Never Ending Reading List

Gay Authors

2024

• My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants they love, Jamaica Kincaid
• Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
• Ghost, Jason Reynolds
• Orbital, Samantha Harvey
• Our Evenings, Alan Hollinghurst
• We Will Not Cancel Us, Adrienne Maree Brown
• Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar
• Migrations, Charlotte McConaghy
• Thick, Tressie McMullan Cottom
• All Fours, Miranda July
• Grief is for People, Sloane Crosley
• I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman
• Fortnight in September, R.C. Sheriff
• Day, Michael Cunningham
• How Far the Light Reaches, Sabrina Imbler
• We Are the Luckiest, Laura McKowen
• Truth, Hernan Diaz
• Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin

2023

• Tender is the Flesh; Agustina Bazterrica
• The Covenant of Water; Abraham Verghese
• YellowFace; R.F. Kuang
• Stories for Boys; Gregory Martin
• Our Wives Under the Sea; Julia Armfield
• Easy Beauty (book club); Chloe Cooper Jones
• Small Mercies (book club); Dennis Lehane
• Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime; Alex Espinosa
• How to Think More About Sex; Alain de Botton
• The School for Good Mothers; Jessamine Chan
• The Wall; Marlene Haushofer (book club)
• The Nightwatchman; Louise Erdrich

DNF:

• Let Us Descend; Jesmyn Ward (book club)
• Explosion in a Cathedral (book club)
• Seven Moons of Maali Almeida; Shehan Karunatilaka (book club)

2022

• Weight of the Earth; David Wojnarowicz (transcripts of audio journals)
• Artist Way; Julia Cameron
• Fierce Attachments, Vivian Gornick
• The White Album; Joan Didion
• Everyday Watercolor; Jenna Rainey
• All Boys Aren't Blue; George Matthew Johnson
• 1916 Project; Nikole Hannah-Jones

2021:

• Mutual Aid; Dean Spade
• Wintering; Katherine May
• Yellow Bird; Sierra Crane Murdoch
• Unbound; Tarana Burke
• Hola Papi; John Paul Brammer
• Refuge; Terry Tempest Williams
• The Overstory; Richard Powers

2020:

• White Fragility; Robin D'Angelo
• Raising White Kids; Jennifer Harvey
• Me + White Supremacy; Layla Saad
• Good Morning Destroyer of Men’s Souls; Nina Aron
• This is what I know about art; Kimberly Drew
• Slave Play; Jeremy Harris
• Erosion; Terry Tempest Williams
• Blue Nights; Joan Didion
• Love Warrior; Glennon Doyle
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous; Ocean Vuong
• What Happened; Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Girl, Woman, Other; Bernardine Evaristo (book club)
• Patsy; Nicole Dennis-Benin

DNF:

• The Body is Not An Apology; Sonya Rene Taylor
• Sing Unburied Sing; Jesymn Ward
• In the Shadow of Man; Jane Goodall
• Madame Forcade’s Secret War; Lynne Olson

2019:

• Almost Everything, Anne Lamott
• How to Not Always be Working, Marlee Grace
• How We Fight for Our Lives, Saeed Jones
• Fleishman Is In Trouble, Taffy Brodesser-Akner (audio)
• The Hour of Land, Terry Tempest Williams (audio)
• Beloved, Toni Morrison (audio)
• Sula, Toni Morrison
• Life Will be the Death of Me (audio), Chelsea Handler
• PriestDaddy, Patricia Lockwood
• More Tales from the City (audio), Armistead Maupin
• Less, Andrew Sean Greer

2018:

• The Distance Home, Paula Saunders (BC)
• Dispatches, Michael Herr
• The Art of Memoir, Mary Karr
• Homegoing (1/2 audio), Yaa Gyasi
• My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
• The Line Becomes a River, Francisco Cantu (BC; audio)
• Circe, Madeline Miller (BC)
• Call Me By Your Name, Andre Aciman
• A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara

2017:

• Hallelujah Anyway, Anne Lamont
• Christodora, Tim Murphy (audio)
• Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin (audio)
• Not My Father's Son, Alan Cumming (audio)
• Braving the Wilderness, Brene Brown (audio)
• The Flame Throwers, Rachel Kushner (audio)
• Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, Amy Schumer (audio)
• Anthropology of Turquoise, Ellen Meloy (Seattle BC)
• Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver (audio)
• The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood (OG BC; audio)
• Voices from Chernobyl, Svetlana Alexievich (Seattle BC)
• Swing Time, Zadie Smith (Seattle BC)
• The Vegetarian, Han Kang (OG BC)
• You Are A Badass, Jen Sincero
• Walk Through Walls, Marina Abramovic

2016

• Imagine Me Gone, Adam Hassett (BC)
• The Red Parts, Maggie Nelson (BC)
• Patience, Daniel Clowes (BC)
• The Nest, Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney (Jessie's BC)
• The Lonely City, Olvia Laing (BC)
• In the Shawdow of the American Dream, David Wojnarowicz
• Citizen, Claudia Rankine (BC)
• A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin (BC)
• The Art of Communicating, Thich Nhat Hanh
• On the Road, Gloria Steinem (Jessie's BC)

2015:

• Hunger Makes me a Modern Girl, Carrie Brownstein
• Clothes, Clothes, Clothes ..., Viv Albertine (BC)
• The Gifts of Imperfection, Dr. Brene Brown
• Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso
• Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Color Purple, Alice Walker (audio)
• Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
• M Train, Patti Smith
• The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen (BC)
• Hold Still, Sally Mann
• Go Set A Watchman, Harper Lee (BC)
• Just Kids, Patti Smith (second reading)
• How to Sit, Thich Nhat Hanh
• Help, Thanks, Wow, Anne Lamont
• Day Book, Anne Truitt
• H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald (BC)
• Girl in Band, Kim Gordon
• Not that Kind of Girl, Lena Dunham
• The Unspeakable, Megan Daum
• Dancer from the Dance, Andrew Holleran (BC)
• Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamont
• Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay (BC)
• Tiny, Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed
• Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel (BC)

2014:

• The Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, Haruki Murakami (BC)
• Hateship, Friendship, Courtship ..., A. Munro
• Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter
• Going Clear, Lawrence Wright (BC)
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
• The GoldFinch, Donna Tart (BC)
• Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (Graphic)
• A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers (BC)
• The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd (BC)
• Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (Graphic)
• To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (BC)
• Are you My Mother?, Alison Bechdel (BC/Graphic)

2013:

• Dear Life, Alice Munro (BC)
• Just Kids, Patti Smith
• I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai/Christina Lamb (BC)
• The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles (BC/audio)
• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, K. J. Fowler (BC)
• Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman (BC) - 2/4
• Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (BC) - 3/4
• Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugendies (audio) - 4/4
• See Now Then, Jamaica Kincaid (BC) - 2/4
• White Teeth, Zadie Smith (BC/audio) - 4/4
• Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (audio) - 4/4
• A Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes (audio only) -3/4
• Tenth of December, George Saunders (BC/audio) - 4/4
• This Is How you Lose Her, Junot Diaz (BC) - 2/4
• Age of Miracles, Karen Thompson Walker (audio) - 2/4

2012:

• Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn (BC/audio) - 1/4
• Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (BC) - 4/4
• Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann - 4/4
• Wild, Cheryl Strayed (BC) - 3/4
• Madonnas of Echo Park, Brando Skyhorse (BC) - 3/4
• MockingJay, Suzanne Collins (BC) - 3/4 (series 2/4)
• Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins (BC) - 2/4
• Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (BC) - 3/4
• A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan (BC) - 3/4

2011:

• Blue Nights, Joan Didion (BC) - 3/4
• Rum Diary, Hunter S. Thompson (BC) - 2/4
• BossyPants, Tina Fey (BC) - 4/4
• Room, Emma Donoghue
• Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz - 2/4
• Broken Open, Elizabeth Lesser - 4/4
• Have A Little Faith, Mitch Albom - 3/4