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Portals and Paradoxes
Ever wish you could go back and read your favorite books again for the first time? *Sigh* It may never be possible, but at least you can read some of our favorites for the...
Feel-Good Queer Stories
Rejection, illness, and tragedy. We’ve read it, we’ve lived it, we know the drill. Enough already! If the dreary present is leaving you with a craving for...
Beautiful Giftables
We created this list with the trickiest gift recipients in mind. Spanning a spectrum of interests and boasting gorgeous covers, one of these titles is sure to do the trick...
2023 Bestsellers & Collective Picks
This year was a real horror show, but it wasn't our first season. We're squarely in season two, or even three, with the studio attempting to pivot clumsily from the...
Resisting Surveillance
In light of recent police surveillance of our bookstore, we're offering our community some reading suggestions on digital media activism against state efforts to monitor,...
Anarchism? Start here.
Who will build the roads? What about the rapists? But what are you for? The following recommendations offer perspectives from anarchists and anarchic projects all over the...
2022 Bestsellers & Collective Picks
From escalating conflicts between nuclear states, to accelerating attacks by christofascists in schools, libraries, public spaces, and private homes, it felt like 2022...
Ace Week Nonfiction
Our bookstore doesn't fuck with acephobia! For Ace Week, a-spec members of our team are highlighting some of their favorite titles along with upcoming books raising...
2021 Bestsellers & Collective Picks
Coming off the wildest year of our lives, 2021 felt comparatively uneventful. Although we started off with high uncertainty and the threat of societal collapse—and...
2020 Young Reader Bestsellers & Collective Picks
Ever since we expanded our children’s section, we find ourselves drawn to that part of our store with its vibrant, joyful wall of picture books. In a year full of...
2020 Bestsellers & Collective Picks
A lot of ink has already been spilled over the unique character of 2020, a year that defied all of our expectations to deliver the best and the worst plot twists of our...
So You Might Be a Trans Woman
This list is a "welcome package" for anyone who's recently realized that they're a trans woman. We initially joked that it might include a vegan cookbook and a how-to guide...