Replies to an Instagram call for book recommendations on April 11 2026.
(Not my own recs.)
A Short Stay In Hell – Steven L. Peck
The Box Man – Kobo Abe
Generation Bloodbath – Paul Curran
Perdido Street Station –China Mieville
438 Days – Jonathan Franklin
Needful Things – Stephen King
The Narrator – Michael Cisco
Notes From the Underground – Dostoevsky
He Leadeth Me – Walter Ciszek
Enterprise of Death – Jesse Burlington
Negative Space – B.R. Yeager
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
Murderland – Caroline Fraser
Nick Cave – And the Ass Saw the Angel
A Short History of Decay – E.M. Cioran
Fashion and Materialism – Ulrich Lehmann
Perfume – Patrick Süskind
Blindness – Jośe Saranago
The Diving Pool – Yoko Ogawa
Revenge – Yoko Ogawa
Instability of Truth – Rebecca Lemov
The Denial of Death – Ernest Becker
Project Mind Control – John Lisle
Travels With Charley – John Steinbeck
Void Corporation – Blake Butler
The Stranger – Albert Camus
The Fall – Albert Camus
The Sluts – Dennis Cooper
Tender is the Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica