This was a good year for reading – or at least better than 2020! I read a total of 73 books, zines, graphic novels, etc. including: 33 with queer characters or by queer authors; at least 24 with POC main characters or by authors of color; 12 poetry collections; and 16 nonfiction books. I even got through most of my physical TBR pile from the beginning of the year, though it’s grown again thanks to holiday gifts. Guess I better get started on my 2022 list! ;)

1. So Our Idols Are Dead: Empowerment Poems – K.D. Hume
2. Between Death and the Devil: Tarot Poems – K.D. Hume
3. Gramarye, a Witch’s Perzine: Issues 1-4 – K.D. Hume
4. So Happy to See Cherry Blossoms: Haiku from the Year of the Great Earthquake and Tsunami – Ed. Mayuzumi Madoka
5. She and Her Cat – Makoto Shinkai and Tsubasa Yamaguchi
6. The Endless Possibilities of Beatrice – Annie Goodyear
7. Raven Goddess: Going Deeper with the Morrigan – Morgan Daimler
8. Goddess of the Hunt – Shelby Eileen
9. Up from the Sea – Leza Lowitz
10. Tsunami Vs the Fukushima 50: Poems – Lee Ann Roripaugh
11. Coffee with Orange Sherbet – S.E. Shell
12. The Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota’s Garden – Heather Smith and Rachel Wada
13. I Survived: The Japanese Tsunami, 2011 – Lauren Tarshis
14. The Warrior Moon – K. R. Arsenault
15. Beyond Me – Anne Donwerth-Chikamatsu
16. Hathor: A Reintroduction to an Ancient Egyptian Goddess – Lesley Jackson
17. The Guest Cat – Takashi Hiraide
18. Alanna: The First Adventure (The Lioness Quartet Book 1) – Tamora Pierce
19. In the Hand of the Goddess (The Lioness Quartet Book 2) – Tamora Pierce
20. The Guilded Ones – Namina Forna
21. Cemetery Boys – Aiden Thomas
22. Educated – Tara Westover
23. Only the Sea Keeps: Poems of the Tsunami – Ed. Judith Robinson, Joan Bauer, Sankar Roy
24. The Woman Who Rides Like A Man (The Lioness Quartet Book 3) – Tamora Pierce
25. How Long Til Black Future Month? – N.K Jemesin
26. Lioness Rampant (The Lioness Quartet Book 4) – Tamora Pierce
27. Gramarye, a Witch’s Perzine: Issue 5 – K.D. Hume
28. Gramarye, a Witch’s Perzine: Issue 6 – K.D. Hume
29. Gramarye, a Witch’s Perzine: Issue 7 – K.D. Hume
30. Love Songs for the Sun: Poems – KD Hume
31. This Precious Life: Buddhist Tsunami Relief and Anti-Nuclear Activism in Post 3.11 Japan – Ed. Jonathan S. Watts
32. First Test (Protector of the Small Book 1) – Tamora Pierce
33. Page (Protector of the Small Book 2) – Tamora Pierce
34. Squire (Protector of the Small Book 3) – Tamora Pierce
35. Lady Knight (Protector of the Small Book 4) – Tamora Pierce
36. Valor and the Vain: A Fairytale – K. D. Hume
37. All Night Long: Haiku, Senryu, and Other Short Poems, and a Haibun on the Great Tohoku Earthquake – Kirby Record
38. Red Skies: A Creators Response to 2020 – Ed. Rachel Small and Amanda Edwards
39. The Last Girl Scout – Natalie Ironside
40. Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey – Marie Mutsuki Mockett
41. A Constellation of Cats – Ed. Denise Little
42. Where Shadows Lie (Book One of The Last Gift) – Allegra Pescatore
43. Find Your Goddess – Skye Alexander
44. I Sexually Identify As An Attack Helicopter – Isabel Falls
45. The World that Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia – Ed. Aditi Angiras & Akhil Katyal
46. One Year on T: On Non-binary Sex and Transition – Sage Pantony
47. 1.5 Years on T: My Non-binary Body, Transition, and Ambivalence – Sage Pantony
48. Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology – Ed. Celine Frohn
49. Coming Off of T: Transition As Cycle – Sage Pantony
50. Silk and Steel: A Queer Speculative Adventure Anthology – Ed. Janine Southard
51. Lead and Roses: Love Songs at the End of the World – Natalie Ironside
52. Full-Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest – Sandy Doughton
53. Wild Magic (The Immortals Quartet Book 1) – Tamora Pierce
54. Wolf-Speaker (The Immortals Quartet Book 2) – Tamora Pierce
55. The Cruel Sister – KD Hume
56. Emperor Mage (The Immortals Quartet Book 3) – Tamora Pierce
57. The Realms of the Gods (The Immortals Quartet Book 4) – Tamora Pierce
58. Persons of Consequence – KD Hume
59. Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters – Nikita Gill
60. And the River Flowed As a Raft of Corpses: The Poetry of Yamaguchi Tsutomu, Survivor of Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Chad Diehl
61. Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death – Bernd Heinrich
62. Non-binary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity – Ed. Micah Rajunov, Scott Duane
63. Who By Water: Reflections of a Tsunami Psychologist – Ronna Kabatznick
64. The Luminous Dead – Caitlin Starling
65. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death – Caitlin Doughty
66. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster – Adam Higginbotham
67. Warning Lines Magazine Issue 2: Echo – Ed. Charlie D’Aniello
68. Hellebore Issue #1: The Sacrifice Issue – Ed. Maria J Perez Cuervo
69. Sorrowland: A Novel – Rivers Solomon
70. Skin of the Sea – Natasha Bowen
71. Girls of Fate and Fury (Girls of Paper and Fire Book 3) – Natasha Ngan
72. The Jaguar Princess – Clare Bell
73. Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster – David Lochbaum and The Union of Concerned Scientists