A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading
William Styron
The Reading List 2026
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The Dragon’s Promise
Your heart is your home. Until you understand that, you belong nowhere
Elizabeth Lim
The Crucible
Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven
Arthur Miller
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction
Jules Vernes
Full Circle
Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen’
Michael Palin
Throne of Glass
Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons
Sarah J. Maas
Richard III
Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end;
Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend
William Shakespeare
Requiem For a Wren
Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over
Nevil Shute
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be
Walter Benjamin
The Fake Up
‘“Fame really is forever, isn’t it? They both looked at each other, the weight of that truth hanging over them for the first time, like a raincloud’
Justin Meyers
A Very Very Very Dark Matter
We co-write them. I just don't do any of the writing. I change the bits I don't like and then erase all the rest from history. I'm more like a German theatre director. Or, y'know, a German generally
Martin McDonagh
A Room of One’s Own
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction
Virginia Woolf
Republic
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing
Plato
King of Envy
Not everyone had the privilege of following their heart
Ana Huang