- Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire – Akala
Using his own experiences growing up in Camden (a borough of London), Akala uses politics and history of the past and present to analyze the effects of race and class in places like Britain.
Tags: nonfiction, black voices, history, memoir
- Her Majesty’s Royal Coven – Juno Dawson
A story of a group of friends navigating their platonic, familial, and romantic relationships in adulthood, the catch: they’re witches, and a prophecy of destruction is getting closer.
Tags: fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure – Lewis Hacox
A graphic novel telling the story of Hanox’s life growing up trans in a small English town during his youth and early adulthood.
Tags: nonfiction, graphic novel, LGBTQIA+, memoir
- When God Was a Rabbit – Sarah Winman
Spanning from childhood to adulthood, a brother and sister must navigate the world with their family and the friends who became family.
Tags: fiction, LGBTQIA+
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind – William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
The story of a curious and determined young boy who sets out to build a windmill for his village in Malawi, despite the doubts others had along the way.
Tags: nonfiction, memoir, Africa
- Loveless – Alice Oseman
Georgia has just begun university, and while everyone else is navigating new worlds of crushes and romance, she is navigating a world of self-acceptance when she learns what it means to be asexual and aromantic.
Tags: fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Gender Queer: A Memoir – Maia Kobabe
A graphic novel telling a story of gender identity and acceptance throughout childhood and young adulthood.
Tags: nonfiction graphic novel lgbtqia+ memoir
- Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change – Elizabeth Kolbert
Kolbert highlights the current effects of climate change and human involvement through evidence of those effects that are occurring today.
Tags: nonfiction, environment
- Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice and Art Activism of Sins Invalid – Shayda Kafai
Based in San Francisco, Sins Invalid is a performance project that aims to uplift disabled voices and highlight the stories and works of disabled people of color and disabled queer people. This book tells some of their stories.
Tags: nonfiction, LGBTQIA+, disability rights
- Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction – David Sheff
A story of a young man’s journey through drug addiction, relapses, and recovery told from the perspective of his father.
Tags: nonfiction, memoir