Welcome to the We Reads
Winter 2023 Collection
The Winter 2023 Collection includes works and stories that resonated with We Here members and the We Reads project team across the last year. We Here logos are featured on community picks. Want more reads? Browse all collections through our Archive.
This year, we also began including other types of media as well. To see our picks beyond books, see individual lists for podcasts, films & television shows, and music (individual songs & entire albums).
Literary
WINTER
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
The All-American by Joe Milan Jr.
Blackouts by Justin Torres
The Chinese Groove by Kathryn Ma
Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
A History of Burning by Janika Oza
Holding Pattern by Jenny Xie
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
Y/N by Esther Yi
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
SUMMER
Jesusdevil: The Parables by Alexis de Veaux
The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher
Poetry
WINTER
ballast by Quenton Baker
Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom
From From: Poems by Monica Youn
Hood Vacations by Michal "MJ" Jones
I Am the Most Dangerous Thing by Candace Williams
I Do Everything I'm Told by Megan Fernandes
In the Wake of Things by Terasa Gipson
Trace Evidence: Poems by Charif Shanahan
SUMMER
Song & Dread by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek
Perennial Fashion Presence Falling by Fred Moten
Side Notes from the Archivist by Anastacia-Reneé
Feast by Ina Cariño
Short Story Collections
WINTER
At Night He Lifts Weights by Young-Sook Kang
Holler, Child: Stories by LaToya Watkins
Infinite Constellations: An Anthology of Identity, Culture, and Speculative Conjunctions Edited by Khadijah Queen and Kiini Ibura Salaam (editors)on
Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go: Stories by Cleo Qian
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk (Editor)
Skin Thief: Stories by Suzan Palumbo
Tomb Sweeping: Stories by Alexandra Chang
When Language Broke Open: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent by Alan Pelaez Lopez (Editor)
Witness by Julia Vee & Ken Bebelle
Science Fiction & Fantasy
WINTER
Ebony Gate: The Phoenix Hoard by Julia Vee & Ken Bebelle
SUMMER
Flux by Jinwoo Chong
Horror
WINTER
Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
Mystery/Thriller
WINTER
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
SUMMER
Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury
Romance
WINTER
Exes and O's by Amy Lea
Role Playing by Cathy Yardley
Comics & Graphic Novels
WINTER
Brooms by Jasmine Walls & Teo DuVall
Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham
A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat
Hungry Ghost by Victoria Ying
In Limbo by Deb JJ Lee
Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story by Sarah Myer
SUMMER
Killadelphia, Vol. 5 by Rodney Barnes, Jason Shawn Alexander, Germán Erramouspe, Lee Loughridge
Young Adult & Children’s Lit
SUMMER
Conjure Island by Eden Royce
Nonfiction
WINTER
Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form by Rizvana Bradley
Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America by Julia Lee
Black and Female: Essays by Tsitsi Dangarembga
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams
Liliana's Invincible Summer by Cristina Rivera Garza
Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy & Toshio Meronek
Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming by Ava Chin
Of Effacement: Blackness and Non-Being by David Marriott
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” by Héctor Tobar
Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love
Quietly Hostile: Essays by Samantha Irby
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk
Rivermouth: a Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration by Alejandra Oliva
Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt by Orisanmi Burton
Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry by Terrance Hayes
SUMMER
Against the Carceral Archive: The Art of Black Liberatory Practice by Damien Sojoyner
Channeling Knowledges: Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds by Rebeca L. Hey-Colón
Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean by Carlos Ulises Decena
Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place by J. T. Roane
A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars by Erin Sharkey (ed.)
Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation by Camonghne Felix
Hopeful Visions, Practical Actions: Cultural Humility in Library Work by Sarah R. Kostelecky, Lori Townsend, David A. Hurley (eds.)
In Search of a Beautiful Freedom by Farah Jasmine Griffin
More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech by Meredith Broussard
Of Black Study by Joshua Myers
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex by Juana María Rodríguez
The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging by Samira Mehta
School Clothes: A Collective Memoirs of Black Student Witness by Jarvis R. Givens
Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies by Scott Branson, Raven Hudson, Bry Reed (eds.)
You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption by Angela Tucker
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