motorcycle diaries by che guevara

i don't necessarily think it is a masterpiece, and i'm aware che is quite the controversial character, but the book struck all the right cords for me. adventure and history are some of my favorite themes, which was an immediate plus, but what had me hooked were the encounters with common folk. can't quite put into words why, frankly.

The Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsey Drager is my absolute favorite.

honorable mentions: Slumberland by Pauly Beatty A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien The Cider House Rules by John Irving

Gone With the Wind

I’m a huge fan of a natural history of dragons by Marie Brennan and the rest of books in the series. Also been obsessed with Kim Harrison’s The Hollows series since my partner introduced it to me lol

The Gospel Singer by Harry Crews. It's a masterpiece of grit lit. If you're not one to shy away from themes like religious obsession, violence and racism, I can highly recommend it.

• the colour purple by Alice walker
• the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

I'm a sucker for books that have the main character fight so hard for who they are and who they want to be. To see their transformation and growth into the people they stand proud as at the end of the day? 🥺

And yes the MCs are both queer!

(Feel free to drop a reply/pm to rec books like this!)

World War Z

Right now only these come to my mind:

• The Three Body Problem trilogy by Liu Cixin - I am on part two and can't stop reading, it is already joining my favourite books, whole-heartedly recommended. They are sci-fi books. :)
• "Rumo" and "The 13 1⁄2 Lives of Captain Bluebear" by Walter Moers (read in German but available in English), wonderful fantasy books, extremely creative and well written.

• The Alchemist
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull

The Percy Jackson series is probably my favorite, still even as an adult. It's my comfort book series.