luthienne:

Hi, thank you so much, you’re very kind ♡

Firstly, let me say that, for me, Virginia Woolf is the Queen of Prose. I could pick up any of her novels, read a single line, and be in a state of ruination for the rest of my life the day. Ok, now that that’s out of the way / w no further ado:

To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier
Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood
Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
Deathless, Catherynne Valente
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
The Waves, Virginia Woolf
The Lesser Bohemians, Eimear McBride
Portrait in Sepia, Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
Niels Lyhne, Jens Peter Jacobsen
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
Complete Stories, Clarice Lispector*
Stories by Katherine Mansfield*
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, Angela Carter*

*not novels, but the prose is so beautiful that it would physically hurt me to leave them off the list