brown: three favorite novels
rainbow: three favorite authors

Um three favourite novels is SO HARD. I’ll try to pick seperate from my three favourite authors so lets start with that first, yes? Absolutely Margaret Atwood is my favourite author hands down, I god damn adore her. Ugh I can’t properly explain my love for her writing except to say that you feel the weight and breadth of the thought she puts into every word. She is a poet who happens to write novels, and that simplistic beauty she handles language with in poems translates right into her novels. LOVE HER. Next would be Jane Austen. Love love love her. To pieces and bits and nothing comforts me so much as picking up her complete works and curling up for a few hours. Um, third is more difficult, but I’ll keep it classic and say Shakespeare. I am a complete nerd for his works, and you can never go wrong with him.

Um okay so since my authors are all classics of a sort, I’ll try and pick recent novels for top three books. Um, Room by Emma Donaghue was amazing. I just really really loved that novel, and ugh my heart. I also insanely loved Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. I know it got mixed reviews from a literary perspective but I read the entire thing in one sitting and ugly sobbed my face off, so IDGAF what critics say - it was the most amazingly touching novel. I still haven’t seent he movie, and I don’t really want to because I just do not think they can capture the novel properly in screenplay format. Third I’ll say Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. That book was just - aakhsdkahdakhdkajsdhas. I cannot even. Everyone should read it - it will blow your mind and touch you very deeply. 

And a bonus non-fiction rec for The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Friedman, because it is a brilliant book that will alter your world view. It’s an economics book, but it is so educational and interesting. You will learn something reading it, and you’ll never be able to look at the world economy or world politics and events the same ever again.