I read a lot of books this year. I had phases of wanting to read graphical things - graphical memoirs and nonfiction, and am currently in a phase of bringing home big stacks of cookbooks from the library which I sometimes peruse but often read cover to cover-- unless I don't touch them at all (ones in this category not included here).

Some books really opened my eyes to new-to-me ideas, especially about queerness - "Queer: A Graphic History", "Genderqueer", and "Ace" fall into this category. I nodded a lot while reading "How to be Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century", though not all the ideas landed for me. "Snacking Cakes" opened my eyes to how good cake can be and the idea that I can just eat it all the time if I want, and "I Dream of Dinner" gave me all sorts of ideas for improvising dinner out of what's in our fridge at any given time. "Hench" and "A Prayer for the Crown Shy" are the books I can't stop recommending to friends. (Though for the latter, read "A Psalm for the Wild Built" first).

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Cover of Queer: A Graphic History

Queer: A Graphic History

Meg-John Barker

graphical nonfiction queer favorites
Cover of Hench

Hench

Natalie Zina Walschots

sci fi/fantasy fiction favorites
Cover of A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

Becky Chambers

sci fi/fantasy fiction queer favorites
Cover of Gender Queer: a Memoir

Gender Queer: a Memoir

Maia Kobabe

nonfiction queer favorites graphical
Cover of When Women Were Dragons

When Women Were Dragons

Kelly Barnhill

sci fi/fantasy fiction queer favorites
Cover of Cemetery Boys

Cemetery Boys

Aiden Thomas

sci fi/fantasy fiction queer favorites
Cover of Upright Women Wanted

Upright Women Wanted

Sarah Gailey

fiction queer
Cover of Uprooted

Uprooted

Naomi Novik

sci fi/fantasy fiction
Cover of Payback's a Witch

Payback's a Witch

Lana Harper

sci fi/fantasy fiction queer
Cover of Ace

Ace

Angela Chen

queer nonfiction favorites
Cover of How to Raise an Intuitive Eater

How to Raise an Intuitive Eater

Sumner Brooks

parenting nonfiction food
Cover of The Midnight Library

The Midnight Library

Matt Haig

fiction sci fi/fantasy
Cover of Under the Whispering Door

Under the Whispering Door

TJ Klune

fiction favorites sci fi/fantasy queer
Cover of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

Priya Parker

nonfiction favorites
Cover of A Spindle Splintered

A Spindle Splintered

Alix Harrow

sci fi/fantasy fiction
Cover of Search

Search

Michelle Huneven

fiction
Cover of Matrix

Matrix

Lauren Groff

fiction queer
Cover of The Third Person

The Third Person

Emma Grove

graphical nonfiction queer favorites
Cover of Solutions and Other Problems

Solutions and Other Problems

Allie Brosh

graphical nonfiction
Cover of Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

Angela Garbes

nonfiction
Cover of I Dream of Dinner: Low-Effort, High-Reward Recipes

I Dream of Dinner: Low-Effort, High-Reward Recipes

Ali Slagle

nonfiction food favorites
Cover of Snacking Cakes

Snacking Cakes

Yossy Arefi

nonfiction food favorites
Cover of Saladish: a crunchier, grainier, herbier, heartier, tastier way with vegetables

Saladish: a crunchier, grainier, herbier, heartier, tastier way with vegetables

Ilene Rosen

nonfiction food
Cover of Snacks for Dinner

Snacks for Dinner

Lukas Volger

nonfiction food
Cover of Milk Street Fast and Slow

Milk Street Fast and Slow

Christopher Kimball

nonfiction food
Cover of Everyday Vitality

Everyday Vitality

Kate Mangino

nonfiction
Cover of How to be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century

How to be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century

Erik Olin Wright

nonfiction
Cover of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

nonfiction queer
Cover of Let's Get Physical

Let's Get Physical

Danielle Friedman

nonfiction
Cover of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Andrea Lawlor

queer fiction
Cover of Guapa

Guapa

Saleem Haddad

queer fiction
Cover of Girlhood

Girlhood

Melissa Febos

nonfiction queer


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