2024 Bestsellers & Collective Picks

“Extraordinary… Deranged, hyperbolic and as true a work as I have read in a very long time… Barrett Brown’s looping, musical sentences are flirtations, bending reason toward satire, hovering always on the fine edge between absurdity and profundity.”
—Kerry Howley, author of Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs

“Elene Lam and Chanelle Gallant set the record straight with powerful analysis and storytelling drawn from many years of solidarity and advocacy work with migrant sex workers, exposing the exploitation and outright deception perpetrated by the so-called anti-human trafficking movement. This is one of the most important books on migrant justice, labor justice, and sex worker rights that I have read in the past decade and I am so grateful that it exists.”
—Kai Cheng Thom, author of I Hope We Choose Love

“Told from the perspective of a queer lion navigating the hills of Ellay who slyly observes and encounters humanity, this is written like a long, beautiful prose poem. Clever, playful, and existential all at once—you could read this in an afternoon.”
—Glenda, The Firestorm Collective

“A voyage from Turtle Island to Palestine not only through the lens of someone who has crystal clear transnational awareness of the U.S. settler-colonial project (including the satellite Zionist entity), but entwined in this narrative is the voice of Palestinians themselves, imbued with an admirable sense of praxis and heart. Here Quiquivix sings a song indigenous communities all over the world can close their eyes to with a dark sense of déjà vu and walk away wielding something glowing, new.”
—Thaer Husien, author of Beside the Sickle Moon

“In turns suspenseful, introspective, and even humorous, Quawami leaves plenty of room for nuance and the manifold stories of characters in their multiple dimension and complexity, while avoiding the pitfalls of romanticizing or heroising the history and ongoing struggle of guerilla fighters who dare to imagine and win freedom—all of which makes the novel immensely gripping and worth reading.”
—Thomas Schmidinger, author of Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria's Kurds

“I don’t think this book could come at a better time… Safety Through Solidarity is not just an appeal to avoid falling into a trap, it also recognizes how much stronger we all are when we do so. Most importantly, Burley and Lorber show how to build that strength against such odds. Everyone needs to read this book.”
—Daryle Lamont Jenkins, One People’s Project

“The dialog is quippy and the story is tightly paced with well-played twists. An anarchic spirit flows through the whole book, celebrating the lives of common folks, underdogs, and pranksters in a world where the one thing nearly everyone agrees on is that the kingdom doesn't need another monarch.”
—Libertie, The Firestorm Collective

“This tender ace romance between polar opposites is equal parts humorous and healing. I came for the shapeshifting shenanigans, but stayed for the gentle ways only survivors of abuse can make each other feel truly seen.”
—Esmé, The Firestorm Collective

“Gelderloos' decades of participating in and studying resistance movements grounds this book's practical analysis of common misunderstandings cultivated by liberals to stifle resistance efforts. This book shows the costs—to our boldness, our effectiveness, our solidarity, our survival—of forgetting lessons learned in our struggles. A much needed tool for the difficult times we are in and the worse ones that are coming.”
—Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid

“Kellie Carter Jackson is fearless… She taps the wellsprings of memory, archives, oral histories, literature, imagination, and personal experience to tell a very Black story of armed resistance, strategic retreat, unbreakable resolve, and joyous rapture. Reading this book will cause discomfort in some folks, provoke cheers in others. But I doubt anyone will be able to put it down.”
—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams

“This book reckons with our major issues—trauma, race, social upheaval—and opens us up to the possibility that everything actually could be different. And it does so one gorgeous sentence after the next.”
—Resmaa Menakem, author of My Grandmother’s Hands

“Is corporate participation in pride a metric of a shift towards progress or are the blink-and-you-miss-it rainbow logos hiding something more sinister? The Z Word tackles this debate with a cast of lovable and deeply familiar queer characters who must wrestle with the pressure to consume… or be consumed. This surprisingly sweet horror novel is like a mouthful of cotton candy, it goes down easy and is over before you know it!”
—Esmé, The Firestorm Collective