caitlin. made of awesome. lotion seller. old fashioned bitch with new fangled ideas. college student. anything doctor who, sylvia plath, harry potter, clint eastwood, republican, the sound of music, the heart of darkness, sarcastic, and hardcore literature.

 

Recommended Reading

Absolute Favorites

  • Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad
  • Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
  • Dracula- Bram Stoker
  • Night- Eli Wiesel
  • The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath
  • Emma- Jane Austen
  • Gone With the Wind- Margaret Mitchell
  • Hamlet- William Shakespeare
  • Lady of Shalott- Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • The Waste Land- TS Eliot
  • Slaughterhouse- Five- Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Color Purple- Alice Walker
  • To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
  • Frankenstein- Mary Shelley

 

Highly Recommended

  • Catcher in the Rye- JD Salinger
  • Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway
  • The Great Gatsby- F Scott Fitzgerald
  • Jungle Book- Rudyard Kipling
  • East of Eden- John Steinbeck
  • Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck
  • 1984- George Orwell
  • Northanger Abbey- Jane Austen
  • The Captive- Victoria Holt
  • Flowers in the Attic- VC Andrews
  • Lost Girl- DH Lawrence
  • Lord of the Flies- William Golding
  • Tess of the D’Urbervilles- Thomas Hardy
  • The Foreshadowing- Marcus Sedgwick

Biographies

  • Roots- Alex Haley

Authors

  • JK Rowling- Everyone loves Harry Potter. Obviously.
  • Victoria Holt- The Queen of Gothic Romance is the shit, guys. Seriously.
  • Carrie Jones- Need series is still better than Twilight.
  • VC Andrews- Because people need more stories about brother-sister love in their lives.
  • Jasper Fforde- Homicidal fairy tales. Enough said.

FF

  • The Life and Times-Jewels5
  • Commentarius- BC Daily
  • Every Other Midnight- Kathryn’s NomDePlume
  • The Girl in the Looking Glass- GhostOfBambi
  • Quiet Summer- Wilhelmina Willoughby