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January 31
Book: The You You Are by Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD
Available for free on Apple Books, in both text and audiobook versions. The audiobook is read by Michael Chernus. [more inside]
January 30
Book: Chain-Gang All-Stars
The thrilling debut novel from Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. [more inside]
January 23
Book: American Rapture by C. J. Leede
A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust. [more inside]
January 12
Book: Guest Privileges: Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East
An intimate and illuminating account of queer lives and migration, homemaking and community in the Gulf. Upon moving to the Gulf States - where penalties for queer acts include deportation, imprisonment, torture and death - Gaar Adams wants to understand why LGBTQ+ migrants might choose to live amid such peril.
Book: Queer London
Queer London is a timely and accessible introduction to the city through a LGBTQ+ lens, and will appeal to anyone with an interest in London's thriving queer landscape.
Celebrating the diversity and innovation of queer individuals in London, both historically and today, Queer London features a range of bars, clubs, shops, Pride events, charities, community organisations, saunas and sex shops that cater to the LGBTQ community. [more inside]
January 10
Book: Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQ+ Places and Stories
Queer people have always found ways to exist and be together, and there will always be a need for queer spaces. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell have gathered together a community of contributors to share stories of spaces that range from the educational to the institutional to the re-appropriated, and many more besides.
Book: The Queer Film Guide
100 great movies that tell LGBTQIA+ stories: Have you noticed something about every “100 Greatest Movies Ever Made” list? The people in those movies . . . they’re almost all straight, white men. With so much incredible cinema to choose from, those lists only begin to peer into the cinematic and wider world.
It’s time to push past the gatekeepers of what makes a movie “great” or “culturally significant” and get a broader view of what’s out there. Kyle Turner has selected 100 of cinema’s greatest queer films that are often overlooked but foundational to the art form and the wider culture.
January 9
Book: I Contain Multitudes
Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Many people think of microbes as germs to be eradicated, but those that live with us-the microbiome -build our bodies, protect our health, shape our identities, and grant us incredible abilities. In this astonishing book, Ed Yong takes us on a grand tour through our microbial partners, and introduces us to the scientists on the front lines of discovery.
January 7
Book: Praiseworthy
Miles Franklin-winning Wiradjuri author Tara June Winch says it’s a book you feel “in all your nerve endings and your blood and your soul when reading it … It’s staggering in its scope and its themes.” [more inside]
Book: Absolution
Ten years after the publication of Annihilation, the surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s blockbuster Southern Reach Trilogy. [more inside]
January 6
Book: James (by Percival Everett) - audiobook
Remember Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn", the tale of a raft trip down the Mississippi a few years before the Civil War? This is that yarn, told from the point of view of Jim, the Black slave who befriends Huck and goes on the raft adventure with him. [more inside]
January 1
Book: The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness was among the first books in the genre now known as feminist science fiction and is described as the most famous examination of androgyny in science fiction. A major theme of the novel is the effect of sex and gender on culture and society, explored in particular through the relationship between Ai and Estraven, a Gethenian politician who trusts and helps Ai. When the book was first published, the gender theme touched off a feminist debate over the depiction of the ambisexual Gethenians. The novel also explores the interaction between the unfolding loyalties of its two main characters, the loneliness and rootlessness of Ai, and the contrast between the religions of Gethen's two major nations. -
December 31, 2024
Book: Metal from Heaven
A bloody lesbian revenge tale and political fantasy set in a glittering world transformed by industrial change and simmering class warfare. [more inside]
Book: The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
This historical horror novel follows a 12-year-old boy named Robbie who is sent to the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys (a reformatory school) in Florida in 1950. It's about racial injustice, systemic abuse, and...the supernatural. [more inside]
December 29, 2024
Book: The Black Guy Dies First
A definitive and surprising exploration of the history of Black horror films, after the rising success of Get Out, Candyman, and Lovecraft Country from creators behind the acclaimed documentary, Horror Noire. [more inside]
December 28, 2024
Book: The Apparition Phase
From the Amazon description: Twins Tim and Abi have always been different from their peers, spending their evenings in the attic of their parents' suburban house, poring over reports of the unexplained. Obsessed with photographs of ghostly apparitions, they decide to fake their own, and use it to frighten a girl at school.
But what was only supposed to be a harmless prank sets in motion a deadly and terrifying chain of events that neither of them could have predicted...
December 21, 2024
Book: The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley
Tough, hard-boiled, and brilliantly suspenseful, The Last Good Kiss is an unforgettable detective story starring C. W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by working at a topless bar. Hired to track down a derelict author, he ends up on the trail of a girl missing in Haight-Ashbury for a decade. The tense hunt becomes obsessive as Sughrue takes a haunting journey through the underbelly of America's sleaziest nightmares. (blurb stolen from Amazon) [more inside]
December 20, 2024
Book: Emily's Quest
Project Gutenberg link. Summary - Emily knows she's going to be a great writer. She also knows that she and her childhood sweetheart, Teddy Kent, will conquer the world together. But when Teddy leaves home to pursue his goal to become an artist at the School of Design in Montreal, Emily's world collapses. With Teddy gone, Emily agrees to marry a man she doesn't love ... as she tries to banish all thoughts of Teddy. In her heart, Emily must search for what being a writer really means....
December 18, 2024
Book: Emily Climbs
Available on Project Gutenberg. Summary: Emily Starr was born with the desire to write. As an orphan living on New Moon Farm, writing helped her face the difficult, lonely times. But now all her friends are going away to high school in nearby Shrewsbury, and her old-fashioned, tyrannical aunt Elizabeth will only let her go if she promises to stop writing! All the same, this is the first step in Emily's climb to success. Once in town, Emily's activities set the Shrewsbury gossips buzzing. But Emily and her friends are confident -- Ilse's a born actress, Teddy's set to be a great artist, and roguish Perry has the makings of a brilliant lawyer. When Emily has her poems published and writes for the town newspaper, success seems to be on its way -- and with it the first whispers of romance. Then Emily is offered a fabulous opportunity, and she must decide if she wants to change her life forever.
December 16, 2024
Book: Emily of New Moon
Available on Project Gutenberg.
Summary: “Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely—until her beloved father died. Now Emily’s an orphan, and her mother’s snobbish relatives are taking her to live with them at New Moon Farm. She’s sure she won’t be happy. Emily deals with stiff, stern Aunt Elizabeth and her malicious classmates by holding her head high and using her quick wit. Things begin to change when she makes friends: with Teddy, who does marvelous drawings; with Perry, who’s sailed all over the world with his father yet has never been to school; and above all, with Ilse, a tomboy with a blazing temper. Amazingly, Emily finds New Moon beautiful and fascinating. With new friends and adventures, Emily might someday think of herself as Emily of New Moon.”
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