Andrea Long Chu on Lapvona
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Grace Byron on Ponyboy
Leah on Brat
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The Case for Marrying an Older ManEvery book we mentioned, categorized, and judged!!
Bad Witches by HB Akumiah
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Molly by Blake Butler
Death Valley by Melissa Broder
My First Book by Honor Levy
Didion & Babitz by Lili Anolik
Parade by Rachel Cusk
The Outline Trilogy by Rachel Cusk
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Brat by Gabriel Smith
I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Men Have Called Her Crazy by Anna Marie Tendler
Earth Angels by Madeline Cash
Funny Story by Emily Henry
The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore by Lorrie Moore, duh
Easter Parade by Richard Yates
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham
Fan Fiction by Tavi Gevinson
The Coin by Yasmin Zaher
Woo Woo by Ella Baxter
Fire Exit by Morgan Talty
Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
The World is a Wedding by Delmore Schwartz
Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
A Woman’s Story by Annie Ernaux
A Man’s Place by Annie Ernaux
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
Martyr by Kaveh Akbar
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Oreo by Fran Ross
Herculine by Grace Byron
Trauma Plot by Jamie Hood
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Stag Dance by Torrey Peters
Worry by Alexandra Tanner
Authority by Andrea Long Chu