my canon
- House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
- Saint Sebastian's Abyss - Mark Haber
- Impossible People - Julia Wertz
- Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
- All the Wrong Questions (series) - Lemony Snicket
- One's Company - Ashley Hutson
- The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa trans. Margaret Jull Costa
this house has feelings
- House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
- The Handyman - Bentley Little
- Episode 13 - Craig DiLouie
- The Grip of It - Jac Jemc
- A God of Hungry Walls - Garett Cooke
you see the ending coming, and keep reading anyways
- Chlorine - Jade Song
- Woom - Duuncan Ralston
satire
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Mark Haber
- Sloth - Wendy Wasserstein
- Disorientation - Elaine Hsieh Chou
- Bunny - Mona Awad
stream of consciousness
- Mark Haber
- Thomas Bernhard
- Practice - Rosalind Brown
- The Longcut - Emily Hall
- Henry Miller
- Jon Fosse
and you thought you hated yourself
- Thomas Bernhard
- A Preparation for Death - Greg Baxter
- Skin - Kathe Koja
- E. M. Cioran
very trustworthy narrators
- House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
- A. M. Homes
- Tampa - Alyssa Nutting
- Vladimir Nabokov
memoir-ish
- Old School - Tobias Wolff
- Alison - Lizzy Stewart
- In. - Will McPhall
disillusioned 20-somethings
- A Very Nice Girl - Imogen Crimp
- The Book of George - Kate Greathead
- Acts of Service - Lillian Fishman
- Boy Parts - Eliza Clarke
- Grotesque - Natsuo Kirino trans. Rebecca Copeland
- The Idiot - Elif Batuman
- Maeve Fly - CJ Leede
20-somethings who stand a chance of growing up
- City of Girls - Elisabeth Gilbert
- Maybe in Another Life - Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Cackle - Rachel Harrison
- Tatami Galaxy - Tomihiko Morimi trans. Emily Balistrieri
- Nothing to See Here - Kevin Wilson
dark wellness
- youthjuice - EK Sathue
- Natural Beauty - Ling Ling Huang
bullet journal
- emhaggs art
- amandarachlee
- Rachael Stephen - her cyclical bullet journaling was a significant influence on how I bullet journal. Instead of going month by month, I go in (roughly) six-week cycles (early winter, later winter, early spring, etc).