As Imperceptibly As Grief - Emily Dickinson / Picnic At Hanging Rock Dir. Peter Weir / A Summer Wasting

comprehensive list of books that will make you think a lot

at the request of @uglydumbbitchdotcom and @dreamingmappist (just to let you know, most of this is european and pre-1930 so if you're looking for literature from other continents this is not the list to go to. i wish i knew more about african, asian, and latin american literature, but alas - i do not.)

a portrait of the artist as a young man and dubliners: short stories of a city by james joyce

anything by fyodor dostoevsky (specifically crime and punishment, demons, notes from underground, but really anything will do and i'm not going to list his complete works on here)

the goldfinch and the secret history by donna tartt

frankenstein by mary shelley

fathers and sons by ivan turgenev

station eleven by emily st. john mandel

the death of ivan ilyich by leo tolstoy

in the first circle by aleksandr solzhenitsyn

paradise lost and paradise regained by john milton

till we have faces and that hideous strength by c.s. lewis

ninety-three and the man who laughs by victor hugo

faust, pt. 1 by goethe

the ulster cycle and an táin bó cúailnge

the a wrinkle in time quartet by madeleine l'engle

grace by paul lynch (this might be sort of an odd addition but he's one of the authors who follows in the joyce tradition and this is a beautiful book with a fascinating plot set during the great hunger so it deserves a place here)

a streetcar named desire by tennessee williams

the plough and the stars by sean o'casey

the grapes of wrath by john steinbeck

common sense by thomas paine

macbeth and henry v by william shakespeare

a room of one's own by virginia woolf

beowulf

say nothing by patrick radden keefe

one hundred years of solitude and the general in his labyrinth by gabriel garcia marquez

the underground railroad by william still

the letters of vincent van gogh

my god, there is a lot of russian literature on there. anyway, here are the books that made me think the most and hardest out of anything i've read

Bacchanale, 1871, Lawrence Alma-Tadema

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Classic literature

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– Oscar Wilde

mbti types as oddly specific books i was forced to read

infj: animal farm, the alchemist

infp: frakenstein, metamorphosis, catcher in the rye

intj: crime and punishment, dune

intp: 1984, slaughter-house 5

entj: macbeth

entp: don quixote, catch-22

enfj: les misérables

enfp: alice in wonderland

isfj: anne of green gables

istj: sherlock holmes

isfp: the night circus, where the red fern grows, the hobbit

estj: the art of war, the fountainhead

estp: great gatsby

esfj: pride and prejudice, little women

esfp: the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

istp: the girl with the dragon tattoo, fight club

The 16 types as School of Philosophies

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