in conclusion

Death in Paradise

Just a theory: the only reason tourists are still showing up to Saint Marie is that the island's mortality rate makes holiday home and hotel prices criminally cheap

The Graduate

Follow a young Dustin Hoffman as he makes a series of questionable life decisions to the soundtrack of Simon and Garfunkel

Hairspray

The story of how a plus-sized white girl solved racism through the power of dance

Scandal

B613 here, an affair over there, the main scandal the show uncovered was my lack of appreciation for Stevie Wonder's discography; it was swiftly handled

Shrek

The layered tale of the lengths a man will go to just to be left alone in peace (I relate heavily)

Charlotte's Web

E.B. White

I can't remember how they taught this book in school, but reading it at 21 makes it clear to me that Templeton is the real unsung hero #JusticeForTempleton

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

An alternate title could be feverish and delirious: nearly every character entered one, if not both, of these states at some point in the story

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

C. S. Lewis

While Edmund is truly the worst, there were probably a few days in my childhood when I too would have traded in my sibling for a Turkish delight

A Man Called Ove

Fredrik Backman

I have never had so much emotion conveyed to me through the use of a cat and a person's choice of car. A five-star read

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

How the infatuation of two teenagers leads to the deaths of 6 people over the course of a long weekend

Stay With Me

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

So you lie about your impotence, allow your family to bring you a second bride, get your brother to seduce and impregnate your first wife, and hide from her for 15 years the fact that her daughter did not actually die of a sickle cell crisis? Men deserve less, man

Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare

One of the few pieces of literature to have a love triangle that's actually triangular in shape, not simply an arrow