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A new, intense chapter of Literaria.
welcome to a Literary Court dedicated to intense feeling and curated vision.
Dec 16, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi
2026 Ins, Outs & Intentions🔮
a manifesto, vision board, and intentions for the new year!
Jan 2 • Nicole Raimondi
From Anne Carson to Donna Tartt: The 26 Books I Can’t Escape in 2026.
26 in 2026: My non-negotiable list of novels, poetry collections, and non-fiction for the year ahead!
Dec 26, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi
Top 10 books of 2025.
In 2025, I managed to read 40 books; here are my top 10...ft. Louise Glück, Marguerite Duras, Sally Rooney, Cesare Pavese, and Iris Murdoch (and more) …
Dec 19, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi
articles, posts, and videos that stopped my scrolling.
consider this your instant inspiration kit!
Dec 12, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi
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10 books that scream summer to me + tbr.
Jun 27, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi
My 5-star reads of the year (so far!)
Sep 12, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi
Early to bed and early to rise...
Sep 20, 2024 • Nicole Raimondi
10 articles worth reading this week #6
Nov 28, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi

Book Recommendations

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10 books that scream autumn to me.
not your usual fall recommendations!🍂
Nov 4, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi
My 5-star reads of the year (so far!)
all the books I loved and still think about, weeks and months after finishing them!
Sep 12, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi
5 "staycation" book recommendations + my tbr
...to help you forget that you are stuck in the city!
Aug 12, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi
10 books that scream summer to me + tbr.
not your typical summer book recommendations🍓
Jun 27, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi

Monthly reads

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what i read in October.
Sally Rooney, gothic vamps, and a very bad feeling.
Nov 14, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi
what i read in September.
two beautifully written novels ft. Vampires and Renaissance Italy. If these don't scream lushness to you, I don't know what will!
Oct 10, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi
what i read in June.
lady chatterley's lover, white nights, my favorite Italian author and more.
Jul 4, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi
what i read in May.
8 books...SERIOUSLY?! I can hardly recognize myself.
Jun 6, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi

Quotes

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and all at once, summer collapsed into fall.
quotes about the autumn season🍂
Oct 3, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi
the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born...
quotes about August.
Aug 29, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi
summer lay before them, long and full of promises.
quotes about summer by women writers.
Jun 13, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi
Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
quotes about absence by women writers.
May 15, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi

Favorite articles

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10 articles worth reading this week #6
on loneliness, the haunted house trope in literature, modern coffee house culture, Claude Monet’s series on Rouen Cathedral, the “Memento Mori” motif in…
Nov 28, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi
10 articles worth reading this week #5
on the bittersweet nature of Eros, a reading guide for Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, a delicious vampire story, the depiction of witches in art, a…
Oct 24, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi
10 articles worth reading this week #4
on Victorian homes, love and morality, the vampire archetype, the objectification of women's bodies + book recs for women in translation month and more!
Aug 22, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi
10 articles worth reading this week #3
what shoes say about us, a story of two Pompeii lovers, Lana del Rey and existentialist philosophy, an ode to aestheticism, In Search of Lost Time by…
Jul 11, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi

Book reviews

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fragments from Averno and Vita Nova by Louise Glück.
I offered myself, I wanted to escape my body.
Apr 8, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi
The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery review.
all her life she had been afraid of something...
Feb 7, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi
call it hysteria —which perhaps it is— I must get right away from everybody and everything.
review of "The Dangerous Age" by Karin Michaëlis.
Aug 14, 2024 • Nicole Raimondi
years, days, hours, everything is a blank in my head.
book review: Good morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys.
Jul 5, 2024 • Nicole Raimondi

Favorite Books

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Top 10 books of 2025.
In 2025, I managed to read 40 books; here are my top 10...ft. Louise Glück, Marguerite Duras, Sally Rooney, Cesare Pavese, and Iris Murdoch (and more) …
Dec 19, 2025 • Nicole Raimondi
There is an amusing sense of superiority in seeing and remaining unseen.
favorites books of 2024 🍾
Dec 28, 2024 • Nicole Raimondi
Am I walking towards something I should be running away from?
quotes from my fav books #4: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.
Jul 23, 2024 • Nicole Raimondi
Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.
quotes from my fav books #3: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
Jun 25, 2024 • Nicole Raimondi
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