Books, fan fiction, poetry, authors – difficult to make fine distinctions, and they are all important to me.

The following is a list, in no particular order:

The Left Hand of Darkness
Richard Siken (particularly “You Are Jeff”)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Hyperbole and a Half
The Little Prince/Le Petit Prince
“Wild Geese”
The Living and the Damned
Caitlin Siehl
Slowness (Le Lenteur)
The Monster at the End of This Book
Bruce Coville
Catcher in the Rye
Let the Right One In
Ron Koertge
Ellen Kushner
Night Watch (by Terry Pratchett)

I got my name from the book Monstrous Regiment, but other than that it doesn’t really belong on this list.