I love reading. I have for ages. One of the worst bits of my childhood was how little access I had to good books. Naturally I'm now a voracious reader and also avidly anti-censorship. Get your book-burning shit away from me. Anyways back to the boooooks

what I'm reading now

Ursula K. LeGuin's The Telling

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil

Charlie Jane Anders' The City in the Middle of the Night

Science Fiction

Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time

Temi Oh's Do You Dream of Terra Two

Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem

Octavia E. Butler's Mind of My Mind

Neal Stephenson's Seveneves

Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep

Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky

Andy Weir's The Martian

Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy

Favorites

Ursula K. LeGuin's The Word For World Is Forest

Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation

Markus Zusak's The Book Thief

Walter M. Miller Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz

The Old Guard

IDW's Sonic the Hedgehog: Scrapnik Island

J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings Trilogy

C. S. Lewis' Till We Have Faces

Classics

Shakespeare's Macbeth

Journey to the West

Shakespeare's Hamlet

Virgil's Aeneid

QUEER SHIT

Jes Battis' The Winter Knight

Micaiah Johnson's The Space Between Worlds

TRANS PEOPLE ARE BEAUTIFUL

Magical Boy by The Kao

History

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's An Indigenous People's History of the United States

David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele's The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe

James W. Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

Religious Books ig

Kristin Kobes Du Mez's Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Margot Adler's Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

Rachel Held Evans' Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

Tara Westover's Educated

Et Cetera

Kaitlin B. Curtice's Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day

Tracy Deonn's Legendborn

Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass

Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy