current obsession

books

This list overlaps with but is not entirely the same as the books on my personal canon/creative influences/artistic lineage page.

🚧 under construction

Click the book cover to see the book on WorldCat, which will help you locate the closest library copy!

fiction

Books are listed in alphabetical order by author's last name.

Many of these books are MG/YA because I'm a school librarian.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

Strange Creatures by Phoebe North

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman

My Jasper June by Laurel Snyder

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld

nonfiction

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age by Katherine May

The Magician's Book by Laura Miller

Holy Shit: A Brief History of Swearing by Marissa Mohr

Saving Time by Jenny Odell

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

picture books

I also have a page with my personal picture book collection.