I can’t pick a favorite book but I can pick favorites. Unfortunately, the more I think about, it the longer the list gets, so…yeah. These are some of them.
Novels:
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Magic Toyshop – Angela Carter
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
Poor Things – Alasdair Gray
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
Affinity & The Night Watch – Sarah Waters
I, Lucifer – Glen Duncan
The Underground Railroad – Coleson Whitehead
Jane Steele – Lindsay Faye
Circe – Madeline Miller
White is for Witching & Gingerbread – Helen Oyeyemi
Short Stories:
The Portable Dorothy Parker
Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories – Angela Carter
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
Stranger Things Happen – Kelly Link (FYI – all of her collections are awesome)
Winter’s Tales – Isak Dinesen
“The Killers” and “Hills Like White Elephants” – Ernest Hemingway
The Redemption of Galen Pike – Carys Davies
The Unfinished World: And Other Stories – Amber Sparks
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me – Kate Bernheimer
Nonfiction:
H is for Hawk – Helen Macdonald
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel – Jane Smiley
A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
The Paris Review Interviews
Bad Feminist – Roxane Gay
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat – Oliver Sacks