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Dracula
Bram Stoker
The ship arriving in Whitby with everyone dead is cinematic decades before cinema. Stoker was a visual thinker.
Frankenstein o el Moderno Prometeo
Mary Shelley
A novel about loneliness at its core. The creature and Victor are mirrors of each other - both isolated, both suffering.
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien was a linguist who invented worlds to house his languages. The result is the richest fiction ever created.
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
A book that burns with quiet rage against injustice. Charlotte Bronte channeled her anger into art.
The Catcher in the Rye
J. P. Steed
The phoniness Holden rails against is real. He's not wrong about the world, he just doesn't know how to live in it.
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
I admire it immensely but "enjoy" isn't the right word. It demands everything from you as a reader.
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
Haig has a gift for making philosophy feel like a warm hug. Not every book needs to be complex to be profound.
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." Chills, every single time.
Dracula
Bram Stoker
The way multiple narrators piece together the mystery is ahead of its time. A proto-thriller.
The great gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gatsby's obsession with the past resonates deeply. Fitzgerald understood longing like few others.
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