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”
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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”
10 Books I Read to Educate Myself in 2016
2016 was a rough year for the world. But to say it was rough for marginalized groups in the United States such as the LGBTQ community, people of color, or women, is a massive understatement. Between the Pulse Nightclub massacre in Orlando, a never-ending stream of police brutality, and the election of a president whoContinue reading “10 Books I Read to Educate Myself in 2016”
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