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2025

top 18 of 50 read

  • Deviants, Santanu Bhattacharya
    india, gay, family saga, historical fiction, gay rights, artifical intelligence

  • There Is No Antimemetics Division, qntm
    scifi, psychological horror, surreal, weird fiction, novella

  • Black Wave, Michelle Tea
    autofiction, queer, lesbian, bi, addiction, apocalypse, experimental

  • Dysphoria Mundi, Paul B. Preciado
    nonfiction, philosophy, trans, queer, autotheory, sociology, covid, capitalism, performance art

  • All The Little Bird-Hearts, Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
    neurodivergent, autism, family, psychological horror

  • Children of Time + Children of Ruin, Adrian Tchaikovsky
    scifi, space opera, aliens, posthumanism, far future

  • Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, Marshall B. Rosenberg
    nonfiction, self-help, conflict resolution

  • The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
    race, black, poverty, historical fiction, passing

  • The Safekeep, Yael van der Wouden
    lesbian, post-war, jewish, netherlands

  • What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell
    gay, romance, addiction, bulgaria

  • A Language of Limbs, Dylin Hardcastle
    lesbian, trans, art, aids, australia, hate crime

  • Travel Light, Naomi Mitchison
    fairy tale, dragons, adventure, feminist fantasy

  • Don't Think of an Elephant, George Lakoff
    politics, sociology, metaphor

  • Love in Exile, Shon Faye
    memoir, love, relationships, trans, spirituality

  • How to Understand Your Relationships: A Practical Guide, Alex Iantaffi, Meg-John Barker
    nonfiction, self-help, relationships, queer, nonbinary

  • To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Becky Chambers
    hard scifi, space, aliens, novella

  • A Half-Built Garden, Ruthanna Emrys
    scifi, first contact, jewish, queer, parenting

  • Wayfarers Series: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet + A Closed and Common Orbit + Record of a Spaceborn Few + The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, Becky Chambers
    scifi, space opera, queer, artifical intelligence, aliens, hopepunk, slice of life

also read

  • A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar, Harry Nicholas

  • Bad Habit, Alana S. Portero

  • The Promise, Damon Galgut

  • All Things Seen and Unseen, R.J. McDaniel

  • Welcome to AuDHD, Megan Griffith

  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers

  • So You've Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson

  • Nevada, Imogen Binnie

  • Love and Choice, Lucy Fry

  • Girlfriends, Emily Zhou

  • The Sapling Cage, Margaret Killjoy

  • Solution Three, Naomi Mitchison

  • Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary, Toshio Meronek

  • After Delores, Sarah Schulman

  • GuRu, RuPaul

  • Unmasking for Life, Devon Price

  • Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis, Tracy Rosenthal

  • The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, Janelle Monáe

  • The Last Word, Quentin Crisp

  • Stag Dance, Torrey Peters

  • Strong Female Character, Fern Brady

  • Natural Causes: Life, Death and the Illusion of Control, Barbara Ehrenreich

  • Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown

  • Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation, Sophie Lewis

  • The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson

  • The DOSE Effect, T.J. Power

  • Wild Geese, Soula Emmanuel

  • More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor, George Lakoff

2024

top 10 of 44 read

  • Hijab Butch Blues, Lamya H.
    muslim, nonbinary, queer, immigrant, memoir

  • Memoirs of a Spacewoman, Naomi Mitchison
    bi, classic scifi, feminist scifi, aliens

  • Tamír Triad: The Bone Doll's Twin + Hidden Warrior + The Oracle's Queen, Lynn Flewelling
    trans, high fantasy, magic, gender identity

  • Milk Fed, Melissa Broder
    jewish, lesbian, eating disorders

  • Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family, Sophie Lewis
    nonfiction, feminism, marxism, abolition

  • Skye Falling, Mia McKenzie
    black, queer, lesbian

  • Monk and Robot Series: A Psalm for the Wild-Built + A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers
    scifi, hopepunk, nonbinary, novella

  • Embassytown, China Miéville
    scifi, space opera, language, aliens, new weird

  • Swimming in the Dark, Tomasz Jedrowski
    historical fiction, gay, romance, poland, cold war

  • Femme in Public, Alok Vaid-Menon
    poetry, trans, nonbinary, feminism

also read

  • Mucking Around: Five Continents over Fifty Years, Naomi Mitchison

  • Sunday Best, Bernice Rubens

  • Rosewater, Liv Little

  • Good Relations, Janet Reibstein

  • Tango, Justin Vivian Bond

  • Exile from Eden: Or, After the Hole, Andrew Smith

  • Mindfulness in Plain English, Henepola Gunaratana

  • What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition, Emma Dabiri

  • Porn: An Oral History, Polly Barton

  • Lullaby Beach, Stella Duffy

  • Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis, Grace E. Lavery

  • Wild Things, Laura Kay

  • Playboy, Constance Debré

  • Body Learning: An Introduction to the Alexander Technique, Michael J. Gelb

  • Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, Erving Goffman

  • The Way of Integrity, Martha N. Beck

  • Where We Go From Here, Lucas Rocha

  • The Science of Stuck, Britt Frank

  • Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures, Ivan E. Coyote

  • No Worries If Not, Soph Galustian

  • English After RP: Standard British Pronunciation Today, Geoff Lindsey

  • Walking Practice, Dolki Min

  • A Minor Chorus, Billy-Ray Belcourt

  • The Call-Out, Cat Fitzpatrick

  • The Power of Fun, Catherine Price

  • The Twilight Saga, Stephenie Meyer

  • Becoming an Ex: The Process of Role Exit, Helen Rose Ebaugh

  • How to ADHD, Jessica McCabe

  • The Complete Lockpick Pornography, Joey Comeau

  • Overqualified, Joey Comeau

  • Rental Person Who Does Nothing, Shoji Morimoto

2023

top 10 of 43 read

  • Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover, Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, Jennie Klein
    nonfiction, art, environmentalism, ecosexual, queer theory, performance art, activism

  • Grasshopper Jungle, Andrew Smith
    young adult, scifi, bi, apocalypse, horror

  • Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy, Jessica Fern
    nonfiction, psychology, self-help, polyamory

  • Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta, James Hannaham
    trans, black, prison

  • This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir, Cid V. Brunet
    autofiction, sex work, nonbinary

  • Reluctant Immortals, Gwendolyn Kiste
    fantasy, horror, gothic, vampire

  • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, David Graeber, David Wengrow
    nonfiction, anthropology, sociology, history

  • In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado
    autofiction, queer, experimental, domestic abuse

  • Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities, Nick Walker
    nonfiction, neurodiversity, autism, queer, trans, neuroqueer, disability

  • Geisha of Gion, Mineko Iwasaki
    memoir, japan, history, culture

also read

  • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondō

  • Outsmart Your Anxious Brain, David A. Carbonell

  • In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life, Jamie Windust

  • This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar

  • Scale, Greg Egan

  • She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan

  • Walkaway, Cory Doctorow

  • Disobedient Bodies, Emma Dabiri

  • Queer Body Power, Essie Dennis

  • Wildflower, Drew Barrymore

  • Ponyboy, Eliot Duncan

  • Babel, R.F. Kuang

  • The Future of Another Timeline, Annalee Newitz

  • Small Beauty, Jia Qing Wilson-Yang

  • How to Become a Virgin, Quentin Crisp

  • Females, Andrea Long Chu

  • Grow the F*ck Up, Sarah Knight

  • Fanfik, Natalia Osińska

  • Fiebre Tropical, Juli Delgado Lopera

  • F*ck No!, Sarah Knight

  • Polar Vortex, Shani Mootoo

  • A History of My Brief Body, Billy-Ray Belcourt

  • Fifty Sounds, Polly Barton

  • The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism, Matthew Van Natta

  • Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, Susan Jeffers

  • To Be A Trans Man, Ezra Woodger

  • Transitional, Munroe Bergdorf

  • Atlas of the Heart, Brené Brown

  • Gideon the Ninth + Harrow the Ninth + Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

  • At Certain Points We Touch, Lauren John Joseph

  • Atomic Habits, James Clear

2022

top 8 of 40 read

  • The Naked Civil Servant, Quentin Crisp
    memoir, queer, trans, queer history

  • People in Trouble, Sarah Schulman
    lesbian, queer, queer history, aids, activism, new york

  • Rainbow Milk, Paul Mendez
    religious abuse, gay, black, autofiction

  • Circe, Madeline Miller
    fantasy, mythology, feminist fantasy, magic

  • The Genesis Quest + Second Genesis, Donald Moffitt
    hard scifi, classic scifi, aliens, language

  • Bittersweet, Cain Susan
    nonfiction, self-help, art, philosophy, psychology, death

  • Tiny Pieces of Skull, Roz Kaveney
    trans, queer history, autofiction

  • The Raven Tower, Ann Leckie
    fantasy, mythology, queer, deities

also read

  • Unmasking Autism, Devon Price

  • The Journey To An Undefeated Mind, Yolanda Lear

  • Rat Bohemia, Sarah Schulman

  • The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig

  • Caught in the Act, Shane Jenek

  • Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive, Kristen J. Sollee

  • The Trauma Cleaner, Sarah Krasnostein

  • An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon

  • C+nto and Othered Poems, Joelle Taylor

  • Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts, Paul B. Preciado

  • Our Young Man, Edmund White

  • Devotion, Patti Smith

  • Terminal Boredom: Stories, Izumi Suzuki

  • Sequence Knitting, Cecelia Campochiaro

  • Felix Ever After, Kacen Callender

  • The Gifts of Imperfection, Brené Brown

  • Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era, Paul B. Preciado

  • The Art of Learning, Josh Waitzkin

  • Water Me Next Week, Ma Theresa Jimeno Ebro

  • The Word for World Is Forest, Ursula K. Le Guin

  • Lote, Shola von Reinhold

  • Tentacle, Rita Indiana

  • Box Hill, Adam Mars-Jones

  • The Body Is Not an Apology, Sonya Renee Taylor

  • Paradise Rot, Jenny Hval

  • My Name’s Yours, What’s Alaska?, Alaska Thunderfuck 5000

  • Confessions of a Sociopath, M.E. Thomas

  • Red, White & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston

  • Algorithms To Live By, Brian Christian

  • 12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next, Jeanette Winterson

  • Seveneves, Neal Stephenson

2021

top 8 of 29 read

  • The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice, Shon Faye
    nonfiction, trans, social justice, feminism

  • The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work, David Frayne
    nonfiction, sociology, capitalism

  • Breath, James Nestor
    nonfiction, self-help, pop science

  • Intuitive Eating, Evelyn Tribole
    nonfiction, self-help, eating disorders, diet refusal

  • Jonny Appleseed, Joshua Whitehead
    queer, two-spirit, indigiqueer, canada, sex work

  • Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters
    trans, queering family, race, gender

  • Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair, Sarah Schulman
    nonfiction, psychology, queer theory, activism, social justice

  • Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, A Biomythography, Audre Lorde
    autofiction, queer, lesbian, black, race

also read

  • My Brother's Husband, Volume 2, Gengoroh Tagame

  • Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, Nick Srnicek

  • Getting Things Done, David Allen

  • Gender Euphoria, Laura Kate Dale

  • The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House, Audre Lorde

  • Pro Git, Scott Chacon

  • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondō

  • Release the Beast, Bimini Bon Boulash

  • Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Malinda Lo

  • Intimations, Zadie Smith

  • Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives, Gretchen Rubin

  • They/Them/Their: A Guide to Nonbinary & Genderqueer Identities, Eris Young

  • Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods, Otegha Uwagba

  • Slash, Natalia Osińska

  • How to Be Idle, Tom Hodgkinson

  • Artificial Condition, Martha Wells

  • All Systems Red, Martha Wells

  • Burnout, Emily Nagoski

  • Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs

  • Trans Teen Survival Guide, Owl Fisher

  • You Are The One You've Been Waiting For, Richard C. Schwartz

2020

top 7 of 34 read

  • Factfulness, Hans Rosling
    nonfiction, psychology, sociology, statistics

  • Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen, Amrou Al-Kadhi
    memoir, queer, nonbinary, muslim, drag, immigrant

  • Daring Greatly, Brené Brown
    nonfiction, self-help, shame, vulnerability

  • How to Break Up with Your Phone, Catherine Price
    nonfiction, self-help, minimalism

  • Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson
    memoir, lesbian, trauma, poverty

  • Easier Ways to Say I Love You, Lucy Fry
    autofiction, queer, polyamory

  • Algorithms To Live By, Brian Christian
    nonfiction, computer science, self-help, decision making

also read

  • The Ethical Slut, Janet W. Hardy

  • Straight Jacket, Matthew Todd

  • Trans Love, Benson

  • The Bi-ble, Lauren Nickodemus

  • The Miracle Morning, Hal Elrod

  • The Diary of a Drag Queen, Crystal Rasmussen

  • The Death of Baseball, Orlando Ortega-Medina

  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, Susan Cain

  • Stop Thinking, Start Living, Richard Carlson

  • Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Robert M. Sapolsky

  • Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo

  • My Brother's Husband, Volume 1, Gengoroh Tagame

  • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondō

  • Health at Every Size, Lindo Bacon

  • Fanfik, Natalia Osińska

  • Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, Andrea Lawlor

  • We Have Always Been Here, Samra Habib

  • Get Control of Sugar Now!, Paul McKenna

  • Little Fish, Casey Plett

  • Reasons to Stay Alive, Matt Haig

  • Is Gender Fluid?, Sally Hines

  • Frankissstein: A Love Story, Jeanette Winterson

  • Rewriting the Rules, Meg-John Barker

  • Who Says I'm an Addict?, David Smallwood

  • Girl Meets Boy, Ali Smith

  • The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle

  • One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way, Robert Maurer

2019

top 5 of 34 read

  • Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney
    queer, bi, neurodivergent, ireland

  • Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season + The Obelisk Gate + The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin
    fantasy, scifi, queer, trans, polyamory, apocalypse, oppression

  • Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between, Meg-John Barker
    nonfiction, queer, nonbinary, queer theory

  • The Driver's Seat, Muriel Spark
    classic, psychological thriller

  • The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck + Get Your Sh*t Together, Sarah Knight

also read

  • The Art of Discarding, Nagisa Tatsumi

  • Sane New World: Taming The Mind, Ruby Wax

  • Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto

  • Build your own test framework, Daniel Irvine

  • Python Cookbook, David Beazley

  • Trans Power: Own Your Gender, Juno Roche

  • Uncomfortable Labels, Laura Kate Dale

  • Queer Sex: A Trans and Non-Binary Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure and Relationships, Juno Roche

  • Redefining Realness, Janet Mock

  • You Do You, Sarah Knight

  • Crimson, Niviaq Korneliussen

  • Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi

  • Yes, You Are Trans Enough, Mia Violet

  • Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Fannie Flagg

  • Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin

  • Suck Less: Where There's A Willam, There's A Way, Willam Belli

  • The New Girl, Rhyannon Styles

  • Sacred Country, Rose Tremain

  • Trans Like Me, C.N. Lester

  • Everything Under, Daisy Johnson

  • How to be Both, Ali Smith

  • Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata

  • Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondō

  • I'm Afraid of Men., Vivek Shraya

  • Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi

2018

top 2 of 11 read

  • Just Kids, Patti Smith
    memoir, queer, new york, art, music

  • Madonna in a Fur Coat, Sabahattin Ali
    romance, turkey, classic

also read

  • Speak No Evil, Uzodinma Iweala

  • Carol, Claire Morgan

  • When I Say No, I Feel Guilty, Manuel J. Smith

  • Testosterone Rex, Cordelia Fine

  • Goodbye, Things, Fumio Sasaki

  • Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby, Sandi Metz

  • The Spell, Alan Hollinghurst

  • My Cat Yugoslavia, Pajtim Statovci

  • Utopia For Realists, Rutger Bregman

2017

top 2 of 11 read

  • Like People in History, Felice Picano
    gay, queer history, aids

  • The Summer We Got Free, Mia McKenzie
    queer, black, family

also read

  • Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari

  • Martin and John, Dale Peck

  • Empowering the Tribe, Richard Pimental-Habib

  • City of Night, John Rechy

  • The Success of Open Source, Weber

  • Over the Rainbow: Money, Class and Homophobia, Nicola Field

  • The Eternal Flame, Greg Egan

  • Excession, Iain M. Banks

  • The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg

2016

top 4 of 22 read

  • The Clockwork Rocket, Greg Egan
    hard scifi, aliens, physics, gender

  • Schild's Ladder, Greg Egan
    hard scifi, posthumanism, far future

  • The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
    fantasy, mythology, queer, romance

  • Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us, Kate Bornstein
    nonfiction, gender, nonbinary, trans, feminism, classic

also read

  • Sleep, Nick Littlehales

  • Speak My Language, and Other Stories, Torsten Højer

  • Myra Breckinridge, Gore Vidal

  • The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger

  • Room, Emma Donoghue

  • Diaspora, Greg Egan

  • Significant Digits, Alexander Deebus

  • Possession, A.S. Byatt

  • Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

  • Worm, Wildbow

  • Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg

  • Grrl Alex, Alex Drummond

  • HPMOR, Eliezer Yudkowsky

  • Ancillary Justice + Ancillary Sword + Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie

  • Inner Skiing, W. Timothy Gallwey

  • Seveneves, Neal Stephenson

2015

top 7 of 21 read

  • Debt: The First 5,000 Years, David Graeber
    nonfiction, anthropology, sociology, economics, history

  • Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan, Jake Adelstein
    memoir, true crime, journalism, japan

  • Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
    intersex, family saga, immigrant

  • Trumpet, Jackie Kay
    trans, black, queer

  • At Swim, Two Boys, Jamie O'Neill
    historical fiction, gay, romance, ireland

  • Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference, Cordelia Fine
    nonfiction, feminism, gender, psychology, neuroscience

  • Call Me by Your Name, André Aciman
    gay, romance

also read

  • Zero to One, Peter Thiel

  • Luminosity, Alicorn

  • The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

  • The Story of My Life, Helen Keller

  • The Color Purple, Alice Walker

  • African History: A Very Short Introduction, John Parker

  • A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki

  • The City and the Pillar, Gore Vidal

  • A Red & Pleasant Land, Zak S.

  • Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction, John C. Polkinghorne

  • The Hours, Michael Cunningham

  • Happiness by Design, Paul Dolan

  • The Chimp Paradox, Steve Peters

  • Materials: A Very Short Introduction, Christopher Hall