lithub's lessons in teaching: when your student's a better writer than you are ⚘

• a visit from the goon squad by jennifer egan
• less by andrew sean greer
• there, there by tommy orange
• open by andre agassi
• the corrections by jonathan franzen
• the meritocracy trap by daniel markovits

ocean vuong's 10 books needed to write his novel ⚘

• dictee by theresa hak kyung cha
• beloved by toni morrison
• autobiography of red by anne carson
• moby dick by herman melville
• go tell it on the mountain by james baldwin
• the gangster we are all looking for by lê thị diễm thúy
• to the lighthouse by virginia woolf

high priority

• a marvellous light - freya marske
• calling a wolf a wolf - kaveh akbar
• her body and other parties - carmen maria machado
• project hail mary - andy weir
• remembrance of earth's past series - liu cixin
• severance - ling ma
• the book of disquiet - fernando pessoa
• the buried giant - ishiguro kazuo
• the ecological rift - john bellamy foster, brett clark, richard york
• the lathe of heaven - ursula le k. guin
• the wind's twelve quarters - ursula le k. guin

normal priority

• crying in h mart - michelle zauner
• human acts - han kang
• i'll be gone in the dark - michelle mcnam...

——✧ on indonesian history

• colonial era (portuguese occupation, brief british occupation, dutch occupation)
• pre-independence (including japanese occupation)
• indonesian communism (incl. 1965 massacre)
• new order & reformation (incl. may 1998 riot)

——✧ historical nonfiction

• the doomsday machine, daniel ellsberg: from the leaker of pentagon papers; about the US' nuclear war policy
• a brief history of neoliberalism, david harvey: how and where neoliberalization came from and proliferated on the world stage
• the cia's greatest hits, mark zepezauer
• super imperialism, michael hudson
• the enigma of japanese power, karel van w...

autumn ✧ summer ✧ winter

• silent (autumn)
• first love hatsukoi (autumn)
• hatsukoi no akuma (summer)
• fight song (winter)

• asako i & ii dir. hamaguchi ryusuke
• asleep (2015) dir. wakagi shingo
• birthday card (2016) dir. yoshida yasuhiro
• every day a good day (2019) dir. oumori tatsushi
• haru's journey (2010) dir. kobayashi masahiro
• her love boils bathwater (2016) dir. nakano ryota
• his (2020) dir. imaizumi rikiya
• katatsumori (1994) dir. kawase naomi
• little love song (2019) dir. hashimoto kojiro
• liverleaf (2018) dir. naito eisuke
• mio on the shore (2019) dir. nakagawa ryutaro
• scythian lamb (2017) dir. yoshida daihachi
• shoplifters (2018) dir. koreeda hirokazu
• sweet bean (2015) dir. kawase naomi

ayano gō ⇢ act

• the light shines only there (2014)
• lupin iii (2014)
• beneath the shadow (2020)
• the legacy of dr. death: black file (2020)

ghibli ⇢ anim

• nausicaä (1984)
• laputa (1986)
• fireflies (1988)
• totoro (1988) rw
• kiki (1989)
• poroporo (1991)
• porco rosso (1992)
• ocean waves (1993)
• pom poko (1994)
• whisper of the heart (1995)
• mononoke (1997) rw
• yamadas (1999)
• spirited away (2001) rw

january ego, indila / tourner dans le vide, indila / 大正浪漫, yoasobi / pop star, 平井堅

february polaroid love, enhypen / woman, doja cat / need to know, doja cat

march every heart, boa / first love, 宇多田ヒカル / break my heart again, finneas / mind circus, tokimeki records ft. hikari

april royal, ive / ramadan so no listening to music

may somewhere only we know, keane / a million miles away, nakamura kaho

june a beautiful mess, jason mraz / live high, jason mraz

upcoming

• skyward sword hd
• story of seasons: pioneers of olive town
• rune factory 5
• the great ace attorney chronicles
• breath of the wild: tears of the kingdom

look for secondhand

• hyrule warriors: age of calamity