"50 Books About Love for People who Hate Romantic Comedies"
Notes to Self are longer journal entries from Seven Yrs Ago. I was 21 in early 2014.
50 BOOKS ABOUT LOVE FOR PEOPLE WHO HATE ROMANTIC COMEDIES
From Black Balloon Publishing Tumblr {refound on The Airship}
(One day you will read all of these and you will not be alone the whole time you do.)
The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
For Esmé—With Love and Squalor – J.D. Salinger
Play It as It Lays – Joan Didion
The Marriage Plot – Jeffrey Eugenides (why are you skipping spaces jeez this is a notebook not a computer monitor)
Even Though I Don’t Miss You – Chelsea Martin
Why We Broke Up – Daniel Hader + Maira Kalman
One Love Affair – Jenny Boully
Blankets – Craig Thompson
What She Saw… – Lucinda Rosenfeld
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
Clumsy – Jeffrey Brown
Freedom – Jonathan Franzen
Love is a Dog from Hell – Charles Bukowski
Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
All About Love: New Visions – bell hooks
How Should a Person Be? – Sheila Heti
Alone with Other People – Gabby Bess
Love in the Time of Cholera
Learning to Love You – Harrell Fletcher + Miranda July
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. – Adelle Waldman
Instant Love – Jami Attenberg
My Heart Is an Idiot – Davy Rothbart
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
Collected Stories – Amy Hempel
The Garden of Eden – Ernest Hemingway
Never Let Me Go ✔BOOYAH
The Lover’s Dictionary – David Levithan
Clementine Classic’s Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates
Goodbye, Columbus – Philip Roth
Couples – John Updike
Super Sad True Love Story – Gary Shteyngart
White Girls – Hilton Als
Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Is How You Love Her – Junot Diaz
I Love Dick – Chris Kraus
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love – Raymond Carver
The Lover – Marguerite Duras
Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
The Flame Throwers – Rachel Kushner
My Education – Susan Choi
Just Kids – Patti Smith <3
Women in Love – DH Lawrence
This Is Between Us – Kevin Sampsell
Shortcomings – Adrian Tomine
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf? – Edward Albee
On Beauty – Zadie Smith
The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
Eros the Bittersweet – Anne Carson
For commentary seven years later, go here.