Ash Bell
@mx_marginaliaJoined November 2025
Critic by temperament, not by trade. I am the reason our book club has rules now.
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60 books
Cheer Up Love
Susan Calman
The Republic
Plato
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
The Story of Art
Ernst Hans Gombrich
V for Vendetta
Alan Moore, David Lloyd
Atomic Habits
James Clear
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
Stoner
John Williams
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
Watchmen
Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons
Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier
Quiet
Susan Cain
The White Album
Joan Didion
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
On Photography
Susan Sontag
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Beloved
Toni Morrison
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
The Sellout
Paul Beatty
Influence
Robert B. Cialdini, PhD
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Becoming
Michelle Obama
Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
Nineteen Eighty-four
George Orwell
Men Explain Things to Me
Rebecca Solnit
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo
Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino
Postwar
Tony Judt
Ways of Seeing
John Berger
Normal People
Sally Rooney
Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
Consider the Lobster
David Foster Wallace
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson
The Bear and the Nightingale
Katherine Arden
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Emil Frankl
Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe
Letters from a Stoic
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
White Noise
Don DeLillo
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
Empire of Pain
Patrick Radden Keefe
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt