The Official NOC #CrossLines Reading List

This past weekend in Washington DC, the Smithsonian’s historic Arts & Industries building was home to the most important gathering of artists you have ever seen. The CrossLines pop-up culture lab on intersectionality brought together over 40 artists and scholars to explore race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, etc.

I was fortunate enough to be invited and helped organize a Reading Lounge and live podcasts — while artist Matt Huynh painted a mural in real time the entire weekend. One of the questions I got asked the most was about the books we included, so after the jump you can find a complete list of books we had in the Lounge!

Science Fiction/Fantasy	Author
Utopia	Ahmed Khaled Towfik
Mindscape	Andrea Hairston
The Liminal People: A Novel	Ayize Jama-Everett
Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond	Bill Campbell, editor
Demonstra	Bryan Thao Worra
On Such a Full Sea	Chang-Rae Lee
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe	Charles Yu
The Three-Body Problem	Cixin Liu
Feral Nights	Cynthia Leitich Smith
Half-Resurrection Blues	Daniel José Older
Midnight Taxi Tango	Daniel José Older
Shadowshaper	Daniel José Older
The Night Wandered: A Native Gothic Novel	Drew Hayden Taylor
Prophecy	Ellen Oh
Alif the Unseen	G. Willow Wilson
What is Not Yours is Not Yours	Helen Oyeyemi
Trail of the Dead	Joseph Bruchac
The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao	Junot Diaz
Redemption in Indigo	Karen Lord
Spirits of the Ordinary	Kathleen Alcala
The Grace of Kings	Ken Liu
Ancient, Ancient: Short Fiction	Kiini Ibura Salaam
Salt Fish Girl	Larissa Lai
The Antelope Wife	Louise Erdrich
Up Among the Stars	Matthew Kaopio
Ash	Melinda Lo
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms	N.K. Jeminisin
Midnight Robber	Nalo Hopkinson
The Salt Roads	Nalo Hopkinson
Falling in Love with Hominids	Nalo Hopkinson
Brown Girl in the Ring	Nalo Hopkinson
Who Fears Death	Nnedia Okorafor
Lilith’s Brood	Octavia Butler
Parable of the Sower	Octavia Butler
Kindred	Octavia Butler
Lex Talionis	R.S.A. Garcia
Another Fine Myth	Robert Aspirin
An Ember in the Ashes	Sabaa Tahir
Throne of the Crescent Moon	Saladin Ahmed
Lydia’s Funeral Video	Sam Chanse
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand	Samuel Delany
Babel-17	Samuel Delany
The Einstein Intersection	Samuel Delany
Atomik Aztex	Sesshu Foster
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora	Sheree Thomas, editor
A Stranger in Olondria	Sofia Samatar
The Lifecycle of Software Objects	Ted Chiang
Ink and Ashes	Valynne E. Maetani
The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories	Vandana Singh
Super Justice Force	David F. Walker
Hong on the Range	William F. Wu
Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture	Ytasha L. Womack
Techno-Orientalism	David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, editors
Octavia’s Brood	Walidah Imarisha, adrienne maree brown, editors
Cosmos Latinos	Yolanda Molina-Gavilán, editor
Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction	Grace L Dillon, editor
Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History	Daniel José Older and Rose Fox, editors

Comics/Graphic Novels	Writer/Artist
Thief of Thieves Volume 5	Andy Diggle, Adriano Lucas, Shawn Martinbrough
Shortcomings	Adrian Tomine
Muqtatafat: A Comics Anthology Featuring Artists From the Middle East Region	Anna Mudd, A. David Lewis and Paul Beran, editors
Saga	Brian Vaughn, Fiona Staples
Zots: Serpent and Shield	Daniel Parada
Shaft: A Complicated Man	David Walker, Bilquis Evely
Same Difference	Derek Kirk Kim
Hip-Hop Family Tree	Ed Piskor
100 Crushes	Elisha Lim
Your Brain on Latino Comics	Frederick Luis Aldama
Ms. Marvel Volume 1	G. Willow Wilson, Jake Wyatt, Adrian Alphona
Vietnamerica	GB Tran
Boxers & Saints	Gene Luen Yang
American Born Chinese	Gene Luen Yang
The Shadow Hero	Gene Luen Yang, Sonny Liew
Bumperhead	Gilbert Hernandez
Love and Rockets New Stories #1	Hernandez Brothers
Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection Volume 1	Hope Nicholson, editor
Lola: A Ghost Story	J. Torres, Elbert Orr
Comics! By Javier Hernandez	Javier Hernandez
Descender, Vol 1: Tin Stars	Jeff Lemire, Dustin Nguyen
Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology	Jeff Yang, Parry Shen, Jerry Ma, Keith Chow, editors
Shattered: The Asian American Comics Anthology	Jeff Yang, Parry Shen, Jerry Ma, Keith Chow, editors
March: Book One	John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
RUNLOVEKILL	Jon Tsuei, Eric Canete
Tina’s Mouth	Keshni Kashyap, Mari Araki
Why I Hate Saturn	Kyle Baker
Latino USA: A Cartoon History	Lalo Alcaraz
One Hundred Demons	Lynda Barry
Skim	Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki
Dragon’s Breath and Other Stories	MariNaomi
Persepolis	Marjane Satrapi
Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story	Mat Johnson, Simon Gane
Incognegro	Mat Johnson, Warren Pleece
Citizen 13660	Mine Okubo
Night Fisher	R. Kikuo Johnson
Sonambulo	Rafael Navarro
Usagi Yojimbo, Book 1	Stan Sakai
I Think I am in Friend-Love with You	Yumi Sakagawa
Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One With the Universe	Yumi Sakagawa

Many thanks to Lawrence Minh-Bui and the whole Smithsonian APA crew for organizing everything!