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Are Written By Women About Women
Learn more about badass women today.
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Give You a Break from the Hard Stuff
If we can imagine it, we can make it our reality.
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Teach Reproductive Justice
A human rights framework created in 1994 by Black women in Chicago to address the limitations of the mainstream pro-choice movement.
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Connect Climate Justice and Racial Justice
These are not two seperate issues.
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Make Middle Schoolers Love Spec Fic
Anything is possible in middle school.
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Teach About Israel, Palestine, and Elsewhere
The destruction of Palestine is the destruction of the Earth.
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Showcase Iranian Stories
Long-windedness is the soul of wit. (this is a common motto in iran)
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Are Set in the Congo
The rain does not fear the authority of a king.
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We Love From AAPI Authors
This list could easily be a million books long, so you know this is the creme de la creme.
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Feature Trans/Nonbinary Characters (Fiction)
Trans characters being transcendent.
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Fight the Power
Resistance reading for people learning how power works, how movements rise, and how ordinary people refuse to stay ordinary.
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Were Banned
When the book burners come, let them serve as a reminder that books are weapons as well as tools.
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Assist in Raising the Children
Books for the people raising, teaching, protecting, and being remade by children.
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Guide UX/UI Designers
A practical shelf for designers making interfaces, systems, services, and experiences that real people have to live with.
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are Queer and Dear
Tender, bright, unruly books for queer lives, queer questions, and the people who love us.
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Come in Sets
Series, pairs, collections, and companion volumes for readers who like a good thing to keep going.
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Empower Young Mothers
Books for young mothers building a life, a self, and a future while everyone has opinions.
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Make Architects Grin
For when a building makes you giggle or blush.
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Teach About Dyslexia
A list for understanding dyslexia with more care, less panic, and better tools.
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Teach About Treaties
Books that make treaties legible as living agreements, broken promises, and responsibilities that still matter.
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Teach You About AI/Machine Learning
Readable entry points into artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the human choices hiding inside the machine.
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You Might Read if You Are Pursuing a Phd in Literature
Literature, criticism, theory, and stamina for people wandering toward a PhD or pretending not to.
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Your Gay Uncle Will Love
If you don't have a gay uncle you are the gay uncle.
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You Should Read if You Have A Shudder Subscription
Books for the person who already knows which streaming service has the good spooky stuff.
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Build Futures Together
Imaginative, practical, and insurgent books for building futures together instead of waiting for one to arrive.
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Trip Balls
Mind-bending books for perception, altered states, weird edges, and reality doing something suspicious.
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Make an Elementary/Middle Schooler Fall in Love with Reading
Books that can turn a reluctant reader into a person who needs one more chapter.
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Have Red Covers
A chromatic list because sometimes the shelf knows what it wants before the reader does.
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Are Out There
Books from the edges: strange forms, wild ideas, and work that refuses to behave politely.
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Mothers with Undiagnosed Autism and Agoraphobia Might Like
Books for overwhelmed mothers, indoor worlds, sensory weather, and the private maps people make to survive.
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Appeal to People with a 10+ Year Old Pinterest Board
Aesthetic, nostalgic, oddly specific books for people whose saved images became a second autobiography.
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Will Help Anyone Who Knows a Man (Or Is One)
Books for understanding men, masculinity, patriarchy, tenderness, harm, repair, and the rest of the situation.
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Neurodivergent Baristas Will Fall in Love With
Books for sharp, sensitive, overstimulated people making meaning between shifts, sounds, and social rules.
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Teach You About Latin America
Histories, stories, politics, and perspectives for reading Latin America beyond the flattened version.
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Reflect on Chronic Illness & Disability
Books on bodies, care, access, pain, adaptation, and the wisdom chronic illness forces into view.
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Reflect on Grief & Loss
Companions for grief, loss, mourning, memory, and the strange work of continuing.
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Talk About Therapy
Books about healing, analysis, attachment, nervous systems, and the conversations that change us.
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Feature Mystery and Crime (Fiction)
Mystery, crime, suspicion, and bad decisions for readers who enjoy a trail of clues.
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Get Me Talking About Urban Planning for Hours
Cities, streets, housing, transit, zoning, and the built environment as a thing to argue about lovingly.
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Interconnect
Books that reveal the hidden relations between bodies, systems, histories, ecologies, and ideas.
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Decolonize
A growing list of books that center decolonial thought, Indigenous wisdom, and ways of challenging colonial systems.
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Are Still Sad That David Lynch Passed
Dream logic, strange rooms, uncanny weather, and books for people still walking around inside a David Lynch feeling.
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Might Be for You If You're Into the Double Slit Experiment
Science is magic we've found ways to describe.
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Are Ready to Launch Some Molotov Cocktails
Books with revolutionary heat, righteous anger, and enough strategy to keep the fire from becoming only smoke.
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Channel Your Inner Ms. Frizzle
Science, curiosity, field trips, wild questions, and the blessed chaos of learning by going there.
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Tell Immigrant Stories
Stories of migration, arrival, exile, language, home, and the courage of carrying more than one place.
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Help Deal With Addiction
Books on addiction, recovery, harm reduction, shame, survival, and the long work of staying alive.
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Throw You Down the Dragon's Throat
Adventure fantasy in all the flavors.
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Soothe the Horny Soul
Erotic, funny, tender, and unruly books for desire with a brain and a pulse.
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Teach Self-Sufficiency
Books for growing food, fixing things, making do, and remembering that dependence is not destiny.
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Teach the Power of Transformation
Stories and ideas about change, becoming, rupture, renewal, and the strange mercy of not staying the same.
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Search for Meaning
Books for spiritual, philosophical, and ordinary human searching when easy answers are not enough.
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Teach Neuroscience But in a Fun Way
Brains, behavior, memory, perception, and neuroscience that does not make curiosity feel like homework.
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Teach Some Sort of History
History through sharp angles, unlikely subjects, and the kind of details that make the past start talking.
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Teach Stuff Through Telling Life Stories
Lives used as lanterns: memoir, biography, and life stories that teach without lecturing.
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Tell Hard Stories About Real People
True stories, difficult lives, and books that ask us not to look away.
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Make the Foodie's Heart Full
Food writing, cooking, hunger, pleasure, memory, and the politics of what gathers around a table.
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Hablan Spanglish
Books moving between Spanish and English, translation and code-switching, home and somewhere else.
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Fight Overconsumption
Books against the churn: consumption, waste, desire, extraction, and the lie that more is always better.
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Evoke Fear or Dread
Fear, dread, unease, and books that understand the pleasure of being unsettled.
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Believe in Astrology
Cosmic pattern-seeking, stars, fate, personality, ritual, and the human need to make meaning upward.
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Interrogate Art
Books that question art, artists, museums, markets, taste, beauty, and who gets to decide.
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Talk About One Thing by Talking About Something Else
Books that use one obsession, object, place, or problem to open an entire world.
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Are Set in the Carribean
Stories, histories, and voices from the Caribbean, with sea, empire, migration, memory, and heat in the frame.
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Are So Colorado
Books with altitude, weird weather, mountain shadows, local myths, and very Colorado energy.
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Speculate
Speculative books for possible futures, altered presents, and realities that ask better questions than ours.
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Feature Birds
Bird books for watchers, wanderers, symbol-readers, and anyone who suspects the sky is busy.
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Are Queer and Especially Weird
Stories that do not go as one might expect.
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Indulge in Romance
Romance with feeling, friction, longing, pleasure, and the nerve to want something out loud.
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Are Against Rent, Debt, and Other Nonsense
Books about housing, debt, extraction, landlords, survival, and the absurd price of simply being somewhere.
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Musicians Like
Books with rhythm, noise, scene, practice, obsession, and the kind of feeling musicians recognize.
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Tell Stories Set in the Past
Historical fiction and stories set in the past, where another time starts behaving like a mirror.
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Teach Restorative and Transformative Justice
Books about repair, accountability, abolition, community safety, and justice beyond punishment.
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Explore Polyamory
Books about many loves, chosen agreements, jealousy, intimacy, honesty, and relationship structures outside default settings.
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Remind Me of Federico Fellini
Dreamy, theatrical, excessive, strange, and image-soaked books with Fellini somewhere in the room.
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Are Voyeuristic
Books about looking, being watched, secrecy, obsession, spectatorship, and the ethics of attention.
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Smoke Weed
Books about cannabis, altered attention, pleasure, policy, culture, and getting a little sideways.
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Approach Liberation Spiritually
Books that approach liberation through spirit, ritual, faith, mystery, and practices older than empire.
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Tell Filipino Stories
Filipino stories across homeland, diaspora, family, history, food, language, and the work of remembering.
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Center The Land in their Narrative
Books where land is not backdrop but witness, teacher, relative, archive, and central character.
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Are Told By Madwomen
From the perspectives of women society might consider mad.
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