Gahhh this is the hardest question ever. I recently read “A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara and thought it was one of the best things I’d read in a long time. But, warning, it’s massive, difficult, comes with about a billion potentially triggering elements, and is really, really heavy.

Also, the quotes I use on this site are ones I’ve pulled from books I enjoy. I dog-ear pages where there’s quotes I like. And every so often I just go through quotes I’ve “collected,” pick the ones I think are appropriate for tumblr, and put them on photos. (In college, my wall had a bunch of pretty post-it notes with quotes I had liked, so consider this a holdover from that.) So that’s a good guide for what I’ve enjoyed.