A tentative to-be-read list, comprised primarily of books I see in passing that have piqued my interest in some way. Whether it’s because of the cover art, who’s currently reading/recommending it, general subject matter, a list it’s featured on, appearances on social media, etc., these are books I want to eventually circle back to and look up & find out more about them.
| TITLE | AUTHOR | YEAR | FOUND |
| How to Be Eaten | Maria Adelman | 2022 | B&N |
| The Return of Faraz Ali | Aamina Ahmad | 2022 | B&N |
| Human Blues | Elisa Albert | 2022 | B&N – entry table |
| Life as a Unicorn | Amrou Al-Kadhi | 2019 | Library – display |
| Patricia Wants to Cuddle | Samantha Allen | 2022 | B&N – entry table |
| Intersex | Aaron Apps | 2015 | Library – display |
| Bunny | Mona Awad | 2019 | Amazon – customers also viewed |
| Black Swans | Eve Babitz | 1993 | Amazon – explore similar books |
| The Idiot | Elif Batuman | 2017 | Amazon – explore similar books |
| Pretty Baby | Chris Belcher | 2022 | TikTok – bookbinch |
| Crimes in Southern Indiana | Frank Bill | 2011 | Instagram – jwjonson |
| All Men Want to Know | Nina Bouraoui | 2018 | TikTok – ellieahwho |
| The Book of Promethea | Helen Cixous | 1983 | Instagram – Jacob Barnes |
| Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | 2015 | Instagram – Jacob Barnes |
| I Wished | Dennis Cooper | 2021 | Previously read author |
| Cult Classic | Sloane Crosley | 2022 | Amazon – customers also viewed |
| Art in the After-Culture | Ben Davis | 2022 | TikTok – ehunzi |
| The Violence | Delilah S. Dawson | 2022 | B&N |
| The Woman Destroyed | Simone de Beauvoir | 1967 | Amazon – customers also viewed |
| Hurricane Girl | Marcy Dermansky | 2022 | B&N |
| Sophomores | Sean Desmond | 2021 | Library – end cap |
| Vagablonde | Anna Dorn | 2020 | Library – end cap |
| Geek Love | Katherine Dunn | 1989 | TikTok fyp |
| The Parade | Dave Eggers | 2019 | B&N – entry table |
| Glamorama | Bret Easton Ellis | 1998 | Instagram – jwjonson |
| American Psycho | Bret Easton Ellis | 1991 | Saw the movie / Instagram – jwjonson / TikTok fyp |
| Bear | Marian Engel | 1976 | TikTok fyp |
| A Fan’s Notes | Frederick Exley | 1968 | TikTok – ehunzi |
| Acts of Service | Lillian Fishman | 2022 | BuzzFeed – most anticipated of 2022 |
| Dirtbag, Massachusetts | Isaac Fitzgerald | 2022 | TikTok – ehunzi |
| Valleyesque | Fernando A. Flores | 2022 | Library – end cap |
| Ghost Forest | Pik-Shuen Fung | 2021 | Library – end cap |
| Mean Little Deaf Queer | Terry Galloway | 2009 | Library – display |
| All the Ruined Men | Bill Glose | 2022 | B&N – entry table |
| The Icarus Deception: How High Will I Fly? | Seth Godin | 2012 | Instagram – Jacob Barnes |
| Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the ’70s & the ’80s | Brad Gooch | 2015 | Instagram – jwjonson |
| My Heart is a Chainsaw | Stephen Graham Jones | 2021 | TikTok – drewsterrooster9 |
| Infidelities | Kristy Gunn | 2014 | TikTok fyp |
| The Rabbit Hutch | Tess Gunty | 2022 | B&N – entry table |
| Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays | Jill Gutowitz | 2022 | TikTok fyp |
| Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography | David M. Halperin | 1995 | |
| The Last White Man | Mohsin Hamid | 2022 | Amazon – customers also viewed |
| Pure Colour | Sheila Heti | 2022 | TikTok – ehunzi |
| The Line of Beauty | Alan Hollinghurst | 2004 | Instagram – jwjonson |
| High Fidelity | Nick Hornby | 1995 | Instagram – jwjonson |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | 2007 | TikTik fyp |
| Activities of Daily Living | Lisa Hsiao Chen | 2022 | B&N |
| Paradise Rot | Jenny Hval | 2018 | Amazon – customers also viewed |
| Mrs. Caliban | Rachel Ingalls | 1982 | TikTok fyp |
| Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | 2005 | Instragram – jwjonson |
| Speak No Evil | Uzodinma Iweala | 2018 | Library – end cap |
| None But the Righteous | Chantal James | 2022 | Library – end cap |
| Caul Baby | Morgan Jerkins | 2021 | Library – end cap |
| Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | 1959 | TikTok fyp |
| Babel | R. F. Kuang | 2022 | TikTok – bookbinch |
| Nothing But Blackened Teeth | Cassandra Khaw | 2020 | TikTok fyp |
| Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction | Chuck Klosterman | 2019 | B&N – entry table |
| Whereabouts | Jhumpa Lahiri | 2018 | TikTok fyp |
| Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency | Olivia Laing | 2020 | Library – end cap |
| Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke | Eric LaRocca | 2021 | B&N – end cap with previous book I read |
| Paul Takes the Form of a Girl | Andrea Lawlor | 2017 | TikTok – ehunzi |
| Boy Meets Boy | David Levithan | 2003 | B&N – entry table |
| We Were Liars | E. Lockhart | 2014 | TikTok fyp |
| Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches | Audre Lorde | 1984 | |
| Agatha of Little Neon | Claire Luchette | 2021 | TikTok – drewsterrooster9 |
| Crapalachia: A Biography of Place | Scott McClanahan | 2013 | Instagram – jwjonson |
| Cleopatra and Frankenstein | Coco Mellors | 2022 | Amazon – explore similar books |
| Life For Sale | Yukio Mishima | 1968 | TikTok – ehunzi |
| Lapvona | Ottessa Moshfegh | 2022 | Previously read author |
| Hot Stew | Fiona Mozley | 2021 | Amazon – customers also viewed |
| Convenience Store Woman | Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori | 2016 | TikTok fyp |
| Earthlings | Sayaka Murata | 2018 | Amazon – explore similar books |
| Laughter in the Dark | Vladimir Nabokov | 1989 | |
| The Gay Science (the Joyful Wisdom) | Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Thomas Common | 2009 | |
| All the Bright Places | Jennifer Niven | 2015 | TikTok fyp |
| Just By Looking at Him | Ryan O’Connell | 2022 | TikTok – bookbinch |
| At Swim, Two Boys | Jamie O’Neill | 2001 | TikTok – bookbinch |
| The Phlebotomist | Chris Panatier | 2020 | B&N – entry table |
| Norte | Edmundo Paz Soldan, translated by Valerie Miles | 2016 | Instagram – jwjonson |
| The Maid | Nita Prose | 2022 | BOTM add on |
| Book Boyfriend | Kris Ripper | 2022 | B&N – entry table |
| Normal People | Sally Rooney | 2018 | Instagram – jwjonson |
| Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair | Sarah Schulman | 2016 | |
| Fever Dream | Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell | 2014 | TikTok fyp |
| Salt to the Sea | Ruta Sepetys | 2016 | TikTok fyp |
| Devotion | Patti Smith | 2017 | Instagram – jwjonson |
| This Weightless World | Adam Soto | 2021 | B&N – entry table |
| Cheerful Weather for the Wedding | Julia Strachey | 1932 | TikTok fyp |
| A Certain Hunger | Chelsea G. Summers | 2020 | Amazon – recommended for me |
| I Was the President’s Mistress!! | Miguel Syjuco | 2022 | B&N |
| Black Wave | Michelle Tea | 2015 | |
| Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead | Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones | 2009 | TikTok fyp |
| Reptile Memoirs | Siljie Ulstein | 2022 | TikTok – drewsterrooster9 |
| The Town of Babylon | Alejandro Varela | 2022 | B&N |
| On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous | Ocean Vuong | 2019 | Instagram – jwjonson / TikTok fyp |
| The Great Man Theory | Teddy Wayne | 2022 | B&N |
| The Doloriad | Missouri Williams | 2022 | Amazon – explore similar books |
| Nightbitch | Rachel Yoder | 2021 | Amazon – explore similar books |
| Thrust | Lidia Yuknavitch | 2022 | Amazon – explore similar books |
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