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SCPs:
Yeah, I kinda only have tales at the moment. Bit awkward.
SCP-J:
Adopted Pages/Collaborations:
Foundation Tales:
Stuff That I Need to Host Offsite Because All of My Best Ideas are Shamelessly Stolen from the Estates of Ellison and Christie
Peace, I Would Settle for That: a crossover with I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. From what I can tell it was deleted on 85+ which would make it officially the best thing I ever wrote.
And Then There Were None: a crossover with, uh, And Then There Were None. Not sure what this one was at when they deleted it.
Pretentious Reading List™
Anyway, I haven't used this page for years and I presume literally nobody has ever looked at it, so I'm going to post a big list of recommended reading here. Is there any kind of consistent theme or quality? No! Does the list include stuff that objectively has zero literary value like Halo or Warhammer novels? Yes! Is it very inconsistent on whether or not novellas are included? Also yes!
Let's face it, the only two things I wrote that people even halfway liked got deleted with the crossover purge, so this is pretty much the best I can offer.
The more pluses, the higher the recommendation.
And I've decided I have to be socially conscious here. I don't want anyone giving money to an author who is a piece of shit. I've removed a lot of names from this list, mostly for either supporting Israel or supporting J K Rowling. Dead authors aren't counted, as the main purpose is to stop economically supporting these people rather than a blanket refusal to engage with their work.
Literary
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (+)🇳🇬
The Egyptian Book of the Dead by Ani trans. E. A. Wallis Budge (++)🇪🇬
The Lessons by Naomi Alderman (+)🏴✡
The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes trans. R. C. Seton (+)🇬🇷
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (+) 🏴
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (+)🇺🇲✊🏿
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (+)🏴
The Unnameable by Samuel Beckett (+) 🇮🇪
Romance of the Three Kingdoms Vol. I by Luo Ben (++)🇨🇳
Selected Poems of William Blake by William Blake (+)🏴
The Aleph and The Maker by Jorge Luis Borges trans. Andrew Hurley (+++)🇦🇷
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges trans. Andrew Hurley (+++)🇦🇷
The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory by Jorge Luis Borges trans. Andrew Hurley (+++)🇦🇷
Brodie's Report by Jorge Luis Borges trans. Andrew Hurley (+)🇦🇷
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (++) 🏴
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (+)🏴
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (+++)🏴
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino trans. William Weaver (+)🇮🇹
Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino trans. William Weaver (+)🇮🇹
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll (++) 🏴
Don Quixote Part I & II by Miguel de Cervantes trans. John Rutherford (+) 🇪🇸
Don Quixote Part I & II by Pierre Menard trans. John Rutherford (+) 🇫🇷
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (+++)🏴
A Tale of Two Cites by Charles Dickens (++)🏴
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (+)🇵🇱
Room by Emma Donohue (+++)🇨🇮
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Pére trans. Chapman and Hall (++)🇫🇷🇭🇹
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (+++) 🇷🇺
Silas Marner, Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot (+)🏴
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (+)🇺🇲
The Collector by John Fowles (+++)🏴
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon (++)🏴
The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon (+)🏴
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman trans. Roz Schwartz (+++)🇧🇪
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (+++)🇺🇲✡
The Iliad by Homer trans. Samuel Butler (+++)🇬🇷🇹🇷
The Odyssey by Homer trans. Emily Wilson(+)🇬🇷🇹🇷
Tales from Ovid by Ovid trans. Ted Hughes (++)🏴
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (+)🇫🇷
The Book of Kings 1 by Jeremiah (KJV) (+) 🇵🇸🕎
The Book of Revelation by John the Apostle (KJV) (+)🇸🇾
The Book of Jonah by Jonah ben Amittai (KJV) (+)🇵🇸🕎
The Metamorphosis by Frans Kafka (+)🇨🇿🕎
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (++)🇺🇸
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (+)🇺🇲
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan (+)🏴
The Book of Esther by Mordecai (KJV) (+) 🇮🇷🕎
A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez trans. Gregory Rabassa (+)🇨🇴
The Gospel According to Matthew by Matthew bar Alphaeus (KJV) (++) 🇵🇸 ✝️
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (++)🇺🇲
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (+)🇷🇺
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien (++)🇨🇮
The Thing in the Stone-Gap Stile by Alice Oswald (+)🏴
The Metamorphoses by Ovid trans. David Raeburn (++)🇮🇹
The Damned United by David Peace (++)🏴
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (++)🇺🇲🇩🇪
Ariel by Sylvia Plath (+++)🇺🇲🇩🇪
The Colossus by Sylvia Plath (++)🇺🇸🇩🇪
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque trans. Brian Murdoch (++)🇩🇪
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (+)🏴 "🇩🇲"
The City of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafòn trans. Lucia Graves (+)🇪🇸
The Catcher in the Rye by S. D. Salinger (+)🇺🇲
The Book of Judges by Samuel (KJV) (+) 🇵🇸🕎
The Book of Samuel 1&2 by Samuel (KJV) (++) 🇵🇸🕎
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (+)🏴
The Tenth of December by George Saunders (+)🏴
Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini (+++)🇮🇹
Pulcinellopaedia by Luigi Serafini (+)🇮🇹
Love Sonnets by William Shakespeare (+)🏴
The Song of Solomon/Ecclesiastes by Solomon (KJV) (++) 🇵🇸🕎
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (++)🇮🇪
The Secret History by Donna Tartt (++)🏴
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude (++) 🇷🇺
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (+++)
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Sailing to Byzantium by W. B. Yeats (+) 🇨🇮
The Epic of Gilgamesh by anon. trans. Gerald Davis (+++)🇮🇶
The Twelve Minor Prophets by Various (KJV) (+) 🇵🇸🕎
Arabian Nights trans. Andrew Lang (+)
The Book of Judith trans. KJV (+)🇵🇸🕎
Non-fiction
Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid (+) 🇸🇦🇱🇧
Bolívar: American Liberator by Marie Arana (++)🇵🇪
The Crusades by Abigail Archer (+) 🏴
Great Heroes and Heroines of Hawaiian Heritage by Leilani Basham (+) 🏴
Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen (++)🇺🇲
The Reckoning by Patrick Bishop (+) 🏴
A Narco History by Carmen Boullosa and Mike Wallace (+) 🇲🇽🇺🇸
No Way Down by Graham Bowley (+++) 🇺🇲
Zionism In The Age of the Dictators by Lennj Brenner (+)🇺🇸🕎
The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown (+)🇺🇲
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (++)🇺🇲
The Red Prince by Helen Carr (++)🏴
Sceptered Isle by Helen Carr (++)🏴
The First Emperor of China by Jonathan Clements (++)
Bitch by Lucy Cooke (+)🏴
The Life and Legacy of Muhammed by Maria Dakake (+) 🇺🇲☪️
Half-American by Matthew F. Delmont (+++)🇺🇲✊🏿
The Bluegrass Conspiracy by Sally Denton (+++) 🇺🇲
Perfect Victims by Mohammed El-Kurd (+++)🇵🇸
Africa Is Not a Country by Dipo Faloyin (+)🇳🇬
The Holocaust Industry by Norman Finkelstein (++) 🇺🇲🇵🇱🕎
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank trans. Susan Massotty (+++)🇳🇱🕎
Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy by Philip Freeman (++)🇺🇲
Julian: Rome's Last Pagan Emperor by Philip Freeman (++)🇺🇸
G-Man by Beverly Gage (+++)🇺🇲
Fungarium by Esther Gaya and Katie Scott (+)🏴🇪🇸
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann (+++) 🇺🇲
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes by David Grann (++)🇺🇲
The White Darkness by David Grann (+) 🇺🇸
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X (+++)🇺🇲✊🏿☪️
The Plantagenets by Dan Jones (+)🏴🏴
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo (++)🇯🇵
Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara (+++)🇺🇸🇮🇳
On Color by David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing (++) 🇺🇲
Freedom from Fear by David P. Kennedy (+) 🇺🇸
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi (+++)🇵🇸
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (+++)🇺🇲
Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer (++)🇺🇲
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (++)🇺🇲
The Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein (+) 🇦🇺🇩🇪✡
Greece Against Rome by Philip Matyszac (+) 🏴
By The Fire We Carry by Rebecca Nagle (++) Flag
Hunting Monsters by Darren Naish (+)🏴
A Voyage for Madmen by Peter Nichols (++) 🏴
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup (+++)🇺🇲✊🏿
Blitzed by Norman Ohler trans. Shaun Whiteside (++) 🇩🇪
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (+)🏴
Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti (+)🇺🇲🇮🇹
Bunker Hill by Nathaniel Philbrick (++)🇺🇲
In The Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick (+++)🇺🇲
Mayflower: Voyage to War by Nathaniel Philbrick (++)🇺🇲
N-4 Down by Mark Piesing (+++)🏴
The Woman Who Murdered Babies for Money by Alison Rattle and Allison Vale (+)🏴
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney (+) 🇬🇾
Ghost on the Throne by James S. Romm (+++)🇺🇲
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli trans. Simon Carnell and Erica Serge(+++)🇮🇹
The Five by Hallie Rubenhold (++)🏴
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny (+++)🇦🇹
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake (+)🏴
The Immortal Game by David Shenk (+) 🇺🇸🇵🇱🕎
A History of Delusion by Victoria Shepard (+)🏴
Longitude by Dava Sobel (++) 🇺🇲🇷🇺✡
The Borgias by Paul Strathern (++)🏴
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance by Paul Strathern (++)🏴
A History of Ancient Greece in 50 Lives by David Stuttard (++)🏴
Historical fiction:
The Liars' Gospel by Naomi Alderman (+) 🏴✡
Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker (++) 🇺🇲
HHhH by Laurence Binet (+++)🇫🇷
A Universal History of Iniquity by Jorge Luis Borges trans. Andrew Hurley (++)🇦🇷
The Warlord Trilogy by Bernard Cornwell (++)🏴
The Accursed Kings by Maurice Druon trans. Humphrey Hare (+)🇫🇷
I, Claudius and Claudius the God by Robert Graves (+++)🏴🏳️🌈
Roots by Alex Haley (+++)🇺🇲🇬🇲✊🏿
Fatherland by Robert Harris (+)🏴
Company of Liars by Karen Maitland (+)🏴
Rizzio by Denise Mina (++) 🏴
Three Fires by Denise Mina (++) 🏴
Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault (++) 🏴
The Persian Boy by Mary Renault (++)🏴
Thriller/Crime/Adventure
No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay (++)🇺🇲
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (+) 🇳🇬
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre (+)🏴
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John le Carre (+)🏴
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (+++)🏴
The White Road by John Connolly (+)🇮🇪
The Wolf in Winter by John Connolly (+)🇮🇪
Deception by Roald Dahl (+)🏴🇳🇴
Cruelty by Roald Dahl (++) 🏴🇳🇴
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (+)🏴🏴🇮🇪
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (+)🏴🏴🏴🇮🇪
The Brotherhood of Mutilation by Brian Evenson (++)🇺🇲
The Sanza Affair by Brian Evenson (+)🇺🇲
Maxwell's Demon by Steven Hall (++)🏴
The Appeal by Janice Hallet (+)🏴
The Curious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallet (++)🏴
The Examiner by Janice Hallett (+)🏴
The Killer Question by Janice Hallett (++)🏴
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris (++)🇺🇲
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris (++)🇺🇲
Call of the Wild by Jack London (+)🇺🇲
The Skin Trade by George R. R. Martin (+)🇺🇲
Midnight at Marble Arch by Anne Perry (+)🏴
Ice Station by Matthew Reilly (++)🇦🇺
Temple by Matthew Reilly (+)🇦🇺
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson(++)🏴
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami trans. Yuji Oniki(+)🇯🇵
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (+)🏴
The Last Murder At The End of the World by Stuart Turton (+)🏴
Horror
Nocturnes by John Connolly (+)🇮🇪
Noctures 2: Night Music by John Connolly (++)🇮🇪
The Breach by Nick Cutter (++)🇨🇦
The Deep by Nick Cutter (+++)🇨🇦
Little Heaven by Nick Cutter (+)🇨🇦
The Troop by Nick Cutter (+++)🇨🇦
House of Leaves by Mark L. Danielewski (+++) 🇵🇱🇺🇲
Contagion and Other Stories by Brian Evenson (++) 🇺🇲
A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson (+++)🇺🇲
Good Night Sleep Tight by Brian Evenson (++)🇺🇲
None of You Shall be Spared by Brian Evenson (+)🇺🇲
Song for the Unravelling of the World by Brian Evenson (+++)🇺🇲
1408 by Stephen King (++)🇺🇲
The Jaunt by Stephen King (+)🇺🇲
Misery by Stephen King (+++)🇺🇲
Night Shift by Stephen King (+)🇺🇲
The Bone Key by Sarah Monette (+)🇺🇲
Equoid by Charles Stross (++)🏴
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer (+++)🇺🇲
The Weird ed. Anne and Jeff Vandermeer (+)🇺🇸
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott (++) 🏴
The Power by Naomi Alderman (+) 🏴✡
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (+)🇺🇲✡
Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov (+)🇺🇲✡
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks (+)🏴
The Reinvented Detective ed. Jennifer Brozak and Cat Rambo (+) 🇺🇲
Halo: Envoy by Tobias Buckell (+)🇺🇲
Unexpected Tales by Octavia E. Butler(+)🇺🇲✊🏿
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (+)🏴
Memory's Legion by James S. A. Corey (+)🇺🇲
Terra Ultima by Raoul Deleo (+)🇳🇱
Man After Man by Dougal Dixon (+)🏴
The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin (+)🇺🇲
The Raw Shark Texts by Stephen Hall (+)🏴
XX by Rian Hughes (+)🏴
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (+)🏴
The Children of Men by P. D. James (+++)🏴
Star Wars: the Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire by Chris Kempshall (+) 🏴
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (novella) (+++)🇺🇲✡
All Tomorrows by C. M. Kosemen (+)🇹🇷
Vintage Season by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore (+)🇺🇲
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin (++) 🇺🇲
The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. LeGuin (++)🇺🇲
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (++)🇵🇱
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (+)🏴
Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis (+)🏴
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (+)🇺🇲
Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch (+)🇺🇲
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R. R. Martin (+++)🇺🇲
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin (+++)🇺🇲
The World of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, Linda Antonssen, and Elio M. Garcia (+) 🇺🇲🇸🇪🇨🇺
The City and the City by China Mieville (++)🏴
Embassytown by China Mieville (+) 🏴
The Kraken by China Mieville (++) 🏴
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville (+)🏴
The Scar by China Mieville (+)🏴
Three Moments of an Explosion by China Mieville (+++)🏴
1984 by George Orwell (+++)🏴
A Short Stay in Hell by Stephen L. Peck (+)🇺🇲
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (++)🏴
Unto Leviathan by Richard Paul Russo (+++)🇺🇲
The Oxford Book of Science-Fiction Stories ed. Tom Shippey (++)
The Science-Fiction Hall of Fame Vol. 1 ed. Robert Silverberg (+++)🇺🇲✡
Halo: Contact Harvest by Joseph Staten (+)🇺🇲
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (++)🏴🇵🇱
The Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky (+)🏴🇵🇱
The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien (++)🏴
The Children of Hûrin by J. R. R. Tolkein and Christopher Tolkein (++) 🏴
The Fall of Gondolin by J. R. R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien (+) 🏴
The Fall of Númenor by J. R. R. Tolkien and Brian Sibley (++) 🏴
Radiance by Cathrynne M. Valente (+)🇺🇲
Blindsight by Peter Watts (++)🇨🇦
The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts (++)🇨🇦
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (+)🏴
A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum(++)🇺🇲✡
Graphic Novels
Maus by Art Speigelman (+++)🇺🇲🇵🇱✡
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore (++) 🏴
Watchmen by Alan Moore (+) 🏴
Peterloo by Eva Schlunk (++) 🏴
Plays
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (++) 🇮🇪
The Complete Plays of William Shakespeare (+++) 🏴
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Mike Walker and Harlan Ellison (+++) 🇺🇲🏴✡
Corona by Mike Walker and Samuel R. Delaney (+) 🏴🇺🇲✊🏿
Who Goes There by Mike Walker and John W. Campbell (++) 🏴🇺🇲
Short Stories and Novellas
Historical Fiction
The Fortress by George R. R. Martin (++) 🇺🇲
Astronaut by Maria Dahvana Headley (collected in Nevertheless She Persisted)
Fantasy
A Long Cold Trail by Garth Nix (Collected in the Book of Swords)
Horror
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Other Floor by Brian Evenson
The Sladen Suit by Brian Evenson
Windeye by Brian Evenson
Details by China Mieville
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe
This Mother's Love by Fran Tracey
The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft
It's a Good Life by Jerome Bixby
The Music of Erich Zann by H. P. Lovecraft
My Love, A Fishhook by Helen Marshall
The Shallows by John Langan
Where Angels Come In by Adam Neville
The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
Younger by B. K. Evenson
Palisade by Brian Evenson
Hurlock's Law by Brian Evenson
The Miracles of Saint Foy by M. E. Bronstein
tis the Season by China Mieville
The Familiar by China Mieville
Go Between by China Mieville
It Only Comes Out At Night by Dennis Etchison
Critc by Ellie Towers
The Sea Was As Wet As Could Be by Gahan Wilson
The Night Wire by H. F. Arnold
Dagon by H. P. Lovecraft
The Outsider by H. P. Lovecraft
The Colour Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft
The Haunter of the Dark by H. P. Lovecraft
Hey, You Down There! by Harold Rolseth
The Candidate by Henry Slesar
The Mainz Psalter by Jean Ray
The Vegtable Man by Luigi Ungolini
Every Litter Bit Counts by Michael Allvalone
A Face in the Dark by Ruskin Bond
On Ice by Simon Strantzas
Rainy Season by Stephen King
The Lion's Den by Steve Duffy
The Front Room by Susan Hill
Born of Man and Woman by Richard Matheson
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
1408 by Stephen King
The Repairer of Reputations by Robert Chambers
The Cthulhu Navy Wife by Sandra McDonald
Literary
Ping by Samuel Beckett
Anabasis by Amal El-Mohtar
Rex by Jon Wallace
Celia and Harold by Patrick Whittaker
The Rain Horse by Ted Hughes
A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor
Science Fiction
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
Contingency Plan by Alexander Freed
The Future is Blue by Catherynne M. Valente
This Is No Cave by Catherynne M. Valente
Boojum by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
Under Siege by George R. R. Martin
Spar by Kij Johnson
Kaleidoscope by Ray Bradbury
The Final Order by Seth Dickinson
To Breathe the Air by Brian Evenson
Mongoose by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
The Universal Library by Kurd Lasswitz
The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin
Scanners Live In Vain by Cordwainer Smith
Thriller/Crime
The Skin Trade by George R. R. Martin
The Brotherhood of Mutilation by Brian Evenson (+++) 🇺🇲
The Honey Trap by Anna Zouroudi (+)
The Man From Nowhere by Edward D. Hoch
The Case of the Broken Sword by G. K. Chesterton
No Use For Good Men by Guy Haley
Off the Tiles by Ianthe Jarrold
The Footprint in the Sky by John Dickson Carr
The Mystery of the Felwyn Tunnel by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace
The Part Time Job by P. D. James
Face Value by Stella Duffy
The Fifth Quarter by Stephen King
Rides a Stranger by David Bell
It's In the Book by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins
The Book of Ghosts by Reed Farrell Coleman
The Hand of Glory of Laird Barron