We are now also the most official looking Taco Bell account on here and I would just like to let everyone know that eating Taco Bell makes you trans

Congrats to the runner-up and the finalists!

Runner-up:
She Was Wild Grass by Katie Bennett

Finalists:
Disfigure Studies by Asha Dore @ashadore.bsky.social
What Kind of Hawk by Sarah Giragosian
Dispatches from the Ridge by L.I. Henley*
Fairyboy by Keegan Lawler @keeganlawler.bsky.social

This is not exhaustive at all, (there’s a whole period of research books missing) but I feel captures the spirit of what I’m reading these days.

American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin- Terrance Hayes
Girlhood- Melissa Febos
Wolf in White Van (reread)- John Darnielle
Brown Women Have Everything- Sayantani Dasgupta

I only have one exception, which is to a book that meant so much to me at a specific moment in my life, that now has become near sacred in my heart, and I couldn’t bear to alter the memory of the first reading