The 2010s are over, and in my latest Book Riot video (did you know I make videos weekly on that channel now?), I wanted to reflect back on my decade in reading. I picked a favourite book of each year, as well as a whole bunch of runners-up. Of course, most of them are bi or lesbian.
Books mentioned, with non-Lesbrary books crossed out:
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2010:
- The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall (review and discussion)
- Two or Three Things I Know For Sure by Dorothy Allison (review)
2011:
- Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue (review)
- The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson (review)
2012:
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth (review)
- Miss Timmins’ School for Girls by Nayana Currimbhoy (review)
- The Last Nude by Ellis Avery (review)
2013:
- Nevada by Imogen Binnie (review)
- The Collection edited by Tom Leger and Riley Macleod (review)
- Fist of the Spider Woman edited by Amber Dawn (review)
- The Red Tree by Caitlin Kiernan (review)
- The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez (review)
2014:
- Tamora Pierce, including the Circle of Magic series (review)
- Adaptation (review) and Inheritance by Malinda Lo (review)
- Prairie Ostrich by Tamai Kobayashi (review)
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
2015:
- Bodymap by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha (review)
The Truth About Stories by Thomas King- Falling In Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson (review)
- The Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzie (review)
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker (review)
Beloved by Toni MorrisonA Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki- Sailor Moon manga
2016:
- Sexual Fluidity by Lisa Diamond (review)
- The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg (review)
Parable of the Sower by Octavia ButlerEverything I Never Told You by Celeste NgTiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed- When Fox is a Thousand by Larissa Lai (review)
2017:
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom- Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (review)
- Everfair by Nisi Shawl (review)
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty- Sugar Town by Hazel Newlevant (review)
- Hunger by Roxane Gay (review)
2018:
Anger is a Gift by Mark OshiroRagged Company by Richard Wagamese- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (review)
- How to Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake (review)
The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O’NeillNot My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham- As the Crow Flies by Melanie Gillman (review)
- All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages edited by Saundra Mitchell (review)
- Space Battle Lunchtime by Natalie Riess (review)
2019:
- Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (review)
- Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, edited by Carmen Maria Machado (review)
- This Is What it Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow (review)
- Once and Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy (review)
- Alice Isn’t Dead by Joseph Fink
- Gnarled Hollow by Charlotte Greene
