Media Wishlist
Created: 23/09/2024 - Last updated: 30/09/2026
This is my place to list the medias I want to check out, especially those my friends recommended.
I will delete them from this page once watched/read/etc.
Books
Fiction
Queer books
I have separate wishlists specifically for Asian queer books; you can find them in my Asian queer literature page and my danmei to-read page.
- Exquisite Decay (2026) - Xan van Rooyen - queer cyberpunk retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated Memoir (2019) - Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali
- Nettleblack (2022) - Nat Reeve - a neo-Victorian queer farce that follows a runaway heir/ess and an organisation of crime-fighting misfits as they struggle with the misdeeds besieging a rural English town
Realistic fiction
- The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (2017) - Lisa See - A Chinese Ahka tea farmer in Yunnan has to give up her daughter for adoption, but when the girl grows up, she tries to reconnect with her family
- Taiwan Travelogue (2020, 臺灣漫遊錄 / Táiwān mànyóu lù) - Yáng Shuāngzǐ (楊双子) - a fictional travelogue through 1950s Taiwan - then under Japanese occupation
- What you are looking for is in the library (2021, お探し物は図書室まで / O sagashi mono wa toshu shitsu made) - Michiko Aoyama - stories of people going through changes and discovering what they really want, lessons in patience, determination, contentment and self-compassion, comforting
- Sweet Bean Paste (2017, あん) - Durian Sukegawa - book recommended by Suvi, about a grandma and dorayaki
- Out (1997, アウト) - Kirino Natsuo (桐野 夏生) - four women working the nightshift in a bento factory come together to help one of them dispose of her murdered husband's body
- Taipei Story (2026) - R.F. Kuang - As Taiwanese-American Lily Chen goes to an exchange program to Taipei to try and reconnect with her roots, nothing goes as planned and she hits the tough reality that belonging to a diaspora doesn't mean you'll feel at home in your ancestor's country
- Yellowface (2023) - R.F. Kuang - A white girl steals an Asian-American woman's manuscript and publishes it as her own, getting deeper and deeper into lies as she goes
- Strange Weather in Tokyo (2001, センセイの鞄 / Sensei no kaban) - Kawakami Hiromi (川上弘美) - A reflective novel about unlikely (straight) love
Magical realism
- The Kamogawa Food Detectives (2013, 鴨川食堂 / Kamogawa shokudō) - Kashiwai Hisashi (柏井壽) - A very special restaurant in Tokyo is able to recreate dishes from people's memories...
- Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon (2010, ツナグ) - Mizuki Tsujimura - a rich teenager arranges meetings between the living and their departed loved ones
Fantasy
- Chain-Gang All-Stars (2023) - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - critique of the carceral system, capitalist society, and commodification of human suffering
- Babel (2022) - R.F. Kuang - An adopted Chinese boy in a dystopian England using translations to power up their colonialist goals will have to choose between his motherland and the empire which raised him
- The Poppy War (2018) - R.F. Kuang
Poetry
- Wang's Translation of 300 Tang Poems (2011) - various
Non-Fiction
Politics
- Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism (1929) - Alexander Berkman - approachable introduction to anarchist principles
- Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003) - Angela Y. Davis
- Le Procès de la Colonisation Française (1926) - Hồ Chí Minh
- He Yin Zhen's writings (1907)
- Discours sur le colonialisme (1950) - Aimé Césaire
- Réflexions crip (2026) - Charlotte Puiseux
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2021) - Andreas Malm
- Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (2018) - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Anarchy Works (2016) - Peter Gelderloos
- La Conquête du pain (1892) - Piotr Kropotkine (Пётр Кропоткин)
- Des paillettes sur le compost. Écoféminismes au quotidien. (2022) - Myriam Bahaffou
- Culture and Imperialism (1993) - Edward Said
- Les Luttes des Putes (2014) - Thierry Schaffauser
- Plutôt vivre (2025) - Chiara Kahn & Charlotte Puiseux
- De chair et de fer (2022) - Charlotte Puiseux
- Anarchism and Other Essays (1910) - Emma Goldman
- The Ugly Laws (2009) - Susan M. Schweik
- The Crab Cannery Ship (1929, 蟹工船 / Kani Kōsen) - Kobayashi Takiji (小林 多喜二)
- Peau noire, masques blancs (1952) - Frantz Fanon
- The Solidarity Economy: A Visual Guide (2024) - various
- Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor (2012) - Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang
- Feminist, Queer, Crip (2013) - Alison Kafer
- Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People (2019) - Frances Ryan
- Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902) - Piotr Kropotkine (Пётр Кропоткин)
- Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria's Kurds (2014) - Thomas Schmidinger
- Revolution in Rojava (2015) - various
- Éropolitique - Écoféminismes, désirs et révolution (2025) - Myriam Bahaffou
- The Jungle (1906) - Upton Sinclair - a realistic depiction of life inside a meat-packing factory during the early 20th century
- Queering Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire (2013) - various
- The Viral Underclass (2022) - Steven W. Thrasher
- Vénère (2022) - Taous Merakchi
Health
- The Ghost Map (2006) - Steven Berlin Johnson - about the 1854 London cholera epidemic and how it changed sanitation measures
- How to Survive a Plague (2017) - David France - about the fight against AIDS by activists and scientists, also a documentary movie
- Le Bus des femmes (2020) - various - récit de la mobilisation des protistuées de la région Parisienne pendant l'épidémie du sida
- How to Talk to a Science Denier (2022) - Lee McIntyre
History
- The Shortest History of China (2021) - Linda Jaivin - A short (263 pages) summary of China's history
- Une histoire populaire de la France (2018) - Gérard Noiriel - Une histoire de la France qui prend en compte l'immigration, le racisme et la classe ouvrière, environs 800 pages