Sunday, January 4, 2015

Books Read in 2015

JANUARY
1. Disguised as a Poem: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin by Judith Tannenbaum
2. Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
3. Tomboy: a Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince
4. A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir by Daisy Hernandez
5. Rookie Yearbook Three edited by Tavi Gevinson
6. Please by Jericho Brown
7. Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics by Michael Bronski and Kay Whitlock
8. Deviant Propulsion by CAConrad
9. Of Lamb by Matthea Harvey
10. Storyteller by Leslie Marmon Silko
11. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
FEBRUARY
12. A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon by CAConrad
13. You Are Free: Stories by Danzy Senna
14. The New Testament by Jericho Brown
15. Mother Love: Poems by Rita Dove
16. Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
17. People Are Tiny in Paintings of China by Cynthia Arrieu-King
MARCH
18. Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better by Maya Schenwar
19. Black Looks: Race and Representation by bell hooks
20. Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
21. Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo
22. How to Grow Up: A Memoir by Michelle Tea
23. Symptomatic by Danzy Senna
24. Advanced Elvis Course by CAConrad
25. Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist by David Hartsough with Joyce Hollyday
26. Indivisible: Poems for Social Justice edited by Gail Bush and Randy Meyer
APRIL
27. A Restricted Country by Joan Nestle
28. The Wilderness by Sandra Lim
29. The First Bad Man by Miranda July
30. This Life Now by Michael Broder
31. Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
32. Storm Tide by Marge Piercy and Ira Wood
33. Hard Love Province by Marilyn Chin
MAY
34. Where the Words End and My Body Begins by Amber Dawn
35. Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements edited by Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown
36. She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya
37. Face by Sherman Alexie
38. God Loves Hair by Vivek Shraya
39. Diana's Tree by Alejandra Pizarnik
40. A Gathering of Matter a Matter of Gathering by Dawn Lundy Martin
41. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
JUNE
42. Gephyromania by TC Tolbert
43. The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
44. Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
45. Our Andromeda by Brenda Shaughnessy
46. War of the Foxes by Richard Siken
47. Don't Go Back to Sleep by Timothy Liu
48. My Dumb Dirty Eyes by Lisa Hanawalt
49. The Body's Question by Tracy K. Smith
JULY
50. This Way to the Sugar by Hieu Minh Nguyen
51. Vida by Marge Piercy
52. The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander
53. Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975 by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
54. How To Be Drawn by Terrance Hayes
55. Haiti Glass by Lenelle Moise
AUGUST
56. Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division by Jon Ginoli
57. We Come Elemental by Tamiko Beyer
58. Writing on the Wall by Mumia Abu-Jamal
59. From a Land Where Other People Live by Audre Lorde
60. Teratology by Susannah Nevison
61. Good Times by Lucille Clifton
62. Qu33r edited by Rob Kirby
63. Logorrhea Dementia: A Self-Diagnosis by Kyle Dargan
64. The Guardians: An Elegy by Sarah Manguso
65. It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image+Text Work by Women Artists & Writers edited by Lisa Pearson
66. The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger
67. The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill
68. The Do-Over by Kathleen Ossip
69. The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso
70. Do Not Rise by Beth Bachmann
71. Break It Down by Lydia Davis
SEPTEMBER
72. Our Lives Matter: The Ballou Story Project
73. Translating Mo'um by Cathy Park Hong
74. Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History by Joel Christian Gill
75. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
75. The Grief Performance by Emily Kendal Frey
76. Dark Green by Emily Hunt
77. Ongoingness: The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso
OCTOBER
78. Red Clay: Poems and Stories by Linda Hogan
79. Gurlesque: The new grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics edited by Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenberg
80. Sorrow Arrow by Emily Kendal Frey
81. Behind My Eyes by Li-Young Lee
82. To Teach: The Journey, In Comics by William Ayers and Ryan Alexander-Tanner
83. Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria, Jr.
84. Bye Bye Babylon: Beirut 1975-1979 by Lamia Ziade
85. Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
86. Pulling Taffy by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
87. Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey by GB Tran
88. The End of Eve: A Memoir by Ariel Gore
NOVEMBER
89. Heads or Tails: Stories by Lilli Carre
90. The Lagoon by Lilli Carre
91. A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld
92. Same Difference by Derek Kirk Kim
93. That Winter the Wolf Came by Juliana Spahr
94. American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
95. Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America by David H.T. Wong
96. Red: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
97. When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz
98. Fairy Tale Comics edited by Chris Duffy
DECEMBER
99. Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol
100. Indoor Voice by Jillian Tamaki
101. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
102. Street Smarts by devorah major
103. Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans by Roland Laird and Taneshia Nash Laird, edited by Elihu Bey
104. The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic by Jessica Hopper
105. Ghost Girl by Amy Gerstler
106. Museum of Mistakes: The Fart Party Collection by Julia Wertz
107. Atlas of the Human Heart by Ariel Gore

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