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Under the Waqwaq Tree Recommended Reading List

• A fire in my heart: Kurdish Tales by Diane Edgecomb | Recommended by Nilbar Güreş *
• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin | Recommended by Naz Cuguoğlu *
• After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti by Edwidge Danticat | Recommended by Shervone Neckles *
• América Imaginaria by Miguel Rojas Mix | Recommended by Patricia Domínguez *
• Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson *
• Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James | Recommended by Naz Cuguoğlu *
• Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler | Recommended by Naz Cuguoğlu *
• Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, The Stone Sky, The Obelisk Gate by NK Jemisin | Recommended by Ranu Mukherjee *
• Cannibal Metaphysics by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro | Recommended by Ranu Mukherjee *
• Can the Monster Speak?: Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts by Paul B. Preciado | Recommended by Naz Cuguoğlu *
• Efsanevi Yaratıklar by Alberto Manguel, Translated by Lale Akalın | Recommended by Naz Cuguoğlu *
• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown | Recommended by Mine Kaplangı *
• Fabulous Monsters: Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends by Alberto Manguel | Recommended by Naz Cuguoğlu *
• Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler | Recommended by Ranu Mukherjee *
• Flying Too Close to the Sun by Phaidon Editors with an Introduction by James Cahill | Recommended by Ranu Mukherjee *
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley *
• Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi | Recommended by Naz Cuguoğlu *
• Ghosts by César Aira | Recommended by Naz Cuguoğlu *
• Gods, Wasps, and Stranglers by Mike Shanahan | Recommended by Ranu Mukherjee *
• Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh | Recommended by Ranu Mukherjee *
• High Mas: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture by Kevin Adonis Browne | Recommended by Shervone Neckles
• Humanimal: A Project for Future Children by Bhanu Kapil *
• If Looks Could Kill: Cinema’s Images of Fashion, Crime and Violence by Marketa Uhlirova | Recommended by Michelle Handelman
• Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu | Recommended by Cathy Lu *
• Kalila and Dimna Fables, From A Fourteenth-century Arabic Manuscript | Recommended by Nilbar Güreş *
• Kraken by China Miéville | Recommended by Ranu Mukherjee *
• Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers by Taisia Kitaiskaia | Recommended by Naz Cuguoğlu *
• Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler, Edited by Alexandra Pierce and Mimi Mondal | Recommended by Ranu Mukherjee *
• Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson | Recommended by Shervone Neckles *
• Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain by Johanna Hedva | Recommended by Naz Cuguoğlu *
• Musidora – La dixième muse by Henri Veyrier| Recommended by Michelle Handelman
• Musidora: La première vap by Hélène Tierchant | Recommended by Michelle Handelman
• Our Fatal Magic by Tai Shani | Recommended by Naz Cuguoğlu *
• petit cadeau by Claudia la Rocco | Recommended by Naz Cuguoğlu *
• Poems by Sappho | Recommended by Naz Cuguoğlu *
• Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva *
• Regarding The Pain Of Others by Susan Sontag | Recommended by Mine Kaplangı *
• Şiirler by Sappho | Recommended by Naz Cuguoğlu *
• Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by Jack Halberstam | Recommended by Naz Cuguoğlu *
• Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality by Federico Campagna | Recommended by Ranu Mukherjee *
• The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges | Recommended by Naz Cuguoğlu *
• The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker | Recommended by Sahar Khoury *
• The Dragon Can’t Dance by Earl Lovelace | Recommended by Shervone Neckles
• The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard | Recommended by Ranu Mukherjee *
• The Girl Who Fell to Earth: A Memoir by Sophia Al-Maria | Recommended by Naz Cuguoğlu *
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke | Recommended by Shervone Neckles *
• “The Promises of Monsters” by Donna Haraway | Recommended by Naz Cuguoğlu
• The Weird And the Eerie by Mark Fisher | Recommended by Ranu Mukherjee
• Un bien grand amour: Lettres à Musidora (1908-1953) (French Edition) by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Author) and Gérard Bonal (Preface) | Recommended by Michelle Handelman
• The Uncanny by Freud | Recommended by Naz Cuguoğlu *
• “Uses of the Erotic: the Erotic as Power” by Audre Lorde | Recommended by Mine Kaplangı
• Vampires: An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film by Jalal Toufic | Recommended by Naz Cuguoğlu *
• Vampyroteuthis Infernalis: A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste by Vilém Flusser and Louis Bec, Translated by Valentine A. Pakis| Recommended by Anna Betbeze
• Woman, Native, Other by Trinh T. Minh-ha | Recommended by Naz Cuguoğlu *
• Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés | Recommended by Naz Cuguoğlu
• Xenogenesis Trilogy: Dawn, Lilith’s Brood, Imago by Octavia E. Butler | Recommended by Ranu Mukherjee *
• Zones of Anxiety: Movement, Musidora, and the Crime Serials of Louis Feuillade (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series) by Vicki Callahan | Recommended by Michelle Handelman *
• Zoo City by Lauren Beukes | Recommended by Ranu Mukherjee *

* A copy is available for browsing in the gallery