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