Recs & Faves
Books:
The End of the Affair (Graham Greene), Persuasion (Jane Austen), The Autumn of the Patriarch (Gabriel García Márquez), Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys), Nada (Carmen Laforet), Foster (Claire Keegan), Pedro Páramo (Juan Rulfo), Corregidora (Gayl Jones), As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner), Sula (Toni Morrison), We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson), Autobiography of My Mother (Jamaica Kincaid), The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald), Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë), The Waves (Virginia Woolf), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera), Bleak House (Charles Dickens), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Muriel Spark), Alias Grace (Margaret Atwood), White Oleander (Janet Fitch), The Liars’ Club (Mary Karr), Sister Golden Hair (Darcey Steinke), The Ladies’ Gallery (Irene Vilar).
Short stories by:
Mavis Gallant, Anton Chekhov, Julio Cortázar, Mariana Enriquez, Claire Keegan, D. H. Lawrence, Joy Williams, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O’Connor, John Cheever, Louise Erdrich, Lorrie Moore, William Faulkner, Lauren Groff, Denis Johnson, Laura van den Berg, James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, Edwidge Danticat, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Otessa Moshfegh.
Suspense novels:
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Patricia Highsmith), The Silence of the Lambs (Thomas Harris), Endless Night (Agatha Christie), Rosemary’s Baby (Ira Levin), You (Caroline Kepnes).
Movies:
The Lives of Others, The Quiet Girl, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Witch, Groundhog Day, On the Waterfront, Picnic at Hanging Rock, La Strada, Fanny and Alexander, Ran, Alien, Ugetsu, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Sugar Cane Alley, Y Tu Mamá También, Sin Nombre, Incendies, It Happened One Night, Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau), All About My Mother, Diabolique.
TV Series:
The Bureau, White Lotus, Six Feet Under, Borgen, Fleabag, Orange is the New Black, Prime Suspect, Adolescence, Slow Horses, Catastrophe, Weeds, Call My Agent, The Investigation, Ripley, Dexter, The Fall, Hannibal, The End of the F***ing World.