assortment

• the trial, franz kafka
• ghost town, kevin chen
• the memory police, yōko ogawa
• convenience store woman, sayaka murata
• no longer human, osamu dazai
• the mountains sing, nguyễn phan quế mai
• giovanni’s room, james baldwin
• confession of a mask, yukio mishima
• spin the dawn, liz lim
• fortunes of jaded women, carolyn huynh
• bánh mì for two, trinity nguyen
• lanterns of the lost, trinity nguyen
• these violent delights, chloe gong
• things we lost to the water, eric nguyen
• sphinx, anne f. garreta
• i’m still here, austin channing brown
• the decameron, giovanni boccaccio
• the plague, albert camus
• twisted tale collection, disney
• the sympathizer, viet thanh nguyen
• the good immigrant, nikesh shukla
• braiding sweetgrass, robin wall kimmerer
• sex, or the unbearable, lauren berlant and lee edelman
• everything's trash but it's okay, phoebe robinson
• adult children of emotionally immature parents: how to heal from distant, rejecting, or self-involved parents, lindsay c. gibson

blm / bipoc

• feminism is for everybody, bell hooks
• all about love: new visions, bell hooks
• arrested justice: black women, violence, and america’s prison nation, beth e. richie
• hood feminism, mikki kendall
• this bridge called my back, writings by radical woc
• killing the black body, dorothy e. roberts
• fatal invention, dorothy e. roberts
• racecraft, barbara and karen fields
• medical apartheid: the dark history of medical experimentation on black americans from colonial times to the present, harriet a. washington
• the warmth of other suns, isabel wilkerson
• sister citizen, melissa harris perry
• the pushout, monique w. morris
• an american marriage, tayari jones
• the color purple, alice walker
• the fire next time, james baldwin
• go tell it on the mountain, james baldwin
• if beale street could talk, james baldwin, also a movie
• the nickel boys, colson whitehead
• the water dancer, ta-nehisi coates

rowena tsai recs / self-help

• the power of now: a guide to spiritual enlightenment, eckhart tolle
• the power of habit, charles duhigg
• start with why: how great leaders inspire everyone to take action, simon sinek

poetry / etc.

• works by tananarive due
• works by anais nin
• works by ariana reines