books i'd sell my soul to read again for the first time

So, as you can see, this book hit me like Muhammad Ali. There's definitely a strong correlation between books that make me want to sob and books that have ended up on this list.

You might have noticed that I have not shut up about this book since finishing it. I'm single-handedly running a campaign for this book to win the Women's Prize this year, 'cause I love it.

This is so sad. It is heart wrenching, it's actually a play, but it's also so great to read because every line is just crafted immaculately.

This book by Sayaka Murata is so shocking, but like, in a good way, not shockingly bad, shockingly absurd. I experienced a really visceral and physical response to it.

This is 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint, and I'm really savoring every page of it, 'cause I already know this will be on this list eventually.

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie is a book that just blew me away the first time that I read it.

Keeps you right on the edge of your seat, and I think this is Stephen King at his absolute best.

This book is a kind of dystopian sci-fi, but like the sci-fi is very, very light, set in an alternative 1990s England. This is kind of like edging you a little bit. Literary edging.

my honorable mentions for this book would be 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo', 'Song of Achilles', and 'Normal People', which are all books I really, really love.

So enchanting and mesmerizing and unlike anything I have ever read before. Really, this book is a study in solitude, and the moment, literally the second I put this book down, I was jealous of anyone else who would get to read this for the first time.

But aside from that, this is essentially the ultimate unreliable narrator story because the narrative is told to us in a non-chronological non-linear way, through a series of flashbacks and it's intentionally very misleading, and also intentionally very convoluted and confusing.

The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of my absolute favorites. Oscar Wilde did what needed to be done. He put in a shift with this one.

my honorable mentions for this book would be 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo', 'Song of Achilles', and 'Normal People', which are all books I really, really love.

my honorable mentions for this book would be 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo', 'Song of Achilles', and 'Normal People', which are all books I really, really love.

The Talented Mr. Ripley is such an unforgettable novel. It's all about performance and deception and also envy, and it centers around quite an elaborate crime.