SUMA Sidekicks: The Art of Books

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Level 3: Letterpress Poster

Level 6: Sticker Sheet

Level 9: Book Light

Level 12: Silkscreen Kit

Level 15: Stationery Kit

Level 18: Francisco Goya Tote Bag

Level 20: Candle and Match Set

Level 30: SUMA Hat

Gothic & Horror

Featured Book: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 

Staff Picks

• A Guest in the House by E.M. Carroll
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• Five Survive by Holly Jackson
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewiski
• A Short Stay in Hell by Steven Peck
• Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 
• Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• The Art Thief by Michael Finkel 
• Uzumaki by Junji Ito 
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
• Interview With A Vampire by Anna Rice
• Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica
• A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
• Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier 
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• From Hell by Alan Moore
• The Sandman by Neil Gaiman 
• Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasty
• Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas 
• Silver Nitrate by Silvia Mareno-Garcia

Banned Books

Featured Book: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 

Staff Picks

• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• 1984 by George Orwell
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• This One Summer by Mariko Tamiki 
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel 
• Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe 
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Sold by Patricia McCormick
• Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 
• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin 
• The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Academia

Featured Book: The Secret History by Donna Tartt 

Staff Picks

• This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El Mohtar
• Dead Poets Society by Nancy H. Kleinbaum
• Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
• Katabasis by RF Kuang 
• Never Let Me Go by Kazou Ishiguro
• Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
• An Academic Affair by Jodi McAlister
• If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio
• Indelicacy by Amina Cain
• Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
• Girl Abroad by Elle Kennedy 
• Check Please! By Ngozi Ukazu 
• Bunny by Mona Awad
• Educated by Tara Westover
• Broken Places and Outer Spaces by Nnedi Okorafor
• Babel by R.F. Kuang 
• The Idiot by Elif Bautman 
• Stoner by John WIlliams
• Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
• Possession by A.S. Byatt
• Heart the Lover by Lily King
• The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
• Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

Adventure

Featured Book: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Staff Picks 

• Bone by Jeff Smith
• Dark Life by Kat Falls
• Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Marquet
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle 
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi 
• The Wager by David Grann
• Daytripper by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá
• Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montegomery 
• Squire by Nadia Shamas and Sara Alfageeh
• Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa
• Hunter X Hunter by Yoshihiro Togashi
• A River Runs Through It by Norma Maclean
• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• The Maze Runner by James Dashner
• Inheritance Games by Jenny Lynn Barnes
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
• The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
• Dance of Thieves by Mary E. Pearson
• City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende

Fantasy & Storybook

Featured Book: Grimms' Fairy Tales

Staff Picks 

• The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Euxpéry
• Helen of Wyndhorn by Tom King
• The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman
• A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kremmerer
• This Princess Kills Monsters by Ry Herman
• Fairest by Gale Carson Levine
• Ella Enchanted by Gale Carson Levine
• The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle
• Time of the Wolf by James Wilde
• A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
• Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson 
• Deadly Ever After by Brittany Johnson
• The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
• The Adventure Zone by McElroy Brothers
• Nimona by N.D. Stevenson
• Coda by Simon Spurrier and Mathias Bergara
• Saga by Brian K. Vaughn
• Delicious in Dungeon by Ryoko Kui 
• Claymore by Norihiro Yagi 
• Cinder by Marissa Meyer
• Powerless by Lauren Roberts
• Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 
• The Cruel Prince by Holly Black 
• Caraval by Stephanie Garber
• Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Mass
• Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber
• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
• The Second Death of Locke by V.L. Bovalino
• Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
• Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater

Romance

Featured Book: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Staff Picks 

• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
• Persuasion by Jane Austen
• Happy Place by Emily Henry
• The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren
• Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
• And Now Back to You by B. K. Borison
• Jane Eyre by Emily Brontë 
• You’ve Reached Sam by Dustin Thao
• A Room With a View by E.M. Forester
• Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Mass
• Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Open Era by Edward Schmit 
• Heartstopper by Alice Oseman 
• The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang 
• Encore by Mile Torkio Burks 
• Just Between Us by Adeline Kon 
• White Nights by Fydor Dostoevsky
• Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
• Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood
• Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter
• Fake Skating by Lynn Painter
• The Selection by Keira Cass
• The Do-Over by Lynn Painter
• Maurice by E.M. Forester
• Emma by Jane Austen
• One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig 
• Heavenly Bodies by Imani Erriu
• The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
• Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
• The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas
• Us on the Moon by Alice Kellen
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International Authors

Featured Book: No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

Staff Picks 

• The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Uzumaki by Junji Ito 
• The Elsewhere Express by Samantha Sotto
• Almond By Sohn Won-pyung
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
• Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu 
• The Impatient by Djaïli Amadou Amal
• The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
• Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
• Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabhattin Ali
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
• Heaven by Meiko Kawakami
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• One Piece by Eiichiro Oda
• Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi 
• Nana by Ai Yazawa 
• The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
• Mr. Potter by Jamaica Kincaid
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
• The Vegetarian by Han Kang
• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

History & Mythology

Featured Book: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Staff Picks 

• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Antikoni by Beth Piatote
• Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan
• The Kane Chronicles by Rick  Riordan
• Someone Named Eva by Joan M. Wolf
• The Odyssey by Homer
• Maus by Art Spiegelman
• Swimming in the Dark by Thomaz Jedrowski
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
• Music is History by Questlove
• Philippine Folklore & Mythology by A.S. Mapa
• If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho 
• Mythos by Stephen Fry
• A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
• A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin
• The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky
• Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
• Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shaung-zi
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang 
• Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe 
• I, Medusa by Ayana Gray 
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang
• Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel