Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors
By: Grist
3.99
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Hopeful and forward-looking futuristic short stories that explore how the power of storytelling can…
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1. Always Coming Home
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Margaret Chodos-Irvine , None
3.93
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's mos… read more
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2. A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
By: Becky Chambers
None
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
ASIN B08H831J18 moved to the more recent edition Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-a… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- queer
3. Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire
By: Jehad Abusalim
4.70
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a p… read more
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- short stories
- anthologies
4. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
5. How Long 'til Black Future Month?
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.28
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and dra… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
"Still. Marching."-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
"I’ll take the dreams,"-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
"I need to talk to you,"-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
"The monster is amused to be found monstrous"-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
6. Boys Weekend
By: Mattie Lubchansky
4.03
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
- queer
7. Open Throat
By: Henry Hoke
4.01
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- queer
8. The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
By: Jaime Green
4.02
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A dazzling cultural and scientific exploration of alien life and the cosmos, examining how the poss… read more
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"We’re not alone because we’re not separate from the swirl of a galaxy’s arms or the way wind catches dust in a gyre. We’re no more an anomaly than an atom is."-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
"…science fiction writers may have been the first people to realize the unknowability of where technology would lead us… Where it used to be possible to set stories millennia in the future—affording h…"-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
9. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
By: Uché Blackstock
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more
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10. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
By: Susan Casey
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the … read more
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- environment
11. Gone to the Wolves
By: John Wray
3.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author John Wray dives deep into the wild, risky world of heavy metal in the 1980… read more
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- fiction
12. Goblin Mode: How to Get Cozy, Embrace Imperfection, and Thrive in the Muck
By: McKayla Coyle
3.45
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Embrace your inner goblin! Learn to decorate, dress, craft, forage, and live according to the gobli… read more
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13. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom
By: Ahed Tamimi
4.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more
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14. The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.46
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disa… read more
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- queer
"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
15. Rose Quartz: Poems
By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
4.17
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A wild, seductive debut collection that presents a powerful journey of struggle and healing—and a s… read more
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"keep this / with you / it is part / of your story / sometimes / to remember / a wound / is the way / of healing"-Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe, Rose Quartz: Poems
"How is it I have never dated / someone who is also Coast Salish / or at least Indigenous / instead it's Disney's Pocahontas / her animated dad with his hands up / these white men are dangerous / and …"-Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe, Rose Quartz: Poems
16. Troubled Waters
By: Mary Annaïse Heglar
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In this intimate portrait of two generations, a granddaughter and a grandmother come to terms with … read more
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- climate change fiction
- climate change
- environment
- fiction
17. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
By: Ruha Benjamin
4.27
Format: 172 pages, ebook
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understa… read more
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"Racism is, let us not forget, a means to reconcile contradictions. Only a society that extolled “liberty for all"-Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
18. Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.98
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
An energizing case for hope about the climate comes from Rebecca Solnit, called the voice of the re… read more
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- climate change
- environment
"To hope is to accept despair as an emotion but not as an analysis. To recognize that what is unlikely is possible, just as what is likely is not inevitable. To understand that difficult is not the sa…"-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
"What gives me hope is that human history is full of examples of people across the ages who have risen to face the great challenges of their time and have succeeded. Victory is not the arrival in some…"-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
"These are among the many foundation stones of this new world we have built, and the work continues. I know all this seemed impossible a decade ago, when it felt as if everything was falling apart and…"-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
19. The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees
By: Don Brown
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Don Brown’s critically acclaimed, full-color nonfiction graphic novels The Grea… read more
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20. We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
4.31
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through. … read more
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- queer
"Movements tend to become the practice ground for what we are healing towards, co-creating. Movements are responsible for embodying what we are inviting our people into. We need the people within our …"-Adrienne Maree Brown, We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)
21. Blood Orange
By: Yaffa As
4.60
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She… read more
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- queer
"you've drawn every line there could be while we wait for a circle"-Yaffa As, Blood Orange
"we know it ends in flame because those with power were never taught to relinquish / we wait for them to / we forget you can't give up what wasn't yours to begin with"-Yaffa As, Blood Orange
22. Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
4.50
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
Before she was an NYT bestselling author, adrienne was known for her work as a facilitator, mediato… read more
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23. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023
By: Carl Zimmer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essa… read more
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- environment
- anthologies
24. The Sons of El Rey
By: Alex Espinoza
3.90
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the American Book Award–winning author comes a multi-generational epic spanning 1960s Mexico … read more
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- fiction
- queer
25. The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
By: Ainissa Ramirez
3.93
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon a clever and engaging look… read more
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26. How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems (Seedbank)
By: Mikeas Sánchez
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the … read more
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27. Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors
By: Grist
3.99
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Hopeful and forward-looking futuristic short stories that explore how the power of storytelling can… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- climate change
- climate change fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- environment
- queer
28. All Friends Are Necessary
By: Tomas Moniz
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In this joyous, big-hearted novel, Tomas Moniz delivers a commanding new story about the power of f… read more
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- fiction
- queer
"Remember that. When you take care of something, you're really taking care of yourself."-Tomas Moniz, All Friends Are Necessary
"Hopefully, you found some happiness, some way to be in the world with people who welcomed you home, who would check in on you when things got bad, who challenged you because they cared."-Tomas Moniz, All Friends Are Necessary
29. The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming
By: Eric Holthaus
3.45
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The first hopeful book about climate change, The Future Earth shows readers how to reverse the shor… read more
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- climate change
- environment
"The perpetual growth model is simply not built for an era of rapid planetary change. In a world where the richest 85 people in the world own as much wealth as the bottom 3.5 billion, and the wealthie…"-Eric Holthaus, The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming
30. The Book Swap
By: Tessa Bickers
3.73
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“A love letter to books and reading. This debut is catnip for any book geek. I just loved it.” —Ces… read more
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- fiction
31. Commune or Nothing!
By: Chris Gilbert
4.14
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A front-row seat to Venezuela’s most innovative socialist project, with i mportant lessons for move… read more
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