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Tomato's Formative Texts

these are 99 texts from childhood to the present that have fundamentally shaped how I think about writing, tone, and structure in some fundamental way - it's not a comprehensive list, but it is representative. just curious to what extent others have experienced these texts!
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Agamemnon (Aeschylus)
Agamemnon
1
Aeschylus
Complaint! (Sara Ahmed)
Complaint!
2
Sara Ahmed
An Old-Fashioned Girl (Louisa May Alcott)
An Old-Fashioned Girl
3
Louisa May Alcott
Borderlands/ La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldua
Borderlands/ La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldua
4
When Jeff Comes Home (Catherine Atkins)
When Jeff Comes Home
5
Catherine Atkins
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl (Mona Awad)
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
6
Mona Awad
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Mikhail Bakhtin)
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
7
Mikhail Bakhtin
Abarat (Clive Barker)
Abarat
8
Clive Barker
S/Z (Roland Barthes)
S/Z
9
Roland Barthes
Les Fleurs Du Mal (Charles Baudelaire)
Les Fleurs Du Mal
10
Charles Baudelaire
Are You My Mother? (Alison Bechdel)
Are You My Mother?
11
Alison Bechdel
Illuminations (Walter Benjamin)
Illuminations
12
Walter Benjamin
Golden Terrace (Cang Wu Bin Bai)
Golden Terrace
13
Cang Wu Bin Bai
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
14
Emily Brontë
Holding Change (Brown)
Holding Change
15
Brown
Woyzeck (Georg Büchner)
Woyzeck
16
Georg Büchner
Four Thousand Weeks (Oliver Burkeman)
Four Thousand Weeks
17
Oliver Burkeman
Parable of the Talents (Octavia E. Butler)
Parable of the Talents
18
Octavia E. Butler
Relational Remembering: Rethinking the Memory Wars (Sue Campbell)
Relational Remembering: Rethinking the Memory Wars
19
Sue Campbell
Eros the Bittersweet (Anne Carson)
Eros the Bittersweet
20
Anne Carson
What Katy Did (Susan Coolidge)
What Katy Did
21
Susan Coolidge
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (Patty Yumi Cottrell)
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace
22
Patty Yumi Cottrell
Treatment of Complex Trauma: A Sequenced, Relationship-Based Approach (Christine A. Courtois, Julian D. Ford)
Treatment of Complex Trauma: A Sequenced, Relationship-Based Approach
23
Christine A. Courtois, Julian D. Ford
Catherine, Called Birdy (Karen Cushman)
Catherine, Called Birdy
24
Karen Cushman
3 Nbs of Julian Drew (James M. Deem)
3 Nbs of Julian Drew
25
James M. Deem
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (Samuel Delany)
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
26
Samuel Delany
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Gilles Deleuze)
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
27
Gilles Deleuze
Players (Don Delillo)
Players
28
Don Delillo
Sovereignties in Question: The Poetics of Paul Celan (Jacques Derrida)
Sovereignties in Question: The Poetics of Paul Celan
29
Jacques Derrida
Geek Love (Katherine Dunn)
Geek Love
30
Katherine Dunn
A Theory of Semiotics (Umberto Eco)
A Theory of Semiotics
31
Umberto Eco
The Bacchae (Euripides)
The Bacchae
32
Euripides
Gaylord Phoenix (Edie Fake)
Gaylord Phoenix
33
Edie Fake
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
34
William Faulkner
Stone Butch Blues (Leslie Feinberg)
Stone Butch Blues
35
Leslie Feinberg
The Story of a New Name (Elena Ferrante)
The Story of a New Name
36
Elena Ferrante
Everything Is Illuminated (Jonathan Safran Foer)
Everything Is Illuminated
37
Jonathan Safran Foer
The Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paulo Freire)
The Pedagogy of the Oppressed
38
Paulo Freire
Good Omens (Neil Gaimon and Terry Pratchett)
Good Omens
39
Neil Gaimon and Terry Pratchett
Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory (Ian Hacking)
Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory
40
Ian Hacking
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