Bookshelf

A running list of books I’ve read (since making this site) that others might also enjoy or benefit from reading. Books that blew me away

Currently Reading


Spell of the Sensuous by David Abrams
A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

read


All About Love by bell hooks
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Toad by Katherine Dunn
Abarat: Absolute Midnight by Clive Barker
Lo-TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism by Julia Watson
Ordinary Monsters by J.M. Miro
Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Mojave Project Reader Vol. II edited by Kim Stringfellow
Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War by Clive Barker
The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell*
Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems of the Swampy Cree Indians by Howard Norman*
The Mojave Project Reader Vol. I edited by Kim Stringfellow
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Woman at the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy*
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Abarat by Clive Barker
Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown*
The Care Manifesto (Verso Books)
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown*
Gay Bar by Jeremy Atherton Lin*
Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi*
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado*
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
Stone Sword Table edited by Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington
this red metropolis what remains by leia penina wilson
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
Emergence Magazine Vol. 1
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Serpentine by Philip Pullman
Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
Beginning with O by Olga Broumas (Poetry)
The Life and Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi(Fiction)
The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Kilanovich (Fiction)
Abarat by Clive Barker (Fantasy)
Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeanette Ng (Fantasy)
Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse (Fantasy)
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin (Fantasy)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (Nonfiction)
Garments Against Women by Anne Boyer (Poetry)
Too Much and Not the Mood by Durga Chew-Bose (Essays)
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (Fiction)*
The Remnant by Charlie Fletcher (Fantasy)
How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell (Nonfiction) (HIGHLY recommend)
The Paradox by Charlie Fletcher (Fantasy)
The Oversight by Charlie Fletcher (Fantasy)
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (Fiction)
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner (Nonfiction)*
Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Fiction)
The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter (Fiction)*
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (Fiction)*
so many mountains but this one specifically by Junior Clemons (Poetry)*
Felicity by Mary Oliver (Poetry)
Proxy by R. Erica Doyle (Poetry)
There Should Be Flowers
by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza (Poetry)
Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard (Nonfiction)*
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals by Patricia Lockwood  (Poetry)
Wilder by Claire Wahmanholm (Poetry)*
Everything Reused in the Sea: The Crow and Benjamin Letters by Della Watson and Jessica Wickens (Poetry)
while they sleep (under the bed is another country) by Raquel Salas Rivera (Poetry)
The Summer Dragon by Todd Lockwood (Fantasy)
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende (Fantasy)
Tatterdemalion by Sylvia Lindsteadt and Rima Stines (Fantasy)*
A Body, Undone by Christina Crosby (Nonfiction)