Thank u sooooo very much <3333 for your sweet words and trusting me with my taste in published fiction...I'll admit my recommendations are all very dated because I'm recovering from a general burn out caused by too much literary fiction stuffed into my brain during the course of a degree, but if I had to pick a few favourites: I love virginia woolf's mrs dalloway for its stream of consciousness and its focus on loneliness, I used to love rereading my copy of Alice walker's the colour purple when I was 20 (warnings for content if you've never read it), I've recommended it before but I'll never not praise lamya h's hijab butch blues for a non fiction memoir read, and always always always this is how you lose the time war by Amal El-Mohtar and max gladstone, which is the book where my love for the epistolary, time-related fiction, and romance bound by some kind of governing tension lives

(also, hi vivi!! (if I'm not mistaken) I was thinking about you so I'm so happy to hear you're feeling better and I wish you nothing but wellness ❤️)