Reading list

Fiction #

  • Women Talking Miriam Toews
  • You Exist Too Much Zaina Arafat
  • Land of Milk and Honey C Pam Zhang
  • The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
  • Galápagos Kurt Vonnegut
  • Leaving the Atocha Station Ben Lerner
  • Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Audre Lorde
  • The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Lathe of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Always Coming Home Ursula K. Le Guin

Nonfiction #

  • The Message Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Freedom Is an Endless Meeting Francesca Polletta
  • Crying in H Mart Michelle Zauner
  • Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Mark Fisher
  • Before the Fires: An Oral History of African American Life in the Bronx from the 1930s to the 1960s Mark D. Naison, Bob Gumbs
  • The Bronx Evelyn Gonzalez
  • The Master Switch Tim Wu
  • A Queer History of the United States Michael Bronski
  • City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways Megan Kimble
  • The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House Audre Lorde
  • Coal Audre Lorde