On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Raymond Carver

I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

Irene Solà

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

Mariana Enriquez

All the Lovers in the Night

Mieko Kawakami

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin

Touring the Land of the Dead (and Ninety-Nine Kisses)

Maki Kashimada

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

Italo Calvino

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II

Svetlana Alexievich

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

Grady Hendrix

America Is Not the Heart

Elaine Castillo

The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Katherine Arden

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

How to Hold Someone in your Heart

Mizuki Tsujimura

Things in Nature Merely Grow

Yiyun Li

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

Andrew Joseph White

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omar El Akkad

Some Desperate Glory

Emily Tesh

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

A Crane Among Wolves

June Hur

The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

Sofia Samatar

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

Akwaeke Emezi

The Lies of Locke Lamora

Scott Lynch

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Ocean Vuong

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Rebecca Solnit

Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays

Durga Chew-Bose