Books Read in 2016

JANUARY

1. I Remember Beirut by Zeina Abirached
2. The Totality for Kids by Joshua Clover
3. Bring Down the Chandeliers by Tara Hardy
4. Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
5. Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros
6. Split by Cathy Linh Che
7. Lost Things by Jenny Offill
8. Rookie Yearbook Four edited by Tavi Gevinson
9. A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett
10. Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxembourg by Kate Evans
11. Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work by Melissa Gira Grant
12. Corpse Whale by dg nanouk okpik
BLACK FUTURES MONTH
13. Natural Birth by Toi Derricotte
14. Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture by Angela Davis
15. Wild Hundreds by Nate Marshall
16. The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin
17. Bringing the Shovel Down by Ross Gay
18. Incorrect Merciful Impulses by Camille Rankine
19. Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
20. Roll Deep by Major Jackson
21. Bastards of the Reagan Era by Reginald Dwayne Betts
22. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
MARCH
23. Hip Logic by Terrance Hayes
24. Live from Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal
25. This Connection of Everyone With Lungs by Juliana Spahr
26. Earthling by Aisha Franz
27. Letting It Go by Miriam Katin
28. Baddawi by Leila Abdelrazaq
29. Notes on the Assemblage by Juan Felipe Herrera
30. Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis
31. The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir by Linda Hogan
32. Poetry Is Useless by Anders Nilsen
33. [insert] boy by Danez Smith
34. Citizen 13660 by Mine Okubo
35. Wanting In Arabic: Poems by Trish Salah
36. The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson
37. From the Belly of My Beauty by Esther G. Belin
APRIL
38. Bone Light by Orlando White
39. The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative by Thomas King
40. Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
41. Photobooth: A Biography by Meags Fitzgerald
42. Lucky Fish by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
43. A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison by R. Dwayne Betts
44. Drive-By Vigils by R. Zamora Linmark
45. Angels With Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption by Walidah Imarisha
46. Not Funny Ha-Ha: A Handbook for Something Hard by Leah Hayes
47. Slow Lightning by Eduardo Corral
MAY
48. Nejma by Nayyirah Waheed
49. Palefire by MK Reed and Farel Dalrymple
50. Her Yes: Poems by Kim Vaeth
51. Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine
52. Drawing Blood: A Memoir by Molly Crabapple
53. Bodymap: Poems by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
54. How to Be Happy by Eleanor Davis
55. Hardly War by Don Mee Choi
56. Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White by Lila Quintero Weaver
57. Hemming the Water by Yonah Harvey
JUNE
58. Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir by Ernestine Hayes
59. Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures by Phoebe Gloeckner
60. Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 by Anna Deveare Smith
61. A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York by Liana Finck
62. The Black Maria by Aracelis Girmay
63. Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop
64. The Last Generation by Cherrie Moraga
JULY
65. Tributaries by Laura Da'
66. Staying True: Musings of an Odd-duck Quaker Lesbian Approaching Death by Lynn Waddington
67. Zigzagger: Stories by Manuel Muñoz
68. One Love Affair by Jenny Boully
69. Unpeopled Eden by Rigoberto Gonzalez
70. Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver
AUGUST
71. We the Animals by Justin Torres
72. Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa by Rigoberto Gonzalez
73. Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me by Ana Castillo
74. Mundo Cruel by Luis Negron
75. Someone Please Have Sex With Me by Gina Wynbrandt
76. Where Did You Sleep Last Night?: A Personal History by Danzy Senna
77. Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry edited by Emanuel Xavier
78. Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
79. Anarchists Against the Wall edited by Uri Gordon and Ohal Grietzer
80. We Are Nothing and So Can You by Jasper Bernes
81. Chord by Rick Barot
SEPTEMBER
82. Emplumada by Lorna Dee Cervantes
83. Anarchism and Its Aspirations by Cindy Milstein
84. Homebase by Shawn Wong
85. My Nature is Hunger: New & Selected Poems, 1989-2004 by Luis J. Rodriguez
86. Life is Wonderful, People are Terrific by Meliza Bañales
87. So Much Synth by Brenda Shaughnessy
88. How the End Begins by Cynthia Cruz
89. Vivas To Those Who Have Failed by Martin Espada
90. Empanada: A Lesbiana Story En Probaditas by Anel I. Flores
OCTOBER
91. Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident by Bill Ayers
92. A Woman of Property by Robyn Schiff
93. The Spectral Wilderness by Oliver Bendorf
94. Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles
95. Restoring the Color of Roses by Barrie Jean Borich
96. Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin edited by Philip Cushway and Michael Warr
97. Cannibal by Safiya Sinclair
NOVEMBER
98. Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me by Sarah Leavitt
99. Boy With Thorn by Rickey Laurentiis
100. On the Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of the City by Erick Lyle
101. Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me by Harvey Pekar and JT Waldman
102. Dear, Sincerely by David Hernandez
103. Hot Dog Taste Test by Lisa Hanawalt
104. Turning Japanese by MariNaomi
105. Expecting Something Else by A.M. O'Malley
106. Even This Page is White by Vivek Shraya
107. Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul by Ryka Aoki
108. Impersonation by Joy Ladin
109. Free Pizza for Life: Or, the Early Days of Plan-It-X Records by Chris Clavin
110. La Perdida by Jessica Abel
DECEMBER
111. From the Warring Factions by Ammiel Alcalay
112. Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón
113. Bestiary by Donika Kelly
114. There Should Be Flowers by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
115. Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
116. On Call: Political Essays by June Jordan
117. Standing Water by Eleanor Chai