book recommendations

• reading through the sunday scaries: books you can finish in a day

  6 Sep 2026

  book recommendations, books, poetry, reading

  Annie Ernaux, books, Caroline Blackwood, fiction, literature, Mary Gaitskill, Mary Oliver, Mieko Kawakami, novella, Peter Shaffer, plays, poetry, reading, Stefan Zweig, sunday scaries, translated literature, Truman Capote

  

• eau de nil: the 10 best penguin modern classics

  28 Aug 2026

  book recommendations, books, penguin modern classics, reading

  Bohumil Hrabal, books, fiction, Joanne Greenberg, literature, Muriel Spark, Penelope Lively, Penelope Mortimer, penguin, penguin modern classics, Peter Handke, reading, Shirley Jackson, Sibilla Aleramo, Tarjei Vesaas, Tove Ditlevsen, translated literature, women in translation