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2020

• My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
• Queering Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire by J. Rogue, Deric Shannon, C.B. Daring, Abbey Volcano
• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown
• The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux by Cathy N. Davidson
• How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
• On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
• The Regrets by Amy Bonnaffons
• The Corpse Steps Out by Craig Rice
• The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
• As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation by William C. Anderson and Zoé Samudzi
• Guerrillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible by Kevin Van Meter
• The Crying Book by Heather Christle
• No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey
• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
• Art Starts with a Line by Erin McManness
• The Creature Garden: An Illustrator's Guide to Beautiful Beasts & Fictional Fauna by Harry Goldhawk, Zanna Goldhawk
• Mini Kawaii Doodle Class by Zainab Khan
• How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding by Ted Floyd
• The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Get Started with Gouache by Emma Block

2021

• The Art of Creative Watercolor by Danielle Donaldson
• The Joy of Watercolor by Emma Block
• Everyday Watercolor by Jenna Rainey
• Wilderness Watercolor Landscapes by Kolbie Blume
• Geninne's Art: Birds in Watercolor, Collage, and Ink by Geninne D. Zlatkis
• Nature Obscura: A City's Hidden Natural World by Kelly Brenner
• The Curious Nature Guide: Explore the Natural Wonders All Around You by Clare Walker Leslie
• Keeping a Nature Journal, 3rd Edition: Deepen Your Connection with the Natural World All Around You by Clare Walker Leslie
• Creative Watercolor by Ana Victoria Calderón
• Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next) by Dean Spade
• God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright
• The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St Clair
• Tender by Sofia Samatar
• Everyday Watercolor Flowers: A Modern Guide to Painting Blooms, Leaves, and Stems Step by Step by Jenna Rainey
• No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
• Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit
• The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence by The Care Collective, Andreas Chatzidakis, Jamie Hakim, Catherine Rottenberg, Jo Littler, Lynne Segal
• How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century by Erik Olin Wright
• Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel R. Delany
• A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy by Jane F. McAlevey
• Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life by Natasha Lennard
• The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino
• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
• Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
• The Wrong Murder by Craig Rice
• W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America by Silas Munro
• Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse by Shane Burley
• Memoir of a Race Traitor by Mab Segrest
• Our Word is Our Weapon by Subcomandante Marcos

2022

• Paint With Thread by Emillie Ferris
• The Right Murder by Craig Rice
• Trial By Fury by Craig Rice
• The Big Midget Murders by Craig Rice
• I'd Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel
• Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind
• 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley
• Political Animals by So Mayer

2023

• Devil House by John Darnielle
• Prairie by Candace Savage
• The Hollywood Studios by Ethan Mordden
• Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto by Kevin Gannon

2024

• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• The Women of Weird Tales edited by Melanie R. Anderson
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• A Third University Is Possible by la paperson
• Sedition Hunters by Ryan J. Reilly
• We Are Proud Boys by Andy Campbell
• Bring the War Home by Kathleen Belew
• Black Pill by Elle Reeve
• Almost Home by Damien Echols
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (reread)
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (reread)
• New Queer Cinema by B. Ruby Rich
• A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing by So Mayer
• Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski

2025

• I Lost My Girlish Laughter by Jane Allen
• The Arclight Guidebook to Media History and the Digital Humanities edited by Charles R. Acland and Eric Hoyt
• The Sacred Band by James Romm
• More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI by John Warner
• The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett

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