Celebrated queer artist Terence Koh is often most associated with wearing all white, briefly hosting a YouTube show with guests such as Lady Gaga and Ai Wei Wei, throwing wild, all-night parties, and successfully selling his own gold-plated excrement for $500,000. Perhaps it was a sort of repentance for his party boy behavior to perform “nothingtoodoo” in 2011, circling, on his knees for eight hours a day, a small mountain of salt for one month at the Mary Boone Gallery. More recently, the artist left the party of the Manhattan art world behind for a quieter life upstate.

Below are Terence Koh’s favorite books, available to purchase as a set or individually.