Monday, January 11, 2021

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 

Friday, January 3, 2020

2020 Reading

JANUARY
1. Hermosa by Yesika Salgado
2. Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz
3. Teaching Resistance: Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Cultural Subversives in the Classroom edited by John Mink
4. The Slow Art by Sierra Golden
5. Between Darkness & Trust by Lorraine Ferra
6. When We Rise: My Life in the Movement by Cleve Jones
7. Shameless Feminists edited by Isabella Bannerman, Susan Simensky Bietila, Sabrina Jones, and Rebecca Migdal
8. Vantage by Taneum Bambrick
9. Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib
FEBRUARY
10. The Power by Naomi Alderman
11. Black Hammer: Age of Doom, Part Two by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ornstrom, Rich Tommaso, Dave Stewart, and Todd Klein
12. The Crying Book by Heather Christle
MARCH
13. Beyond Survival: Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
14. Asegi Stories: Cheroke Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill
15. In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
16. Ofrezco Mi Corazón Como Una Diana/I Offer My Heart as a Target by Johanny Vázquez Paz
17. Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug
18. The Strange by Jérôme Ruillier
19. This American Autopsy by José Antonio Rodríguez
20. Variations on Dawn and Dusk by Dan Beachy-Quick
APRIL
21. Heed the Hollow by Malcolm Tariq
22. Shit is Real by Aisha Franz
23. The Face of Struggle by Seth Tobocman
24. Wilderness Lessons by JM Miller
25. The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
26. The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns translated by Matty Weingast
27. Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now by Jenny Brown
MAY
28. Variations of Labor by Alex Gallo-Brown
29. Big Familia by Tomas Moniz
30. No! Against Adult Supremacy Anthology
31. The River Twice by Kathleen Graber
32. Immortal: Mourning, Martyrs, & Murals edited by Hannah Pearce
JUNE
33. Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh
JULY
34. We Had No Rules by Corinne Manning
35. Subduction by Kristen Millares Young
AUGUST
36. Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
37. Hand Dance by Wanda Coleman
OCTOBER
38. This Place: 150 Years Retold with foreword by Alicia Elliott
NOVEMBER
39. Seattle Walk Report by Susanna Ryan 
DECEMBER
40. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: A Visual History by Melissa Wanger, Tim Lybarger, and Jenna McGuiggan 

Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Books Read in 2019

JANUARY
1. Night Moves by Jessica Hopper
2. Report from Planet Midnight by Nalo Hopkinson
3. Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart
4. Bury It by sam sax
5. Eight Men by Richard Wright
6. See You in the Morning by Mairead Case
7. Little Fish by Casey Plett
8. Forward by Lisa Maas
9. Sabrina by Nick Drnaso
10. Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness by Reinhard Kleist
11. Black Hammer: Age of Doom, Part 1 by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ornstrom, Dave Stewart, and Todd Klein
12. The Man with Night Sweats by Thom Gunn
13. The Art Lover by Carole Maso
14. Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
15. Long Red Hair by Meags Fitzgerald
16. Dregs by Cynthia Cruz
17. Geography of the Heart by Fenton Johnson
18. Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 by MK Czerwiec
FEBRUARY
19. Losing the Girl by MariNaomi
20. Wilder by Claire Wahmanholm
21. Heaven's Coast by Mark Doty
22. Instruments of the True Measure by Laura Da'
23. Palindromania by Jon Agee
24. All the Answers by Joel Kupperman
25. Incognegro by Mat Johnson, illustrated by Warren Pleece
26. Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition by Julia Kaye
27. American Widow by Alissa Torres, illustrated by Sungyoon Choi
28. Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival by Sean Strub
29. Humid Pitch by Cheryl Clarke
30. Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide by Isabel Quintero and Zeke Peña
MARCH
31. City of God by Gil Cuadros
32. Sheets by Brenna Thummler
33. The Gifts of the Body by Rebecca Brown
34. Of Mongrelitude by Julian Talamantez Brolaski
35. Now is the Time of Monsters edited by World War 3 Collective
36. Zooicide: Seeing Cruelty, Demanding Abolition by Sue Coe
37. MxT by Sina Queyras
38. Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
39. a place called No Homeland by Kai Cheng Thom
APRIL
40. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown
41. This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death by Harold Brodkey
42. Girl Town by Carolyn Nowak
43. My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
44. Blind Girl Grunt: The Selected Blues Lyrics and Other Poems by Constance Merritt
45. From Lone Mountain by John Porcellino
MAY
46. Time Remaining by James McCourt
47. Red Winter by Anneli Furmark
48. Bad Friends by ancco
49. Perfect Example by John Porcellino
50. The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
51. Redwall: The Graphic Novel by Brian Jacques, illustrated by Bret Blevins
52. ESL or You Weren't Here by Aldrin Valdez
53. We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina L. Love
54. The Sea by Rikke Villadsen
55. Unreal City by D.J. Bryant
56. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
57. Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal
58. So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018 by Ursula K. Le Guin
59. You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar
JUNE
60. Sunburning by Keiler Roberts
61. Thoreau at Walden by John Porcellino
62. One Dirty Tree by Noah Van Sciver
63. The Interview by Manuele Fior
64. The Year of Blue Water by Yanyi
65. 5,000 km Per Second by Manuele Fior
66. Blackbird Days by Manuele Fior
67. Loves You by Sarah Gambito
68. Red Ultramarine by Manuele Fior
69. Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis by Kevin J. Mumford
70. Ridiculous Light by Valencia Robin
71. Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers
JULY
72. The Summer of Dead Birds by Ali Liebegott
73. Anne of Green Gables adapted by Mariah Marsden, illustrated by Brenna Thummler
74. What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forché
75. History of Violence by Édouard Louis
76. Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love by Keith S. Wilson
77. Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS by Martin Duberman
AUGUST
78. A Certain Loneliness by Sandra Gail Lambert
79. Library of Small Catastrophes by Alison C. Rollins
80. Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T Fleischmann
81. Documents by Jan-Henry Gray
82. Trillium by Jeff Lemire
SEPTEMBER
83. The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship by Paul Lisicky
84. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O'Connor
85. Some Beheadings by Aditi Machado
86. Mean by Myriam Gurba
87. The Government Lake by James Tate
88. Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture by Nora Samaran
89. Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History by Heather Love
90. Goliath by Tom Gauld
91. Night Angler by Geffrey M. Davis
92. BTTM FDRS by Ezra Claytan Daniels, illustrated by Ben Passmore
93. Deep Lane by Mark Doty
OCTOBER
94. Sing to It by Amy Hempel
95. I Am Young by M. Dean
96. Amateur: A True Story of What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee
97. What the Living Do by Marie Howe
98. A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America by Leila Rupp
99. Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues: Education for the Liberation of Black and Brown Girls by Monique W. Morris
100. Register of Illuminated Villages by Tarfia Faizullah
101. The Wild Girls by Ursula K. Le Guin
102. Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strikes and Working-Class Politics by Eric Blanc
NOVEMBER
103. Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
104. Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers by Stephen Shames and Bobby Seale
105. Oculus by Sally Wen Mao
106. The Face: A Time Code by Ruth Ozeki
107. On Subbing: The First Four Years by Dave Roche
108. The Kingdom of Ordinary Time by Marie Howe
109. Add Toner by Aaron Cometbus
110. Stay and Fight by Madline ffitch
111. Eye Level by Jenny Xie
112. You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor by Fred Rogers
113. X: Straight Edge and Radical Sobriety edited by Gabriel Kuhn
DECEMBER
114. Talk Like a Man by Nisi Shawl
115. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
116. High School by Sara Quin and Tegan Quin
117. Circles of Care: Caring For and Remembering People with AIDS by Peggy Monroe with Judy Gough and Tim Grendon
118. The Intangibles by Elaine Equi
119. The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care by Anne Boyer
120. Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man by John Porcellino
121. My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The unabashedly human experience of raising kids with disabilities edited by Yantra Bertelli, Jennifer Silverman, and Sarah Talbot

Monday, January 15, 2018

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

Saturday, January 13, 2018

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

Monday, January 9, 2017

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

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