a tale dark and grimm by adam gidwitz — silly and spooky. perfect! and the other two books are just as marvellous :) the last wild by piers torday — i think it was a book of the year in my school and i ate up story time.
weaveworld by clive barker
the thirteenth tale by diane setterfield
master and margarita by mikhail bulgakov
the idiot by fyodor dostoevsky
howl’s moving castle by diane wynne jones (for the second time)
