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to read - fiction

Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami · 2020

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Emily Austin · 2021

Terminal Boredom
Izumi Suzuki · 2021

Amora
Natalia Borges Polesso · 2015

There are More Things
Yara Rodrigues Fowler · 2022

Please Look After Mom
Kyung-Sook Shin · 2008

Violets
Kyŏng-suk Sin · 2001

Yellow Rose
Nobuko Yoshiya • 2015

Perfume & Pain
Anna Dorn · 2024

Life Ceremony
Sayaka Murata · 2019

Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata • 2016

Three
Valerie Perrin • 2021

Black Swans Stories
Eve Babitz · 2018

Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes · 1994

Happy Hour
Marlowe Granados · 2021

Outline
Rachel Cusk · 2016

Livro do desassossego
Fernando Pessoa · 1982

Sete anos e um dia
Elvira Vigna Lehmann · 1987

Fragmentos
Caio Fernando Abreu · 2000

Cantoras
De Robertis Caro · 2024

A Hora da Estrela
Clarice Lispector · 1998

An Apprenticeship Or the Book of Pleasures
Clarice Lispector · 1969

Another Country
James Baldwin · 1962

The Lying Life of Adults
Elena Ferrante · 2019

Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto · 1988
to read - non fiction

Kitchen Confidential Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain · 2000

Chronicles Volume One
Bob Dylan · 2005

All About Love New Visions
bell hooks · 1999

Love Letters: Vita and Virginia
Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf · 2022

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>

Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik · 2024

Passaporte para a China
Lygia Fagundes Telles · 2011

The Symposium
Plato · -380

Everything I Know about Love
Dolly Alderton · 2018

The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin · 1963

Women like us
Suzanne & Pearson, Rosalind Neild · 1992

Champagne Supernovas
Maureen Callahan · 2014

Se não eu, quem vai fazer você feliz? minha histoŕia de amor com Chorão
Graziela Gonçalves · 2018

Ametora How Japan Saved American Style
W. David Marx · 2015

Subculture: The Meaning Of Style
Dick Hebdige

Gods and Kings
Dana Thomas · 2015

Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood, Ian Kelly · 2014

Walkscapes
Francesco Careri · 2017

The Creative Act
Rick Rubin · 2023
others

I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy · 2022

No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai · 1948

Demian
Hermann Hesse · 1919
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The Vegetarian
Han Kang · 2016
<b>FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE</b><br><br><b>“[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize</b><br><br><b><i>A NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br><b>WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE </b><br><b>ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY<br>A <i>KIRKUS REVIEWS </i>BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY</b><br><br><b>“Ferocious.”—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> (Ten Best Books of the Year)</b><br><b>“Both terrifying and terrific.”—Lauren Groff</b><br><b>“Provocative [and] shocking.”—<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br><br>Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It’s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre estrangement, not only from those closest to her, but also from herself. <br><br>Celebrated by critics around the world, <i>The Vegetarian</i> is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.<br><b><br>A Best Book of the Year: <i>BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Time, Elle, The Economist, HuffPost, Slate, Bustle, The St. Louis Dispatch, Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly</i></b>

Carmilla
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · 2019
<p><i>"To this hour the image of Carmilla returns to my memory with ambiguous alternations--sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church. Sometimes, I start from a reverie, certain I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing-room door."</i><br></p> <p><p>Isolated in a remote mansion in a central European forest, Laura longs for companionship--until a carriage accident brings another young woman into her life: the secretive and sometimes erratic Carmilla. As Carmilla's actions become more puzzling and volatile, Laura develops bizarre symptoms, and as her health goes into decline, Laura and her father discover something monstrous.</p> <p><p>Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's compelling tale of a young woman's seduction by a female vampire was a source of influence for Bram Stoker's <i>Dracula</i>, which it predates by over a quarter century. <i>Carmilla</i> was originally serialized from 1871 to 1872 and went on to inspire adaptations in film, opera, and beyond, including the cult classic web series by the same name.</p>
