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