lithub's lessons in teaching: when your student's a better writer than you are

  • a visit from the goon squad by jennifer egan
  • less by andrew sean greer
  • there, there by tommy orange
  • open by andre agassi
  • the corrections by jonathan franzen
  • the meritocracy trap by daniel markovits

ocean vuong's 10 books needed to write his novel

  • dictee by theresa hak kyung cha
  • beloved by toni morrison
  • autobiography of red by anne carson
  • moby dick by herman melville
  • go tell it on the mountain by james baldwin
  • the gangster we are all looking for by lê thị diễm thúy
  • to the lighthouse by virginia woolf
  • close to the knives: a memoir of disintegration by david wojnarowicz
  • crapalachia: a biography of place by scott mcclanahan
  • dept of speculation by jenny offill

random unfiltered recs

  • ella minnow pea by mark dunn
  • uninhabitable earth by david wallace-wells
  • pretext for mass murder by john roosa
  • what is it i think i'm doing anyhow by toni cade bambara

on kindle

  • braiding sweetgrass - robin wall kimmerer
  • sea of tranquility - emily st. john mandel
  • dark rise - c.s. pacat
  • pride and prejudice - jane austen
  • macbeth - william shakespeare
  • wuthering heights - emily brontë
  • notes from the underground - fyodor dostoyevsky
  • little women - louisa may alcott
  • the souls of black folk — w.e.b. du bois
  • the hunger games - suzanne collins
  • catching fire - suzanne collins
  • mockingjay - suzanne collins
  • the three-body problem - liu cixin
  • a tale for the time being - ruth ozeki
  • the doomsday machine - danel ellesberg
  • piranesi - susanna clarke
  • leaving isn't the hardest thing - lauren hough
  • if i had your face - frances cha
  • silence is my mother tongue - sulaiman addonia
  • annihilation - jeff vandermeer
  • crazy rich asians - kevin kwan
  • china rich girlfriend - kevin kwan
  • rich people problems - kevin kwan
  • big little lies - liane moriarty
  • my brilliant friend - elena ferrante
  • the story of a new name - elena ferrante
  • persuasion - jane austen
  • heartburn - nora ephron
  • breast and eggs - mieko kawakami
  • earthlings - sayaka murata
  • young jane young - gabrielle zevin
  • funny you should ask - melissa sussman
  • how to get filthy rich in rising asia - mohsin hamid
  • the loosening skin - aliya whiteby
  • i'm glad my mom died - jennette mccurdy
  • tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow - gabrielle zevin
  • counterfeit - kirstin chen
  • invisible child - andrea elliott
  • how to slowly kill yourself and others in america - kiese laymon
  • they can't kill us until they kill us - hanif abdurraqib
  • she who became the sun - shelley parker-chan
  • beautiful country - qian julie wang
  • the fifth season - n.k. jemisin
  • the obelisk gate - n.k. jemisin
  • the stone sky - n.k. jemisin
  • the haunting of hill house - shirley jackson
  • mbs: the rise to power of mohammed bin salman - ben hubbard
  • diaries, 1910-1923 - franz kafka
  • letters to the father - franz kafka
  • when we cease to understand the world - benjamin labatut
  • heavy - kiese laymon
  • all the young men - ruth coker burks
  • fault lines - emily itami
  • bestiary - k-ming chang
  • giovanni's room - james baldwin
  • girl, woman, other - bernardine evaristo
  • a psalm for the wild-built - becky chambers
  • the sixth extinction - elizabeth kolbert
  • homegoing - yaa gyasi
  • the god of small things - arundhati roy
  • the year of magical thinking - joan didion
  • king leopold's ghost - adam hochschild
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