Books and Literature, Exploring our World

2023 Reading List

  1. Legends & Lattes (2022) by Travis Baldree
  2. Blind Faith (2022) by Alicia Beckman
  3. Inequality Kills Us All: Covid-19’s Health Lessons for the World (2023) by Stephen Bezruchka
  4. Book of Night (2022) by Holly Black
  5. The Spice Must Flow: The Story of Dune, from Cult Novels to Visionary Sci-Fi Movies (2023) by Ryan Britt
  6. The Beautiful Struggle (2008) by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  7. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (2018) by Robin DiAngelo
  8. HellSans (2022) by Ever Dundas
  9. Leech (2022) by Hiron Ennes
  10. Charlemagne’s Tablecloth: A Piquant History of Feasting (2004) by Nichola Fletcher
  11. Finding Freedom: A Cook’s Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch (2021) by Erin French
  12. The Witch and the Tsar (2022) by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
  13. Killers of the Flower Moon (2017) by David Grann
  14. Janelle Monáe’s Queer Afrofuturism (2022) by Dan Hassler-Forest
  15. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender (2022) by Dr. Kit Heyam
  16. A Death in Tokyo (2011) by Keigo Higashino
  17. Plenty (2021) by Hannah Howard
  18. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (2022) by Sabrina Imbler
  19. Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies (2023) edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D.G. Kelley and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
  20. Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor (2022) by Kim Kelly
  21. Stolen (2021) by Ann-Helen Laestadius
  22. Wolf Hall (2009) by Hilary Mantel
  23. Bringing Up the Bodies (2012) by Hilary Mantel
  24. I’m Glad My Mom Died (2022) by Jenette McCurdy
  25. The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer (2022) by Janelle Monáe
  26. The Welsh Fasting Girl (2019) by Varley O’Connor
  27. Night of the Living Rez (2022) by Morgan Talty
  28. Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (2000) edited by Sheree Thomas
  29. Annihilation (2014) by Jeff VanderMeer
  30. Authority (2014) by Jeff VanderMeer
  31. Acceptance (2014) by Jeff VanderMeer
  32. Crook Manifesto (2023) by Colson Whitehead
  33. Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture (2013) by Ytasha Womack