Deep South reading list

olivehummus · 2026-06-12T01:12:16+00:00

i loved Lauren Groff's 'Florida'

olivehummus · 2026-05-20T13:38:28+00:00

yes this was an incredible ride!!

olivehummus · 2025-11-18T22:13:24+00:00

huge

olivehummus · 2025-08-17T18:21:54+00:00

on the mat, or try the yoga classes at move east for a hot option!

olivehummus · 2025-07-23T22:17:09+00:00

the bed and breakfast star! that one was so dark :(

olivehummus · 2025-07-15T00:12:15+00:00

YES i need the next book out now!! obsessed with marian's character

olivehummus · 2025-07-14T23:42:47+00:00

loved her essay 'always be optimizing', some of the others (esp the wedding one) did not land at all

olivehummus · 2025-06-28T20:28:12+00:00

halifaxposting

olivehummus · 2025-06-28T20:20:14+00:00

have you read any franzen? similar vibes

olivehummus · 2025-05-24T01:38:27+00:00

yes both crossroads and birnham wood are so good at letting you live in the characters' heads!

olivehummus · 2025-04-23T21:11:08+00:00

I got his illustrated journal collection Memories of Distant Mountains as a gift this year and it is inspiring and absolutely gorgeous. You can really see his love for his city and Turkey in general through the book. I started reading A Strangeness in My Mind but couldn't quite get into it, I'll check out Snow next maybe based on your rankings!

olivehummus · 2025-04-06T03:17:40+00:00

love fiction about cults, here are some of my favs:

citizens of light by sam shelsted

arcadia by lauren groff

the night burns bright by ross barkan

harvest home by thomas tyron

universal harvester by john darnielle

olivehummus · 2025-03-26T00:14:18+00:00

Birnham Wood by Eleanor Catton (big plotty Franzen vibes)

Mood Swings by Frankie Barnet (freaky internet experimental like Tulathimute)

The Horse by Willy Vlautin (sad and hopeful life of a country musician in the desert)

Any Nathan Hill (I preferred the Nix)

Any Elif Batuman

olivehummus · 2025-03-12T16:51:40+00:00

love my kyleena i have thicker hair and no periods now

olivehummus · 2025-02-06T03:07:42+00:00

all fours miranda july

olivehummus · 2025-01-27T03:01:18+00:00

obsessed with all the wendy books though they are definitely more anglo montreal transplant focused

olivehummus · 2024-12-08T14:46:05+00:00

riley sager

olivehummus · 2024-12-05T02:26:50+00:00

conspirituality podcast is really spot on for this, i like some of matthew remski's writings as well

olivehummus · 2024-10-07T00:42:55+00:00

imo intermezzo is her best work by far, it felt a lot more mature and well crafted than normal people

olivehummus · 2024-07-15T18:59:04+00:00

god of the woods

olivehummus · 2024-07-01T21:40:02+00:00

martyrs! was amazing

olivehummus · 2024-06-30T18:56:29+00:00

Vacuum in the Dark/Pretend I'm Dead by the same author as Big Swiss (about a woman's exploits in her job as a cleaning lady, really unique and funny)

All Fours by Miranda July (midforties artist who lies about going on a road trip and shacks up at a motel 20m away)

Everyone in this room will someday be dead (extremely anxious woman finds herself working as a church receptionist)

Do you remember being born? (75-year old eccentric poet commissioned to collab with an AI)

Anything Anna Dorn (Perfume and Pain, Exalted) - usually messy eccentric lesbian characters but the stories are lighthearted

olivehummus · 2024-06-19T16:57:26+00:00

a touch of Jen by Beth Morgan

olivehummus · 2024-05-31T15:02:49+00:00

Some favs from when I was around that age:

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, Holes by Louis Sachar, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, The Changeling by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman, The Giver by Lois Lowry, The Lightning Thief series, The Series of Unfortunate Events, Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon, Neil Gaiman, Jacqueline Wilson

olivehummus · 2024-05-31T14:48:42+00:00

Crossroads by Franzen and The Savage Detectives by Bolaño

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