chibifukurou

1. People From My Neighborhood by Hiromi Kawakami (Translation)

2. The Clearing by Allison Adair (Poems)

3. Uncommon Measure by Natalie Hodge (nfn)

4. Hell Phone by Benji Nate (Graphic)

5. Flung Out of Space by Grace Ellis (Graphic)(Queer MC)

6. All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran (Poetry)(Queer Author)

7. Grief is for Humans by Sloane Crosley (nfn)

8. We Called them Giants by Kieron Gillen (Graphic)

9. Home of the American Circus byAllison Larkin

10. Believe The Untold Story of Ted Lasso by Jeremy Egner (nfn)

11. Checked Out by Katie Fricas

12. Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix (Translation)

13. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom (Trans MC)

14. Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica (Translation)

15. So Many Stars by Caro De Robertis (nfn)

16. The Wild Robot Protects by Peter Brown (JR)

17. Becoming Kin by Patty Krawec (Nfn)(Indigenous)

18. Grow a Novel in Verse by Juanita Kodman (JR)(Verse)

19. A Spindle Splintered by Alix Harrow (Queer Romance)

20. Blue Light Hour by Bruna Dantas Lobato (Brazilian)

21. Paranoia Cage by Coolkyousinnjya (Graphic)

22. She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai (Translation)

23. Night Sky With Exit Wounds (Poetry)

24. The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Belc (nfn)(Queer Author)

25. It Rhymes with Takei by George Takei (Graphic)(nfn)(Queer Author)

26. Bad Badger A Love Story by Maryrose Wood (Jr)

27. Girl meets Boy by Ali Smith

28. Defekt by Nino Cipri (Queer MC)

29. Blood Feast by Malika Moustadraf (Translation)

30. The Secret of Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel (Graphic)(nfn)(Queer Author)

1. Waste Wars by Alexander Clapp (nfn)

2. Walking Gentry Home by Alora Young(Verse)(Black)

3. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Rilke (nfn)

4. Catboy by Benji Nate (Graphic)

5. Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen (Black)(Queer MC)

6. Killers of a Certain Age

7. Heartwood by Amity Gaige

8. Tilt by Emma Pattee

9. Blue Sky Through the Window by Jordon Bolton (Graphic)

10. Vinegar Hill by Colm Tobin (Poetry)

11. Kikis Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono (Translation)(JR)

12. We the Animals by Justin Torres

13. Cast Away by Naomi Shihab Nye (Poetry)(Nfn)

14. Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson

15. Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

16. Pixels of You by Yuko Ota (Graphic)(Queer Relationship)(YA)(Disabled MC)

17. Unbreakable by Mira Grant

18. The Apothecary Diaries Vol 6 by Natsu Hyuuga (Graphic)

19. On the Calculation of Volume 1 by Solveg Balle (Translation)

20. The Apothecary Diaries Vol 7 by Natsu Hyuuga (Graphic)

21. The Apothecary Diaries Vol 8 by Natsu Hyuuga (Graphic)

22. The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown (JR)

23. The Restaurant of Lost Recipes by Hisashi Kashiwai (Translation)

24. We Want it All: An anthology of Radical Trans Poetics edited by Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel (Trans)(Poetry)

25. The Suitcase Clone by Robin Sloan

26. The End is the Beginning by Jill Bialosky (nfn)

27. Behind the Scenes with Burt by Georgia Dunn (Graphic)

28. Night of the Whispers by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright

29. Apostle of Desire by Bruce Weige (Poems)

30. Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami (Translation)

31. The Time Machine by Matt Fitto

1. Discontent and Civilizations by Mohsin Hamid (Nfn)(Middleeastern)

2. Land of Mirrors by Maria Medem (Graphic)(Translation)(Hispanic)

3. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (Secondary Phase) by Douglas Adams

4. Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit by Aisha Sabatini Sloan (Nfn)(Black)(Queer)

5. Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada (Asian)(Translation)

6. The Brujos of Borderland High by Gume Laurel III (Verse)(Hispanic)(YA)

7. The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa (Asian)(Translation)

8. Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico (European)(Translation)

9. The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister (*)

10. Haunt Sweet Home by Sarah Pinsker

11. The Hundred-year House by Rebecca Makkai (*)

12. Liberation Day by George Saunders

13. What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher (Trans MC)

14. Shark Heart by Emily Habeck (*)

15. Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa (Asian)(Translation)

16. By the Grace of the Gods Vol 6 by Ranran Roy (Graphic)

17. By the Grace of the Gods Vol 7 by Ranran Roy (Graphic)

18. The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong (Asian American)

19. Fast Funny Women by Gina Barreca (nfn)

20. The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid (Middleeastern)

21. Invisible City by Italo Calvino (Translation)(Italian)

22. The Apothecary Diaries Vol 5 by Natsu Hyuuga (Graphic)

23. Pink Slime by Fernanda Trias (Translation)(Uruguay)

24. An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten (Translation)(European)

25. Final Girls by Mira Grant

26. Pearl by Sian Hughes

27. Squared3 by Mira Grant

28. Ashes by Alvaro Ortiz (Graphic)(Translation)

29. Lupin Leaps In by Georgia Dunn (Graphic)(*)

30. Doctor Who: Death's Deal by Darren Jones

1. The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai (Asian)(Translation)

2. By the Grace of the Gods Vol 1 by Ranran Roy (Graphic)

3. The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera (Nfn)(Translation)

4. Alone by Megan Freeman (Verse)(JR)

5. Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri (American/Asian) (Translation)

6. Nevada by Imogen Binnie (Trans)

7. Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses (Asian)(Nfn)

8. Honkers Under the Holly by Amy Award

9. The Wild Robot by Peter Brown (JR)

10. How to Write Short by Roy Peter Clark (Nfn)

11. The Apothecary Diaries Vol 1 by Natsu Hyuuga (Graphic)

12. Panpocalypse by Carley Moore(Queer Romance)(Trans)(Disabled MC)

13. Safe Harbor by Padme Venkatraman (JR)(Verse)(Asian)

14. Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson (Black)

15. A Leopard-Skin Hat by Anne Serre (Translation)(Mentally Ill MC)

16. The Undying by Anne Boyer (Nfn)

17. Wolf White Van by John Darnielle (Mentally Ill MC)(Disabled MC)

18. Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans (Black)(Poems)(Queer MC)(*)

19. Held by Anne Michaels (Disabled SC)(*)

20. Milk Fed by Melissa Broder (Jewish)(Mentally Ill MC)

21. Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison (Black)(Nfn)

22. The Apothecary Diaries Vol 2 by Natsu Hyuuga (Graphic)

23. The Apothecary Diaries Vol 3 by Natsu Hyuuga (Graphic)

24. By the Grace of the Gods Vol 2 by Ranran Roy (Graphic)

25. I Remain in Darkness by Annie Ernaux (Translation)(Memoir)(Chronic Illness)(*)

26. Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin Abridged (Queer Romance)(Trans)

27. Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (Asian)(*)

28. Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks (Memoir)

29. The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa (Asian)(Translation)(Terminally ill MC)

30. Somehow by Ann Lamott (nfn)(*)

31. She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya (Asian American)

31. Invasion by K A Applegate (Graphic)

32. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid(Middle eastern)(Queer Romance)(*)

33. Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

34. You've Lost A Lot of Blood by Eric Larroca (Queer Romance)

35. The Friend by Sigrid Nunez (*)

36. At the Edge of the Woods by Kathryn Bromwich

37. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

38. By the Grace of the Gods Vol 3 by Ranran Roy (Graphic)

39. By the Grace of the Gods Vol 4 by Ranran Roy (Graphic)

40. Everything is TB by John Green (")(nfn)

41. The Apothecary Diaries Vol 4 by Natsu Hyuuga (Graphic)

42. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (Primary Phase) by Douglas Adams

43. Ghost Music by An Yu(Asian)

44. Mauve Desert by Nicole Brossard (Translation)(Queer Romance)

45. Away by Megan E. Freeman (JR)(Verse)

46. The Place of Shells by Mia Ishizawa (Asian)(Translation)

47. The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez (Mentally Ill SC)

48. The Unfortunates by JK Chukwu (Black)(Mentally Ill MC)(Queer MC)

49. A Calm and Normal Heart by Chelsea T Hicks (Indigenous)

50. By the Grace of the Gods Vol 5 by Ranran Roy (Graphic)

51. Your Emergency Contact has Experienced a Emergency by Chen Chen(Asian)(Poems)(Queer Relationship)

52. Black Eggs by Sadako Kurihara (*)(nfn)(Asian)(Poetry)(Translation)

53. A Working Life by Eileen Myles (Poems)(Queer MC)

54. It's Lonely at the Center of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood (Memoir)(Graphic)(Mentally Ill MC)

55. Milk & Honey by Rupi Kaur (Poems)(WOC)(Canadian)

56. Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana(Black)

57. I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times by Taylor Byas (*)(Poems)(Black)

58. Romit and Jamil by Pamela Laskin (Middle Eastern)(Verse)(YA)

59. The Old Guard Book 1: Opening Fire by Greg Rucka (Graphic)

60. The Last Gifts of the Universe by Riley August (*)(Trans MC)

61. What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher (Trans MC)

62. Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice (Indigenous)(Canadian)

Rereading

1. Brood by Jackie Polzin

So goal for February was to try and read the equivalent of 2 books of any kind per each day

1. Cheshire Crossing by Andy Weir (YA)

2. To Strip the Flesh by Oto Toda (Asian)(Graphic)(Trans)

3. Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg (*)(Queer Relationship)(Trans)

4. The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio(Hispanic)(Nonfiction)

5. Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson (*)(Mentally Ill MC)

6. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Black)(Translation)

7. Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead (Indigenous)(Queer Relationship)(Trans)

8. The Unboxing Of A Black Girl by Angela Shanté (Black)(Poems)

9. Walking Practice by Dolki Min (Asian)(Translated)

10. Silencer by Marcus Wicker (Black)(Poems)

11. The Deepest Breath by Meg Grehan (Verse)(Queer Relationship)(Mentally Ill MC)(JR)

12. Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill (Verse)(YA)

13. No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood (*) (Disabled SC)

14. When We Flew Away by Alice Hoffman (Jewish)(JR)

15. Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson (Black)(Verse)

16. Euphoria by Lily King

17. Wretched Waterpark by Kiersten White (JR)

18. Rebent Sinner by Ivan Coyote (*)(Trans)(Memoire)

19. Closer to Nowhere by Ellen Hopkins (Verse)(Mentally Ill MC)(JR)

20. Invisible Kitties by Yu Yoyo (Translation)(Verse)(Asian)

21. The Dallergut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee (Translation)(Asian)

22. Odder by Katherine Applegate (Verse)(JR)

23. Sasha Masha by Agnes Borinsky (Trans)(YA)

24. Wolfpack by Amelia Brunskill (Verse)(Queer Relationship)(YA)

25. In Limbo by Deb JJ Lee (*)(Graphic)(Asian)(Mentally Ill MC)(Memoire)

26. My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Vol 1 by Hideyuki Furuhashi (Graphic)

27. We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman (*)

28. How not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz (*)(Hispanic)

29. All in Her Head by Elizabeth Comen (Nonfiction)

30. Orbital by Samantha Harvey

31. Finna by Nino Cipri (*)(Queer Relationship)(Trans)

32. Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison

33. Information Desk by Robyn Schiff (Verse)(Memoire)

34. The Terrible by Yrsa Daley Ward (Black)(Verse)(Memoire)

35. The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo (Queer Relationship)(Trans)

36. Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy

37. There are Trans People Here by H Melt (Trans)(Poetry)(Jewish)

38. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (Translation)

39. Refuse to Be Done by Matt Bell (Nonfiction)

40. The Girl From the Sea by Molly Ostertag (Asian)(Queer Relationship)

41. Long Story Short by Margot Leitman (Nonfiction)

42. The Ghosts of Sherwood by Carrie Vaughn

43. Dept of Speculation by Jenny Offill

44. Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel by 0ctavia E Butler (Black)(Mentally Ill MC)

45. The Laws of the Skies by Gregaire Courtois (Translated)

46. Weather by Jenny Offill (*)

47. An Appetite for Miracles by Laeken Kemp (Hispanic)(Verse)(YA)

48. Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval (Translated)(Queer Romance)

49. Beaches, Bungalows, & Burglaries by Tonya Kappes

50. The Sea Ringed World by
Maria Garcia Esperon (Hispanic)(Indigenous)(Translated)

51. Surrounded by Wilfred Lupano & Stephane Fert (Black)(Graphic)

52. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum by Bex Ollerton (Neurodiverse)(Graphic)(Nfn)

53. Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou & Patrick Horvath (Graphic)

54. Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen (Queer Romance)(Trans Writer)

55. Sourdough by Robin Sloan (*)

56. Body Work by Melissa Febos (Black)(nfn) (Queer Writer)

Reread

Falling Back in Love with Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom
Dept of Speculation by Jenny Offill

Reading Goal for 2025 is to read 50 books. Posting here to keep track.

Not everything on this list will be a recommendation. For fiction I tend heavily to first person and books written in non-standard form so even if I rec it you may not find it to your taste.

Other things that will feature heavily; themes of Disability, chronic illness, gender non-conformity, high control groups, found families, and family dynamics.
Prioritization is also shown to woman and marginalized authors.

January

Stage Dreams by Melanie Gillman - Queer Graphic Novel - TW for Civil War era racism/sexism. Injury/Violence

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Olivetti by Allie Millington - Middle Grade Mystery - TW for cancer, near death experiences, unhealthy coping mechanisms, and implied child neglect of a secondary character.( Read more... )

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui - Graphic Memoir - TW Graphic Violence, Partner and Child abuse, War, Child Death

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What You Are Looking For Is In the Library by Michiko Aoyama - Adult Fiction/Interconnected Short Stories - TW Social issues involving ableism and gender assumptions; second hand embarrassment

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Becoming Toffee by Sarah Crossan - YA Social Issues/Novels in Verse- TW Abuse, mentions of child and parent death, pregnancy, dementia, bullying, class issues

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Louder than Hunger by John Schu - Middle Grade Social Issues/Novels in Verse - TW Eating Disorders, OCD, Depression, Cancer, Family Death, Bullying

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Northwind by Gary Paulsen – Children’s Survival/Nature – TW: Plague, child death, offscreen child abuse, period typical behavior, wild animal violence

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The Worst Perfect Moment by Shivaun Plozza – YA Lesbian Fantasy Romance – TW: Teen Death, Bullying, Child neglect

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Sweeter Voices Still by Various – Multiauthor Essay/Poetry Collection – TW: Period typical queerphobia; discussions of rural life including the violence there in; mentions of gun and other forms of interpersonal violence.

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Magnolia Wu Unfolds it All by Chanel Miller – Children’s Mystery – TW: racism; complicated children/parent relationships.

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Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh – Mystery/Horror – TW: unreliable narrator; memory loss/confusion; animal death; fatphobia; uncomfortable racial discussions of the narrator’s ethnic group; WWII mentions; implied infidelity; implied character death; cancer

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Cloudless by Christine Evans – General Novel in Verse – TW: Racism; Classism; Child Abuse; Implied domestic abuse; Child Death

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