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This is a list of every book I've read since I started keeping track in 2022. Books I particularly enjoyed appear in bold. Rereads are noted with an asterisk.

here are some things I am currently reading:

  • Airless Spaces, Shulamith Firestone, 1998
  • School, Isabel Pabán Freed, 2023

    • 2025

    1. Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice, Cristina Rivera Garza, 2023
    2. The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord, 1967
    3. Corpses, Fools and Monsters, Willow Catelyn Maclay & Caden Mark Gardner, 2024
    4. Folly, Maureen Brady, 1982
    5. Realistic Fiction, Anton Solomonik, 2025
    6. Worthy of the Event: An Essay, Vivian Blaxell, 2025
    7. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes, 1936
    8. Eighty-Sixed, David B. Feinberg, 1988
    9. Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism, Finn Enke, 2007
    10. Brokeback Mountain, Annie Proulx, 1997
    11. Cuckoo, Gretchen Felker-Martin, 2024
    12. The Lifted Veil, George Eliot, 1859
    13. Stag Dance, Torrey Peters, 2025
    14. A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf, 1929
    15. Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins, 2025
    16. Sun City, Tove Jansson, 1974
    17. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals, Saidiya Hartman, 2019*
    18. The Summer Book, Tove Jansson, 1972
    19. Sculptor's Daughter, Tove Jansson, 1968
    20. A Winter Book, Tove Jansson, 2006
    21. Public Rape, Tanya Horeck, 2003
    22. Trauma Plot: A Life, Jamie Hood, 2025
    23. Faggots, Larry Kramer, 1978
    24. Authority: Essays, Andrea Long Chu, 2025
    25. Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin, 1953
    26. Lesbians Are So Chic..., Laura Cottingham, 1996
    27. Cannery Row, John Steinbeck, 1946
    28. Ethereal Queer: Television, Historicity, Desire, Amy Villarejo, 2013
    29. Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger, 1953
    30. The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcom, 1990
    31. Problems of Women’s Liberation, Evelyn Reed, 1954
    32. An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work, Charlotte Shane, 2024
    33. Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, Janet Malcom, 1981
    34. Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, Rivka Galchen, 2021
    35. What My Bones Know, Stephanie Foo, 2022
    36. Annihilation of Caste, B.R. Ambedkar, 1936
    37. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson, 1985*
    38. Jesus and John, Adam McOmber, 2020
    39. Sworn Virgin, Elvira Dones, 2007
    40. Fidelities, Richard Walter Hall, 1992
    41. Ways of Seeing, John Berger, 1972*
    42. Darryl, Jackie Ess, 2021*
    43. After Delores, Sarah Schulman, 1988*
    44. Spent: A Comic Novel – A Masterful Political Autofiction About Climate Crisis, Privilege, and Humanity, Alison Bechdel, 2025
    45. Girls, Visions and Everything, Sarah Schulman, 1986
    46. The Art of Film Projection: A Beginner's Guide, Paolo Cherchi Usai (ed), 2019
    47. Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino, 1965
    48. Burning Butch, R/B Mertz, 2022
    49. Cabot Wright Begins, James Purdy, 1964
    50. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925*
    51. Other Voices, Other Rooms, Truman Capote, 1948
    52. Memories That Smell Like Gasoline, David Wojnarowicz, 1992
    53. Bartleby the Scrivener, Herman Melville, 1853
    54. The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin, 1963
    55. Nevada, Imogen Binnie, 2013*
    56. Benito Cereno, Herman Melville, 1855
    57. The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, Shulamith Firestone, 1970
    58. Soul on Ice, Eldridge Cleaver, 1968
    59. Nobody Knows My Name, James Baldwin, 1961
    60. Understanding a Photograph, John Berger, 2013
    61. Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature, Dorothy Allison, 1994
    62. Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet, Nikki Giovanni, 1971
    63. Empathy, Sarah Schulman, 1992*
    64. Another Way of Telling, John Berger & Jean Mohr, 1982
    65. Outlander: Stories and Essays, Jane Rule, 1981
    66. Pig Earth, John Berger, 1979
    67. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, Roland Barthes, 1980
    68. Two Serious Ladies, Jane Bowles, 1943
    69. Among the Thugs, Bill Buford, 1990
    70. The True Deceiver, Tove Jansson, 1982
    71. Essays Against Publishing, Jamie Berrout, 2020
    72. Diana & Nikon: Essays on Photography, Janet Malcolm, 1980
    73. Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag, 1969
    74. My Lesbian Novel, Renee Gladman, 2023
    75. Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov, 1962
    76. Mythologies, Roland Barthes, 1957
    77. I’ve Got a Time Bomb,Sybil Lamb, 2014
    78. trans girl suicide museum, Hannah Baer, 2019*

    2024

    1. The Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon, 2019
    2. Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld, 2009
    3. Behemoth, Scott Westerfeld, 2010
    4. The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, 1848*
    5. Goliath, Scott Westerfeld, 2011
    6. Notes of a Crocodile, Qiu Miaojin, 1994
    7. After Delores, Sarah Schulman, 1988
    8. Big Swiss, Jen Beagin, 2023
    9. Empathy, Sarah Schulman, 1992
    10. Mrs. S, K. Patrick, 2023
    11. Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, Judith Lewis Herman, 1992*
    12. Maggie Terry, Sarah Schulman, 2018
    13. The Mere Future, Sarah Schulman, 2009
    14. Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino, 1972
    15. Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay, 1967
    16. Valencia, Michelle Tea, 2000*
    17. Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown, 1973*
    18. My Butch Career: A Memoir, Esther Newton, 2018
    19. Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson, 1999*
    20. The Undying, Anne Boyer, 2019*
    21. Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag, 1978
    22. Rat Bohemia, Sarah Schulman, 1995
    23. AIDS and Its Metaphors, Susan Sontag, 1989
    24. The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez, 1991
    25. Drag King Dreams, Leslie Feinberg, 2006
    26. The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, Sarah Schulman, 2012
    27. Patience & Sarah, Isabel Miller, 1969
    28. The Girls, John Bowen, 1986
    29. The Fox, D.H. Lawrence, 1923
    30. The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith, 1952*
    31. Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration, David Wojnarowicz, 1991
    32. Whisper Their Love, Valerie Taylor, 1957
    33. Franny, the Queen of Provincetown: A Novel, John Preston, 1983
    34. The Young in One Another's Arms, Jane Rule, 1977
    35. Narrow Rooms, James Purdy, 1978
    36. Hijab Butch Blues, Lamya H., 2023
    37. Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire, Amber Dawn (ed.), 2009
    38. Terminal Boredom: Stories, Izumi Suzuki, 2021
    39. Fair Play, Tove Jansson, 1989
    40. Passion, June Jordan, 1980
    41. Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound: A Novel, Judith Katz, 1992
    42. The Escape Artist, Judith Katz, 1997
    43. Kiss of the Spider Woman, Manuel Puig, 1976
    44. Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair, Sarah Schulman, 2016
    45. Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion, Ryan Conrad (ed.), 2014
    46. The Shape of a Pocket, John Berger, 2001
    47. Martha Moody, Susan Stinson, 1995
    48. Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist, Cecilia Gentili, 2022
    49. Binti, Nnedi Okorafor, 2015
    50. Rainbow Black, Maggie Thrash, 2024
    51. Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences, Sarah Schulman, 2009
    52. Greasepaint, Hannah Levene, 2024
    53. How to Suppress Women's Writing, Joanna Russ, 1983
    54. Biography of X, Catherine Lacey, 2023
    55. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Samuel R. Delany, 1999
    56. Red Dragon, Thomas Harris, 1981
    57. Females, Andrea Long Chu, 2019
    58. Dykes to Watch Out For, Alison Bechdel, 1986*
    59. A Short History of Trans Misogyny, Jules Gill-Peterson, 2024
    60. The Female Man, Joanna Russ, 1975
    61. In a Shallow Grave, James Purdy, 1975
    62. Cassandra at the Wedding, Dorothy Baker, 1962
    63. In the Freud Archives, Janet Malcolm, 1983
    64. Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s, Jed Samer, 2022
    65. The Iliac Crest, Cristina Rivera Garza, 2002
    66. Malcom, James Purdy, 1959
    67. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction, Michel Foucault, 1976*
    68. Girlfriends, Emily Zhou, 2023
    69. Lesbian Images, Jane Rule, 1975
    70. Marnie, Murray Pomerance, 2014
    71. When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader, Susan Stryker, 2024
    72. Nazi Literature in the Americas, Roberto Bolaño, 1996
    73. Winter Love, Han Suyin, 1962
    74. Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies, Cait McKinney, 2020
    75. Craze, Margaret Vandenburg, 2024
    76. The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America, Michelle Tea, 1998*
    77. The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet, Avery Dame-Griff, 2023
    78. I am My Own Woman: The Outlaw Life of Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf, Berlin's Most Distinguished Transvestite, Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, 1992
    79. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson, 2011
    80. Camp Concentration, Thomas M. Disch, 1968
    81. Don Juan in the Village, Jane DeLynn, 1990
    82. In Thrall, Jane DeLynn, 1982
    83. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, Dorothy Allison, 1995
    84. Some Do, Jane DeLynn, 1978
    85. The Taiga Syndrome, Cristina Rivera Garza, 2012
    86. Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative, Isabella Hammad, 2024
    87. Dark Places, Gillian Flynn, 2009
    88. Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad, 2023
    89. Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin, 1978

    2023

    1. Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama, Alison Bechdel, 2012
    2. The Princess Bride, William Goldman, 1973*
    3. Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1963*
    4. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Gregory Maguire, 1995*
    5. Son of a Witch, Gregory Maguire, 2005*
    6. A Lion Among Men, Gregory Maguire, 2008*
    7. Out of Oz, Gregory Maguire, 2011*
    8. Discourse on Colonialism, Aimé Césaire, 1950
    9. Matrix, Lauren Groff, 2021
    10. The Brides of Maracoor, Gregory Maguire, 2021
    11. Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh, 1964*
    12. Three Tales of My Father's Dragon, Ruth Stiles Gannett, 1951*
    13. Frankissstein: A Love Story, Jeanette Winterson, 2019
    14. The Oracle of Maracoor, Gregory Maguire, 2022
    15. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson, 1985
    16. Mossflower, Brian Jacques, 1988*
    17. Cutting it Short, Bohumil Hrabal, 1974
    18. Redwall, Brian Jacques, 1986*
    19. Another Country, James Baldwin, 1962
    20. Fingersmith, Sarah Waters, 2002
    21. When the Angels Left the Old Country, Sacha Lamb, 2022
    22. We Who Are About To..., Joanna Russ, 1976
    23. The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon, 2007
    24. The Witch of Maracoor, Gregory Maguire, 2023
    25. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Gregory Maguire, 1999*
    26. People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks, 2008
    27. Babel, R.F. Kuang, 2022
    28. Gut Symmetries, Jeanette Winterson, 1997

    2022

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