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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
This book follows an introverted, high school freshman, Charlie, who befriends two seniors, Patrick and Sam, and starts to experiment with alcohol, drugs, and smoking. As he manages his new social life and his feelings towards Sam, Patrick's…
The Chocolate War
This book is narrated from alternating third-person perspectives and is set at Trinity School, a preparatory, all-boys, Catholic high school.. The two most common voices are those of Jerry Renault, a solitary first-year and protagonist of the story,…
Dirty Beasts
This book is a collection of nine poems about the unusual exploits of animals. The pig, realizing that he was born to be eaten, eats his farmer instead. The crocodile eats six children each Saturday. The lion proclaims that the narrator of the poem…
Easton Ellis, Bret. American Psycho
Told in first-person narrative, this book is set in Manhattan in the late 1980s and follows the life of the young and wealthy investment banker, Patrick Bateman. Bateman describes his daily life on Wall Street and recounts his evening outings in…
Show Me!: A Picture Book of Sex for Children and Parents
Originally published in Germany, this is a sex-education book aimed at helping parents teach their children about discovering and exploring their sexuality. The book contains numerous photos of children and adults alike.
While some saw it as an…
While some saw it as an…
Let Me Die Before I Wake: Hemlock’s Book of Self-Deliverance for the Dying
This book is a collection of true and moving stories about terminally ill people who choose to die on their own terms. It contains information on the legal aspects, psychology, and actual methods for a terminally ill person to accelerate their…
Fifty Shades Trilogy
This series follows the story of recent graduate Ana Steele as she contemplates a relationship with an older, successful man, Christian Grey. After she interviews him for a friend's newspaper piece, she finds herself attracted to him. He asks her for…
Hacking the Future: Stories for the Flesh-Eating 90s
"Hacking the Future" tells the story of what happens when information technology escapes the high tech labs of Silicon Valley and invades the sites of everyday culture. It includes some of the survival tales of people who just want to "feel" again in…
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
This book is about Constance Chatterly, a young, married, upperclass woman, whose husband has become paralyzed from the waist down due to a war injury. After becoming sexually frustrated, Constance starts an affair with their gamekeeper, Oliver…
Lizzy’s Lion
This rhyming children's book is about a young girl, Lizzy, and the lion she keeps in her bedroom. When a robber sneaks in one night, the lion proceeds to eat him. Lizzy then wakes up to find bits of the robber strewn about her room. She and her lion…
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textures of your pandemic experience
A collaborative zine made about the FIMS community experience with the COVID19 pandemic.