books I would like to read this year
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White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 2024

The Lover
Marguerite Duras • 2011
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The Sluts
Dennis. James, Todd. (Illustrations) Cooper (Text) • 2004

My Lobotomy A Memoir
Howard Dully • 2008
Perfume
Patrick Suskind • 2014

Dead Poets Society
N. H. Kleinbaum • 2006
The Piano Teacher
Elfriede Jelinek • 2002

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky • 1999
Sunburn
Chloe Michelle Howarth • 2023
Young Mungo
Douglas Stuart • 2022

A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara • 2016

Just Kids
Patti Smith • 2010
<p> It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. </p> <p> Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous—the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years. </p> <p> <i>Just Kids</i> begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame. </p>

The Boy Who Lit Up the Star
Nik M.B • 2025








