Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I asked you what hyped books you think deserve that hype, and you responded with dozens of contenders, from classics to buzzy new releases. Here's what I think of all of the ones I've read!
books:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks (1999)
Just Kids by Patti Smith (2010)
Outline by Rachel Cusk (2014)
Bunny by Mona Awad (2019)
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (1951)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
Stoner by John Williams (1965)
The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992)
Foster by Claire Keegan (2010)
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh (2018)
Eileen (2015) / Death in Her Hands (2020) / Lapvona (2022) by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (2013)
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (2024)
Normal People (2018) / Conversations with Friends (2017) by Sally Rooney
Sense and Sensibility (1811) / Pride and Prejudice (1813) / Emma (1816) by Jane Austen
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (1912)
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (1913)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)
Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927)
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (1956)
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer (1963)
Sula by Toni Morrison (1973)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
The Door by Magda Szabó (1987)
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1980)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1984)
I Who Have Hever Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (1995)
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2005)
White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2020)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (2009)
The Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante (2011-14)
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (2017)
The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt (2022)
All Fours by Miranda July (2024)
socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
I asked you what hyped books you think deserve that hype, and you responded with dozens of contenders, from classics to buzzy new releases. Here's what I think of all of the ones I've read!
books:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks (1999)
Just Kids by Patti Smith (2010)
Outline by Rachel Cusk (2014)
Bunny by Mona Awad (2019)
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (1951)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
Stoner by John Williams (1965)
The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992)
Foster by Claire Keegan (2010)
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh (2018)
Eileen (2015) / Death in Her Hands (2020) / Lapvona (2022) by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (2013)
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (2024)
Normal People (2018) / Conversations with Friends (2017) by Sally Rooney
Sense and Sensibility (1811) / Pride and Prejudice (1813) / Emma (1816) by Jane Austen
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (1912)
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (1913)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)
Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927)
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (1956)
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer (1963)
Sula by Toni Morrison (1973)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
The Door by Magda Szabó (1987)
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1980)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1984)
I Who Have Hever Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (1995)
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2005)
White Teeth by Zadie Smith (2020)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (2009)
The Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante (2011-14)
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (2017)
The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt (2022)
All Fours by Miranda July (2024)
socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
