Wish List

I used to use Amazon to track what books I wanted to (eventually) purchase and read. But until Bezos stops being a little bitch, I don’t want to even subconsciously encourage anyone to purchase from him, or anyone else on the DEI boycott list. Frankly, we should be buying from small businesses whenever possible, anyway.

(And I want to stress the whenever possible part of that sentence. Because I know that some people, due to location, disability, and—most commonly—budget simply have no choice but to buy from massive conglomerates who treat people like shit. Don’t feel guilty. Your primary goal is to survive. Once that’s secure, then you can get picky with where your money goes.)

Some of my fans enjoy sending me not just fanmail, but also books off of my list—or books that they think will be particularly good/interesting reads for me. And I sure don’t want to discourage that! Which is why I have my wishlist of books below, along with my mailing address.

I’m also adding a list of items specifically for CaFae Latte. I tend to use a lot of props and costumes, so if you have something lying around that you planned on giving to goodwill but might work for me, send it on over! I’ll probably be able to use it for a skit or two. :)

Boycotts are a war of attrition. They take a long time to actually work; months if not years. The Montgomery Bus Boycott took 15 months before the government and bus companies agreed to no longer segregate, and our current adversaries have a lot more money than those assholes did. Be patient and keep going. And as always, thank you for your time and attention, lovelies.

For the CaFae:

Basically anything cheap and quick, that can be easily taken on/off and will be seen on camera (re: top of the head to the bottom of the titties)

  • sunglasses

  • glasses (preferably fake; I’m already wearing contacts)

  • hats

  • scarves

  • t-shirts (large)

  • jackets/cardigans/shawls/hoodies/whatever (large or extra large)

  • wigs

  • headbands & other hair accessories

  • necklaces/amulets (the bigger the better, so people can easily see it)

  • CLIP-ON earrings (I do not have pierced ears and have no desire to change that)

  • pins

  • knives (fake or real)

  • swords (fake or real)

  • I can probably find a use for a spear (short, please!) or axe…

  • witchy…stuff (idk; potions, ingredients, skulls, tarot cards, wands, whatever)

Mailing Address:

C. M. Alongi

PO Box 22552

4048 Lakeland Ave N

Minneapolis, MN 55422

If you have a super specific/weird thing and you’re not sure if I’d be able to find a use for it, feel free to send me a picture and an email at:

christina_marie (at) writeme (dot) com

Books (in no particular order)

  • The Night Ends with Fire by K. X. Song

  • Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle

  • So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole

  • Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth

  • Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan

  • Funny Story by Emily Henry

  • The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

  • The Measure by Nikki Erlick

  • Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

  • Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater

  • Goddess of Filth by V. Castro

  • Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

  • The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

  • The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo

  • Scurry by Mac Smith

  • The Journey to the West

  • The Romance of the Three Kingdoms

  • The Mahabarata

  • We Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBride

  • In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

  • The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  • A Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson

  • The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

  • Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

  • The Last Word by Taylor Adams

  • Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor

  • Second Shot by Cindy Dees

  • Killer Content by Kiley Roache

  • The Other Bennett Sister by Janice Hadlow

  • Academy of Blood by Brad Martin

  • The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters

  • The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton

  • The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco

  • The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Kune

  • Persuasion by Jane Austen

  • The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

  • The Martian by Andy Weir

  • Hail Mary by Andy Weir

  • Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

  • She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

  • The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis

  • Baba Yaga’s Assistant by Marika McCoola

  • When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll

  • The Rick and Morty graphic novels

  • Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

  • My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Fiction

Non-Fiction

  • History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times by Mary Frances Berry

  • Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

  • The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

  • Kinky History by Esme Louise James

  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

  • Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries by Kate Mosse

  • Lieutenant Nun by Catalina de Erauso

  • Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

  • Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England by Annie Whitehead

  • Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan’s Sex Slaves by Peipei Qiu, Su Zhiliang, and Chen Lifei

  • A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen

  • A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski

  • The LGBTQ+ History Book by DK

  • Rejected Princesses: Tales of History’s Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath

  • Bayonets in Paradise: Martial Law in Hawai’i during World War II by Harry N. Scheiber and Jane L. Scheiber

  • Five Empresses: Court LIfe in Eighteenth Century Russia by Evgenii V. Anisimov

  • The Third Horseman: A Story of Weather, War, and the Famine History Forgot by William Rosen

  • The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler

  • Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights by Karen Blumenthal

  • Tasting History by Max Miller

  • Unruly by David Mitchell

  • Matilda: Wife of the Conqueror, First Queen of England by Tracy Borman

  • Silk and the Sword: the Women of the Norman Conquest by Sharon Bennett Connolly

  • Queen Emma and the Vikings by Harriet O’Brien

  • The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 by Brian Fagan

  • Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole

  • The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict by the Arbinger Institute

  • Homosexuality in Islam: Critical Reflection on Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims by Scott Siraj Al-Hagg Kugle

  • Moscow 1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March by Adam Zamoyski

  • The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History by Alexander Mikaberidze

  • The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War by David Gates

  • The Warrior Queen: The Life and Legend of Aethelflaed, Daughter of Alfred the Great by Joanna Arman

  • Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen by Linda M. Heywood

  • Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

  • Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

  • Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann

  • Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions by Guillermo del Toro

  • The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

  • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

  • How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

  • Educated by Tara Westover