Books Read in 2018

JANUARY

1. What is This Thing Called Love by Kim Addonizio
2. Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World edited by Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman
3. Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare
4. Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman
5. Something Sinister by Chayan Harara
6. Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal
7. Lessons on Expulsion by Erika L. Sanchez
BLACK RADICALISM MONTH
8. Black Lesbian in White America by Anita Cornwell
9. A Burst of Light and Other Essays by Audre Lorde
10. Affirmative Acts: Political Essays by June Jordan
11. Incendiary Art: Poems by Patricia Smith
12. Absence in the Palms of My Hands by asha bandele
13. Captivity by Toi Derricotte
MARCH
14. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom
15. El Deafo by Cece Bell
16. New People by Danzy Senna
17. Bicycles: Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni
18. Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays by Fenton Johnson
19. Transnational Battle Field by Heriberto Yépez
20. Fight Fascism edited by World War 3 Collective
21. Unsettling the Commons: Social Movements Within, Against, and Beyond Settler Colonialism by Craig Fortier
22. Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing by Charif Shanahan
23. Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela by George Ciccariello-Maher
24. I Know Your Kind by William Brewer
APRIL
25. Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman
26. Mammoths of the Great Plains by Eleanor Arnason
27. Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing
28. We Were Witches by Ariel Gore
29. Trans Homo... GASP!: Gay FTM and Cis Men on Sex and Love edited by Avi Ben-Zeev and Pete Bailey
30. We Come Elemental by Tamiko Beyer
31. Cruel Futures by Carmen Giménez Smith
MAY
32. The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future edited by Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
33. I Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us: An Oral History of the Attacks Against the Students of Ayotzinapa by John Gibler
34. Afterglow (a dog memoir) by Eileen Myles
35. Comics for Choice: Illustrated Abortion Stories, History and Politics edited by Hazel Newlevant, Whit Taylor, and O.K. Fox
36. Overpour by Jane Wong
37. Lost Property by Andy Poyiadgi
38. Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green
39. Earth Vowels by Duane Niatum
40. Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen
41. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
JUNE
42. Black Hammer: Secret Origins by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormstrom, and Dave Stewart
43. Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore
44. You & a Bike & a Road by Eleanor Davis
45. Banthology: Stories from Banned Nations edited by Sarah Cleave
46. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
47. No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. LeGuin
48. Eleven by David Llewellyn
49. Spinning by Tillie Walden
50. Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story by Ari Folman and David Polonsky
51. Selah by Keith Jarrett
52. There Should Be Flowers by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
53. Walking with Ghosts by Qwo-Li Driskill
JULY
54. Towards the Source by Quakers in Wales
55. Narrow River, Wide Sky: A Memoir by Jenny Forrester
56. A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey
57. Royal City: Next of Kin by Jeff Lemire
58. Some Ether by Nick Flynn
59. Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security by Todd Miller
60. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell
61. Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed
62. Islanders by Teow Lim Goh
63. Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance by Fady Joudah
AUGUST
64. Salvador by Joan Didion
65. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli
66. What Runs Over by Kayleb Rae Candrilli
67. Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Doom by Jeff Lemire and David Rubin
68. Sympathetic Little Monster by Cameron Awkward-Rich
69. I'm Not Here by gg
70. Nothing Lasts Forever by Sina Grace
71. Threat Come Close by Aaron Coleman
SEPTEMBER
72. Tenements, Towers, and Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City by Julia Wertz
73. AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
74. The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
75. The Dream of Reason by Jenny George
76. The Animal Too Big to Kill by Shane McCrae
77. A.D.: After Death by Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire
78. Queer Sex:  A Trans and Non-Binary Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure, and Relationships by Juno Roche
79. Everything is Flammable by Gabrielle Bell
80. Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker and Julia Scheele
81. Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke
82. Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
83. almost any shit will do by emji spero
84. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee
85. Depending on the Light by Thea Hillman
86. Citizen Illegal by José Olivarez
87. Just Jesus: My Struggle to Become Human by Walter Wink
OCTOBER
88. I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya
89. Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
90. Don't Let Them See Me Like This by Jasmine Gibson
91. Passing for Human by Liana Finck
92. In the Still of the Night by Dara Weir
93. Black Hammer Volume Two: The Event by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ornmston, Dave Stewart, and David Rubin
94. Feminisms in Motion: Voices for Justice, Liberation, and Transformation edited by Jessica Hoffman and Daria Yudacufski
95. Flemish by Caroline Knox
NOVEMBER
96. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
97. The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
98. Cruel Fiction by Wendy Trevino
99. The Underbelly by Gary Phillips
100. Blues for Mister Charlie by James Baldwin
101. Why Art? by Eleanor Davis
102. The Carrying by Ada Limón
103. Here, Bullet by Brian Turner
DECEMBER
104. The Case of Alan Turing: The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of the Legendary Codebreaker by Arnaud Delalande and Eric Liberge
105. Quaker Faith and Practice by Ireland Yearly Meeting
106. Adrian and the Tree of Secrets by Hubert
107. Sketchtasy by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
108. Apocalypse, Darling by Barrie Jean Borich
109. Vivas to Those Who Have Failed by Martín Espada
110. Good Times by Lucille Clifton
111. People Are Tiny in Paintings of China by Cynthia Arrieu-King
112. Body Music by Julie Maroh

Movies I Love

Before I Disappear
Being There
Bombay Beach
Harold and Maude
Just Another Girl on the IRT
Lazy Eye
The Royal Tenenbaums
Strike a Pose

Books Read in 2017

JANUARY

1. Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism edited by Cindy Milstein
2. Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush by Luis Alberto Urrea
3. Streetopia edited by Erick Lyle
4. Sublife Volume 1 by John Pham
5. A Child's Life and Other Stories by Phoebe Gloeckner
6. My Life and My Life in the Nineties by Lyn Hejinian
7. Cursed in Cairo by Chris Clavin
8. Calamities by Renee Gladman
9. Experimental Love by Cheryl Clarke
BLACK FUTURES MONTH
10. The Black Back-Ups by Kate Rushin
11. Forty-Three Septembers by Jewelle Gomez
12. Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey
13. My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid
14. Haruko/Love Poems by June Jordan
15. Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deveare Smith
16. Jonestown and Other Madness by Pat Parker
17. Triangular Road by Paule Marshall
18. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ when the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
19. The Activist by Renee Gladman
20. To Disembark by Gwendolyn Brooks
21. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
MARCH
22. The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance by Audre Lorde
23. War of Streets and Houses by Sophie Yanow
24. Soldier: A Poet's Childhood by June Jordan
25. Laid Waste by Julia Gfrörer
26. My, My, My, My, My by Tara Hardy
27. Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adapation by Octavia Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy, illustrated by John Jennings
28. Life Sucks by Jessica Abel and Gabe Sorias, illustrated by Warren Pleece
29. Bellocq's Ophelia by Natasha Trethewey
30. In Full Velvet by Jenny Johnson
31. A House of My Own: Stories from My Life by Sandra Cisneros
32. The Hospital Suite by John Porcellino
33. Blackacre by Monica Youn
34. Flies by Michael Dickman
35. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce by Morgan Parker
36. Queer and Trans Artists of Color, Volume 2 edited by Nia King
37. And Then We Became by devorah major
APRIL
38. This City by Claudia Castro Luna
39. DNA Hymn by Annah Anti-Palindrome
40. Burnt Offerings by Timothy Liu
41. My Brain Hurts, Volume One by Liz Baillie
42. The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forché
43. Interviews/Entrevistas by Gloria Anzaldua edited by AnaLouise Keating
44. Communal Nude: Collected Essays by Robert Glück
45. Feeling Light Within, I Walk: Tales, Adventures, and Reflections of a Quaker Activist by Peg Morton
46. Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict by Irene Vilar
47. My Brain Hurts, Volume 2 by Liz Baillie
MAY
48. Sunday in the Park with Boys by Jane Mai
49. Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life by Kim Addonizio
50. Educating for Insurgency: The Roles of Young People in Schools of Poverty by Jay Gillen
51. Becoming Unbecoming by Una
52. Work & Days by Tess Taylor
53. Newcomer Can't Swim by Renee Gladman
54. The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
55. King-Cat Classix by John Porcellino
56. Thrall by Natasha Trethewey
57. Nightlights by Lorena Alvarez
58. Brutal Imagination: Poems by Cornelius Eady
59. Scenes from an Impending Marriage by Adrian Tomine
60. Afterland by Mai Der Vang
JUNE
61. Rat Girl by Kristin Hersh
62. Len: A Lawyer in History by Seth Tobocman
63. Anybody by Ari Banias
64. Four Reincarnations by Max Ritvo
65. No More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality by Jordan Flaherty
66. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen
67. The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
68. Nature Poem by Tommy Pico
69. Brightfellow by Rikki Ducornet
JULY
70. Rad Families edited by Tomas Moniz
71. Imaginary Vessels by Paisley Rekdal
72. The Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire
73. Gutshot by Amelia Gray
74. Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
75. Magdalene by Marie Howe
76. Sleepwalk and Other Stories by Adrian Tomine
77. Finally Got the News! The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979 edited by Brad Duncan and Interference Archive
78. California Dreamin': Cass Elliott Before the Mamas and the Papas by Pénélope Bagieu
79. Pinky and Stinky by James Kochalka
80. What Have You Done to Our Ears to Make Us Hear Echoes? by Arlene Kim
AUGUST
81. The Nobody by Jeff Lemire
82. Zapantera Negra: Artistic Encounters Between Black Panthers and Zapatistas edited by Marc James Léger and David Tomas
83. Threnody by Juliet Patterson
84. Such a Lovely Little War: Saigon 1961-1963 by Marcelino Truong
85. How to Get Over by t'ai freedom ford
86. Counting Descent by Clint Smith
SEPTEMBER
87. Gauguin: The Other World by Fabrizio Dori
88. After Nothing Comes by Aidan Koch
89. Hard Child by Natalie Shapero
90. Threads from the Refugee Crisis by Kate Evans
91. No Wall They Can Build by an ex-desert-aid worker
92. Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
93. The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
94. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
95. The January Children by Safia Elhillo
OCTOBER
96. Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar
97. Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me by Janet Mock
98. Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief edited by Cindy Milstein
99. Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991 by Minnie Bruce Pratt
100. Amulet by Roberto Bolaño
101. Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut by Vickie Vértiz
102. Bugle by Tod Marshall
NOVEMBER
103. The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt
104. Whereas by Layli Long Soldier
105. Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home by Nicole J. Georges
106. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle
107. A Year Without Mom by Dasha Tolstikova
108. Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
109. Good Times by Lucille Clifton
DECEMBER
110. Born to Belonging: Writings on Spirit and Justice by Mab Segrest
111. Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora
112. Joie de Vivre: Selected Poems 1992-2012 by Lisa Jarnot
113. Learning Good Consent edited by Cindy Crabb
114. Talk Stories by Jamaica Kincaid
115. Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealey
116. Susceptible by Geneviève Castrée

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