Melissa Broder’s Recommended Reading List
Photograph of Melissa Broder by Ryan Pfluger
Melissa Broder, the author of the novels Milk Fed, The Pisces, and Death Valley, the essay collection So Sad Today, and five poetry collections, including Superdoom shares her recommended reading list.
She has written for The New York Times, Elle, and New York magazine’s The Cut. She lives in Los Angeles. Follow her on Twitter @SoSadToday and @MelissaBroder and Instagram @RealMelissaBroder.
“Lasky is my favorite contemporary poet, and The Shining--with its musicality, knifelike imagery, extended metaphor, existential yearning, and transcendent beauty--will reveal why.”
“This novel, the tale of a queer mountain lion, is an instant cult classic and a bloody masterpiece. Rhythmically brilliant, heart-wounding, and scathingly funny, I’m in love with a mountain lion and in awe of this book.”
“Few books that are declared "funny" are actually funny to me, but Problems by Jade Sharma is astute-funny, pathos-funny, messy-funny, and funny-funny.”
“I love slim, French books of longing, and The Beginners is nothing if not a slim, French book of longing.”
“Come for the depression, cosmic isolation, and existential dread...stay for the reason to live.”
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