■ Short Story Collections & Anthologies

• At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories by Kij Johnson
• Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
• Invisible Planets: Collected Fiction by Hannu Rajaniemi
• Mother of Invention
  • Rivqa Rafael (editor)
  • Tansy Rayner Roberts (editor)
• My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
  • Kate Bernheimer (editor)
• Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho
• The Melancholy of Mechagirl by Catherynne M. Valente
• The October Country by Ray Bradbury
• The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu

■ Sequential Art, Visual Storytelling, Comics

Brainweird Solidarity (Stories About Mental Conditions, Fictional or Otherwise)

• Blankets by Craig Thompson
• Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh
• I Kill Giants
  • J. M. Ken Niimura (illustrator)
  • Joe Kelly (writer)
• Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me by Ellen Forney
• Raised on Ritalin by Tyler Page
• Skim
  • Jillian Tamaki (illustrator)
  • Mariko Tamaki (writer)
• Swallow Me Whole by Nate Powell
• The Nao of Brown by Glyn Dillon
• This One Summer
  • Jillian Tamaki (illustrator)
  • Mariko Tamaki (writer)

Identity

• Beyond II: The Queer Post-Apocalyptic & Urban Fantasy Comic Anthology
  • Sfé R. Monster (editor)
  • Taneka Stotts (editor)
• Beyond: the Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comic Anthology
  • Sfé R. Monster (editor)
  • Taneka Stotts (editor)
• Blue is the Warmest Colour
  • Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator)
  • Julie Maroh (writer, illustrator)
• Chainmail Bikini: The Anthology of Women Gamers
  • Hazel Newlevant (editor)
• In Real Life
  • Cory Doctorow (writer)
  • Jen Wang (illustrator)
• Just So Happens by Fumio Obata
• Persepolis
  • Anjali Singh (translator)
  • Marjane Satrapi (writer, illustrator)
• Tabula Idem: A Queer Tarot Comic
  • Hye M (editor)
  • Iris Jay (editor)
• The Arrival by Shaun Tan
• The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew
• Tomboy by Liz Prince

Sex-Positivity

• Crossplay: An Erotic Graphic Novel by Niki Smith
• My Monster Boyfriend
  • C. Spike Trotman (editor)
• Sex Criminals
  • Chip Zdarsky (illustrator)
  • Matt Fraction (writer
• Smut Peddler
  • C. Spike Trotman (editor)
• Sunstone by Stjepan Šejić

■ Uncomfortable Reads

• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
• An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
• Dorian: An Imitation by Will Self
• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
• Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Blunt
• The Bone People by Keri Hulme
• The Death of Vivek Oji Akwaeke Emezi
• The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger

■ Metafiction, Un/reality, Questioning, Dreams, etc.

• A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
• Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
  • Alfred Birnbaum (translator)
• number9dream by David Mitchell
• The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia

■ In-progress Series I'm Waiting On

• Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb
• The Broken Earth by N. K. Jemisin

■ Crowdfunded Projects I'm Waiting On

• A Summer Beyond Your Reach: Stories by Xia Jia
• An Invite to Eternity: Tales of Nature Disrupted
• Come Together - A European Anthology of Erotic Comics
• CORPUS: A Comic Anthology of Bodily Ailments
• ELECTRUM: A mixed-race comics anthology
• ELEMENTS: Earth
• Group Chat - a comics anthology about friendship
• Heartwood: Non-binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy
• MALAISE: A Horror Anthology
• My Girlfriend: From the Legends
• Served: A Missionary Comics Anthology
• Shout Out Anthology
• Smut Peddler Presents: SEX MACHINE
• Sweaty Palms Vol. 2 - The Anthology about Anxiety
• We're Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology

■ Adaptation Throwdowns (my preferences)

Book Before Movie

• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
  • Yuji Oniki (translator)
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
  • John E. Woods (translator)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Movie Before Book

• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
• Filth by Irvine Welsh
• Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.

Undecided

• Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang (movie: Arrival)
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

(feel free to message me about any of these if you're interested in checking them out but require specific warnings. i'll do my best to help.)