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My Small Strange Eclectic Collection of Favorite Fiction
16 items
By
MacKenzie Dietz
My favorite movie is Amelie. These books occupy the same place in my private universe.
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The true cause of the Big Bang? Pasta, of course.
The Complete Cosmicomics, by Italo Calvino
May all our lives feel extraordinary for having witnessed a shade of blue.
Bluets, by Maggie Nelson
Shorts but read in order in one go. Trust me!
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, by Helen Oyeyemi
The perfect novella. Also wonderful in audio!
This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Stories within stories, ideas threaded through.
I'd Like, by Amanda Michalopoulou
Like lucid dreams of my twenties.
Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado
A novel about love with some of the most perfect passages ever written.
Written on the Body, by Jeanette Winterson
The final image of this book is a longstanding fixture in my secret imaginary lifelong vision board.
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
One Hundred Years of Forgiveness. Just read it.
Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
I still miss these characters.
Being Toffee, by Sarah Crossan
Philosopher clowns. Sadness and beauty.
The Lonely Hearts Hotel, by Heather O'Neill
My magical real short story gateway drug.
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, by Aimee Bender
I like to imagine that my kid is so fierce and magical because I read this while pregnant.
The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende
I read this book around 2000, and it changed everything.
Mama Day
Sapphic, sensual. There's something irresistible about performer stories.
Tipping the Velvet a book by Sarah Waters
The adaptation is also among my favorite films.
Everything Is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer
