2025 Reading

 JANUARY 
1. Sarahland by Sam Cohen 
2. Charisma's Turn by Monique Couvson

3. Dibs in Search of Self by Virginia Axiline 

FEBRUARY

4. A Few Rules for Predicting the Future by Octavia E. Butler

5. Casa Susanna: The Story of the First Trans Network in the United States, 1959-1968 by Isabelle Bonnet and Sophie Hackett 

6. Loving Our Own Bones: The Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole by Julia Watts Belser 

MARCH

7. Fred Rogers: The Last Interview and Other Conversations 

8. Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods by Michael Wex 

9. Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir by Zoë Bossiere

10. I'm a Wild Seed by Sharon Lee De la Cruz

MAY

11. My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wandering Jew by Abigail Pogrebin

JUNE

12. Speaking about the Unspeakable: Non-Verbal Methods and Experiences in Therapy with Children edited by Dennis McCarthy 

13. Living a Joyous Life: The True Spirit of Jewish Practice by Rabbi David Aaron

14. Nubia, Real One by L.L. McKinney

15. Falling Back in Love with Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom

JULY

16. We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition edited by Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson

17. Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun by Kaz Rowe

18. It Won't Always Be Like This by Malaka Gharib

19. Some Strange Music Draws Me In by Griffin Hansbury

20. Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles by Rosecrans Baldwin

21. Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale by Paul Yamazaki

22. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire edited by Alice Wong

AUGUST

23. The Klansman's Son by Adrianne Black

24. Holler: A Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance by Denali Sai Nalamalapu

SEPTEMBER

25. Theory of Water by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

26. Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice edited by Or Rose, Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, and Margie Klein

OCTOBER

27. Spent: A Comic Novel by Alison Bechdel

28. Days of Awe: Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians by Atalia Omer 

29. Enlightened Transsexual Comix by Sam Szabo

30. Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing by Dionne Ford

2024 Reading

 JANUARY
1. Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine 

2. Family Meal by Bryan Washington

3. Punished For Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love

4. Why Be Jewish? A Testament by Edgar Bronfman

5. The Art of Libromancy: Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century by Josh Cook

6. Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah

FEBRUARY

7. Wound by Oksana Vasyakina

8. The Pagoda: A Lesbian Community by the Sea by Rose Norman

9. Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open by Angela Hume

MARCH

10. Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

11. Heaven by Emerson Whitney

12. Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir by Thomas Gannon

APRIL 

13. All the Hometowns You Can't Stay Away From by Izzy Wasserstein

14. How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang

15. All In: Cancer, Near Death, New Life by Caitlin Breedlove

16. The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr 

17. Our Strangers by Lydia Davis

MAY 

18. Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante

19. Behind You is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj 

20. Twelfth Night, or What You Will by William Shakespeare 

21. Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

22. On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed 

23. A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism edited by Esther Farmer, Rosalind Pollack Petchesky and Sarah Sills

JUNE

24. Greenland by David Santos Donaldson 

25. And what can we offer you tonight by Premee Mohamed 

26. Death Valley by Melissa Broder

27. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abduraqqib

JULY

28. (Mis)Diagnosed: How Bias Distorts Our Perception of Mental Health by Jonathan Foiles 

29. The Last Interview and Other Conversations by Octavia Butler

30. My Pinup by Hilton Als

31. The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher

32. Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life by Shuli Branson

AUGUST

33. The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi 

34. Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family's Journey by Dan Berger

35. Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah edited by Morgan Bassichis, Jay Saper, and Rachel Valinsky 

SEPTEMBER

36. Becoming Who We Are: Real Stories About Growing Up Trans edited by Hazel Newlevant

OCTOBER

37. Embodied Activism: Engaging the Body to Cultivate Liberation, Justice, and Authentic Connection by Rae Johnson

38. bell hooks: The Last Interview and Other Conversations 

NOVEMBER

39. Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice edited by Cindy Barukh Milstein

40. Stars in Their Eyes written by Jessica Walton and illustrated by Aśka

41. On Community by Casey Plett

2023 Reading

 JANUARY
1. Frontlines of Repair edited by World War 3 Illustrated
2. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 

3. Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York by Jeremiah Moss 

4. Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay written and illustrated by David Lester 

5. Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong 

6. I've Had To Think Up A Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton by Lynn Melnick 

7. How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs

8. Things I've Withheld by Kei Miller

9. em by Kim Thúy 

10. She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh

FEBRUARY

11. Glitter and Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn't Die edited by dave ring 

12. John Prine: In Spite of Himself by Eddie Huffman 

13. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott 

14. The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

15. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon

16. Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead 

17. Trust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy by carla bergman

18. Horsepower by Joy Priest 

MARCH

19. Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education by Mychal Denzel Smith

20. Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions by Francesca T. Royster 

21. Bad Boy by Walter Dean Myers 

22. Stakes is High: Life After the American Dream by Mychal Denzel Smith 

23. Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties by John D'Emilio 

24. No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America by Darnell Moore 

25. Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist's Freedom Song by Marlon Peterson 

26. The Last Interview and Other Conversations by James Baldwin

27. Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety by Cara Page and Erica Woodland

28. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith 

APRIL

29. Asylum by Edafe Okporo

30. Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 by M.E. O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi 

31. Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction by Shira Hassan

32. Extinction: A Radical History by Ashley Dawson

33. Ghost by Jason Reynolds

34. Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie

35. Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter's School by Courtney E. Martin

36. Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty

MAY

37. Patina by Jason Reynolds

38. Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction by Arundhati Roy

39. The Fire This Time by Randall Kenan

40. We Need New Stories: The Myths That Subvert Freedom by Nesrine Malik

41. Are We Free Yet? A Black Queer Guide to Divorcing America by Tina Strawn

42. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color edited by Nisi Shawl

43. All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship by Jennifer Natalya Fink 

44. New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color edited by Nisi Shawl

45. Far Out: Recent Queer Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Paula Guran 

JUNE

46. We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020 edited by C.L. Clark 

47. Solito by Javier Zamora

48. Voice of the Fish by Lars Horn

49. Transcendent 3: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction by Bogi Takács 

50. Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers edited by Lydia Rogue

51. I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness by Daniel Allen Cox

52. Transcendent: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction edited by K. M. Szpara 

53. Maiden, Mother, Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes edited by Gwen Benaway 

54. Siren Queen by Nghi Vo 

55. Playing As If the World Mattered: An Illustrated History of Activism in Sport by Gabriel Kuhn

56. Miss Major Speaks by Miss Major and Toshio Meronek

57. Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology edited by Hope Nicholson

58. Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth edited by Isabel Oliveira and Jed Sabin

59. Long Division by Kiese Laymon

60. Real Sugar is Hard to Find by Sim Kern

JULY

61. Cutting School: Segregation, Privatization, and the End of Public Education by Noliwe Rooks

61. Change the Game by Colin Kaepernick and Eve Ewing, edited by Orlando Caicedo 

62. Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae

63. Barbalien: Red Planet by Jeff Lemire, Tate Brombal, Gabriel Hernández Walta, Jordie Bellaire, and Aditya Bidikar 

64. Everything Is Beautiful, and I’m Not Afraid by Yao Xiao

65. Nourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protest, and Mutual Aid edited by Wren Awry

AUGUST

66. Black Hammer: Visions Volume 1 by Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston 

67. The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag by Sasha Velour 

68. Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her Creation by Liana Finck

69. Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies by Andrea J. Ritchie 

70. Our Members Be Unlimited by Sam Wallman

71. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum, An Autistic Comics Anthology edited by Bex Ollerton 

72. Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness by Baynard Woods 

73. Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path by Marcus McCann

SEPTEMBER

74. A Sturdy Yes of a People: Selected Writings by Joan Nestle

75. The People Who Report More Stress by Alejandro Varela

76. The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts by Soraya Palmer

OCTOBER

77. Impossible People by Julia Wertz

78. People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction & Fantasy edited by Rachel Swirsky and Sean Wallace

79. Depart, Depart by Sim Kern 

80. The Free People's Village by Sim Kern

81. We Set the Night On Fire: Igniting the Gay Revolution by Martha Shelley

82. Many Worlds edited by Cadwell Turnbull and Josh Eure

NOVEMBER

83. All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

84. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

85. The History of Soul 2065 by Barbara Krasnoff 

86. Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People are Dismantling Mass Incarceration by Jocelyn Simonson

87. The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle

88. The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

89. Daddy Boy by Emerson Whitney 

90. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom

91. Lark Ascending by Silas House

DECEMBER

92. We Are the Crisis by Cadwell Turnbull 

93. Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey

94. Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion by Bushra Rehman

95. Touching the Art by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore 

2022 Reading

JANUARY
1. Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead

2. A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett

FEBRUARY
3. Memorial by Bryan Washington
4. Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith edited by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks with Barbara Smith

5. Revenge Body by Caleb Luna

6. Mutiny by Phillip B. Williams 

MARCH

7. The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Possibilities for LGBTQ+ Health by Zena Sharman 

8. After the Rain by John Jennings, illustrated by David Brame 

9. You Only Live Twice by Mike Hoolboom and Chase Joynt 

10. Hot and Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love, and Fashion edited by Virgie Tovar 

11. Heavy Vinyl: Riot on the Radio by Carly Usdin and Nina Vakueva 

APRIL 

12. Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work by Akilah S. Richards 

13. Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition by Katherine Franke 

14. These Walls Between Us: A Memoir of a Friendship Across Race and Class by Wendy Sanford

15. Dispatch by Cameron Awkward-Rich 

16. Gentrifier by Anne Elizabeth Moore

17. Nevada by Imogen Binnie 

MAY 

18. Abolition For the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing and Prisons edited by Colin Kaepernick 

19. & more black by t'ai freedom ford 

20. 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell 

21. Heavy Vinyl: Y2K-O! by Carly Usdin, illustrated by Nina Vakueva 

22. Blue in Green by Chiyuma Elliott 

23. Ruin by Cara Hoffman

24. Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe

25. Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton 

JUNE

26. And the Category Is...: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community by Ricky Tucker

27. Villainy by Andrea Abi-Karam 

28. Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

29. High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez 

30. Worldly Things by Michael Kleber-Diggs 

JULY

31. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett 

32. This City by Claudia Castro Luna 

33. Pebble Swing by Isabella Wang

34. I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi by Gina Siciliano 

35. OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture edited by Julie R. Enszner and Elena Gross 

36. Hotel Oblivion by Cynthia Cruz 

37. The Curious Thing by Sandra Lim

38. Gordo by Jaime Cortez 

39. dayliGht by Roya Marsh

40. No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull 

41. Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton 

AUGUST 

42. Lot by Bryan Washington 

43. Rehearsals for Living by Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

44. Border Vista by Anni Liu

SEPTEMBER

45. Water & Salt by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha 

46. The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull

47. Nobody by Alice Oswald

48. The Art of Drag by Jake Hall, illustrated by Helen Li, Jasjyot Singh Hans, and Sofie Birkin

49. Winter's Light: Reflections of a Yankee Queer by John Preston 

50. Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things In Between by Joseph Osmundson

51. Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome 

52. Butch Heroes by Ria Brodell 

OCTOBER

53. Looking for Lorraine: The Radical and Radiant Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry 

54. It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery 

55. How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones

56. Sk8 Dad Summer: Ramps, Rebellion, and Raising a Kid by Brett Hamill 

57. Manywhere by Morgan Thomas 

58. Good Talk by Mira Jacob 

59. Operatic by Kyo Maclear, illustrated by Byron Eggenschwiler 

60. Heavy by Kiese Laymon 

61. Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party edited by Diane Fujino and Matef Harmachis 

NOVEMBER

62. Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff 

63. Big Girl by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

64. So Tall It Ends in Heaven by Jayme Ringleb 

65. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner 

DECEMBER

66. Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James 

67. The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability by Kristen Hogan

68. The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings 

69. The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease by Daisy Hernández 

70. The Stonewall Reader edited by Jason Baumann and the New York Public Library

71. Night Shift by Eileen Gunn 

72. The Freezer Door by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

2021 Reading

 JANUARY
1. Black Hammer Library Edition Volume 1 by Jeff Lemire, with Dean Ormstom, Dave Klein, and Todd Klein
2. Flying Horses by Jeanne Lohman 

3. Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

FEBRUARY

4. Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence by Joel Christian Gill 

5. Trans Care by Hil Malatino 

6. For Now by Eileen Myles 

7. In the Hairy Arms of Whitman by Bill Kushner

8. Deer Woman: An Anthology edited by Elizabeth LaPensee and Weshoyot Alvitre

9. Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture edited by Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos 

10. Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Post-Partum Depression by Teresa Wong 

11. Ascender Volume 1: The Haunted Galaxy by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen 

12. One Story by Gipi 

MARCH

13. Big Black: Stand at Attica by Frank "Big Black" Smith, Jared Reinmuth, and Améziane 

14. Spinoza Doesn't Come Here Anymore by Colette Inez 

15. Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights by Juno Mac and Molly Smith 

16. Ascender Volume 2: The Dead Sea by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen 

17. Catwings by Ursula K. Le Guin

18. Ascender Volume 3: The Digital Mage by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen 

19. Stone Gathering: The Relevance of Rural edited by Deborah Jacobs

APRIL 

20. Szygy, Beauty by T Fleischmann 

21. Drawn to Berlin: Comic Workshops in Refugee Shelters and Other Stories from a New Europe by Ali Fitzgerald 

22. There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists edited by Cindy Milstein

23. Our Work is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance by Syan Rose 

MAY 

24. To Survive On This Shore by Jess T. Dugan and Vanessa Fabbre 

25. Trauma X: Holding Space Radically by Vo Vo 

26. Family Pictures by Gwendolyn Brooks 

27. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib 

JUNE 

28. Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai'a Williams 

29. Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country and Other Stories by Chavisa Woods 

30. The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson 

31. We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility by Marc Lamont Hill 

32. Waterbaby by Nikki Wallschlaeger 

33. Llewellyn's Little Book of Tarot by Barbara Moore

JULY

34. Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff 

35. The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution by Bryan Shih and Yohuru Williams

36. When the Chant Comes by Kay Ulanday Barrett 

37. Flood Song by Sherwin Bitsui

38. Mindful Tarot: Bring a Peace-filled, Compassionate Practice to the 78 Cards by Lisa Freinkel Tishman 

AUGUST 

39. Talking to the Diaspora by Lee Maracle

SEPTEMBER 

40. Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya by Jamaica Kincaid 

41. We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba 

42. Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives edited by Bruce Owens Grimm, Miguel M. Morales, and Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini 

43. The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood by Krys Malcolm Belc 

OCTOBER

44. Love is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar 

45. Unremembered Country by Susan Griffin 

46. Guillotine by Eduardo Corral

NOVEMBER

47. Wake: The Untold History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall, illustrated by Hugo Martínez 

48. The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk About Life, Politics, and the Revolution by Susie Day 

49. White Magic by Elissa Washuta 

50. Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson 

DECEMBER

51. Fantasia for the Man in Blue by Tommye Blount 

52. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid

53. Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators edited by the Education for Liberation Network and the Critical Resistance Editorial Collective 

54. Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought edited by Briona Simone Jones 

55. Green Glass Ghosts by Rae Spoon

56. Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. LeGuin edited by Susan DeFreitas 

57. Hawkwings by Karen Lee Osborne 

2020 Reading

JANUARY
1. Hermosa by Yesika Salgado
2. Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz
3. Teaching Resistance: Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Cultural Subversives in the Classroom edited by John Mink
4. The Slow Art by Sierra Golden
5. Between Darkness & Trust by Lorraine Ferra
6. When We Rise: My Life in the Movement by Cleve Jones
7. Shameless Feminists edited by Isabella Bannerman, Susan Simensky Bietila, Sabrina Jones, and Rebecca Migdal
8. Vantage by Taneum Bambrick
9. Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib
FEBRUARY
10. The Power by Naomi Alderman
11. Black Hammer: Age of Doom, Part Two by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ornstrom, Rich Tommaso, Dave Stewart, and Todd Klein
12. The Crying Book by Heather Christle
MARCH
13. Beyond Survival: Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
14. Asegi Stories: Cheroke Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill
15. In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
16. Ofrezco Mi Corazón Como Una Diana/I Offer My Heart as a Target by Johanny Vázquez Paz
17. Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug
18. The Strange by Jérôme Ruillier
19. This American Autopsy by José Antonio Rodríguez
20. Variations on Dawn and Dusk by Dan Beachy-Quick
APRIL
21. Heed the Hollow by Malcolm Tariq
22. Shit is Real by Aisha Franz
23. The Face of Struggle by Seth Tobocman
24. Wilderness Lessons by JM Miller
25. The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
26. The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns translated by Matty Weingast
27. Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now by Jenny Brown
MAY
28. Variations of Labor by Alex Gallo-Brown
29. Big Familia by Tomas Moniz
30. No! Against Adult Supremacy Anthology
31. The River Twice by Kathleen Graber
32. Immortal: Mourning, Martyrs, & Murals edited by Hannah Pearce
JUNE
33. Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh
JULY
34. We Had No Rules by Corinne Manning
35. Subduction by Kristen Millares Young
AUGUST
36. Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
37. Hand Dance by Wanda Coleman
OCTOBER
38. This Place: 150 Years Retold with foreword by Alicia Elliott

NOVEMBER

39. Seattle Walk Report by Susanna Ryan 

DECEMBER

40. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: A Visual History by Melissa Wanger, Tim Lybarger, and Jenna McGuiggan 

Books Read in 2019

JANUARY

1. Night Moves by Jessica Hopper
2. Report from Planet Midnight by Nalo Hopkinson
3. Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart
4. Bury It by sam sax
5. Eight Men by Richard Wright
6. See You in the Morning by Mairead Case
7. Little Fish by Casey Plett
8. Forward by Lisa Maas
9. Sabrina by Nick Drnaso
10. Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness by Reinhard Kleist
11. Black Hammer: Age of Doom, Part 1 by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ornstrom, Dave Stewart, and Todd Klein
12. The Man with Night Sweats by Thom Gunn
13. The Art Lover by Carole Maso
14. Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
15. Long Red Hair by Meags Fitzgerald
16. Dregs by Cynthia Cruz
17. Geography of the Heart by Fenton Johnson
18. Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 by MK Czerwiec
FEBRUARY
19. Losing the Girl by MariNaomi
20. Wilder by Claire Wahmanholm
21. Heaven's Coast by Mark Doty
22. Instruments of the True Measure by Laura Da'
23. Palindromania by Jon Agee
24. All the Answers by Joel Kupperman
25. Incognegro by Mat Johnson, illustrated by Warren Pleece
26. Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition by Julia Kaye
27. American Widow by Alissa Torres, illustrated by Sungyoon Choi
28. Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival by Sean Strub
29. Humid Pitch by Cheryl Clarke
30. Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide by Isabel Quintero and Zeke Peña
MARCH
31. City of God by Gil Cuadros
32. Sheets by Brenna Thummler
33. The Gifts of the Body by Rebecca Brown
34. Of Mongrelitude by Julian Talamantez Brolaski
35. Now is the Time of Monsters edited by World War 3 Collective
36. Zooicide: Seeing Cruelty, Demanding Abolition by Sue Coe
37. MxT by Sina Queyras
38. Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
39. a place called No Homeland by Kai Cheng Thom
APRIL
40. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown
41. This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death by Harold Brodkey
42. Girl Town by Carolyn Nowak
43. My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
44. Blind Girl Grunt: The Selected Blues Lyrics and Other Poems by Constance Merritt
45. From Lone Mountain by John Porcellino
MAY
46. Time Remaining by James McCourt
47. Red Winter by Anneli Furmark
48. Bad Friends by ancco
49. Perfect Example by John Porcellino
50. The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
51. Redwall: The Graphic Novel by Brian Jacques, illustrated by Bret Blevins
52. ESL or You Weren't Here by Aldrin Valdez
53. We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina L. Love
54. The Sea by Rikke Villadsen
55. Unreal City by D.J. Bryant
56. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
57. Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal
58. So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018 by Ursula K. Le Guin
59. You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar
JUNE
60. Sunburning by Keiler Roberts
61. Thoreau at Walden by John Porcellino
62. One Dirty Tree by Noah Van Sciver
63. The Interview by Manuele Fior
64. The Year of Blue Water by Yanyi
65. 5,000 km Per Second by Manuele Fior
66. Blackbird Days by Manuele Fior
67. Loves You by Sarah Gambito
68. Red Ultramarine by Manuele Fior
69. Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis by Kevin J. Mumford
70. Ridiculous Light by Valencia Robin
71. Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers
JULY
72. The Summer of Dead Birds by Ali Liebegott
73. Anne of Green Gables adapted by Mariah Marsden, illustrated by Brenna Thummler
74. What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forché
75. History of Violence by Édouard Louis
76. Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love by Keith S. Wilson
77. Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS by Martin Duberman
AUGUST
78. A Certain Loneliness by Sandra Gail Lambert
79. Library of Small Catastrophes by Alison C. Rollins
80. Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T Fleischmann
81. Documents by Jan-Henry Gray
82. Trillium by Jeff Lemire
SEPTEMBER
83. The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship by Paul Lisicky
84. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O'Connor
85. Some Beheadings by Aditi Machado
86. Mean by Myriam Gurba
87. The Government Lake by James Tate
88. Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture by Nora Samaran
89. Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History by Heather Love
90. Goliath by Tom Gauld
91. Night Angler by Geffrey M. Davis
92. BTTM FDRS by Ezra Claytan Daniels, illustrated by Ben Passmore
93. Deep Lane by Mark Doty
OCTOBER
94. Sing to It by Amy Hempel
95. I Am Young by M. Dean
96. Amateur: A True Story of What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee
97. What the Living Do by Marie Howe
98. A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America by Leila Rupp
99. Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues: Education for the Liberation of Black and Brown Girls by Monique W. Morris
100. Register of Illuminated Villages by Tarfia Faizullah
101. The Wild Girls by Ursula K. Le Guin
102. Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strikes and Working-Class Politics by Eric Blanc
NOVEMBER
103. Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
104. Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers by Stephen Shames and Bobby Seale
105. Oculus by Sally Wen Mao
106. The Face: A Time Code by Ruth Ozeki
107. On Subbing: The First Four Years by Dave Roche
108. The Kingdom of Ordinary Time by Marie Howe
109. Add Toner by Aaron Cometbus
110. Stay and Fight by Madline ffitch
111. Eye Level by Jenny Xie
112. You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor by Fred Rogers
113. X: Straight Edge and Radical Sobriety edited by Gabriel Kuhn
DECEMBER
114. Talk Like a Man by Nisi Shawl
115. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
116. High School by Sara Quin and Tegan Quin
117. Circles of Care: Caring For and Remembering People with AIDS by Peggy Monroe with Judy Gough and Tim Grendon
118. The Intangibles by Elaine Equi
119. The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care by Anne Boyer
120. Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man by John Porcellino
121. My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The unabashedly human experience of raising kids with disabilities edited by Yantra Bertelli, Jennifer Silverman, and Sarah Talbot