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I'm sure you're dying to know what I read other than Harry Potter and Tolkien's legendarium, so here are some books and poets I love. Some are staggering works of literary genius. Others are just fun.


Novels and Novellas


Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark

A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark

Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson

Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

A Star is Bored by Byron Lane

Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto

The Cadfael Chronicles by Ellis Peters

Lord Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy Sayers

The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis

The Simon Snow Trilogy by Rainbow Rowell

The Great Alone by Kirstin Hannah

Music From Another World by Robin Talley

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

Elfshadow by Elaine Cunningham

The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (okay, admittedly I stopped reading at like, book 10 but man I ate them up as a teen)

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan

Hank the Cowdog series by John R. Erickson

The Abhorsen series by Garth Nix


Poets

Tennyson

Oscar Wilde

Edward Lear

W.H. Auden

J.R.R. Tolkien

Shakespeare

Byron

look I'm basic and predictable okay


Nonfiction


Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Rightwing Women by Andrea Dworkin

How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ