My Top 12 CNF Reads of 2025

Happy end of the year! I may not be the big, annually anticipated book list, but at least I’m consistent in recommending great creative nonfiction! It felt especially pertinent to read lots of work by other queer and trans authors in 2025, given the war that’s been waged against us. My (big gay) book, NoContinue reading “My Top 12 CNF Reads of 2025”

My 2024 in Books

Switching it up (just slightly) to bring you my 9 favorite memoirs I read in 2024 in no particular order cause wow, they were all so good. Plus a bonus of my 3 favorite works of fiction I read this year. As usual, each book is accompanied by my favorite line from it. Re-visiting theseContinue reading “My 2024 in Books”

The Top 10 Books I Read in 2023

Happy end of year round-up! As usual, I didn’t read as much as I should have this year cause…life. BUT, the books I did read were phenomenal. Lots of beautiful queer stories, more fiction than usual (!), and finally completed the Kiese Laymon holy trinity. Sharing my countdown here, as well as my favorite lineContinue reading “The Top 10 Books I Read in 2023”

The Top 10 Books I Read in 2022

I didn’t read quite as much as I’d have liked to this year, but why fixate on not meeting a goal when I can spend time celebrating the beautiful words I did read instead? Right? Right?! Another year, another round of Canva-made images feat. my favorite lines from my favorite books. May your 2023 beContinue reading “The Top 10 Books I Read in 2022”

10 Books I Read by Kickass Women in 2017

So what if I cheated on my Goodreads book challenge and included two books I teach every year so I could meet my goal? Let’s face it, 2017 was rough. I said the same thing when I wrote about my top 10 reads of 2016 and I thought it couldn’t get any worse, but hereContinue reading “10 Books I Read by Kickass Women in 2017”