this is indeed a world of strange wonders

Katey. She/her.

[tineiya]

[genderoutlaws]

Never read Baldwin before?

Nonfiction

The Price of The Ticket (borrow from IA)

The Fire Next Time (pdf download)

Notes of A Native Son (pdf download)

Nothing Personal (read on IA - not great quality sorry)

The Last Interview (pdf download) (only 10 pages!)

Fiction

Giovanni's Room (pdf download)

If Beale Street Could Talk (pdf download)

BONUS

Little Man Little Man (read or pdf download on scribd) (Baldwin's only children's book)

Go Tell It On The Mountain (pdf download)

Another Country (pdf and epub download)

Sonny's Blues (pdf download)

Going to Meet the Man (pdf download)

[creatingblackcharacters]

My next Black History Month request:

Pick one of James Baldwin's works and read it!!! The Fire Next Time is an excellent essay, most of us are familiar with the quote on gay white people from The Last Interview but not the rest of it. If Beale Street Could Talk even has a movie!

[susansontag]

Marjane Satrapi, creator of Persepolis and acclaimed French-Iranian artist, dies aged 56

Family members said the author of the landmark comic book memoir ‘died of sadness’ after the death of her husband last year

rest in peace marjane satrapi ♥️

[thelastgoodcountry]

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

[coco-guillotine]

This is it. This is my ur-edition of Howl’s Moving Castle. No cover has ever beaten this one.

[a-ramblinrose]

"Why are we talking to tigers?"

"Because they are talking to us."

[havingapoemwithyou]

After many springs by Langston Hughes

[gollancz]

[julesdap]

"It has all been for Taranoke."

— the traitor baru cormorant

[justsomeguycore]

lesbian scifi is so easy. here’s a woman in cargo pants and a tank top on a spaceship. are you with me

[justsomeguycore]

maybe it’s not even cargo pants. maybe it’s coveralls rolled to + tied around the waist. maybe she even has fuckoff boots

[poetrylesbian]

good news everyone

[redgoldsparks]

250 for 250 Booklist | Brooklyn Public Library

Brooklyn Public Library is celebrating our country's 250th anniversary the best way we know how: with a thoughtful, surprising, irresistible

The Brooklyn Public Library created a list of the 250 most influential books in United States history and included Gender Queer!!! I was very blown away and honored by this. You can look at the whole list here, it has a number of other comics on it as well. I have read about 60 of the books on this list (I say about because there are a few I started but have not finished).

[pangur-and-grim]

[shetheyslain]

Dahling you simply must read this book! It’s all about this devious little caterpillar who simply gorges himself on all manner of divine things

[kuttithevangu]

Sometimes I think people’s complaints about queer genre fic boil down to them wanting litfic and not knowing there’s queer litfic. If you wish to read about sad lesbian adjunct professors having unsatisfying sex, rejoice! NPR has reviewed it for you

[kuttithevangu]

Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction - Wikipedia

Lambda literary has it for you

[makingqueerhistory]

The Empress of Salt and Fortune

Nghi Vo 

With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo's The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a tightly and lushly written narrative about empire, storytelling, and the anger of women.

A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully.

Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.

At once feminist high fantasy and an indictment of monarchy, this evocative debut follows the rise of the empress In-yo, who has few resources and fewer friends. She's a northern daughter in a mage-made summer exile, but she will bend history to her will and bring down her enemies, piece by piece.

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[archipithecus]

softshell and hardshell books

paperback and hardcover turtles

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i think it goes without saying but is still worth noting, my beef with booktok literature is 100% about the quality. i LOVE housewives reading weird porn. i wish they would do it more