Book Bingo NW 2025: Resistance
Here are some suggestions for your 2025 Book Bingo NW category: Resistance. Book Bingo is our annual adult summer reading program presented in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures and King County Library System.
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Never Whistle at Night
Fiction. A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and gritty crime by both new and established Indigenous authors that dares to ask the question: "Are you ready to be un-settled?" …these stories are a celebration of Indigenous peoples' survival and imagination, and a glorious reveling in all the things an ill-advised whistle might summon. (Publisher description)
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Vagabonds!
Fiction. A Plimpton Prize winner and Lambda Literary Fellow, among other honors, Osunde introduces us to this diverse list of characters by escorting us through the city's markets, churches, underground clubs, and hotels, showing us lives lived as resistance. (Library Journal)
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Torn Apart
Nonfiction. Roberts buttresses her impassioned call for dismantling the child welfare system by skillfully situating it within a larger web of institutions intended to surveil, control, and punish Black Americans. (Publishers Weekly)
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Tending Grief
Nonfiction. Practical tools and rituals help us hold space for our grief, honor what comes up, and compost loss. Each is designed to help us process and metabolize grief in service of social, environmental, and healing justice - without bypassing or pushing aside what comes to the fore. (Publisher description)
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We Grow the World Together
Nonfiction. As we struggle to build a liberatory, caring, loving, abundant future, we have much to learn from the work of birthing, raising, caring for, and loving future generations. (Publisher description)
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Love in A F*cked-up World
Nonfiction. Lifelong activist and educator Dean Spade dares us to decide that our interpersonal actions are not separate from our politics of liberation and resistance… a resounding call to action and a practical manifesto for how to combat cultural scripts and take our relationships into our own hands, preparing us for the work of changing the world. (USA Today)
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Woodworking
Fiction. St. James debuts with the delightful story of an unlikely friendship between a closeted transgender high school teacher and her openly trans student… St. James enthralls with her depiction of what it's like to be trans in a conservative and insular community, and the courage it takes for people to openly be themselves. (Publishers Weekly)
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Undoing Drugs
Nonfiction. An in-depth history of a powerful idea, exploring many angles of drug policy… [Szalavitz] also details the racial inequities and social tensions that have defined the drug war. (Mother Jones)
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Make It Count
Nonfiction. A Black transgender woman athlete chronicles her journey battling obstacles throughout her career… An inspirational portrait of trailblazing sports excellence. (Kirkus)
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The Immortal King Rao
Fiction. King Rao created a whole new world with his personal computer, the Coconut, and a corporate-run government now reigns supreme. His daughter, Athena, belongs to a resistance group wanting to live tech-free - except that she's in prison, accused of her father's murder and stuck with his memories via biotechnological innovation, which allows her to revisit his Dalit childhood in 1950s India. Former Wall Street Journal Vara, from a Dalit background, claims O. Henry Prize and Rona Jaffe honors. (Library Journal)
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