Recs if you like Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood...

Books that are part memoir part another genre: in a way that blends multiple mediums and/or themes in unique and engaging ways. Magical, explosive and memorable narratives expressed with creativity and depth. Books that inspire me to write more.

Nonfiction books exploring the natural world and our “place in the family of things” (Mary Oliver, Wild Geese) through radical BIPOC, queer, feminist, anti-capitalist, disability ecological perspectives. 🪲🌾🦉🌵

Nonfiction books exploring the natural world and our “place in the family of things” (Mary Oliver, Wild Geese). 🐦‍⬛🦋🌱🪸🦊🪷🪼🍄

Books about sexual & reproductive justice + health. Including abortion, contraception, pregnancy, childbirth, kink, sexuality, STIs, and more. The term reproductive justice is from SisterSong and is inherently an intersectional, political, and affirming framework. BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled perspectives highlighted.

books from parents’ perspectives that acknowledge our current dystopia. suggestions always welcome!

Nonfiction books exploring water and the life it sustains. Oceans, lakes, fish, and more.

One of my favourite niche genres is when memoirs are mixed with science, (or the other way around!— books about science that incorporate parts of the author’s life. The science also tends to be more accessible than in typical academic writing. So let’s read some books about people and their favourite science! P.S. please feel free to suggest more titles to add!

Fiction and nonfiction talking about the intricacies of queer parenting, children's novels with queer parents, memoirs, and adult fiction. Recs always welcome

Memoir & adjacent nonfiction making sense of personal experience — bodies, minds, whole selves — through the lens of the natural world. Subject matter includes illness, identity, relationships, emotion, and more.

17th-century plate found in a London sewer

Service95 Book Club Monthly Reads + more and more books from their lists :)

Nonfiction books about parenting

A list of nonfiction with LGBTQ+ authors and/or themes, published in 2025-2026, once again shamelessly yoinked from that other reading app that shan't be named.

For many (if not most) people, the term 'mother' feels deeply gendered and carries with it the weight of expectations. However, the queer community has long played with the meaning of 'mother,' from the mothers of ballroom culture to queer family-making to the intersection of mothering and trans parenthood. Mother is, after all, an identity like any other and as such it can be stretched, played with, inverted, and examined.

Books to feel connected to your queerness (credit to all my fellow boundlings' recs from the PB club!!)

Queer families, allo-parenting, building a chosen family, raising kids in community

To stick it to Bret Stephens for his dumb op-ed in the NYT, here is a list of all the 77th Annual National Book Award Long List Honorees.

NBA Honoree Categories: Fiction Nonfiction Poetry Translated Literature Young People's Literature

If they release any others, I'll update this list!

Books requested to be added to PB: Still House (poetry)

The ten contenders for the National Book Award for the categories of Translated Literature, Nonfiction, Young People's Literature and Fiction.