Hi all, for 2026 I'm trying to spend less time on my phone, so I'm looking to read more books. Right now I usually read classics, but if I'm tired after a long day I often don't feel like picking those up, so I'm looking for some non-classics to read when I have low energy.
Some of my favorite classics are Orlando, Pale fire, Giovanni's room, the brothers Karamazov and the picture of Dorian Gray.
Some of the books I've read that aren't classics are Interview with the vampire (loved it), call me by your name (thought it was ok) and the love hypothesis (didn't like, unsurprisingly).
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I love Orlando so much! I also like Pale Fire and The Brothers Karamazov, so it sounds like we have somewhat similar tastes. Here are some more recently written books that I’ve enjoyed: The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt, so many of the Jeeves and Wooster stories by PG Wodehouse, The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace, Mrs. March by Virginia Feito, The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir, Tyll by Daniel Kehlman, Madness is Better Than Defeat by Ned Bauman, and I’m sure I’m leaving out a bunch.
Read Shirley Jackson’s peerless ghost story: the haunting of hill house.
So long, see you tomorrow by William Maxwell. A book so slight, so graceful; you scarcely realize that it has become part of your thinking.
Underworld by Don DeLillo. It’s a slog yeah but hey! It’s not Pynchon 😂
The secret history by Donna Tartt. Perhaps the most audacious opening salvo of the 90’s.
A study in class, language, sex, the old world & the new; colliding with terrible results.
A murder mystery in reverse.
Blood meridian by Cormac McCarthy.
The quintessential American novel of regeneration through violence & the piss poor philosophy behind that.
Linguistically dense, archaic & dazzling.
Grueling, thrilling, half true.
The greatest novel of the 20th century 🔥