Otherness


The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
Americanah
A Little Life
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
Crying in H Mart
Convenience Store Woman
Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
The Underground Railroad
Lord of the Flies
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
The Handmaid's Tale
Gender Queer: A Memoir
Dept. of Speculation
The Chain by Robin LamontBarn 8 by Deb Olin UnferthBête by Adam RobertsThe Awareness by Gene  StoneIn the Barn by Piers Anthony
The Lives of Animals (Fiction)
100 books — 1 voter
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi VoCirce by Madeline MillerPractical Magic by Alice HoffmanConvenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Outsider Women
160 books — 11 voters

Aleksandar Hemon
Mujo is a refugee in Germany, has no job, but has a lot of time, so he goes to a Turkish bath. The bath is full of German businessmen with towels around their waists, huffing and puffing, but every once in a while a cell phone rings and they pull their phone out from under the towel and say, Bitte? Mujo seems to be the only one without a cell phone, so he goes to the bathroom and stuffs toilet paper up his butt. He walks back out, a long trail of toilet paper behind him. So a German says, you ha ...more
Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

Fernando Pessoa
In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of them seem to me written by a stranger: I simply do not recognize myself in them. There was a person who wrote them, and it was I. I experienced them, but it was in another life, from which I just woke up, as if from someone else's dream. ...more
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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