I’ve indexed over 215 books. If you would like the full list, please contact me!

A Selection of Highlighted Books:

Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel, by Loretta J Ross, Simon & Schuster

Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments, by Erin L. Thompson, W.W. Norton & Company.

Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City, by Tanya Talaga, House Of Anansi Press.

Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook, by Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstal, MIT Press.

The Archie/Sabrina Universe: Essays on the Comics and Their Adaptations, ed. by Heather McAlpine, W Ron Sweeney, Jess Wind, McFarland & Company

Spit, by Mary Batten, Firefly Books.

And Sometimes They Kill You: Confronting the Epidemic of Intimate Partner Violence, by Pamela Cross, Between the Lines

Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption, by Rafia Zakaria, W. W. Norton & Company.

Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire, by Paula Yoo, W.W. Norton

Monstrosity, Identity, and Music: Mediating Uncanny Creatures from Frankenstein to Videogames, ed. by Alexis Luko and James K. Wright, Bloomsbury.

Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time, by Rasheedah Phillips, AK Press

Well of Souls, Uncovering the Banjo’s Hidden History, by Kristina R. Gaddy, W.W. Norton & Company.

They Shot, He Scored: The Life and Music of Eldon Rathburn, by James K. Wright, McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Elysian Kitchens: Recipes Inspired by the Traditions and Tastes of the World’s Sacred Spaces, by Jody Eddy, W.W. Norton

Looks Can Kill: A Doctor’s Journey through Steroids, Addiction and Online Fitness Culture, by Riam Shammaa, Random House Canada.

The Food of Southern Thailand, by Austin Bush, W.W. Norton.

stay up: racism, resistance, and reclaiming Black freedom, by Khodi Dill, Annick Press.

 

Indexes from the Past Two Years:

Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire, by Paula Yoo, W.W. Norton.

Heyday at June Motel cookbook, by Freddy Laliberté  and Evan Baulch, House of Anansi Press.

Elysian Kitchens: Recipes Inspired by the Traditions and Tastes of the World’s Sacred Spaces, by Jody Eddy, W.W. Norton.

Higher Expectations: How to Survive Academia, Make it Better for Others, and Transform the University, by Roberta Hawkins and Leslie Kern, Between the Lines.

Bird Eggs: A Young Naturalist’s Guide, by Mark Peck, Firefly Books.

Abolish Social Work (As We Know It), ed. by Craig Fortier, Edward Hon-Sing Wong and MJ Rwigema, Between the Lines.

The Book of Hours, by Rainer Maria Rilke, W.W. Norton.

Minerals and Rocks: A Beginner’s Guide, by Kim Tait, Firefly Books.

The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It, by Corey Brettschneider, W.W. Norton.

Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation, by Emily Van Duyne, W.W. Norton.

Our Green Heart: The Soul and Science of Forests, by Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Random House Canada.

How Birds Fly, by Peter Cavanagh, Firefly Books.

Urban Mobility: How the iPhone, COVID, and Climate Changed Everything, by Shauna Brail and Betsy Donald, University of Toronto Press.

When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance, by Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, Between the Lines.

Fracking Uncertainty: Hydraulic Fracturing and the Provincial Politics of Risk, by Heather Millar, University of Toronto Press.

Sing Me Back Home: Ethnographic Songwriting and Sardinian Language Politics, by Kristina Jacobsen, University of Toronto Press.

Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words, by Michael Owen, W.W. Norton.

Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens: On Reading and Writing Poetry Forensically, by Paisley Rekdal, W.W. Norton.

Standing on High Ground: Civil Disobedience on Burnaby Mountain, ed. by Rosemary Cornell, Adrienne Drobnies and Tim Bray, Between the Lines.

And Sometimes They Kill You: Confronting the Epidemic of Intimate Partner Violence, by Pamela Cross, Between the Lines.

Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel, by Loretta J Ross, Simon & Schuster.

A Time to Sow: Refusenik Life in Leningrad, 1979-1989, by Michael Beizer and Ann Komaromi, University of Toronto Press.

Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time, by Rasheedah Phillips, AK Press.

Birds Life Size: Up Close and Personal with 47 Bird Species, by Chris Earley, Firefly Books.

Gardener Scott’s Guide to Raised Bed Gardening, by Scott A. Wilson, Firefly Books.

Chrystia: From Peace River to Parliament Hill, by Catherine Tsalikis, House of Anansi Press.

The Left in Power: Bob Rae’s NDP and the Working Class, by Steven High, Between the Lines.

Invested in Crisis: Public Sector Pensions Against the Future, by Tom Fraser, Between the Lines.

Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality, by Deborah N. Archer, W.W. Norton.

Spreading Rebellion: Spanish Maritime Radicalism in the Americas, 1875-1930, by Bieito Alonso and David M Struthers, AK Press.

The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin, by Daniel Brook, W.W. Norton.

In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over the World, by Adam Feibel and Matt Bobkin, House of Anansi Press.

The Mind Mappers: Friendship, Betrayal and the Obsessive Quest to Chart the Brain, by Eric Andrew-Gee, Random House.

Putting Down Roots: Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women’s Food Labour in a Qu’Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community, by Cheryl Troupe, University of Manitoba.

Banging on the Walls of the Tank: Dispatches from Gaza, by Haidar Eid, Between the Lines.

Clodia of Rome: Champion of the Republic, by Douglas Boin, W.W. Norton.

The Monster’s Bones (Young Readers Edition): The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World, by David K. Randall, W.W. Norton.

Anarchist Popular Power: Dissident Labor and Armed Struggle in Uruguay, 1956–76, by Troy Andreas Araiza Kokinis, AK Press.

Getting the Runaround: Formerly Incarcerated Men and the Bureaucratic Barriers to Reentry, by John M. Halushka, University of California Press.

In the Shadow of the Seawall: Coastal Injustice and the Dilemma of Placekeeping, by Summer Gray, University of California Press.

Orangutans: Their History, Natural History and Conservation, by Ronald Orenstein, Firefly Books.

Thug Criminology: A Call to Action, ed. by Adam Ellis, Olga Marques and Anthony Gunter, University of Toronto Press.

Indictment: The Criminal Justice System on Trial, by Benjamin Perrin, Aveo UTP.

Get Shown the Light: Improvisation and Transcendence in the Music of the Grateful Dead, by Michael Kaler, Duke University Press.

stay up: racism, resistance, and reclaiming Black freedom, by Khodi Dill, Annick Press.

Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open, by Angela Hume, AK Press.

Beryl: The Making of a Disability Activist, by Dustin Galer, Between the Lines.

Bloom Spaces: Reproduction and Tourism on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica, by Susan Frohlick, University of Toronto Press.

Defying Displacement Urban Recomposition and Social War, by Andrew Lee, AK Press.

Wake Up America: Black Women on the Future of Democracy, by Keisha N Blain, W.W. Norton & Company.

Is it Weather or is it Climate Change? Answers to Your Questions about Extreme Weather, by Rachel Salt, Firefly Books.

Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada, by Karrmen Crey, University of Minnesota Press.

The Food of Southern Thailand, by Austin Bush, W.W. Norton.

Crisis and Contagion: Conversations on Capitalism and Covid-19, ed. by Ian McKay, Between the Lines.

Toward an Ecological Society, by Murray Bookchin, AK Press.

The Elephant Has Two Sets of Teeth: Bhutanese Refugees and Humanitarian Governance, by Alice Neikirk, University of Alberta.

Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada’s Housing Crisis, by Gregor Craigie, Random House Canada.

Healing Movements: Chicanx-Indigenous Activism and Criminal Justice in California, by Megan S. Rashig, New York University Press.

Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World, by Guru Madhaven, W.W. Norton & Company

Dignity not Debt: An Abolitionist Approach to Economic Justice, by Chrystin Ondersma, University of California Press.

Ecology for the 99%: Twenty Myths about Capitalism Debunked, by Frederic Legault, Arnaud Theurillat-Cloutier, Between the Lines.

Law at Work: The Coercion and Co-option of the Working Class, by Harry Glasbeek, Between the Lines.

A Winning Dialect: Reinventing Linguistic Tradition in Rural Norway, by Thea R. Strand, University of Toronto Press.

The Sexist Microphysics of Power: The Alcàsser Murders and the Construction of Sexual Terror, by Nerea Barjola, AK Press.