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Books from my TikTok!!!
38 items
By
Rosie Owen
books I have yapped about on TikTok
2
Sections
7
All-Time Favourites
Modern Classics
Classics
Contemporary
Fitzcarraldo
Fantasy
All-Time Favourites
grief, love, loss, what being human means
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over - Anne de Marcken
revelatory, existential, obsessed
The Passion According to G.H - Clarice Lispector
phenomenal writing, lucid, hallucinatory, quiet
To the Lighthouse (Signature Classics) by Virginia Woolf, Paperback
crazy, absurd, cats
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
the greatest love story ever told
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
existential but autobiographical, short and sharp doses of what it means to be alive and human
The Book Against Death - Elias Canetti
brb crying about a Norweigan man and his boat
Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse
i will never stop talking about this book
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Modern Classics
raw, vulnerable, must read
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
sweeping family epic, generational trauma
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
icy, ethereal (questionable male protagonist)
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
existential, but make it evil male love interest
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
how does my selfhood interact with another person?
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector
spooky, phenomenally unreliable narrator
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
soft, slow, peaceful - perfect for end of summer/autumn
A Month in the Country (Penguin Modern Classics)
conceptually brilliant, autobiographical
The Periodic Table (Penguin Modern Classics)
an absolute stormer of a gothic classic
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
surprisingly funny, dark - for Woolf fans
Party Going - Henry Green
Classics
oh! that's not just a bruise x
The Death of Ivan Ilych - Leo Tolstoy
best bronte protagonist ever
Villette - Charlotte Brontë
creepy gothic masterpiece
The Italian - Ann Radcliffe
ridiculously funny, OG Gothic
The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
Contemporary
witches: nothing else to say
The Manningtree Witches - A.K Blakemore
insane intense fairytale retellings
The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories - Angela Carter
chilling, gender relation HORROR
So Late in the Day - Claire Keegan
existential but normal and mindbending??
On the Calculation of Volume I - Solvej Balle
space existentialism, we are so small in this universe
Orbital - Samantha Harvey
crow = death
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
multi-pov absurdist hatching of a piece of lung into a surrogate child
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Fitzcarraldo
dense and boring until it's not - best end EVER
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk
jon fosse writes something melancholy and beautiful again
Vaim - Jon Fosse
grief, motherhood, learning about those we love
A Woman's Story - Annie Ernaux
grief, motherhood, lyrical
The Singularity by Balsam Karam
hallucinatory, overlapping, beautiful
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
little snippets of brilliance
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Fantasy
for the grown up percy jackson fans
Circe - Madeline Miller
Non-Fiction
incisive, revealing takedown of the far-right's approach to gender
Who's Afraid of Gender? - Judith Butler
politics, art forms, gender as power
Women in Dark Times by Jacqueline Rose
