
This is a compilation of books and other works that I’ve read and enjoyed, or want to read at some point. As well, there are links to websites and other web content I think is cool. This is mostly here as a reference for myself, but it serves as a list of potentially interesting recommendations for others as well! Blog posts that mention a book or other resource will linked after after the title, listed by date. Constantly a work in progress!
Fiction
Novels
- A Fistful of Sky by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
- Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip
- A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
- All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
- Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace
- Among Others by Jo Walton
- Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
- Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
- Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater
- Hench by Natalie Zina Walschotts
- Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
- In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
- Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
- Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
- Loveless by Alice Oseman
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Saint Death’s Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney
- Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
- Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
- Sunshine by Robin McKinley
- Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner
- Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
- The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
- The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
- The Wave by Todd Strasser
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
- We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
Series
- Protector of the Small Quartet by Tamora Pierce
- First Test
- Page
- Squire
- Lady Knight
- The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
- The Hunger Games
- Catching Fire
- Mockingjay
- The Locked Tomb Series by Tamsyn Muir
- Gideon the Ninth
- Harrow the Ninth
- Nona the Ninth
- Wolves of the Beyond Series by Kathryn Lasky
- Lone Wolf
- Shadow Wolf
- Watch Wolf
- Frost Wolf
- Spirit Wolf
- Star Wolf
Novellas
- Even Though I Knew the End by C. L. Polk
- Finna by Nino Cipri
- This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
- Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh
Anthologies
- Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy by Paula Guran
Short Stories
Graphic Novels
- Nimona by N.D. Stevenson
- On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
Non-Fiction
Books
- Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
- Emily Carr by Maria Tippett
- Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
- Dataclysm by Christian Rudder
- Figuring by Maria Popova
- Flow by Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi
- Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play by Mitchel Resnick
- Making is Connecting: The Social Power of Creativity, from Craft and Knitting to Digital Everything by David Gauntlett
- Seaweed: An Enchanting Miscellany by Miek Zwamborn
- The Creative Mind by Margaret A. Boden
- The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
- The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
- The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté
- The Rise of Virtual Communities: In Conversation with Virtual World Pioneers by Amber Atherton
Memoir
- And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life by Helen Humphreys
- An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
- Birds Art Life by Kyo Maclear
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
- Hundreds and Thousands by Emily Carr
- How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler
- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
- On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
- Pack of Two by Caroline Knapp
- Plant Dreaming Deep by May Sarton
- The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
- The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
- The Lonely City by Olivia Lang
- The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Academic Articles
- “How to Kill Creativity” by Teresa Amabile
Web Content
Websites
- Aeon: https://aeon.co/
- Myth & Moor: https://windling.typepad.com/blog/
- Reactor (formerly Tor.com): https://reactormag.com/
- The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings): https://www.themarginalian.org/
- Uncanny Magazine: https://www.uncannymagazine.com/
YouTube Channels
- Crash Course: https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse