- The Princess Bride, William Goldman
- And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos, John Berger
- A Lover’s Discourse, Roland Barthes
- A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Xialou Guo
- The Book of Delights, Ross Gay
- A History of Love, Nicole Krauss
- The Carpenter’s Pencil, Manuel Rivas
- All About Love, bell hooks
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
- All We Saw, Anne Michaels
@soracities: do you have any meaningful and real book recs? i love everything that is human and real even if it’s sad.
- All We Saw, Anne Michaels
- The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
- A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki
- The Book of Delights, Ross Gay
- Long Life: Essays and Other Writings, Mary Oliver
- Song of the Exile, Kiana Davenport
- The Carpenter’s Pencil, Manuel Rivas
@pairedaeza: good poetry books
- Autobiography of Death, Kim Hyesoon (translated by Don Mee Choi)
- Whereas by Layli Long Soldier, Zong!, M. NourbeSe Philip
- Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl, Jennifer Wong
- States of the Body Produced by Love, Nisha Ramayya
- Flèche by Mary Jean Chan
- and just any and all Kamau Brathwaite