Thursday, January 3, 2013

Books Read in 2013

JANUARY:
1. Race Matters by Cornel West
2. To Be Broken and Tender: A Quaker Theology for Today by Marge Piercy Abbott
3. The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman
4. The Prisoner's Wife by asha bandele
5. Wings for Wheels: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen edited by Nomi Kane
6. Ways of Seeing by John Berger
7. Part Asian 100% Hapa: Portraits by Kip Fulton
8. The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
FEBRUARY:
9. Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays by Eula Biss
10. Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect You edited by Ryan Conrad
11. If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance edited by Angela Davis and political prisoners
12. Widow by Michelle Latiolais
MARCH
13. Important Comics are Bad by Dina Kelberman
14. Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez
15. Assata by Assata Shakur
16. The Silence of Our Friends by Mark Long, Jim Demonakos, and Nate Powell
17. The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities edited by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
18. Sweet Tooth Volume 3: Animal Armies by Jeff Lemire
19. Sweet Tooth Volume 4: Endangered Species by Jeff Lemire
APRIL
20. From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond edited by Morty Diamond
21. Dora: A Headcase by Lidia Yuknavitch
22. Plain Living: A Quaker Path to Simplicity collected by Catherine Whitmire
23. Green is the New Red by Will Potter
24. The End of San Francisco by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
25. Something Like Beautiful by asha bandele
26. Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States by Joey Mogul, Andrea Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock
27. Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg
MAY
28. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
29. Critical Resistance to the Prison-Industrial Complex: A Special Issue of the Journal Social Justice edited by the Critical Resistance Publications Collective
30. Stories of Transformative Justice by Ruth Morris
31. Sweet Tooth Volume 5: Unnatural Habitats by Jeff Lemire
32. Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities edited by Victoria Law and China Martens
33. The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
34. All Things Censored by Mumia Abu-Jamal
JUNE
35. Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics edited by Gabriel Kuhn
36. Spit and Passion by Cristy C. Road
37. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
38. Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me by Ellen Forney
39. Tumble Home by Amy Hempel
40. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
41. Calling Dr. Laura by Nicole Georges
42. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
JULY
43. Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology edited by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
44. Oppose and Propose! by Andrew Cornell
45. Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love, and Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary edited by Morty Diamond
46. Creating a Movement with Teeth: A Documentary History of the George Jackson Brigade edited by Daniel Burton-Rose
AUGUST
47. The Riot Grrrl Collection edited by Lisa Darms
48. Red Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi
49. Radiator Days by Lucy Knisley
50. The Adventuress by Audrey Niffenegger
51. Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22 by MariNaomi
52. The End by Anders Nilsen
53. Rookie Yearbook One edited by Tavi Gevinson
54. Don't Go Where I Can't Follow by Anders Nilsen
SEPTEMBER
55. The Beautifully Worthless by Ali Liebegott
56. Greenzine 14 by Cristy C. Road
57. Love Cake: Poems by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
58. The Feminist Critique of Language edited by Deborah Cameron
59. Soledad Brother by George Jackson
OCTOBER
60. Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex edited by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith
61. Whirligig by Paul Fleischman
62. The Black Notebooks by Toi Derricotte
63. Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History by Harvey Pekar
64. The Floundering Time by Katy Weselcouch
NOVEMBER
65. Not Your Mother's Meatloaf: A Sex Education Comic Book edited by Saiya Miller and Liza Bley
66. Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond by David Gilbert
67. My Dirty Dumb Eyes by Lisa Hanawalt
68. Walking with Ghosts by Qwo-Li Driskill
69. The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic
70. First Spring Grass Fire by Rae Spoon
71. Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) by Thea Hillman
72. Begging For It by Alex Dimitrov
73. 7 Miles a Second by David Wojnarowicz, Marguerite van Cook, and James Romberger
74. How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir by Amber Dawn
DECEMBER
75. Doris by Cindy Crabb
76. Letters to Wendy's by Joe Wenderoth
77. Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus
78. The Encyclopedia of Doris by Cindy Crabb
79. When We Were Outlaws by Jeanne Cordova
80. Fires by Raymond Carver

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