• The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt Book by William Stevenson Smith
• The Story of Egypt: The Civilization That Shaped the World by Joann Fletcher (2017)
• Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind by Edith Hall

Witchery & Magic

• Ancient Goddess Magic: Invoking the Queens of the Heavens by Vanessa Lavallee (2024)
• Badass Ancestors: Finding Your Power with Ancestral Guides by Patti Wigington
• Horse Magick: Spells and Rituals for Self-Empowerment, Protection, and Prosperity by Lawren Leo, PhD Domenic Leo
• ✔ Psychic Witch: A Metaphysical Guide to Meditation, Magick & Manifestation by Mat Auryn
• Of Blood and Bones: Working with Shadow Magick & the Dark Moon by Kate Freuler
• The Green Witch: Your Complete Guide to the Natural Magic of Herbs, Flowers, Essential Oils, and More by Arin Murphy-Hiscock
  • The Witch's Book of Self-Care: Magical Ways to Pamper, Soothe, and Care for Your B...

• 100 Years of Fashion Illustration by Cally Blackman
• 20th Century Fashion: 100 Years of Apparel Ads by Alison A. Nieder, Jim Heimann
• Advanced Style by Ari Seth Cohen
• Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion by Tanisha C. Ford
• Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore by Terry Newman

• 120 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature by Nicholas J. Karolides, Dawn B. Sova
  • Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds by Dawn B. Sova
  • Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds by Nicholas J. Karolides
• 1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round by Jami Attenberg (2024)
• A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes
• Around the Writer's Block: Using Brain Science to Solve Writer's Resistance by Rosanne Bane
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
• Doing the Write Thing: A Memoir by Susan Berliner (2021)

• 3 Sections by Vijay Seshadri (2013)
• A Little Middle of the Night by Molly Brodak (2010)
• A Little White Shadow by Mary Ruefle
• Afterland by Mai Der Vang (2017)
• Alexa, what is there to know about Love? by Brian Bilston (2021)
• All the Words Are Yours: Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson
  • ✔ Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series by Tyler Knott Gregson
• ✔ American Primitive by Mary Oliver (1983)
  • ✔ A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver (2012)
• American Scapegoat by Enzo Silon Surin (2023)
• ✔ And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou (1978)
• Aster of Ceremonies by Jerome Ellis (2023)

• Artists
  • Emil Nolde: In Radiance and Color edited by Agnes Husslein-Arco
    • Emil Nolde: Unpainted Pictures by Thomas Knubben
  • Mark Rothko by Jeffrey S. Weiss
  • Graphic Icons: Visionaries Who Shaped Modern Graphic Design by John Clifford
  • Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock by Kirk Varedoe
  • The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait by Frida Kahlo
• Critical Thought
  • 79 Short Essays on Design by Michael Bierut
  • A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib (2021)

• Film
  • Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood by Mark LaSalle
  • The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler (2022)
  • From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies by Molly Haskell
  • Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Carol J. Clover
  • Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s by Kim Newman
  • Profoundly Disturbing: The Shocking Movies That Changed History by Joe Bob Briggs
  • Reel to Real: Race, Class and Sex at the Movies by Bell Hooks
  • TCM Underground: 50 Must-See Films from the World of Classic Cult and Late-Night Cinema by Millie De Chirico (2022)
  • The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russell

• A Biography of Loneliness: A History of an Emotion by Fay Bound Alberti
• A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac by Edward Shorter
• An Introduction to the Study of the Mind by Walter S. Athearn
• Dying to Be Free: A Healing Guide for Families after a Suicide by Bev Cobain
• Exuberance: The Passion for Life by Kay Redfield Jamison (2005)
• How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind by Clancy Martin (2023)
• How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life by Thomas Gilovich (1993)
• Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill by Robert Whitaker
• Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Fou...

• Afropean by Johnny Pitts
• ✔ Ain't I a Woman: Black Woman and Feminism by Bell Hooks
• Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
• Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era by Michael Kimmel
  • Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men by Michael Kimmel
• An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky
• Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It by Kate Harding
• Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing by James Waller
• Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from Our American Dream by Alissa Quart (2023)
• Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria Jr.

• A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation from the Cold War to the War on Terror by Alfred W. McCoy
• All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward
• All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid by Matt Bai
• Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
• ✔ Bloodbath Nation by Paul Auster, photograph by Spencer Ostrander (2023)
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabella Wilkerson (2020)
• City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 by Kelly Lytle Hernandez
• Disordered Minds: How Dangerous Personalities Are Destroying Democracy by Ian Hughes (2018)
• Don't Thank Me for My Service: My Viet Nam Awakening to the Long History of Us Lie...

• 92 best/favorite movies of the 90s
• 16 best/favorite films of 1992
• 92 best/favorite songs of 1992
• 92 best/favorite songs of the 90s
• 92 best/favorite films since 1992
• 16 best/favorite albums of 1992
• 16 best/favorite songs of 1992
• 16 best/favorite books of 1992
• 92 best/favorite books since 1992
• 92 favorite books of the 90s
• 16 favorite books of the 90s
• January music playlist
• Favorite January things
• 16 favorite things about being born in January

• color(s): black, white, & red
• band: Joy Division
• ice cream: cookies n cream or chocolate chip cookie dough
• movie: Drugstore Cowboy
• filmmaker: Paul Thomas Anderson
• book: Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahnuik
• food: pasta
• singer: Hope Sandoval, Mazzy Star
• pizza: spinach with feta cheese
• song: The Ballad of El Goodo by Big Star
• music video: "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" directed by Michel Gondry
• memoir: A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown
• painter: Emil Nolde
• graphic novel:
• day of the week: Friday, because it feels like the start of something good.
• actor: Sam Rockwell
• TV Show: The Adventures of Pete & Pete

• Breaking my nose (I have an irrational fear of breaking my nose)
• My parents dying before they can see me as a functional healthy successful adult.
• Debt: Never paying off my student loans. Accumulating even more debt. Living in debt.
• Caring so much about other people's opinions.
• In general, breaking any bone.
• Talking about my mental illness(es)/mental health problems to anyone, especially my family.
• Grammar. My grammar sucks.
• Suicidal thoughts/committing suicide: Thinking things get so bad that I have to commit suicide.
• Continuing to tolerate bullying and abuse. Never being able to stand up for myself and others.
• Diabetes: I don't want it. It's in my fam...

• Music. All types. All genres. Whatever moves me.
• Frosted sprinkled sugar cookies during Christmas.
• Watching people enjoy themselves.
• Abstract paintings
• poka dots
• good writing
• flowers
• Hot baths especially during winter with bath bombs and scented soap.
• white cheddar popcorn
• Sleeping in band Tee's. I'm dedicated to Rock n Roll.
• Pizza. 'Cause who doesn't love pizza?
• All day Law & Order and Criminal Minds marathons.
• Boys with black hair
• Going to the movies early in the afternoon, while eating white cheddar popcorn and peach rings/sour gummy worms, with my fe...

Collage

• Collage Your Life by Melanie Mowinski

Drawing/Illustration

• Beginning Drawing Atelier by Juliette Aristides
• Perspective Without Pain by Phil Metzger

Lettering & Calligraphy

• Modern Cursive Handwriting by Molly Suber Thorpe
• The Gift of Calligraphy: A Modern Approach to Hand Lettering with 24 Projects to Give and to Keep by Maybelle Imasa-Stukuls
• The Lost Art of Handwriting by Brenna Jordan

Mixed Media

• First Lessons in Drawing and Painting by Jack Hamm

• Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
• Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin (1899)
• The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy (1886)
• The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (1839)
• The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling
• Villette by Charlotte Bronte

• A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faith by John Barton
• A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstrong (1993)
• God is a Black Woman by Christena Cleveland (2022)
• ✔ Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives by Dr. Brian Weiss
• Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus by Elaine Pagels (2025)
• The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World by Sharon Brous (2024)
• The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages by Norman Cohn (1957)
• The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion by Mircea Eliade

Diaries

• Journal of Light: The Visual Diary of a Florida Nature Photographer by John Moran
• The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918 by Paul Klee
• Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977 - 2002 by David Sedaris
• We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan 1961 - 1991 by Lou Sullivan

Letters

• 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
• Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam editor Bernard Edelman
• Dear Mallory: Letters to a Teenage Girl Who Killed Herself by Lisa Richards
• Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
• Snail Mail My Email: Handwritten Letters in a Digital World by Ivan Cash

• 32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics by Adrian Tomine
• A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi, translated by Taro Nettleton
• A Kiss Before You Go: An Illustrated Memoir of Love and Loss by Danny Gregory
• Adulthood Is a Myth by Sarah Andersen (2016)
• Alison by Lizzy Stewart (2023)
• Alone Forever: The Singles Collection by Liz Prince
• Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
• Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
• Bad Friends by Ancco, Janet Hong (2012)
  • Nineteen by Ancoo, Janet Hong (2020)
• Birds of Maine by Michael DeForge (2022)
• ✔ Black Hole by Charles Burns
• Blankets by Craig Thompson (2003)
• ✔ Book Love by Debbie Tung

• Blood Debts by Terry J. Benton-Walker (2023)
• Hello, I Lied: A Novel by M.E. Kerr (1997)
• Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson (2018)
• Teen Angst> Naah... by Ned Vizzini
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma (2014)
• There Goes the Neighborhood by Jade Adia (2023)
• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (2007)
• You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson (2020)
• You Truley Assumed by Laila Sabreen

• Byways by Roger Deakins
• Iconotypes by Richard I. Van-Wright
• Love Stories: Art, Passion & Tragedy
• Shotgun Seamtress: Zine Collection (2022)
• Wild Flowers by Joel Meyerowitz

• 32 Candles by Ernessa T. Carter
  • The Awesome Girl's Guide to Dating Extraordinary Men by Ernessa T. Carter
• A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K. Hamilton
• Back After This by Linda Holmes (2025)
• Being Anti-Social by Leigh K. Cunningham
• ✔ Bet On It by Jodie Slaughter
• ✔ Book Lovers by Emily Henry (2022)
• Dating Dr. Dil by Nisha Sharma (2022)
• Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Homles (2020)
• ✔ Fake It till You Bake It by Jamie Wesley
• Failure to Match by Kyra Parsi (2024)
• For Her Consideration by Amy Spalding (2023)
• Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
  • ✔ Take a Hint Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
• Happily Never After by Lynn Painter (2024)

• A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
• Any Other Mouth by Anneliese Mackintosh (2014)
• Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson (1992)
• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
• The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury (1951)
• Things to Make and Break by May-Lan Tan (2014)
• What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah (2017)

• 19 Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• A Masque of Infamy by Kelly Dessaint
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• After This by Alice McDermott (2006)
  • That Night by Alice McDermott (1987)
• All-Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky (2023)
• All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews (2014)
• All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
• American Pastoral by Phillip Roth (1997)
• Angels by Denis Johnson (1983)
• At Night We Walk in Circles by Daniel Alarcon
• Audition by Katie Kitamura (2025)
• Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino (2024)
• Be Brief and Tell Them Everything by Brad...

• 365 Days by Ronald J. Glasser, M.D. (1973)
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1980)
• A Death in the Family by James Agee (1957)
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1929)
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (1940)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (1943)
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (1930)
  • Light in August by William Faulkner (1932)

• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (1993)
• A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
• Biography of X by Catherine Lacey (2023)
• Company K by William March
• Doll-baby by Laura Lane McNeal
• Evening Is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan
• Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (2022)
• Mice 1961 by Stacey Levine (2024)
• Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
• My Name Is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende (2025)
• Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo by Stephanie Storey (2016)
• Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane (1996)

• Daughters of Nri by Reni K. Amayo (2019)
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (2022)
• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (1950)
• If on a Winter's Night a Train by Italo Calvino (1979)
• Ishmael by Daniel Quinn (1992)
• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1989)
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (1993)
• Red Rising by Pierce Brown (2014)
• Resistance of Witches by Morgan Ryan (2025)
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (1961)
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (1988)
• The Beach by Alex Garland (1999)
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (201...

• Fiction : Horror
  • A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
    • Horror Movie: A Novel by Paul Tremblay (2024)
  • A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher (2023)
  • A Questionable Shape by Bennett Sims
  • Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown (2023)
  • Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
    • The Shinning Girls by Lauren Beukes
  • Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle (2024)
  • Doing Harm by Kelly Parsons
  • House of Beth Kerry Cullen (2025)
  • I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones (2024)
  • Night Film by Marisha Pessl
  • Night Watcher by Daphane Woolsoncroft (20...

• Alligator Candy: A Memoir by David Kushner
• American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
• The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI by Betty Medsger
• Cult Following: The Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations—and Take Over Our Lives by J.W. Ocker (2024)
• Columbine by Dave Cullen
• Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras and the Cocaine Explosion by Gary Webb
• Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook by Sean Tejaratchi, Katherine Dunn, Jack Huddleston
• Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King (2012)

• ✔ A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
• A Singular Life: Secrets to Living Well With or Without a Traditional Partner by Greta Booth
• All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive by Rainesford Stauffer (2023)
• Anxiety for Beginners by Eleanor Morgan
• Be Here Now by Ram Dass (1971)
• Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered by Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalsvitz
• Cured: Strengthen Your Immune System and Heal Your Life by Dr. Jeffrey Rediger
• Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman
• Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud: Relapse and the Symptoms of Sobriety by Scott Ste...

• A Black Women's History of the United States by Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross (2020)
• All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles (2021)
• At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America by Phillip Dray
• Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment by James H. Jones
• Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class by Blair Kelley
• Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation by Kris Manjapra (2022)
• Black Skin, White Mask by Frantz Fanon, Charles Lam Markmann
• Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips
• Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America by ...

• A Social History of the Third Reich by Richard Grunberger
• A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
• After Daybreak: The Liberation of Belsen, 1945 by Ben Shephard
• All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner (2021)
• An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin by Gad Beck
  • The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life and Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps by Heinz Heger
  • The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals by Richard Plant
• Art as Politics in the Third Reich by Jonathan Petropoulos
• Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autis...

• 1776 by David McCullough
• A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955 by Ronald H. Spector (2022)
• A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Strandage (2006)
• A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
• A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin (1989)
• A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
• A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
• A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility by Taner Akcam
• American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century...

• Drugstore Cowboy (my favorite)
  • release: 1989
  • director: Gus Van Sant
  • screenwriters:
  • cast: Matt Dillon (Robert/Bob Hughes), Kelly Lynch (Diane Hughes), Heather Graham (Nadine), James Le Gros
• 13 Conversations About One Thing
  • release: 2001
  • director: Jill Sprecher
  • screenwriters: Jill Sprecher, Ksren Sprecher
  • cast: Matthew McConaughey (Troy), Alan Arkin (Gene), Clea DuVall (Beatrice), John Turturro (Walker), Amy Irving (Patricia), Tia Texado (Dorrie), Frankie Faison (Richard/Dick)

• Four Provinces - The Walkmen
• Lost You by the Walkmen
• Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone by The Walkmen

• The Space Between by Dave Matthews Band
• Turn, Turn, Turn by the Byrds
• Mr. Tambourine Man by the Byrds

Non-Fiction

• Address Unknown by Katherine Kressman Taylor (1939)
• Berlin Now: The City After the World by Peter Schneider (2014)
• Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Century by Rory MacLean (2014)
• Culture Shock! Germany by Richard Lord (2008)
• Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland Bainton (1950)
  • Martin Luther: A Life by Martin E. Marty (2004)
• Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieaces by Jenny Erpenbeck (2020)
• Peeling the Onion by Gunter Grass (2007)
• Stasiland: Stories Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder (2002)
• When in Germany, Do as the Germans Do by Hyde Flippo (2002)

• Astronomy
  • A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  • Cosmos by Carl Sagan
  • Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars by Lee Billings
  • The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
  • Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku
  • Stars and Planets: The Most Complete Guide to the Stars, Planets, Galaxies, and the Solar System by Ian Ridpath, Will Tirion
  • The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (1995)
  • The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy by Moiya McTier

• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
• Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan
• Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
• Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors by Carolyn Finney
• Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park by Lee H. Whittlesey
• Girl gangs, zines, and powerslides: a history of badass women skateboarders by Natalie Porter (2025)
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Kraukauer
• Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite by Michael P. Ghiglieri

• As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto
• Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyam (2022)
• Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the Us Military by Randy Shilts
• Conundrum: A Memoir by Jan Morris
• Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine
• Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin (2022)
• Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World by Robyn Ochs
• Guide to Getting in on: Unzipped by Paul Joannides
• Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex For Sale by Kate Lister
• Little Birds by Anais Nin
• Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Gurley (1962)
• Sex for Dummies by Pierre A. Lehu, Dr. Ru...

• Black Girl Baking: Wholesome Recipes Inspired by a Soulful Upbringing by Jerrelle Guy
• Carla Hall's Soul Food: Everyday and Celebration by Carla Hall, Genevieve Ko
• How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food by Mark Bittman
• Jacques Pepin Fast Food My Way by Jacques Pepin
• Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Martin
• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
• Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child
• Son of a Southern Chef: Cook with Soul by Lazarus Lynch
• The Complete Italian Vegetarian Cookbook: 350 Essential Recipes for Inspired Every...

• Animals Strike Curious Poses by Elena Passarello (2017)
• Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters edited by Jessica Pryde (2022)
• Brown Neon: Essays by Raquel Gutierrez (2022)
• Dancing at the Shame Prom: Sharing the Stories That Kept Us Small edited by Amy Ferris
• ✔ Everybody: A Book about Freedom by Olivia Laing (2021)
• Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
• How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen (2002)
• I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays by Maris Kreizman (20250
• I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays by Bassey Ikpi
• In Sensorium by Tanais
• Let Me Clear My Throat by Elena Passarell...

• Cash by Johnny Cash, Patrick Carr
  • Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity by Leigh
• Girl in A Band by Kim Gordon
• Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday, William Dufty
  • If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday by Farah Jasmine Griffin
• Late, Late at Night by Rick Springfield
• The Harder I Fight the More I Love You by Neko Case (2025)

• A Story Told Lately: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York by Anjelica Houston (2013)
  • Watch Me by Anjelica Houston (2014)
• Dying of Politeness: A Memoir by Geena Davis (2022)
• Finding Me by Viola Davis (2022)
• Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry (2022)
• Hello, Molly!: A Memoir by Molly Shannon and Sean Wilsey (2022)
• How Y'all Doing? Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived by Leslie Jordan (2021)
• If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell (2001)
• ✔ I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (2022)
• In Pieces by Sally Field (2018)
• Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson (2021)

• 1923: A Memoir: Lies and Testaments by Harry Leslie Smith
• A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir by Daisy Hernandez
• A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
• A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story by Elanie Brown
• Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu (2019)
• Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual by Nicholas Murrayz
• All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein (1959)
• Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A by Luis J. Rodriguez (1993)
• Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
• Another Place at the Table by Kathy Harrison

• 11/22/63 by Stephen King (2011)
• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
• 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day by Dorian Lynskey
• A Bright Shinning Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
• A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko
• An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
• And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
• Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
• Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath ...