day 14 → a non-fictional book 
This is pure unadulterated CRACK ON A STICK. The hilarious and awesome adventures of Catalina de Erauso, who pretended she was a man so she could, apparently, gamble, get drunk, get in swordfights, and enlist in the army. This whole memoir is her testimonial of her life, trying to explain why the Catholic Church shouldn't throw her in jail. Because, guys, she's a transvestite and she killed like eight million separate guys, but she's a VIRGIN. It's TOTALLY COOL. Although I'm pretty sure she just omitted all the lesbian sex she was having.
I think my favorite part of the book is whenever she gets into an impossible situation, usually after having killed someone after losing to them in a card game and getting arrested, the sheriff or a guard or SOMEONE always turns out to be a Basque and they're like, "Oh my fellow Basquero, I will help you escape!" This is how she gets out of
every single impossible situation. Basque ex machina!
day 15 → a fanficWell, this is original fic, but it's so awesome that I must rec it:
Captive Prince by
freece (Original Fiction, R, WIP)
Without a doubt one of the best things I've read all year. Yes, it's slavefic, but trust me, I've read a LOT of shitty original slavefic, and this is not that. This is something that I would gladly pay a lot of money for. It has some fantastic world-building, sexual tension you could cut a knife with, and the most BRILLIANT characters. Laurent is what fanon Draco Malfoy wishes he could be. He is an ice cold bitch with fucking awesome fashion sense and you had best show some goddamn respect. And Damen, the "slave" of this slavefic, is strong-willed and determined and not at all ~secretly submissive~ like you see in a lot of slavefic. I love the ways that
freece manipulates power relationships in this story. In any given scene, the power could shift between Laurent and Damen countless times and it would have little (or a lot) to do with who owns who. DID I MENTION THE UST?! I may expire from it.
If you're still wary to read it, there is no firsthand non-con experienced by the narrator and it's not fetishized by the author. Also, it's a WIP but it gets updated regularly (usually!) and it's all planned out to the finish and everything so it won't take some weird turn where they all turn into unicorns and colonize Mars or something.