Previously in this series.   Cher On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, Cheryl Strayed Self-Help, Lorrie Moore “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,” Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer The Drag King Book, J. Jack Halberstam Selfie, Kim Kardashian Emma, Jane Austen   Dionne Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay Les Guérillères, Monique Wittig The Future of the Image, Jacques Rancière Wuthering Heights, Emily…

Jacquelyn Ardam's previous work for The Toast can be found here. Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy is by Carolyn Burke, and a jolly good read.

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1. "She was dividing her time between her psychoanalyst and her love affairs." (5)

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Previously in this gorgeous series.

Tess Durbeyfield (Tess of the d’Urbervilles)

A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Mary Wollstonecraft)

Eros the Bittersweet (Anne Carson)

Hard Choices (Hillary Clinton)

If Stones Could Speak: Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge (Marc Aronson)

Clarissa Dalloway (Mrs. Dalloway)

I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence (Amy Sedaris)

Oranges are Not the

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PROS: 1. Your bookshelves will be truly and undeniably beautiful. (See image). 2. The process of color-coding your bookshelves will take many enjoyable hours, in which you will find yourself faced with questions that are at once banal and delightful. Will you employ a ROY G BIV scheme? If so, where will you put your black books? Your white books? Your beige? Do the bright orange-spined Penguins look best clumped together or evenly- distributed throughout…