This list is curated from 28 mentions and sorted by most mentioned, then by date of most recent mention. The more a book is mentioned, the more likely it's recommended and a favorite... or they just like talking about it a lot!
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This list is curated from 28 mentions and sorted by most mentioned, then by date of most recent mention. The more a book is mentioned, the more likely it's recommended and a favorite... or they just like talking about it a lot!
Last updated: .
Surface Detail
by Iain Banks
Have you read "Surface Detail" by Iain Banks? "Surface Detail" is my favorite depiction of a, oh wow, you have to read this book. It's literally the greatest science fiction book, possibly ever written.
— Grimes
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
by William L. Shirer
No, I think Dan Carlin is one of the people, like, when Dan Carlin is one of the people that really started getting me excited about, like, revolutionizing education. Because, like, Dan Carlin instills, instilled, I already like, really liked history, but he instilled like, an obsessive love of history in me, to the point where like, now I'm fucking reading, like, going to bed, reading like part four of the "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," or whatever. Like, I'll look up, like, dense-ass history.
— Grimes
A Girl Corrupted by the Internet is the Summoned Hero?!
by Eliezer Yudkowsky
This seems like it should work pic.twitter.com/J1ATScZ2Te
— Grimes
The Birth of Tragedy
by Friedrich Nietzsche
My daughter is dancing to techno over this copy of the birth of tragedy by nietzsche - what a queen pic.twitter.com/GajRCEVDen
— Grimes
A Song of Ice and Fire (6 books)
by George R. R. Martin
I’m immune to most celebrities but when I met George RR Martin I was so beside myself that when he asked my name I said “Gaga”. Unbelievably tragic fumble pic.twitter.com/ZKrab0pfcP
— Grimes
Culture (10 books)
by Iain Banks
It’s a masterpiece. Best sci fi on earth, dare I say better than dune. At least equivalent. I don’t want to appear insane
— Grimes
Novacene
by James Lovelock
[What's the meaning of life, C?] Have you, did you read "Novacene" yet, by James Lovelock? I haven't even finished this, so I'm a huge fraud yet again, but really early in the book, he says this amazing thing. I feel like everyone's so sad and cynical. [...] I just keep hearing people being like, "Fuck, what if we're alone? Oh no, ah!" And I'm like, "Okay, but like, wait, what if this is the beginning?" In "Novacene," he says, I'm, this is not gonna be a correct, 'cause I can't like memorize quotes, but he says says something like, what if our consciousness, right now, is the universe waking up. What if instead of discovering the universe, this is the universe. This is the evolution of the literal universe herself. We are not separate from the universe. This is the universe waking up. This is the universe seeing herself for the first time.
— Grimes
I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream
by Harlan Ellison
have you read the sci-fi short story, "I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream"? [...] You should read that.
— Grimes
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
Most things exist in science fiction before they exist in the real world. Like Jules Verne. I just think it's fun, I feel like my job as an artist is to just sort of like throw out ideas into the world and some of them are probably going to be huge failures and some of them might be good.
— Grimes
The Player of Games
by Iain M. Banks
If u follow the trail of clues the story will unravel 📚🧚🏻♀️💊🧬 pic.twitter.com/1TL36WB4JE
— Grimes
The Communist Manifesto
by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
paparazzi followed me 2 a shoot so I tried 2 think what I could do that would yield the most onion-ish possible headline and it worked haha pic.twitter.com/9w8pPwIFAq
— Grimes
Dune
by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
It’s all canon imo the Brian Herbert and Kevin j Anderson prequels Rock,haven’t read them all but so far they’ve rly fleshed out the universe for me. Wut book r u on?
— Grimes
Dune
by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
It’s all canon imo the Brian Herbert and Kevin j Anderson prequels Rock,haven’t read them all but so far they’ve rly fleshed out the universe for me. Wut book r u on?
— Grimes
Dune
by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
It’s all canon imo the Brian Herbert and Kevin j Anderson prequels Rock,haven’t read them all but so far they’ve rly fleshed out the universe for me. Wut book r u on?
— Grimes
Who Fears Death
by Nnedi Okorafor
who fears death might literally be my favourite book and now its the next hbo sci fi fantasy show im losing my miiind! congrats @Nnedi 😍😭👁🦇🦅 https://twitter.com/grrmspeaking/status/910170397768929283
— Grimes
The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I really relate to the particular type of mental instability that Dostoyevsky describes in pretty much all of his work. A character starts talking, and things start getting out of control and become increasingly animated, intense and disturbing. It reads like an extreme version of how I feel whenever I have to interact with humans. The Idiot is probably my favourite of his works, because I love Nastasya Filipovna, Aglaya Ivanovna Epanchin, Rogozhin... I think a lot of my friends think I’m a bit like Nastasya! Anyway, it’s the most cartoonish and absurd of everything I’ve read by Dostoyevsky, and the best distillation of insanity as a virtue. A Baz Luhrmann-esque treatment of this book would make an incredible film.
— Grimes
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
For some reason I became enraptured by this book as a teenager. It smelled really amazing and dusty. I think our copy was from the 1940s and the pages would crumble as I turned them. I’ve never been so careful while reading a book, and I think that really endeared it to me. I’m very calmed by methodical descriptions of farming. The images of opium addiction amongst the wealthy Chinese aristocracy, who ‘smoked the flesh off their bones’, always come back to my mind; it’s so decadent and horrifying.
— Grimes
Solaris
by Stanisław Lem
This book scared the shit out of me. I picked it up after watching the film adaptation by Tarkovsky, which is one of my favourite movies. Sometimes I feel like the only explanation for human life is that our planet is a terrible god. I like thinking that planets are living, sentient behemoths that we completely misunderstand. I’m horrified to think what it would be like if such an abstract sentience had no regard for us, or enjoying toying with us. The act of repeatedly killing a doppelganger or a loved one seems so horrific; how could anyone think of something so awful? Whenever people pour cream into coffee in a clear glass, it reminds me of this book, because that’s what I imagine the surface of Solaris to look like.
— Grimes
My Fight/Your Fight
by Ronda Rousey
I was so touched by this book. I relate to Ronda in such an intense way, like I’ve almost never related to anybody my age – at least in the media. As a female producer who won’t work with co-producers, sometimes I feel like I don’t have any peers. When I first discovered Ronda, I was so moved that she was literally responsible for women entering the Ultimate Fighting Championship; that she walked into a man’s world and made it her own, even though everybody acted like she was crazy and didn’t think she could do it, or claimed that she only got there because of her looks. Everything, from being constantly exhausted because of eating issues, to the shame at being considered too masculine, to having no coach or mentor willing to train you, is something I have dealt with being a woman in a man’s industry. I also completely understand the commitment to being an entertainer whilst simultaneously perfecting your craft, and the kind of vitriol that this inspires from people on either end of the spectrum. Her dedication to being an autodidact, and the degree to which she has to train mentally to deal with the long hours and exhausting work, really struck me as both instructive and deeply relatable. This book changed my life, and made me feel so much less alone. I think all girls should read it.
— Grimes
The Flowers of Evil
by Charles Baudelaire
I’m not typically interested in poetry, but I discovered The Flowers of Evil in high school as I was just becoming a goth and getting into Trent Reznor – and everyone else was getting into the Beat poets, who I find comparably boring if we’re going to discuss druggy, surrealist poetry. This work is so visceral, filthy and gorgeously written. It feels like a distillation of the opium scenes from Pearl S. Buck’s The Good Earth, but more abstract and extensively documented. This one poem is just a disgusting, sexual description of a corpse that is permanently burned into my mind.
— Grimes
