Dance Dance Dance

by 

Haruki Murakami

 
This story is one that makes me feel no anxiety about dying without writing my own book. It basically encapsulates me as i see myself. Read this in my mid twenties.

The Great Gatsby

Haven't read this since high school but this is the first book that I "read". This was the first book that I read on my own accord where I thought "this is actually not a story but this is real life."

The Idiot

by 

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Emotions captured in ways i see accurate.

The short story 

Three Thousand Dollars

by 

David Lipsky

. I no longer identify with this but there was a time where this was my bible.