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My favorite fiction books:

  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  • Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
  • Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
  • After Dark by Haruki Murakami
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  • The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
  • The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn
  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  • Searoad by Ursula K. Le Guin

My favorite nonfiction books:

  • Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
  • Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeill and Gillian McCain
  • It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese
  • The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han
  • At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell
  • Love Me Tender by Constance Debre
  • A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial by Viet Thanh Nguyen
  • Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood by Jackie Wang
  • The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
  • Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner

My favorite poetry books:

  • Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems by Forugh Farrokhzad
  • Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
  • The Year of Blue Water by Yanyi
  • How to Cure a Ghost by Fariha Roisin
  • Ghost Of by Diana Khoi Nguyen
  • Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
  • Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
  • The Essential Rumi
  • The Portable Dorothy Parker
  • The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology by A.K. Ramanujan
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