You Are The Coolest Person In This Coffeeshop Book Rec List

soyonscruels:

catastrophic-intervals asked you: I’m dying for her some fresh reading and I was wondering whether you had any suggestions, considering I worship almost everything you reblog or post. In a non-stalkery way. Mostly.

aww, darling, thank you! have a special list, the You Are The Coolest Person In This Coffeeshop List, of books that are also Definitely Excellent:

• boy meets boy by david levithan
• valencia by michelle tea
• the death of bunny munro by nick cave
• inferno by eileen myles
• men in the off hours by anne carson
• vita nova by louise gluck
• hell’s angels by hunter s. thompson
• and the hippos were boiled in their tanks by william s. burroughs and jack kerouac
• goodbye to berlin by christopher isherwood
• dear scott, dearest zelda: the love letters of f. scott and zelda fitzgerald
• the vagabond by colette
• mauprat by george sand
• pussy, king of the pirates by kathy acker
• love is a dog from hell by charles bukowski
• book of longing by leonard cohen
• the walls do not fall by h.d.
• ain’t i a woman? by bell hooks
• gender trouble by judith butler
• giovanni’s room by james baldwin
• foxfire: confessions of a teenage girl gang by joyce carol oates
• we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson
• please kill me: the uncensored oral history of punk by legs mcneil & gillian mccain
• franny and zooey by j.d. salinger
• the lonely londoners by samuel selvon
• the electric kool-aid acid test by tom wolfe
• on the road by jack kerouac
• girl, interrupted by susanna kaysen
• play it as it lays by joan didion
• the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides
• when you are engulfed in flames by david sedaris
• one flew over the cuckoo’s nest by ken kesey
• the secret history by donna tartt
• the holy barbarians by lawrence lipton
• the rules of attraction by bret easton ellis
• crush by richard siken
• the collected poems of c.p. cavafy