1. Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror, by Jason Zinoman
2. Paradise, by Toni Morrison
3. The Black Unicorn: Poems, by Audre Lorde
4. Tender is the Night (audio book), by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. Skin Folk, by Nalo Hopkinson