It would be OK if someone gave me these books for my birthday

Or, if you do not know me but you know someone else who is having a birthday, they'd probably like these books, too. The links go to Bookshop.

Some people asked me for my current priority list, so, here they are.

Nonfiction

Matthew Salesses, Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

Robert D. Richardson, First we read, then we write

Laraine Herring, The Writing Warrior: Discovering the Courage to Free Your True Voice

Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You

Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist

Jonathan Ree, Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English

Sarah Parcak, Archaeology from Space

Samantha Allen, Real Queer America: LGBT Stories From Red States

Fiction

Callum Angus, A Natural History of Transition

Ilana Masad, All My Mother's Lovers

Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun  |  NPR

Chelsea Bieker, Godshot

Bogi Takács, The Trans Space Octopus Congregation

Poetry

Justin Philip Reed, The Malevolent Volume

Lukas Ray Hall, Loudest When Startled  |  Yes Yes Books

Jennifer Stewart Miller, Thief  |  Grayson Books

Maria Tsvetaeva, Art in the Light of Conscience: Eight Essays on Poetry  |  tweet

Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude  |  tweet

Takako Arai, Factory Girls