/b/ - Random

No i domt read im a phillistine

Ice by Anna Kavan. I really loved reading this and would reread again, something about it really speaks to me. Sayaka Murata is good, I loved her book Earthlings, the last part of the book genuinely shocked me. Both are a bit depressing I suppose, but they're so good. Something a little more comfy would be the Hearing Trumpet by Leonara Carrington, surreal, a little odd but ultimately it picked me up. I second Ottessa Moshfegh, despite her critics, I like her more blunt style of writing and would recommend all her books. The Last Unicorn and A Fine and a Private Place by Peter S Beagle are two books I always turn to when I'm feeling depressed.

Jane Austen. It didn't click for me until I started imagining some characters as more taking the piss out of British nobility but once the click happened I loved her books.
I bet CC readers would like Emma.

Swastika Night. It's The Man in the High Castle meets A Handmaiden's Tale. Not only did it predict an imperial Germany years before the Blitzkrieg, but it was a dystopic science fiction written a decade before 1984. And it illustrates the inextricable links between male chauvinism and fascism.

>>259857
Flowers Of The Killer Moon was pretty good. Described the corruption of the FBI and murder of Natives. It's alright if you're looking for a true-story crime book.

The Vegetarian by Han Kang.

What kind of genres do you like?

>>260349
Another good Korean one: Concerning my daughter. A widow is trying to ignore her daughter is lesbian, but she comes back home with her girlfriend.

>>260403
Nice, noted. Here's the whole chart about Korean lit while we're at it.

Amanda Lohrey, The Labyrinth
It's nice, full of quiet melancholy and a dash of hope.

>not telling us what genres you like

I suggest Oliver Sacks. Redpill yourself on neurology, it's fun.

>>260123
What is an accomplished woman?

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. It changed my life. Can also work as a self-help book if you take the message of Earthseed to heart.

Here's some of my favourites:
Flowers for Algernon
The Outsider - Camus
Brave New World
Lolita
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Have been very slowly working through Letters from a Stoic by Seneca which I also recommend but it's not the kind of book you read quickly.

If you're looking for things to cheer you up then I can recommend most things by Goudge, they all have a light storybook feel with nice endings since she wrote a lot of children's books. Novels like Gentian Inn and Pilgrim's Inn always cheered me up by the end, but then I started not knowing what to expect. They were just unexpected pleasant little flowers that popped up by chance in a sea of cynicism.

>>260611
Sacks is a wonderful writer.