Author/Book Recommendations

People constantly tell me, “I would love to read more. But I don’t know where to start.” LOOK NO FURTHER. These authors and books have really stayed with me in an incredibly profound way. Please enjoy my commentary that lets you know the exact vibe you’re getting into.

Fantasy/ Romantasy(Celebrating the Gift of Imagination): Sabaa Tahir; Zoraida Cordova; Roseanne A. Brown; Nisha J. Tuli; Maya Motayne; V.E. Schwab; Aiden Thomas; Michelle Tea.

Dystopian/ Trippy(What the Fuck Did I Just Read): Neal Shusterman; Octavia Butler; Matt Haig; Celeste Ng; Drew Magary; Carmen Maria Machado; Clairo Burke.

Horror (What the Fuck Did I Just Read part 2): Grady Hendrix; Rachel Harrison; E. Reyes; Tiffany D. Jackson; Chuck Tingle; Silvia Moreno-Garcia; S.T. Gibson.

Poetry(Time to Bawl Your Eyes Out Over the Beauty of Everything): Ada Limón; Joan Kwon Glass; Danez Smith; Alicia Cook; Jose Hernandez Diaz; Ocean Vuong.

Classics(The Entire Spectrum of Human Emotion in a Single Book): Toni Morrison; Ana Castillo; Oscar Wilde; Mary Shelley; Zora Neale Hurston; Charlotte Brontë.

Nonfiction (How to One-Up Your Therapist): Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief (Claire Bidwell Smith); Women, Race, and Class (Angela Y. Davis); The Politics of Trauma (Staci Haines); Beyond Beautiful (Anuschka Rees).