All Three Are Fine!! Thank U In Advance :)

all three are fine!! thank u in advance :)

nonfiction:

savage pastimes: a cultural history of violent entertainment by harold schechter (schechter is one of the best true crime authors ive ever read. title speaks for itself.)

tr@nny: confessions of punk rock's most infamous anarchist sellout by laura jane grace (autobiography, lead singer of the punk band against me!. laura came out as trans in the early 2010s.)

jenny holzer self titled (visual artist jenny holzer, most famously known for her truisms.)

the joke's over by ralph steadman (accounts of steadmans life—artist—alongside hunter s thompson, author & gonzo journalist.)

the only living witness by stephen g michaud & hugh aynesworth (the life & crimes of ted bundy.)

execution: the guillotine, the pendulum, the thousand cuts, the spanish donkey, & 66 other ways of putting people to death by geoffrey abbott (history of different torture + execution methods. dry at times, but very informative.)

up close: johnny cash by anne e neimark (quick, enjoyable biography on JC)

the mothman prophecies by john a keel (historical reports of the mothman, his relation to UFOs, the men in black, and the collapse of the silver bridge)

fiction:

fight club by chuck palahniuk (comedy, thriller)

the house on mango street by sandra cisneros (coming of age)

no country for old men by cormac mccarthy (thriller, crime)

do androids dream of electric sheep? by phillip k dick (thriller, sci-fi)

2001: a space odyssey by arthur c clarke (sci-fi)

johnny got his gun by dalton trumbo (war, history)

sharp objects by gillian flynn (crime, thriller)

fear & loathing in las vegas by hunter s thompson (comedy, journalism, history)

brokeback mountain by annie proulx (romance, LGBT, western)

jurassic park by michael crichton (sci-fi, thriller)

the miseducation of cameron post by emily m danforth (coming of age, LGBT)

psycho by robert bloch (crime, thriller)

poetry:

my favorite poems

my favorite poetry collections

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Dude who tf are any of us

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hey, do you know any anti-suicidal poems?

sending you love and strength

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said it and I’ll say it again: fuck the supreme court fuck the entire republican party fuck useless complacent liberals fuck american evangelicals fuck every politician who takes their money and fuck everyone who votes for them

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yup yup yup

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