Catalog
Books, games, and the stuff that goes with them — curated by the Rainbow Crow community and the team behind it. At the top of this page are our main picks this week. Find the full curated catalog below. Scroll down, browse around, find something you like, then come talk about it with us!
This week's picks

11/22/63
BooksStephen King
A time-traveling teacher tries to stop the Kennedy assassination — and learns the past does not want to be changed.

1984
BooksGeorge Orwell
Surveillance, doublethink, and a state that controls the past by controlling the present. The dystopia everyone quotes and few outrun.

1984: The Graphic Novel
Graphic Novelsadapted from George Orwell, art by Fido Nesti
Orwell’s surveillance-state classic, rendered in stark, oppressive graphic form.

A Chorus Rises
BooksBethany C. Morrow
The companion to A Song Below Water, told from the siren cast as the villain of the last book’s story.

A Clockwork Orange
BooksAnthony Burgess
Ultraviolence, invented slang, and a state that would rather erase your free will than let you keep choosing evil.

A Psalm for the Wild-Built
BooksBecky Chambers
A tea monk and a robot walk into the wilderness. Hopepunk that actually earns the hope.

A Psalm of Storms and Silence
BooksRoseanne A. Brown
The conclusion to A Song of Wraiths and Ruin — gods, rebellion, and a kingdom on the edge.

A Song Below Water
BooksBethany C. Morrow
Sirens hiding in plain sight in modern Portland, and the Black girl learning to stop hiding hers.
A Song of Ice and Fire Campaign Guide
RPGsDavid Chart · Green Ronin
Deeper setting material for running full campaigns in the Song of Ice and Fire world.
A Song of Ice and Fire Chronicle Starter
RPGsMark Simmons · Green Ronin
A starter sourcebook for running political, low-magic intrigue in Westeros.

A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
BooksRoseanne A. Brown
A crown prince and a girl seeking vengeance, both hunting the same magical prize, in a West African-inspired fantasy capital.

Abaddon’s Gate
BooksJames S.A. Corey
A massive alien ring opens beyond Uranus. The Expanse, book three.

Acceptance
BooksJeff VanderMeer
The Southern Reach trilogy closes, and Area X’s origins finally start to surface — sideways, as ever.

Advanced Race Guide (Pathfinder, 1st Edition)
RPGsJason Bulmahn · Paizo
Deep-dive sourcebook for building and playing dozens of fantasy ancestries in 1E Pathfinder.

Adventurer Conqueror King System
RPGsAlexander Macris · Autarch
Old-school fantasy that keeps going after the dungeon — build a keep, rule a domain, become the thing later adventurers raid.

Against the Double Blackmail
BooksSlavoj Žižek
Refugees, terror, and the false choices Europe was offered in responding to both.

Alien RPG
RPGsFree League Publishing
You already know the vibe. Free League’s take on the Alien universe is tense, deadly, and beautifully produced.

American Gods
BooksNeil Gaiman
Old gods, forgotten and starving, gather for a storm against the new gods of media and technology. A road trip through the myths America actually believes in.

Animal Farm
BooksGeorge Orwell
A barnyard revolution curdles into the exact tyranny it replaced. Fable-length, still sharp.

Annihilation
BooksJeff VanderMeer
Four women enter Area X. Something about the border, and about them, is not what it seems. Book one of the Southern Reach trilogy.

Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Graphic NovelsAlison Bechdel
A cartoonist examines her complicated bond with her mother through psychoanalytic theory and Virginia Woolf.
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Ark Nova
Board GamesMathias Wigge · Feuerland / Capstone Games
Plan and build a modern, scientifically managed zoo. Deep, dense, and beloved by heavy-game fans.

Authority
BooksJeff VanderMeer
The bureaucracy trying to understand Area X turns out to be just as strange as the zone itself. Southern Reach, book two.

Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game
RPGsMagpie Games
Bending, balance, and coming-of-age drama in the world of Avatar. Built for found-family ensemble stories.
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Azul
Board GamesMichael Kiesling · Plan B Games
Tile-drafting as tranquil as it is tactical. Beautiful on the table, easy to teach.

Babylon’s Ashes
BooksJames S.A. Corey
The Belt rises in open rebellion. The Expanse, book six.

Basic Role-Playing System
RPGsChaosium
The percentile-based engine underneath Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, and a dozen other classics — the toolkit itself.

Becoming Abolitionists
BooksDerecka Purnell
A civil rights lawyer’s personal and political journey from believing in police reform to organizing for abolition.

Beyond the Gender Binary
BooksALOK
A short, sharp essay dismantling the gender binary and imagining past it.

Black Sun
BooksRebecca Roanhorse
A pre-Columbian-inspired fantasy of prophecy, politics, and a god who might be returning to a world that isn’t ready.

Blades in the Dark
RPGsJohn Harper · Evil Hat Productions
Run a criminal crew in a haunted industrial city. The game that launched an entire design lineage (Forged in the Dark).

Blindness
BooksJosé Saramago
A sudden epidemic of blindness strips a city down to its rawest instincts, for better and much worse.

Braiding Sweetgrass
BooksRobin Wall Kimmerer
A botanist and Potawatomi woman braids Indigenous knowledge and scientific inquiry into an argument for reciprocity with the living world.
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Brass: Birmingham
Board GamesMartin Wallace, Gavan Brown, Matt Tolman · Roxley
Build canals, then railways, then an industrial empire. Widely rated among the best heavy games ever made.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
BooksBill Martin Jr. & Eric Carle
A rhythmic, repeating parade of colorful animals — one of the best first read-alouds there is.

BTTM FDRS
Graphic NovelsEzra Claytan Daniels / Ben Passmore
A fashion designer moves into a gentrifying neighborhood’s cheapest apartment — and finds the building itself has a horrifying appetite.

Caliban’s War
BooksJames S.A. Corey
The protomolecule crisis spreads to Venus, and the crew of the Rocinante gets pulled deeper in. The Expanse, book two.

Call of Cthulhu (7th Edition)
RPGsChaosium
Investigate cosmic horrors you were never meant to understand. The granddaddy of horror RPGs, still sharp.

Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Graphic NovelsRoz Chast
A cartoonist’s wry, aching memoir of caring for her aging parents through their final years.

Caps for Sale
BooksEsphyr Slobodkina
A peddler naps under a tree and wakes to find monkeys have stolen every cap he owns. A classic of the picture-book shelf.
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Cascadia
Board GamesRandy Flynn · Flatout Games / AEG
Puzzle the Pacific Northwest together: habitats, wildlife, and very satisfying hexagons.

Castles & Crusades: Monsters & Treasures
RPGsDavis Chenault · Troll Lord Games
A monster-and-loot companion built for Castles & Crusades’ easy, old-school-flavored ruleset.

Cemetery Boys
BooksAiden Thomas
A trans boy determined to prove himself as a brujo accidentally summons the wrong ghost — and falls for him instead.

Ceremony
BooksLeslie Marmon Silko
A mixed-ancestry WWII veteran returns to the Laguna Pueblo reservation and finds healing only through his people’s oldest stories. A cornerstone of Native American literature.

Cibola Burn
BooksJames S.A. Corey
Humanity’s first colony on a world beyond the ring gate, and the fight over who gets to claim it. The Expanse, book four.

Cities in Dust (Wasteland #1)
Graphic NovelsAntony Johnston
A post-apocalyptic desert world, generations after ’The Big Wet,’ where survival means never trusting the ground beneath you.

City of Saints and Madmen
BooksJeff VanderMeer
A city built from interlocking stories, footnotes, and mysteries — the foundational text of the Ambergris cycle.
Conan the Barbarian
Graphic Novelsvarious, orig. Robert E. Howard
The sword-and-sorcery original — Conan’s brutal, wandering adventures across the Hyborian Age.

Coyote & Crow
RPGsConnor Alexander
An Indigenous-futurist world where colonization never happened. Original IP, built and owned by Native creators.

Crazy Brave: A Memoir
BooksJoy Harjo
The U.S. Poet Laureate’s memoir of coming into her own voice, her Muscogee heritage, and her survival.

Cyberpunk 2020
RPGsMike Pondsmith · R. Talsorian Games
The dystopian megacorp noir that the whole genre keeps circling back to. Style over survival, always.

Darius the Great Is Not Okay
BooksAdib Khorram
A Persian-American teen visits Iran for the first time, wrestling with depression, identity, and an unlikely new friendship.

Daughters of Nri
BooksReni K. Amayo
West African-inspired fantasy of two sisters, torn apart at birth, whose reunion could save or shatter their kingdom.

Decoding Andean Mythology
BooksMargarita Marín-Dale
An exploration of Andean myth and cosmology and what it reveals about pre-Columbian worldviews.
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Descent: Journeys in the Dark (Second Edition)
Board GamesKevin Wilson · Fantasy Flight Games
Fight the Overlord and level up your heroes across a full fantasy dungeon campaign. Deeper and heavier than HeroQuest.

Desert of Desolation
RPGsTracy Hickman · TSR
Classic AD&D adventure compilation — pyramids, curses, and desert peril from one of the genre’s formative designers.

Designer Evolution
BooksSimon Young
A transhumanist manifesto arguing humanity should take its own evolution into its own hands.
Dice Goblin Corner
AccessoriesAssorted
Sets, singles, and the big jar of mystery d20s. Click-clack responsibly.

Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
BooksJames MacKillop
A reference dictionary of Celtic mythological figures, places, and stories across Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
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Dominion (Second Edition)
Board GamesDonald X. Vaccarino · Rio Grande Games
The game that invented deckbuilding. A 2009 Spiel des Jahres winner and still the genre’s cleanest entry point.

Dread Nation
BooksJustina Ireland
The dead rose at Gettysburg. A Black girl trained to fight zombies navigates a Reconstruction-era America that still won’t see her as free.

Dune
BooksFrank Herbert
Desert planet, spice, prophecy, empire. The science fiction novel most other science fiction novels are still arguing with.
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Dune: Imperium
Board GamesPaul Dennen · Dire Wolf
Deckbuilding meets worker-placement in the world of Dune. Sharp, tense, and endlessly replayable.

Dungeon World
RPGsSage LaTorra & Adam Koebel
Classic dungeon fantasy, told through Powered-by-the-Apocalypse rules. The gateway drug into PbtA design.

Dungeons & Dragons (5th Edition)
RPGsWizards of the Coast
The one everyone knows. Still a great first table, and worth playing given the enormous popularity and support materials.
Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rules
RPGsTom Moldvay · TSR
The red-box-era Basic Set that introduced a generation to the hobby. Simple, clean, foundational.

Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia
RPGsAaron Allston · TSR
The classic-era D&D ruleset compiled into one dense, beloved volume — a cornerstone of OSR nostalgia.

Eclipse Phase (Second Edition)
RPGsRob Boyle · Posthuman Studios
Post-singularity horror-sf: swap bodies, question what’s left of you, and investigate the conspiracy that ended the old solar system.

Emergent Strategy
Booksadrienne maree brown · AK Press
Shaping change, changing worlds. Movement strategy learned from octopi, mycelium, and Octavia Butler.
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Everdell
Board GamesJames A. Wilson · Starling Games
Build a harmonious woodland city of critters, one gorgeous card at a time.

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
BooksMatthew Desmond
A Pulitzer-winning ethnography following eight Milwaukee families through eviction — how housing precarity drives poverty, not the other way around.

Exile and Pride
BooksEli Clare
A landmark memoir-essay collection on disability, queerness, class, and the body — foundational disability justice writing.

Exploring the World of the Druids
BooksMiranda J. Green
A scholarly look at what’s actually known — and what’s myth — about the historical Druids.

Fabula Ultima
RPGsEmanuele Galletto · Need Games
Classic JRPG energy — think Final Fantasy — built into a full tabletop system. A modern indie darling.

Fat and Queer
BooksMiguel M. Morales (ed.)
An anthology centering fat queer and trans bodies and lives, in essay, poetry, and memoir.

Felix Ever After
BooksKacen Callender
A Black trans teen navigates first love, identity, and a cruel act of transphobia aimed straight at him.

Fiend Folio (AD&D, 1st Edition)
RPGsDon Turnbull · TSR
The monster book that gave 1st-edition AD&D some of its weirdest, most memorable creatures.

Forgotten Realms: Adventures
RPGsJeff Grubb · TSR
AD&D 2E-era sourcebook for the Forgotten Realms — a snapshot of the setting before decades of further lore piled on.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Graphic NovelsAlison Bechdel
A cartoonist’s memoir of her closeted father, her own coming out, and the funeral home they called ’the fun home.’

Ghost World
Graphic NovelsDaniel Clowes
Two acerbic teenage girls drift apart in the last summer before adulthood catches up with them.

Gideon the Ninth
BooksTamsyn Muir
Lesbian necromancers in space, sword-fighting their way through a haunted gothic palace. Exactly as fun as that sounds.
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Gloomhaven
Board GamesIsaac Childres · Cephalofair Games
A sprawling campaign box of tactical combat and branching story. The one that started the modern legacy-box wave.

Grass
Graphic NovelsKeum Suk Gendry-Kim (trans. Janet Hong)
A survivor’s account of Japanese wartime sexual slavery during WWII — heavy, unflinching, and important.

Gutter Child
BooksJael Richardson
A dystopia built on generational debt — a girl born owing a system that was never built to let her pay it off.

Harleen
Graphic NovelsStjepan Šejić (DC Comics)
A psychiatrist named Harleen Quinzel falls for her most dangerous patient. A painterly, character-driven origin for Harley Quinn.

Heart: The City Beneath
RPGsGrant Howitt & Christopher Taylor · Rowan, Rook and Decard
Descend into a living, hungry city that wants to change you. Gorgeous, strange, and merciless.
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HeroQuest
Board GamesStephen Baker · Avalon Hill / Hasbro
The dungeon crawl that introduced a generation to tabletop fantasy. One GM, a party of heroes, a board full of monsters.
Highlander
Graphic Novelsvarious
Travel through time in this sword-clashing adventure spanning over a hundred years from the 1860s to the beginning of the first movie. In the thirty years since its release, Highlander has inspired a cult following and numerous spinoffs with its epic clashes between powerful immortals. Now, The American Dream follows Scottish swordsman Connor MacLeod as he navigates through the American Civil War and 1950s Manhattan toward The Gathering in 1986.

Hijab Butch Blues
BooksLamya H.
A queer, Muslim memoir that reads the Quran’s stories alongside a life spent between identities that weren’t supposed to fit together.

House Made of Dawn
BooksN. Scott Momaday
A young Pueblo man returns from WWII fractured between worlds. Won the Pulitzer and helped launch the Native American Renaissance.

How the Irish Became White
BooksNoel Ignatiev
A history of how Irish immigrants were assimilated into American whiteness — and what they gave up and gained doing it.

Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
BooksW.B. Yeats
Yeats’ own collection of Irish fairy lore, banshees, and folk belief, gathered at the turn of the 20th century.
Irish Words for Nature
BooksManchán Magan, illus. Steve Doogan
A board book introducing young readers to Irish words for animals, birds, fish, and insects — language and nature together from the very start.
Jump!
BooksTatsuhide Matsuoka
Read sideways so the animals leap up the page — a frog, a kitten, a fish, and finally a little girl all jump along. A beloved interactive board book for babies and toddlers.

Kids on Bikes
RPGsJonathan Gilmour & Doug Levandowski · Renegade Game Studios
Stranger Things energy: small-town kids, big mysteries, rules light enough for a first-ever RPG session.
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Kingdomino
Board GamesBruno Cathala · Blue Orange
Build a tiny kingdom in twenty minutes. A perfect first "real" board game for a family table.

Legendborn
BooksTracy Deonn
A grieving Black teen discovers a secret society re-fighting the Arthurian legends underneath her college campus.

Leviathan Wakes
BooksJames S.A. Corey
A detective, a doomed ice hauler, and a protomolecule that changes everything. Book one of The Expanse.

Like A Thief In Broad Daylight
BooksSlavoj Žižek
On power, automation, and freedom in an era when both capital and revolution have gotten stranger.
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Lords of Waterdeep
Board GamesPeter Lee & Rodney Thompson · Wizards of the Coast
Deploy agents and hire adventurers to expand your control over the city of Waterdeep. One of the cleanest worker-placement gateways around.
Magic: The Gathering
CCGsWizards of the Coast
Commander nights, draft chaos, and a singles binder. Casual-first — bring your jank.

Mama Day
BooksGloria Naylor
A conjure woman on a Georgia sea island, and the niece pulled back home by a magic she doesn’t believe in yet.

Mating in Captivity
BooksEsther Perel
A therapist’s argument that domesticity and desire pull against each other — and what long-term couples can do about it.

Mausritter
RPGsIsaac Williams · Losing Games
Sword-and-whiskers adventure. You are a mouse, the world is enormous, and an owl is a dragon.
Monsterhearts 2
RPGsAvery Alder · Buried Without Ceremony
Teen monsters, messy desire, and the horror of growing up. A foundational queer indie RPG.

Mörk Borg
RPGsPelle Nilsson & Johan Nohr · Free League
A doom-metal picture book of an RPG. The world is ending, your character probably won’t survive, and it will look gorgeous the whole way down.

Mothership
RPGsSean McCoy · Tuesday Knight Games
Sci-fi horror on a derelict spacecraft. Rules-light, brutal, and built for short, tense sessions.
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Munchkin
Board GamesSteve Jackson · Steve Jackson Games
Kill monsters, grab loot, backstab your friends. No roleplaying required — just pure chaotic dungeon-crawl parody.

My Favorite Thing is Monsters
Graphic NovelsEmil Ferris
A ten-year-old horror-obsessed girl in 1960s Chicago investigates her neighbor’s murder, sketchbook in hand. A dazzling, singular graphic novel.

My Grandmother’s Hands
BooksResmaa Menakem
A therapist’s argument that racialized trauma lives in the body, and that healing has to start there too.

Nemesis Games
BooksJames S.A. Corey
The Rocinante’s crew splits up right as the solar system’s fragile peace shatters. The Expanse, book five.
Netrunner (Null Signal Games)
CCGsNull Signal Games
The community-run continuation of the greatest asymmetric card game ever made. Corps vs. runners.

Ninjas and Superspies
RPGsErick Wujcik · Palladium Books
Palladium’s martial-arts-and-espionage toolkit — build a whole dojo’s worth of fighting styles.

Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity
BooksMicah Rajunov (ed.)
An anthology of nonbinary writers on gender outside the binary, in their own words.
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One Deck Dungeon
Board GamesChris Cieslik · Asmadi Games
Level up your hero and descend deeper into a dungeon packed entirely into one deck of cards.

Orientalism
BooksEdward W. Said
The foundational critique of how the West constructed ’the East’ as an object of study and domination.

Over Nine Waves: A Book of Irish Legends
BooksMarie Heaney
A retelling of Ireland’s central mythic cycles — the Fianna, the Ulster Cycle, the old gods — gathered into one accessible volume.
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Pandemic Legacy: Season 1
Board GamesRob Daviau & Matt Leacock · Z-Man Games
A year of outbreaks told across twelve sessions that permanently change the board. Consistently rated among the best co-ops ever.
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PARKS
Board GamesHenry Audubon · Keymaster Games
A love letter to the National Parks, illustrated in a rotating series of gorgeous art styles.

Pathfinder (Second Edition)
RPGsPaizo
D&D’s sharper-edged cousin: tighter math, deeper character building, tactical combat that rewards system mastery.

Pharaoh
RPGsTracy Hickman · TSR
An Egyptian-flavored AD&D module — tombs, traps, and ancient royal secrets.

Player’s Handbook (D&D 4th Edition)
RPGsWizards of the Coast
The tactical-combat era of D&D — powers, grids, and set-piece battles built like a board game.

Poe: Stories and Poems: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Graphic NovelsGareth Hinds (Candlewick Press)
A gorgeously illustrated adaptation of Poe’s best-known stories and poems — The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and more.

Poverty Scholarship
BooksLisa "Tiny" Gray-Garcia
Poor-people-led theory, art, and testimony on homelessness and survival, written from lived experience rather than about it.

Poverty, by America
BooksMatthew Desmond
An argument that American poverty persists because others of us benefit from it — and what would change if we stopped.

Promethea, Book 1
Graphic NovelsAlan Moore
A college student becomes host to an ancient imagination-goddess in this occult-drenched superhero epic.

Promethea, Book 2
Graphic NovelsAlan Moore
The Promethea saga deepens — magic, myth, and metafiction collide.

Raybearer
BooksJordan Ifueko
Bound by magic to kill the prince she’s sworn to protect — a West African-inspired YA fantasy of found family and impossible loyalty.

Rifts
RPGsKevin Siembieda · Palladium Books
Dimensional rifts tore the world open and everything came through — dragons next to power armor next to demons. Utter, glorious chaos.

Rifts: Ultimate Edition
RPGsKevin Siembieda · Palladium Books
The updated core rulebook for Rifts’ dimension-spanning, anything-goes post-apocalypse.

Ring Shout
BooksP. Djèlí Clark
Three Black women hunt literal demons wearing the Ku Klux Klan’s hoods in 1920s Georgia. Dark fantasy with real teeth.
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Root
Board GamesCole Wehrle · Leder Games
A game of woodland might and right. Adorable animals, ruthless asymmetric politics.

Root: The Roleplaying Game
RPGsMagpie Games
The world of the Root board game, expanded into a full campaign of woodland factions and found family.
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Sagrada
Board GamesAdrian Adamescu & Daryl Andrews · Floodgate Games
Draft dice to build a stained-glass window. A quiet, gorgeous puzzle of a game.
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Scythe
Board GamesJamey Stegmaier · Stonemaier Games
Alt-1920s Europa, mechs and farmland alike. Gorgeous, sprawling, and surprisingly not that mean.

Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
Graphic NovelsKristen Radtke
A graphic essay on the history and shape of American loneliness, woven through with the author’s own life.

Selected Poems: Rogha Dánta
BooksNuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Bilingual Irish/English poetry drawing deeply on myth, the otherworld, and the Irish language itself.

Shadowrun
RPGsCatalyst Game Labs
Cyberpunk and high fantasy collide: megacorps, street samurai, and elves running the shadows of a neon-soaked future.

She Who Became the Sun
BooksShelley Parker-Chan
A peasant girl steals her dead brother’s identity and his fate: greatness. A queer reimagining of the rise of the Ming Dynasty.

Skull and Sidecar
BooksKristen Hall-Geisler
A contemporary novel of family secrets, motorcycles, and figuring out who you are when the map you were given turns out to be wrong.

Sleepaway
RPGsJay Dragon · Possum Creek Games
A one-shot horror RPG set at a summer camp where something is very wrong. Sharp, quick, unforgettable.
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Sleeping Gods
Board GamesRyan Laukat · Red Raven Games
A sprawling nautical adventure atlas, hand-illustrated cover to cover. Read it like a storybook, play it like a campaign.

Some Girls Do
BooksJennifer Dugan
A closeted beauty queen and an out-and-proud track star fall for each other despite everything working against it.

Spent: A Comic Novel
Graphic NovelsAlison Bechdel
Bechdel writes herself into fiction alongside characters from Dykes to Watch Out For, decades later, in small-town Vermont.
Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
BooksAlexis Pauline Gumbs
A poetic, genre-defying meditation built from the archive of Black feminist thinker Hortense Spillers.
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Spirit Island
Board GamesR. Eric Reuss · Greater Than Games
Cooperative settler-destruction. You are the island’s spirits, and the colonizers are not welcome.
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Splendor
Board GamesMarc André · Space Cowboys
Renaissance merchants race to grab gems and please nobility. Simple rules, real depth, plays fast.

Star Trek Roleplaying Game: Player’s Guide
RPGsChristian Moore · Last Unicorn Games
Explore strange new worlds under a d6 system built specifically for Trek-flavored diplomacy and away missions.

Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game
RPGsGreg Costikyan · West End Games
The original Star Wars RPG, back when the galaxy far away only had three movies to draw from. A formative piece of tabletop history.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin
Graphic NovelsKevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Tom Waltz, Esau & Isaac Escorza
The last surviving Turtle, decades after losing his brothers, wages one final war on the empire that took them.
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Terraforming Mars
Board GamesJacob Fryxelius · FryxGames
Corporations race to make Mars habitable. A modern heavy-game classic.

The Black Flamingo
BooksDean Atta
A mixed-race, queer teen finds himself through drag in this verse novel about claiming space to be fully seen.

The City We Became
BooksN.K. Jemisin
New York City comes alive as six human avatars to fight an eldritch enemy that wants the city dead before it’s born.

The Complete Persepolis
Graphic NovelsMarjane Satrapi
A girl’s coming-of-age during and after the Iranian Revolution, told in stark, unforgettable black and white.
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The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine
Board GamesThomas Sing · Kosmos
A cooperative trick-taking game with zero table talk allowed. Deceptively brilliant.

The Disordered Cosmos
BooksChanda Prescod-Weinstein
A particle physicist weaves dark matter, the history of Black astronomy, and her own life into a case for a more just science.

The Dispossessed
BooksUrsula K. Le Guin
An ambiguous utopia. The anarchist moon Anarres, the capitalist world Urras, and the physicist caught between.

The Encyclopaedia of Celtic Wisdom
BooksCaitlín Matthews
A reference guide through Celtic mythology, symbolism, and spiritual tradition.

The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
Graphic NovelsAlison Bechdel
Decades of Bechdel’s beloved, cult-favorite comic strip chronicling a circle of lesbian friends, collected in one volume.

The Fifth Season
BooksN.K. Jemisin
A world of catastrophic, apocalypse-cycle geology, and the people with the power to cause or calm it. Opens the Broken Earth trilogy.

The Foundation Trilogy
BooksIsaac Asimov
The collapse of a galactic empire, predicted centuries in advance by mathematics — and the secret plan to shorten the coming dark age.

The Giver (Graphic Novel)
Graphic Novelsadapted from Lois Lowry, art by P. Craig Russell
A boy is chosen to inherit a community’s suppressed memories — and discovers exactly what "perfect" cost everyone else.

The Grouchy Ladybug
BooksEric Carle
A ladybug picks fights all day long with animals much bigger than she is. A gentle lesson about manners, Carle-style.

The Jakarta Method
BooksVincent Bevins
How a U.S.-backed anticommunist purge in Indonesia became a template exported across the Cold War world.

The Left Hand of Darkness
BooksUrsula K. Le Guin
An envoy is sent to a world where people have no fixed gender. A foundational work of feminist and queer science fiction.

The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
Graphic NovelsRam V / Filipe Andrade
Death herself is fired and reincarnated as a mortal girl, tasked with watching over the man destined to make humanity immortal.

The Nickel Boys
BooksColson Whitehead
Two Black boys survive a brutal Jim-Crow-era reform school in this Pulitzer-winning novel.

The Odyssey
Graphic NovelsGareth Hinds (Candlewick Press)
Homer’s epic homeward voyage, adapted into sweeping, cinematic comics pages.

The Priory of the Orange Tree
BooksSamantha Shannon
A doorstop of a standalone fantasy: dragons, queens, and a world that mistook its protector for its enemy.

The Prophets
BooksRobert Jones Jr.
A tender, devastating love story between two enslaved men on a Deep South plantation.

The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Graphic NovelsAlison Bechdel
A memoir of the author’s lifelong string of fitness obsessions — and what she was really chasing the whole time.

The Shipping News
BooksAnnie Proulx
A hapless man rebuilds his life in a windswept Newfoundland fishing town. Pulitzer and National Book Award winner.
The Spacious Tarot
AccessoriesCarrie Mallon & Annie Ruygt
A human-free tarot of open landscapes — room to bring your own meaning to every card.

The Stand
BooksStephen King
A weaponized flu wipes out 99% of humanity, and the survivors sort themselves into the armies of good and evil.

The Strange Bird: A Borne Story
BooksJeff VanderMeer
A bioengineered bird flees a ruined city in this Borne-universe novella of strange, ecological horror.

The Trinity of Fundamentals
BooksWisam Rafeedie
A political memoir written from inside a Palestinian resistance movement.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar
BooksEric Carle
A tiny caterpillar eats his way through the week and turns into something beautiful. Essential first-library material.

The Walking Dead, Vol. 10: What We Become
Graphic NovelsRobert Kirkman
Rick’s group keeps surviving the dead — and each other — in this long-running zombie-apocalypse series.

The Walking Dead, Vol. 11: Fear the Hunters
Graphic NovelsRobert Kirkman
The group encounters the most horrifying survivors they’ve faced yet — other people.

The Walking Dead, Vol. 14: No Way Out
Graphic NovelsRobert Kirkman
The walled community faces a herd it might not survive.

The Warmth of Other Suns
BooksIsabel Wilkerson
The sweeping, intimate history of the Great Migration, told through three families who left the Jim Crow South.

The Wheel of Time Roleplaying Game
RPGsCharles M. Ryan · Wizards of the Coast
d20-era adaptation of Robert Jordan’s epic — channel the One Power, dodge the Dark One’s reach. Highly sought after collector’s item at this point.
The Zine Rack
AccessoriesLocal makers · rotating
Rotating rack of local and small-press zines: comics, poetry, punk history, mutual aid how-tos. Make one and we’ll stock it.

There There
BooksTommy Orange
Twelve Native characters converge on the Big Oakland Powwow in this kaleidoscopic, National Book Critics Circle-winning debut.

Thirsty Sword Lesbians
RPGsApril Kit Walsh · Evil Hat Productions
Duel your rival, fall for them mid-fight. A Powered-by-the-Apocalypse game of swords, feelings, and defiance.
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Tiny Epic Galaxies
Board GamesScott Almes · Gamelyn Games
Roll dice and colonize planets in a galaxy-spanning 4X game that fits in a small box and a short session.

Transgender History
BooksSusan Stryker
A foundational overview of transgender history and politics in the United States.

Trophy Dark
RPGsJesse Ross · The Gauntlet
Descend into a cursed, treasure-filled forest. Every roll pulls you deeper into ruin. Short, sharp, and beloved.

Undoing Monogamy
BooksAngela Willey
A critique of how monogamy gets naturalized through biology and science — and what gets left out of that story.

Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
BooksAlexis Pauline Gumbs
What whales, dolphins, and manatees can teach us about survival, care, and collective liberation.
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Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume One
Board GamesRob Daviau, JR Honeycutt, Justin D. Jacobson · Restoration Games
King Arthur vs. Medusa vs. Sinbad vs. Alice in Wonderland. Fast, tactical, endlessly mixable.

V for Vendetta
Graphic NovelsAlan Moore
A masked anarchist wages a one-man war against a fascist future Britain. A cornerstone of political comics.

Vampire: The Masquerade (5th Edition)
RPGsRenegade Game Studios / Paradox
Personal horror and vampire politics in the modern nights. A World of Darkness cornerstone.

Wanderhome
RPGsJay Dragon · Possum Creek Games · Steve Jackson Games
A pastoral fantasy RPG about traveling animal-folk, the seasons, and finding home. No GM, no dice.
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Rulebook
RPGsGreen Ronin
Grim, low-fantasy survival in the Warhammer world — your character is disposable and the setting wants you to know it.

Watchmen
Graphic NovelsAlan Moore
Superheroes, aged and compromised, in a Cold War world that never needed saving as much as it thinks it does. The book that broke the genre open.

Waterlily
BooksElla Cara Deloria
A Dakota Sioux ethnologist’s novel following one woman through the everyday and the extraordinary of Sioux life.

We Do This ’til We Free Us
BooksMariame Kaba
Essays and interviews on abolition, transformative justice, and organizing for a world without prisons and police.

We Don’t Know Ourselves
BooksFintan O’Toole
A personal-and-national history of modern Ireland, told alongside the author’s own life.

Wendy, Master of Art
Graphic NovelsWalter Scott
A struggling art-school painter navigates ego, ambition, and bad decisions in this sharp, funny series.
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Wingspan
Board GamesElizabeth Hargrave · Stonemaier Games
The bird game. A gorgeous engine-builder about attracting birds to your wildlife preserve.

Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth
BooksW.B. Yeats
A wider collection of Yeats’ folklore writing and mythic scholarship.
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Wyrmspan
Board GamesConnie Vogelmann · Stonemaier Games
Wingspan’s dragon cousin. Same satisfying engine, now with a cavernous sanctuary to fill.

Zorba the Greek
BooksNikos Kazantzakis
A buttoned-up intellectual and a force-of-nature laborer test each other’s philosophies on a Cretan hillside.
