Annie Nylén
Lust
Her body and other parties- Carmen Maria Machado
A collection of eight stories which all revolve around lust and women’s bodies, but with a psychological, bordering on horror, twist. One story unfolds in the background as she recounts her sexual experiences in chronological order.
Gluttony
Less than Zero- Bret Easton Ellis
Less than zero takes place during winter break during Clay’s first year of university. He returns from his East Coast college back home to LA, where his old friends glutton in sex, money, beauty and drugs to save his old best friend from the inferno of gluttony.
Greed
The Picture of Dorian Grey- Oscar Wilde
The greed for eternal beauty and youth consumes the main character of this book, and as the story progresses, so does the desperation and the other consequences of greed..
Sloth
My year of rest and relaxation- Ottessa Moshfegh
The ultimate sloth (and every depressed person’s dream) is to sleep for a year until you’re no longer sad. However, few people have the finances to go through with it; however, this book’s protagonist has, and does, sleep for a year.
Wrath
Circe- Madeline Miller
What is the ultimate Wrath? Female rage. And who embodies female rage better than a witch who turns men into pigs? Exactly.
Envy
Heroine- Gail Scott
Envy is expressed in its purest form in this novel. Set in the leftist scene of 1970s Montreal, where a woman is in an open relationship that she clearly wants to be closed. Let’s just say they could learn a lot from the malmö queers.