Feminist Utopia Book Club meets the first Thursday of every month. Do you dream of a better world? One with equity and strong communities? One that’s anti-racist and anti-capitalist? Authors have dreamt up these worlds and have written books explaining how such worlds might work. Let’s take some time to honor their ideas by reading their works. Let’s use this book club as one way to strengthen our community in Tacoma. This book club will focus on fiction and nonfiction about one or more of the following: feminist utopia, socialism, anarchism, intersectional feminism. Each month, the selected book is available for purchase at King's Books. To see what we're reading this month, go to the main Events page. For questions, contact sweet pea.
Previous Reads
January 2024: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty
December 2023: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
November 2023: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
October 2023: Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
September 2023: Outlawed by Anna North
August 2023: Wordslut by Amanda Montell
July 2023: Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
May 2023: How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis
April 2023: Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur
March 2023: When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
January 2023: Wild Seed by Octavia E Butler
December 2022: Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
November 2022: How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin
October 2022: Lakewood by Megan Giddings
September 2022: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
August 2022: The Body Is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
July 2022: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
June 2022: Firekeeper's Daughter, by Angeline Boulley
May 2022: How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
April 2022: Circe by Madeline Miller
March 2022: Primer by Jennifer Muro, Thomas Krajewski, and Gretel Lusky
February 2022: Women, Race & Class by Angela Y Davis
January 2022: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler
December 2021: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
November 2021: Kindred by Octavia E Butler
October 2021: The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
September 2021: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
August 2021: Disability Visibility, ed by Alice Wong
July 2021: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
June 2021: The Feminist Utopia Project, ed by Alexandra Brodsky & Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
May 2021: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
April 2021: How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong
March 2021: Lilith's Brood by Octavia E Butler
February 2021: The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
January 2021: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
December 2020: An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
November 2020: The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
October 2020: Octavia's Brood ed. by adrienne maree brown & Walidah Imarisha
September 2020: Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology
August 2020: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
July 2020: Almost American Girl by Robin Ha
June 2020: Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang
May 2020: Provenance by Ann Leckie
April 2020: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
March 2020: Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
February 2020: Black From the Future ed. by Allen & Cherelle
January 2020: Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
December 2019: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
November 2019: The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin
October 2019: Fledgling by Octavia E Butler
September 2019: Wild Mercy by Mirabai Starr
August 2019: The Power by Naomi Alderman
July 2019: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
June 2019: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin
May 2019: Electric Arches by Eve L Ewing
April 2019: Bitch Planet, Vol. 1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro, et al
March 2019: The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin
February 2019: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler