Favorite Reads

On My Shelf (or library loans at least)

2026 Reading List
Fiction Titles in Pink - Favorites in Bold
Title Author Genre fiction rec
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar speculative fiction Fiction TRUE
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Deesha Philyaw short stories Fiction FALSE
Happy Land Dolen Perkins-Valdez historical fiction Fiction TRUE
Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality Eliot Schrefer queer science Non-Fiction FALSE
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches Sangu Mandanna fantasy Fiction FALSE
Spent Alison Bechdel graphic novel Fiction FALSE
Radical Unlearning: The Art and Science of Creating Change from Within Lewis Raven Wallace individual and collective liberation Non-Fiction TRUE
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World Robin Wall Kimmerer radical science Non-Fiction TRUE
The Antidote Karen Russell historical fiction Fiction TRUE
Blob: A Love Story Maggie Su absurdist fiction Fiction FALSE
Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850–1950 Eli Erlick queer history Non-Fiction TRUE
A Game in Yellow Hailey Piper erotic horror Fiction FALSE
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy Mary Roach science Non-Fiction FALSE
The Pelican Child Joy Williams short stories Fiction FALSE
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery Siddharth Kara history Non-Fiction FALSE
Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity Joseph Lee memoir Non-Fiction TRUE
How to Dodge a Cannonball Dennard Dayle historical fiction Fiction FALSE
Peaces Helen Oyeyemi surrealist fiction Fiction FALSE
These Heathens Mia McKenzie historical fiction Fiction TRUE
There is No Place For Us: Working and Homeless in America Brian Gladstone social and economic justice Non-Fiction TRUE
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian radical science Non-Fiction TRUE
The Genius of Trees: How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World Harriet Rix science Non-Fiction FALSE
Orlando: A Biography Virginia Woolf speculative fiction Fiction FALSE
Mỹ Documents Kevin Nguyen dystopian fiction Fiction TRUE
Unfurl: Survival, Sorrows, & Dreaming Eli Clare poems Non-Fiction TRUE
Infomocracy: Book One of the Centenal Cycle Malka Older speculative fiction Fiction FALSE
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha disability justice Non-Fiction TRUE
Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South Mab Segrest biography Non-Fiction FALSE
Can’t Pay Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience Debt Collective economic resistance Non-Fiction TRUE
Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction edited by Sheree Renee Thomas short stories Fiction FALSE
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America Kathleen DuVal history Non-Fiction FALSE
Radical Relating: A Queer and Polyamory-Informed Guide to Love Beyond the Myth of Monogamy Mel Cassidy relationship and comunity building and maintenance Non-Fiction TRUE
Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse Kazu Haga transformational healing Non-Fiction TRUE
The Everlasting Alix E. Harrow romance Fiction FALSE
The Way Disabled People Love Each Other Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha poems Non-Fiction FALSE
Practicing Liberation: Transformative Strategies for Collective Healing & Systems Change: Reflections on burnout, trauma & building communities of care in social justice work edited by Tessa Hicks Peterson and Hala Khouri essays Non-Fiction FALSE
2025 Reading List
Fiction Titles in Pink - Favorites in Bold
Title Author Genre fiction rec
Ours Phillip B. Williams historical fiction Fiction TRUE
Smoke Kings Jahmal Mayfield thriller Fiction FALSE
James Percival Everett reimagined adaptation Fiction TRUE
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters Priya Parker community building Non-Fiction TRUE
The Whale Rider Witi Ihimaera historical fiction Fiction FALSE
Martyr! Kaveh Akbar psychological fiction Fiction TRUE
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston psychological fiction Fiction TRUE
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Jenny Odell anticapitalism Non-Fiction FALSE
Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church Hahrie Han faith and racial justice Non-Fiction TRUE
The Pairing Casey McQuiston queer romance Fiction FALSE
ADHD For Smart Ass Women: How to Fall in Love with Your Neurodivergent Brain Tracy Otsuka mental health Non-Fiction FALSE
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning Peter Beinart human rights Non-Fiction FALSE
Black Friend: Essays Ziwe memoir Non-Fiction FALSE
Talking About Abolition: A Police-Free World is Possible Sonali Kolhatkar abolition Non-Fiction TRUE
We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice adrienne maree brown movement building Non-Fiction FALSE
Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America Bernadette Atuahene history, economics Non-Fiction FALSE
Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin essays Non-Fiction FALSE
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Audre Lorde essays and speeches Non-Fiction TRUE
Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind Annalee Newitz politics Non-Fiction TRUE
Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders Vanessa Angélica Villarreal essays Non-Fiction TRUE
The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America Aaron Robertson history, family history Non-Fiction FALSE
Wandering Stars Tommy Orange historical fiction Fiction FALSE
Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel Loretta J Ross movement building Non-Fiction TRUE
A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging Lauren Markham history, current events Non-Fiction TRUE
The Life of Herod the Great: A Novel Zora Neale Hurston historical fiction Fiction FALSE
Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance Leonard Peltier and Harvey Arden memoir Non-Fiction TRUE
You Dreamed of Empires Álvaro Enrigue historical fiction Fiction FALSE
Sunrise on the Reaping Suzanne Collins speculative fiction Fiction TRUE
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics bell hooks feminism Non-Fiction FALSE
Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation Sophie Lewis feminism, history Non-Fiction FALSE
Health and Safety: A Breakdown Emily Witt memoir Non-Fiction FALSE
Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included) Pooja Lakshmin personal healing Non-Fiction FALSE
Chain-Gang All-Stars Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah speculative fiction Fiction TRUE
The Fire Next Time James Baldwin letters Non-Fiction TRUE
Sula Toni Morrison historical fiction Fiction FALSE
Night of the Living Rez Morgan Talty short stories Fiction FALSE
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age Annalee Newitz history Non-Fiction TRUE
“Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration Victoria Law abolition Non-Fiction FALSE
They Bloom at Night Trang Thanh Tran horror Fiction FALSE
The In-Between Bookstore Edward Underhill magical realism Fiction FALSE
Make Sure You Die Screaming Zee Carlstrom political fiction Fiction TRUE
The Black Box: Writing the Race Henry Louis Gates Jr. history Non-Fiction FALSE
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia Kate Manne feminism Non-Fiction TRUE
They Both Die at the End Adam Silvera queer tragic romance Fiction FALSE
Assata: An Autobiography Assata Shakur memoir Non-Fiction TRUE
Neighbors and Other Stories Diane Oliver short stories Fiction FALSE
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates essays Non-Fiction TRUE
Bluff: Poems Danez Smith poems Non-Fiction FALSE
Citizen Claudia Rankine essays Non-Fiction FALSE
The Undocumented Americans Karla Cornejo Villavicencio sociological memoir Non-Fiction TRUE
Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies Andrea Ritchie abolition Non-Fiction TRUE
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals Alexis Pauline Gumbs feminism, marine biology Non-Fiction TRUE
The Word for World is Forest Ursula K. Le Guin speculative fiction Fiction FALSE
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Roxane Gay memoir Non-Fiction TRUE
Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie historical fiction Fiction TRUE
The Summer I Ate the Rich Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite magical realism Fiction FALSE
Giovanni’s Room James Baldwin psychological fiction Fiction TRUE
After the Forest Kell Woods fantasy Fiction FALSE
Autonomous Annalee Newitz speculative fiction Fiction FALSE
The Mighty Red Louise Erdrich coming-of-age Fiction FALSE
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want Ruha Benjamin abolition Non-Fiction TRUE
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements Charlene Carruthers feminism Non-Fiction FALSE
A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women’s Culture June Thomas queer history Non-Fiction FALSE
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum Antonia Hylton history Non-Fiction TRUE
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together Heather McGhee racial justice Non-Fiction FALSE
Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together Dean Spade relationship and comunity building and maintenance Non-Fiction TRUE
Under the Whispering Door TJ Klune magical realism Fiction FALSE
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha essays Non-Fiction TRUE
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World edited by Ada Limón poems Non-Fiction FALSE
House of Cotton Monica Brashears magical realism Fiction FALSE
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison historical fiction Fiction FALSE
Y’all Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia edited by Zane McNeill essays Non-Fiction TRUE
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty Dorothy Roberts racial justice Non-Fiction FALSE
Rakesfall Vajra Chandrasekera speculative fiction Fiction FALSE
Kindred Creation: Parables and Paradigms for Freedom Aida Mariam Davis afrofuturism Non-Fiction TRUE
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Audre Lorde biomythography Fiction FALSE
This Princess Kills Monsters: The Misadventures of a Fairy-Tale Stepsister Ry Herman fantasy Fiction TRUE
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad social commentary Non-Fiction TRUE
Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi speculative fiction Fiction TRUE
The Devil Three Times Rickey Fayne historical fiction Fiction FALSE
The Future of Another Timeline Annalee Newitz speculative fiction Fiction TRUE
The Mountains Sing Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai historical fiction Fiction TRUE
The Terraformers Annalee Newitz speculative fiction Fiction FALSE
Indian Burial Ground Nick Medina horror Fiction FALSE
Abolish Rent Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis housing justice Non-Fiction FALSE
Become Ungovernable: An Abolition Feminist Ethic for Democratic Living H.L.T. Quan abolition Non-Fiction TRUE
These Heathens Mia McKenzie historical fiction Fiction TRUE
What Is Wrong with Men: Patriarchy, the Crisis of Masculinity, and How (Of Course) Michael Douglas Films Explain Everything Jessa Crispin gender studies Non-Fiction FALSE
Death of the Author Nnedi Okorafor speculative fiction Fiction TRUE
Awakened A.E. Osworth queer witchiness Fiction TRUE
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia Elizabeth Catte history Non-Fiction FALSE
Automatic Noodle Annalee Newitz speculative fiction Fiction TRUE
Remote Control Nnedi Okorafor speculative fiction Fiction FALSE
Radical Intimacy Sophie K. Rosa transformative healing Non-Fiction FALSE
The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce edited by Angie Manfredi body positivity Non-Fiction FALSE
Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor transformative justice Non-Fiction TRUE
A Psalm for the Wild-Built: A Monk and Robot Book Becky Chambers speculative fiction Fiction FALSE
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones horror, historical fiction Fiction TRUE
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia Sabrina Strings history Non-Fiction FALSE
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Kristin Kobes du Mez history Non-Fiction FALSE
Kink: Stories edited by R. O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell short stories Fiction FALSE
We’re Alone: Essays Edwidge Danticat essays Non-Fiction FALSE
The Bewitching Silvia Moreno-Garcia historical fiction Fiction TRUE
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler Susana M. Morris biography Non-Fiction FALSE
End of Empire Marissa Davis poems Non-Fiction FALSE
All This Safety Is Killing Us: Health Justice Beyond Prisons, Police, and Borders–Abolitionist Frameworks and Practices from Clinicians, Organizers, and Incarcerated Activists edited by Ronica Mukerjee and Carlos Martinez abolition, healing justice Non-Fiction TRUE
Good Dirt Charmaine Wilkerson historical fiction Fiction FALSE
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism Eve L. Ewing history Non-Fiction TRUE
Heavy: An American Memoir Kiese Laymon memoir Non-Fiction FALSE
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color edited by Nisi Shawl short stories Fiction FALSE
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation Eli Clare queer disability environmentalism Non-Fiction FALSE
Tonguebreaker Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha poems Non-Fiction TRUE
Exit West Mohsin Hamid magical realism Fiction FALSE
The Crime Without a Name: Ethnocide and the Erasure of Culture in America Barrett Holmes Pitner philosophy Non-Fiction TRUE
Solito: A Memoir Javier Zamora memoir Non-Fiction FALSE
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde philosophical fiction Fiction FALSE
Vanishing Maps Cristina García magical realism Fiction FALSE
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat Aubrey Gordon fat justice Non-Fiction FALSE
Fables and Spells: Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry adrienne maree brown short stories and poems Fiction TRUE
Begin the World Over Kung Li Sun atlernative history Fiction TRUE
Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler speculative fiction Fiction TRUE
The Lathe of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin speculative fiction Fiction FALSE
New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color edited by Nisi Shawl short stories Fiction FALSE
Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith YA short stories Fiction FALSE
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants Robin Wall Kimmerer radical science Non-Fiction TRUE
The Island of Last Things Emma Sloley dystopian fiction Fiction FALSE
Radical Tenderness: The Value of Vulnerability in an Often Unkind World Gisele Barreto Fetterman personal growth Non-Fiction FALSE
Rose/House Arkady Martine speculative horror Fiction FALSE
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror edited by Joe Vallese essays Non-Fiction FALSE
The Wishing Pool and Other Stories Tananarive Due short stories Fiction FALSE
Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance edited by Naseer Arui and Edmund Ghareeb poems Non-Fiction TRUE
Before They Were Men: Essays on Manhood, Compassion, and What Went Wrong Jacob Tobia gender studies Non-Fiction TRUE
Lucky Day Chuck Tingle queer absurdist horror Fiction TRUE
Hemlock & Silver T. Kingfisher fantasy Fiction FALSE
Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives Donna Murch essays Non-Fiction FALSE
Binti Nnedi Okorafor speculative fiction Fiction FALSE
Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care M. E. O’Brien gender and family justice Non-Fiction FALSE
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele short stories Fiction TRUE
Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis edited by Kelly Hayes letters of hope Non-Fiction TRUE
The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity Sarah Schulman transformative justice Non-Fiction FALSE
Climate of Chaos Cassandra Newbould speculative fiction Fiction FALSE
The Whistler Nick Medina horror Fiction TRUE
Ikenga Nnedi Okorafor speculative fiction Fiction FALSE
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro speculative fiction Fiction FALSE
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint Exupéry fable Fiction FALSE
Julie Chan Is Dead Liann Zhang psychological triller Fiction FALSE
Light From Uncommon Stars Ryka Aoki speculative fiction Fiction TRUE
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI Karen Hao technology Non-Fiction TRUE
A New New Me: A Novel Helen Oyeyemi absurdist fiction Fiction FALSE
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging Jessica J. Lee essays Non-Fiction FALSE
Atmosphere Taylor Jenkins Reid historical fiction Fiction FALSE
The Eye of the Heron Ursula K. Le Guin speculative fiction Fiction FALSE
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian radical science Non-Fiction TRUE
The Idea of An Entire Life: Poems Billy-Ray Belcourt poems Non-Fiction TRUE
Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar Katie Yee humorous fiction Fiction FALSE
The Salt Roads Nalo Hopkinson historical fiction Fiction FALSE
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) Rabih Alameddine historical fiction Fiction TRUE
We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older short stories Fiction TRUE
Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You Sofie Hagen fat liberation Non-Fiction FALSE
The Road to Tender Hearts Annie Hartnett humorous fiction Fiction TRUE
The Fight for Sex Ed: The Century-Long Battle Between Truth and Doctrine Margaret Grace Myers reproductive rights Non-Fiction FALSE
Flashlight Susan Choi historical fiction Fiction FALSE
Make the Golf Course a Public Sex Forest! edited by jimmy cooper and Lyn Corelle short stories Fiction FALSE
Falling Back in Love With Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls Kai Cheng Thom poems Non-Fiction TRUE
How Long ’til Black Future Month? N. K. Jemisin short stories Fiction FALSE
A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping Sangu Mandanna fantasy Fiction TRUE
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy memoir Non-Fiction FALSE
Hombrecito Santiago Jose Sanchez queer coming-of-age Fiction FALSE
Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming It for the Better) Lindo Bacon individual and collective healing Non-Fiction FALSE
The People’s Project: Poems, Essays, and Art for Looking Forward edited by Maggie Smith and Saeed Jones essays and poems Non-Fiction FALSE
The Witch’s Egg Donya Todd queer witchiness Fiction FALSE
So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color Caro De Robertis oral history Non-Fiction TRUE
2024 Reading List
Fiction Titles in Pink - Favorites in Bold
Title Author Genre fiction rec
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines Joy Buolamwini technology, social justice Non-Fiction TRUE
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution Cat Bohannon science, social justice, feminism Non-Fiction FALSE
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander social justice Non-Fiction TRUE
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor Virginia Eubanks social justice Non-Fiction FALSE
Are Prisons Obsolete? Angela Y. Davis social justice Non-Fiction FALSE
Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz history, social justice Non-Fiction TRUE
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution Vincent Bevins social justice, movement analysis Non-Fiction TRUE
Wild Seed Octavia E. Butler historical fiction Fiction FALSE
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World Meredith Broussard technology, social justice Non-Fiction FALSE
Mind of My Mind Octavia E. Butler science fiction Fiction TRUE
Voices in the Code: A Story About People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made David G. Robinson technology, social justice Non-Fiction FALSE
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Robert A. Heinlein science fiction Fiction FALSE
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America Michael Harriot history Non-Fiction TRUE
Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation Anna Malaika Tubbs history, social justice, feminism Non-Fiction FALSE
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins science fiction Fiction FALSE
The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation Cathy O’Neil technology, psychology, social justice Non-Fiction FALSE
Catching Fire: The Second Book of the Hunger Games Suzanne Collins science fiction Fiction FALSE
Mockingjay Suzanne Collins science fiction Fiction FALSE
Token Black Girl: A Memoir Danielle Prescod memoir Non-Fiction TRUE
More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech Meredith Broussard technology, social justice Non-Fiction TRUE
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor social justice, feminism Non-Fiction FALSE
The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor Hamilton Nolan labor Non-Fiction FALSE
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code Ruha Benjamin technology, social justice Non-Fiction FALSE
Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need Sasha Costanza-Chock technology, social justice Non-Fiction TRUE
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele memoir Non-Fiction FALSE
A Disability History of the United States Kim E. Nielsen social justice, labor, history Non-Fiction FALSE
Belonging: A Culture of Place bell hooks essays Non-Fiction FALSE
Go Tell It On the Mountain James Baldwin historical fiction Fiction FALSE
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde Audre Lorde, Edited by Roxane Gay feminism Non-Fiction FALSE
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism Harsha Walia social justice, migration Non-Fiction TRUE
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class Jefferson R. Cowie labor, history Non-Fiction FALSE
Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism bell hooks feminism Non-Fiction FALSE
Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land Toni Jensen memoir Non-Fiction FALSE
“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans Dina Gilio-Whitaker and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz history Non-Fiction FALSE
Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz history, social justice Non-Fiction FALSE
Clay’s Ark Octavia E. Butler science fiction Fiction FALSE
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds adrienne maree brown social justice Non-Fiction TRUE
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law social justice Non-Fiction TRUE
Patternmaster Octavia E. Butler science fiction Fiction FALSE
An Abolitionist’s Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World Patrisse Cullors social justice, radical self-love Non-Fiction TRUE
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love bell hooks feminism Non-Fiction TRUE
Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler science fiction Fiction TRUE
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology: Are You Ready to Be Un-Settled? Edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. short stories Fiction FALSE
Parable of the Talents Octavia E. Butler science fiction Fiction FALSE
Kindred Octavia E. Butler historical fiction Fiction FALSE
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good Written and Gathered by adrienne maree brown social justice Non-Fiction FALSE
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain adventure fiction Fiction FALSE
Fledgling Octavia E. Butler fantasy Fiction FALSE
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love Sonya Renee Taylor radical self-love Non-Fiction FALSE
Dawn Octavia E. Butler science fiction Fiction FALSE
What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World Prentis Hemphill social justice, radical self-love Non-Fiction TRUE
Adulthood Rites Octavia E. Butler science fiction Fiction FALSE
Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. Luis J. Rodriguez memoir Non-Fiction FALSE
Imago Octavia E. Butler science fiction Fiction FALSE
Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics Ernesto Londono psychiatry, mental health Non-Fiction FALSE
All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries Martha Wells science fiction Fiction FALSE
Artificial Condition Martha Wells science fiction Fiction FALSE
Imagination: A Manifesto Ruha Benjamin technology, social justice Non-Fiction TRUE
Rogue Protocol Martha Wells science fiction Fiction FALSE
Exit Strategy Martha Wells science fiction Fiction FALSE
Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements Edited by adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha short stories Fiction TRUE
Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership Brea Baker history, social justice Non-Fiction TRUE
All About Love: New Visions bell hooks feminism Non-Fiction TRUE
Network Effect Martha Wells science fiction Fiction FALSE
Fugitive Telemetry Martha Wells science fiction Fiction FALSE
A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers Edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams short stories Fiction TRUE
American Indian Stories Zitkála-Sá memior Non-Fiction FALSE
System Collapse Martha Wells science fiction Fiction FALSE
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI Madhumita Murgia technology Non-Fiction TRUE
Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net Jessica Calarco and Karen Murray social justice Non-Fiction FALSE
Abolition. Feminism. Now. Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie social justice Non-Fiction FALSE
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) Dean Spade social justice Non-Fiction FALSE
Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science Kim TallBear social justice, science Non-Fiction FALSE
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community Mia Birdsong social justice Non-Fiction TRUE
The Fifth Season N. K. Jemisin fantasy Fiction TRUE
The Obelisk Gate N. K. Jemisin fantasy Fiction FALSE
The Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin fantasy Fiction FALSE
Annie Bot Sierra Greer science fiction Fiction TRUE
Burn Book: A Tech Love Story Kara Swisher technology Non-Fiction FALSE
A Memory Called Empire Arkady Martine science fiction Fiction TRUE
Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood Gretchen Sisson reproductive rights and family planning Non-Fiction TRUE
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement Ashley Shew disability justice, technology Non-Fiction FALSE
Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm Kazu Haga social justice Non-Fiction FALSE
Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Alexis Pauline Gumbs biography Non-Fiction TRUE
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha disability justice Non-Fiction TRUE
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness Da’Shaun L. Harrison Blackness, fatness, and gender Non-Fiction TRUE
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech Sara Wachter-Boettcher technology Non-Fiction FALSE
All Fours Miranda July psychological fiction Fiction FALSE
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land Rebecca Nagle Indigenous studies Non-Fiction TRUE
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse Edited by John Joseph Adams short stories Fiction FALSE
Medical Gaslighting: How to Get the Care You Deserve in a System that Makes You Fight for Your Life Ilana Jacqueline health care, feminism, trauma Non-Fiction TRUE
Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety Edited by Cara Page and Erica Woodland social justice Non-Fiction FALSE
Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality Renée DiResta media Non-Fiction FALSE
American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress Wesley Lowery social justice Non-Fiction FALSE
How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom Johanna Hedva disability justice Non-Fiction TRUE
Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance Erica Dhawan communication Non-Fiction FALSE
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Angela Y. Davis interviews & speeches Non-Fiction FALSE
The Message Ta-Nehisi Coates essays Non-Fiction TRUE
About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times edited by Peter Catapano and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson essays Non-Fiction FALSE
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance Nick Estes social justice Non-Fiction FALSE
A Desolation Called Peace Arkady Martine science fiction Fiction FALSE
Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer feminism, disability justice, queer theory Non-Fiction FALSE
Who’s Afraid of Gender? Judith Butler gender theory Non-Fiction FALSE
Loving Corrections adrienne maree brown social justice, healing Non-Fiction TRUE
Rocannon’s World Ursula K. Le Guin fantasy Fiction FALSE
Planet of Exile Ursula K. Le Guin fantasy Fiction FALSE
If They Come in the Morning…: Voices of Resistance edited by Angela Davis essays and letters Non-Fiction FALSE
City of Illusions Ursula K. Le Guin fantasy Fiction TRUE
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia Ursula K. Le Guin fantasy Fiction TRUE
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision Barbara Ransby biography Non-Fiction TRUE
Fire Exit Morgan Talty cultural heritage Fiction FALSE
Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move Nanjala Nyabola memoir, essays Non-Fiction TRUE
James: A Novel Percival Everett reimagined adaptation Fiction TRUE
Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me Glory Edim memoir Non-Fiction TRUE
Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia historical fiction Fiction TRUE
There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension Hanif Abdurraqib memoir Non-Fiction FALSE
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire edited by Alice Wong essays Non-Fiction TRUE
Unexpected Stories: Two Novellas Octavia E. Butler short stories Fiction FALSE
Dead in Long Beach, California Venita Blackburn psychological fiction Fiction TRUE

books by month

Summary of 2025

I read 172 books in 2025! My goal was to read three books a week, or 156 for the year, and I met that goal in mid-November. I was also committed to read no books written by straight cis white men (I read only five books by cis white men at all, less than 3% of the total). My reading list often favors Black women, but this year the books I read were penned by a more diverse collection of racial and gender identities than previous years.

key stats:

  • Exactly half of the books I read were non-fiction (86 books)
    • 11 books were essay collections
    • 9 books were memoirs
    • 8 books were poetry collections
  • The most common genres for fiction books were speculative fiction (22) and historical fiction (18)
    • I also read 12 short story collections
    • Other popular genres this year were:
      • magical realism (6),
      • fantasy (4), and
      • (a new genre to me) horror (4)
  • Over half of the books, 109 or 63.4%, were written by people of color
    • 59 books, or 34.3%, were written by Black authors
      • 16 books, or 9.3%, were written by Black female authors (plus one Black nonbinary author)
    • 23 books, or 13.4%, were written by Asian authors
    • 11 books, or 6.4%, were written by Indigenous authors
    • 10 books, or 5.8%, were written by Latine authors
    • 6 books, or 3.5%, were written by Arab authors
  • Over half of the books, 92 or 53.5%, were written by women
    • 19 books, or 11%, were written by nonbinary authors
    • 4 books, or 2.3%, were written by transwomen
    • 3 books, or 1.7%, were written by transmen

top books by category

best fiction:
Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 (2022) by M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi

best short stories:
We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope (2025) edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older

best nonfiction:
Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together (2024) by Dean Spade

best essays:
Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders (2024) by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

best memoir:
Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance (1999) by Leonard Peltier and Harvey Arden

best poems:
Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance (1970, republished 2025) edited by Naseer Arui and Edmund Ghareeb

books by month

All-time Favorites

(this section is updated less frequently)

  • Anything by Octavia Bulter, but my favorites include:
    • The Patternist Series (1976-1984) - generations worth of stories from planned breeding by immortals, telepathic networks, cat-hybrid alien types, and the ultimate rebellion against those who would control us
    • Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998) - an eerily accurate prediction of the present day
    • Kindred (1979) - what would it mean to confront the real truth of the past? this not Doc Brown’s type of time travel story
  • Annie Bot (2024) by Sierra Greer - the story of an AI girlfriend that nails the quintessential girlfriend experience
  • Awakened (2025) by A.E. Osworth - a coven of trans witches fight an evil AI, totally bonkers and an extremely satisfying ending!
  • Begin the World Over (2022) by Kung Li Sun - what if the Haitian Revolution did spread to the US South?
  • Broken Earth series (2015-2017) by N. K. Jemisin - “It turns out that civilization cannot be maintained without a group of outcasts who literally hold everything together for their oppressors.” - Annalee Newitz
  • Chain-Gang All-Stars (2023) by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - incarcerated people fight to the death on TV for a chance to win their freedom
  • Death of the Author (2025) by Nnedi Okorafor - book-within-a-book that blends the line between writing and being written, with a disabled Black woman at the center
  • Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 (2022) by M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi - the oral history of the future we deserve!
  • Light From Uncommon Stars (2021) by Ryka Aoki - violinists, aliens, donuts, and deals with the devil!
  • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966) by Robert A. Heinlein - earth has colonized the moon, but colony will show earth what an anarchist rebellion looks like (and one of the few cis white male authors I endorse)
  • Teixcalaan series (2019-2021) by Arkady Martine - murder, intrigue, and the cultural influence of empire in space
  • The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin - what does long term anarchism look like? and can it truly last?
  • The Future of Another Timeline (2019) by Annalee Newitz - how we could have changed the past? and how might we change our future?
  • This Princess Kills Monsters: The Misadventures of a Fairy-Tale Stepsister (2025) by Ry Herman - for those who love fairy tale tropes (and references), only much much more queer
  • Ceremony (1986) by Leslie Silko - if The Heart of Darkness is about man’s journey to madness, this book is about about the return and the importance of ceremony for healing
  • James: A Novel (2024) by Percival Everett - Huck Finn reimagined from the POV of Jim
  • Mexican Gothic (2020) by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - 1950s Mexico, something is wrong when a woman travels to rural Mexico to check on her sister who has just married into a rich white silver mine family, and something is not what it seems; beautifully written with a deep dive into issues of class and gender roles in the period; full of twists and spine tingling thrills—a delightfully creepy read”, also rich white people in Mexico being terrible
  • The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (2025) by Stephen Graham Jones - very fresh take on vampire lore and historical fiction
  • The Mountains Sing (2020) by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai - epic intergenerational story of a grandmother and granddaughter in mid 20th century North Vietnam
  • The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) (2025) by Rabih Alameddine - a queer comedy set against the Lebanese Civil War
  • These Heathens (2025) by Mia McKenzie - a young girl from rural Georgia goes to Atlanta to try to get an abortion in 1960 where she encounters many big players in the early civil rights movement, absolutely hilarious with tons of sapphic energy
  • Indian Burial Ground (2024) by Nick Medina - a mythological horror featuring an intergenerational story around mysterious deaths, takes magical realism to a haunting level (trigger warnings abound, please read with care)
  • Lucky Day (2025) by Chuck Tingle - absurd, queer, and sometimes terrifying, but not necessarily in the way you expect
  • Make Sure You Die Screaming (2025) by Zee Carlstrom - a nonbinary corporate burnout embarks on a road trip from Chicago to Arkansas to find their conspiracy-theorist father
  • Martyr! A Novel (2024) by Kaveh Akbar - newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search
  • The Road to Tender Hearts (2025) by Annie Hartnett - a Wes Anderson movie in the form of a book, complete with precocious children and incompetent adults, on a road trip with a very important orange cat

CHARTS!

To Be Read List

Fiction to Read
Title Author
Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity edited by Lee Mandelo
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Heartfelt Novel Exploring Regret, Redemption and Closure From a Magical Café Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Bliss Montage Ling Ma
Brooklyn Noir edited by Tim McLoughlin
Bury Your Gays Chuck Tingle
Dandelion Wine Ray Bradbury
Gods of Jade and Shadow Silvia Moreno-Garcia
In The Woods Tana French
Inherent Vice Thomas Pynchon
Interesting Facts About Space Emily Austin
LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia edited by Jeff Mann and Julia Watts
Leviathan Wakes James S. A. Corey
Lost Children Archive Valeria Luiselli
Metamorphosis: Climate Fiction for a Better Future edited by Grist
Moonsick Tom O'Donnell
Null States: Book Two of the Centenal Cycle Malka Older
Praiseworthy Alexis Wright
Redemption in Indigo Karen Lord
Redundancies and Potentials Dominique Dickey
Silver Nitrate Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Sister Creatures Laura Venita Green
Skye Falling Mia McKenzie
Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury
State Tectonics: Book Three of the Centenal Cycle Malka Older
The Between Tananarive Due
The Book of Records Madeleine Thien
The City We Became N. K. Jemisin
The Dream Hotel Laila Lalami
The Edge of Water Olufunke Grace Bankole
The Fox Wife Yangsze Choo
The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle
The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive: Being Dreamity, Algoriddims, Chants & Riffs Marcia Douglas
The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin
The Lion Women of Tehran Marjan Kamali
The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury
The Vegetarian Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith
This All Come Back Now: An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction edited by Mykaela Saunders
This Here Is Love Princess Joy L. Perry
Through the Woods Emily Carroll
To Bargain with Mortals R. A. Basu
Too Soon Betty Shamieh
Unraveling Karen Lord
A Calamity of Noble Houses Amira Ghenim
A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke Adriana Herrera
All Her Little Secrets Wanda M. Morris
All That We See Or Seem Ken Liu
An Oral History of Atlantis: Stories Ed Park
Beyond the Bounds of Infinity: An Anthology of Diverse Horror edited by Vaughn A. Jackson and Stephanie Pearre
Children of Blood and Bone Tomi Adeyemi
Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon Annie Mare
Dark Matter: Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora edited by Sheree Renee Thomas
Darkenbloom Eva Menasse
Demons of Eminence Joshua Escobar
Devil Makes Three Ben Fountain
Farewell Summer Ray Bradbury
First Kicking, Then Not Hannah Grieco
Four Ways to Forgiveness Ursula K. Le Guin
Ghostroots Pemi Aguda
Great Black Hope Rob Franklin
Habitat Case Q. Kerns
Harlem Rhapsody Victoria Christopher Murray
Heart Lamp: Selected Stories Banu Mushtaq
Hot Girls with Balls Benedict Nguyen
House of Leaves Mark Danielewski
Hungry Ghosts Kevin Jared Hosein
I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both: A Novel Mariah Stovall
Isaac’s Song Daniel Black
Living in Your Light Abdellah Taïa, translated by Emma Ramadan
Lonely Crowds Stephanie Wambugu
Making Amends Nisi Shawl
My Death Lisa Tuttle
One Message Remains Premee Mohamed
Reef Mind Hazel Zorn
Saga: Volume One Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Shady Hollow Juneau Black
Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward
The Barefoot Followers of Sweet Potato Grace Megan Okonsky
The Black Girl Survives in This One: Horror Stories edited by Desiree S. Evans and Saraciea J. Fennell
The Book of Guilt Catherine Chidgey
The Drowned World J. G. Ballard
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer Janelle Monáe
The Power Naomi Alderman
The Revolution Will Not Be Rated G: A Romance Keya Chatterjee
The River Has Roots Amal El-Mohtar
The Telling Ursula K. Le Guin
The Vanished Birds Simon Jimenez
Theft Abdulrazak Gurnah
This Delicious Death Kayla Cottingham
This Is How You Lose the Time War Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Written on the Body Jeanette Winterson
Zeal Morgan Jerkins
Non-Fiction to Read
Title Author
A Black Queer History of the United States C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost
A People's Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice Katie Tastrom
Afropessimism Frank B. Wilderson III
All We Want is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy Soraya Chemaly
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States Kyle T. Mays
Another War Is Possible: Militant Anarchist Experiences in the Antiglobalization Era Tomas Rothaus
Antiracism as Daily Practice: Refuse Shame, Change White Communities, and Help Create a Just World Jennifer Harvey
Baldwin: A Love Story Nicholas Boggs
Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk
Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins Mary Frances Phillips
Black in Blues: How A Color Tells The Story of My People Imani Perry
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy Heather Ann Thompson and Erin Bennett
Bloody Hell! Adventures in Menopause From Around the World edited by Mona Eltahawy
Body Autonomy: Decolonizing Sex Work and Drug Use Justice Rivera
Books Through Bars: Stories From the Prison Books Movement edited by Moira Marquis and Dave "Mac" Marquis
Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War Edda L. Fields-Black
Come Hell or High Water: A Handbook on Collective Process Gone Awry Delfina Vannucci and Richard Singer
Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair Sarah Schulman
Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News Alec Karakatsanis
Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to Hip-Hop Alex Zamalin
Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid Shayda Kafai
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness Simone Browne
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally Emily Ladau
Digital Black Feminism Catherine Knight Steele
Disability and Empire: Class, US Imperialism, and the Struggle for Disability Justice Joyce Chediac, Jane Cutter, and John Peter Daly
Do The Work: A Guide to Understanding Power and Creating Change Roxane Gay and Megan Pillow
Doing Harm: The Truth about How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick Maya Dusenbery
East of Eden John Steinbeck
Edge of the World: An Anthology of Queer Travel Writing edited by Alden Jones
Elseship: An Unrequited Affair Tree Abraham
Fearless and Free: A Memoir Josephine Baker
Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine edited by Rafaat Alareer
Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation Sim Kern
God’s Children Are Little Broken Things Arinze Ifeakandu
How to Break an Addiction: A Method-In-a-Manifesto for Quitting Capitalism Annie Spencer
How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks Witold Szablowski
It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World Mikaela Loach
Jesusland: Stories from the Upside Down World of Christian Pop Culture Joelle Kidd
Liberation Stories: Building Narrative Power for 21st-Century Social Movements edited by Marzena Zukowska, RadComms, and Shanelle Matthews
Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation Malinda Maynor Lowery
Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South Mab Segrest
Mycocosmic Lesley Wheeler
No Offense: A Memoir in Essays Jackie Domenus
No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain Rebecca Solnit
Out of Place Edward W. Said
Practicing Liberation: Transformative Strategies for Collective Healing & Systems Change: Reflections on burnout, trauma & building communities of care in social justice work edited by Tessa Hicks Peterson and Hala Khouri
Radical Antiquity: Free Love Zoroastrians, Farming Pirates, and Ancient Uprisings Christopher B. Zeichmann
Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN Tara Brach
Reclaiming UGLY!: A Radically Joyful Guide to Unlearn Oppression and Uplift, Glorify, and Love Yourself Vanessa Rochelle Lewis
Rehab: An American Scandal Shoshana Walter
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction Annalee Newitz
Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness Michael Koresky
Stamped From The Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X. Kendi and Joel Christian Gill
Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South Catherine Fosl
Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies edited by Shuli Branson, Raven Hudson, and Bry Reed
Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City LaShawn Harris
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson
The Color of Peace Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory Of The Modern State Eric Laursen
The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me Keah Brown
The Rediscovery of America Ned Blackhawk
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities edited by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting A Writer’S Life In Prison edited by Caits Meissner
The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters Sasha Bonet
The White People Show: How To Understand Racism And Still Be Wrong About It Kamau Kenyatta
Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Transforming the Shame Triangle: From Shame to Love Using Parts Work David Cooley and Jessica Fern
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval Saidiya Hartman
We Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated by Mirra Ginsburg
What We Remember Will Be Saved: A Story of Refugees and the Things They Carry Stephanie Saldaña
White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination Jess Row
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race Reni Eddo-Lodge
Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights Keisha N. Blain
Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance: The Forgotten Founding Mothers of the Fairy Tale and the Stories That They Spun Jane Harrington
Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and One Man's Story of Redemption in an American Prison Shaka Senghor
You Are More Than Your Body: 30+ Evidence-Based Strategies for Living Well with Chronic Illness--By a Clinical Therapist Living with Cerebral Palsy Jennifer Caspari
A Field Guide to White Supremacy edited by Kathleen Belew and Ramon A. Gutierrez
A History of My Brief Body Billy-Ray Belcourt
A World Without Racism: Building Antiracist Futures Joshua Virasami
Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants against the Deportation State Eithne Luibhéid
Absolute Pleasure: Queer Perspectives on Rocky Horror edited by Margot Atwell
Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption Rafia Zakaria
Ally Is a Verb: A Guide to Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples Rose LeMay
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created Santi Elijah Holley
Angela Davis: An Autobiography Angela Davis
Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place bell hooks
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride Cary Elwes and Joe Layden
Ayiti Roxane Gay
Banging on the Walls of the Tank: Dispatches from Gaza Haidar Eid
Beyond Cop Cities: Dismantling State and Corporate-Funded Armies and Prisons edited by Joy James
Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States Charisse Burden-Stelly
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity C. Riley Snorton
Body Language: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves edited by Nicole Chung and Matt Ortile
Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability Aimi Hamraie
Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice edited by Cindy Barukh Milstein
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells Ida B. Wells
Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong
Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change edited by Premal Dharia, James Forman Jr., Maria Hawilo
Don't Let the Forest In CG Drews
Dysphoria Mundi: A Diary of Planetary Transition Paul B. Preciado
Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A '90s Rock Memoir Melissa Auf der Maur
Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help: A Decade of Rebellion, Reaction, and Morbid Symptoms Jarrod Shanahan
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford
Friends in Common: Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities Joel White and Laura C. Forster
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves Sophie Gilbert
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration Reuben Jonathan Miller
How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement against Imprisonment Rachel Herzing, Justin Piché
How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir Shayla Lawson
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS David France
I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays Nell Irvin Painter
In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Precarity, Power, Communities Joy James
Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age Ada Palmer
Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South Kylie M. Smith
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI David Grann
Kuleana: A Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai'i Sara Kehaulani Goo
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones Carole Boyce Davies
Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby
Liberated to the Bone: Histories. Bodies. Futures. Susan Raffo
Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior
Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools Mary Annette Pember
No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement edited by Micah Herskind, Mariah Parker, and Kamau Franklin
No More Mediocre: A Call to Reimagine Our Relationships and Demand More Laura Danger
No More Police: A Case for Abolition Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law Dean Spade
Our Diaries, Ourselves: How Diarists Chronicle Their Lives and Document Our World Betsy Rubiner
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations bell hooks
Outlaw Woman Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World Kelly Clancy
Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture Annalee Newitz
Refuge beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers David Scott FitzGerald
Rejection Tony Tulathimutte
Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence edited by Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi, and Coline Schupfer
Rest is Resistance Tricia Hersey
Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch Andrea Freeman
Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History Caroline Tracey
Shelter from the Storm: How Climate Change Is Creating a New Era of Migration Julian Hattem
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling Jason De León
Take Up Space, Y'all: Your Bold & Bright Guide to Self-Love Kelly Coon and Tess Holliday
Taking the State Out of the Body Eliana Rubin
The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History Dan Stone
The Panthers Can't Save Us Now:Debating Left Politics and Black Lives Matter Cedric G. Johnson
The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope Daniel Greene
The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 Manisha Sinha
The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs Matthew D. Lassiter
The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir Martha S. Jones
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery John Swanson Jacobs and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder
The Wall Between Anne Braden
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson
The World We Make N. K. Jemisin
The Zapatista Experience: Rebellion, Resistance, and Autonomy Jérôme Baschet
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib
Thick: And Other Essays Tressie McMillan Cottom
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America Navied Mahdavian
This Is Chaos: Embracing the Future of Magic edited by Peter J. Carroll
To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells Mia Bay
Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp Tracy Slater
Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy Chris Crass
Value Sensitive Design: Shaping Technology with Moral Imagination Batya Friedman and David G. Hendry
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance Kellie Carter Jackson
White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism Kevin M. Kruse
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America Nancy Isenberg
Whose Global Village?: Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World Ramesh Srinivasan
Why I Am Not A Feminist Jessa Crispin
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams Matthew Walker
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life Alice Wong
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency Chen Chen
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