Books To Bury Me With: Jennifer Ostopovich

The book I’d want to take with me to the grave:

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde 

 

The first book that hit me like a ton of bricks:

Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson

 

The book that’s seen more of my tears, coffee stains, and cigarette burns:

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë 

 

The book that shook my world like a goddamn hurricane:

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 

 

The book I wish I’d discovered when my liver was still intact:

The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway 

 

The book I’d shove into everyone’s hands if I were king of the world:

The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir 

 

The book that nearly drove me to madness:

The Trees, Perceval Everett or The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson or The Great and Secret Show, Clive Barker 

 

The book I can’t keep my hands off of, no matter how many times I’ve read it: 

 Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote or Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky 

 

The book I’d hide in the back of my closet, pretending I’m too highbrow for it: 

Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice (I wouldn’t really though, I adore Anne Rice)

 

The book that left a scar I wish I could forget:

Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis

 

The author who made me think, "Now that’s a soul in torment":

Irvine Welsh 

 

The book I’d get a tattoo of if I had the nerve:

Blood and Guts in High School, Kathy Acker

 

The book that made me question everything I thought I knew:

The Confidence Man, Herman Melville 

 

The book that’s so damn good I’d never loan it out:

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 

 

The book that’s been my companion through the darkest nights:

The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe 

 

The book I’d throw in someone’s face during a heated argument:

Bad Behavior, Mary Gaitskill 

 

The book that reminds me of a lost love or regret:

High Fidelity, Nick Hornby or This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald 

 

The book I wish I could have written, but know I never could:

Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert or One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Márquez

 

The book that makes me want to drink myself into oblivion:

Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham or The Violent Bear it Away, Flannery O’Connor

 

The book that’s been my refuge from the world’s cruelty:

The Complete Shakespeare