here are some of the book i've read and think should be required reading. this is not my complete personal library. there are fiction, classics, and graphics (that includes manga) on this list. furthermore, i don't just consider austen and greco-roman works to be classics, but black contemporary literature and modern classics.

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Fiction

• leigh bardugo,
  • shadow and bone
  • siege and storm
  • ruin and rising
  • six of crows
• becky chambers, the long way to a small, angry planet
• roshani chokshi, the star-touched queen
• andrew davidson, the gargoyle
• gillian flynn,
  • sharp objects
  • dark places
  • gone girl
• yaa gyasi, homegoing
• ava jae (gabe),
  • beyond the red
  • into the black
• n.k. jemisin,
  • the inheritance trilogy
  • the dreamblood duology
• mackenzi lee, the gentleman's guide to vice and virtue
• garth nix,
  • sabriel
  • lirael
  • abhorsen
• daniel jose older, shadowshaper
• randy ribay, an infinite number of parallel universes
• vicky alvear shecter, cleopatra's moon
• rivers solomon, an unkindness of ghosts
• jeff vandermeer, borne

Classics

• aeschylus trans. robert fagles, the oresteia
• octavia e. butler, kindred
• homer trans. richard lattimore, the odyssey
• madeline miller, the song of achilles
• john milton, paradise lost
• ovid trans. frank justus miller, the metamorphoses

Non-Fiction

Poetry

• nikki giovanni, blues: for all the changes

Theory

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