December 2023
Theme: Nostalgia
Fiction Book: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
Non-Fiction Book: 90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality by Allison Yarrow
Featured Business: Letterpress PDX
November 2023
Theme: Justice
Fiction Book: Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
Non-Fiction Book: Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec
Featured Business: Word for Word Factory
October 2023
Theme: Witches
Fiction Book: Witch of Wild Things by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Non-Fiction Book: In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial by Mona Chollet
Featured Business: Cosmic Butcher
September 2023
Theme: A Night at the Movies
Fiction Book: Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
Non-Fiction Book: Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya
August 2023
Theme: Bibliophilia
Fiction Book: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Non-Fiction Book: Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim
Featured Business: Cat & Bug Designs
July 2023
Theme: Southern Lit
Fiction Book: Goodbye Earl by Leesa Cross-Smith
Non-Fiction Book: South to America by Imani Perry
Featured Business: Inviting Affairs Paperie
June 2023
Theme: Road Trip
Book: America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled by Blythe Roberson
Featured Businesses: Ohtea! // SIN-MIN // Support Black Authors
May 2023
Theme: Mental Health
Book: What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
Featured Businesses: Talking Out of Turn // Some of Us Notecards // The Lancaster Stroopie Co // Goddex
April 2023
Theme: Poetry
Book: Rose Quartz by Sasha Taqwsəblu Lapointe
Featured Businesses: Bamboo Switch // Empowered Cookie // Wildflower + Co. // Silk Road Wellness // VAHDAM
Charity Beneficiary: Reviving Sisterhood
March 2023
Theme: Gender & Tech
Book: Unwieldy Creatures by Addie Tsai
Featured Businesses: The Woman Cards // Attic Journals // Piccadilly Pendants
February 2023
Theme: Pleasure
Book: Slow Pleasure: Explore Your Pleasure Spectrum by Euphemia Russell
Featured Businesses: LAPCOS // Terroir Chocolate // Love and Repeat // Pipsticks
Charity Beneficiary: The Embodiment Institute
January 2023
Theme: Feminism 101
Book: Women’s Liberation! Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution & Still Can edited by Alix Kates Shulman & Honor Moore
Featured Business: Metal Marvels
Charity Beneficiary: Women Enabled International
December 2022
Theme: Joy
Book: When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
Featured Businesses: Flip’em the Bird // Isadore Nut Company // SumLilThings
Charity Beneficiary: Transanta
November 2022
Theme: Women in Politics
Book: The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs
Featured Businesses: Smartass & Sass // Overseasoned // Some of Us Notecards // Kela Designs // Kate’s Real Food
Charity Beneficiary: Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
October 2022
Theme: Mythology
Book: Love in Color by Bolu Babalola
Featured Businesses: The Goddess Kollection // Life’s Grape // Talisman Designs
Charity Beneficiary: Fòs Feminista
September 2022
Theme: Home
Book: The Secret History of Home Economics by Danielle Dreilinger
Featured Businesses: Numa Foods // 3rd Daughter Restless Daughter // Smartass & Sass // Wildly Enough
Charity Beneficiary: House of Ruth
August 2022
Theme: Women in Music
Book: The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
Featured Businesses: Muchacha Fanzine // Girl of All Work // Chasin’ Dreams Farms // Wear Your Music
Charity Beneficiary: Girls Make Beats
July 2022
Theme: Liberation
Book: Consumed: We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
Featured Businesses: Adelita’s Apparel // Muchacha Fanzine // Junita’s Jar // Gigi’s Flair Emporium // In Audre’s Footsteps
Charity Beneficiary: Black & Pink
June 2022
Theme: Trans Voices
Book: Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
Featured Businesses: My Pride Store // Alok Vaid-Menon // Emulsify // Homebody MN
Charity Beneficiary: Trans Lifeline
May 2022
Theme: Gender & Fashion
Book: Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism by Aja Barber
Featured Businesses: Shayde Beauty // Sukker & Sweet // Timmery // Bewaltz
Charity Beneficiary: Clean Clothes Campaign
April 2022
Theme: Afrofuturism (collaboration with Sistah SciFi)
Book: Black Sci-Fi Short Stories edited by Temi Oh
Featured Businesses: Sistah SciFi // Gigi’s Flair Emporium // Coffee of Grace
Charity Beneficiary: Clarion West Writers Workshop
March 2022
Theme: Girlhood
Book: Girlhood by Melissa Febos
Featured Businesses: all art created by youth in our community // Zesty Kitchen
Charity Beneficiary: Project Avary
February 2022
Theme: Women in Sports
Book: We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
Featured Businesses: Cake Face Soaping // Sweet Troo Vi // Mira Brands
Charity Beneficiary: Girls on the Run MN
January 2022
Theme: Asian American Voices
Book: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Featured Businesses: Spinning Wylde // Kela Designs // YaY Novelty // Kwohtations
Charity Beneficiary: National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
December 2021
Theme: Magic
Book: The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
Featured Businesses: Rocky Robinson // We Are Fluide // A Secret Forest // Hey Uncle Kate // Decor N Beyond // Beckon Ice Cream
Charity Beneficiary: Rest for Resistance
November 2021
Curated by Gabrielle Union
Book: You Got Anything Stronger? by Gabrielle Union
Featured Businesses: Bitsy’s // Flawless by Gabrielle Union
Charity Beneficiary: Baltimore Safe Haven
October 2021
Theme: True Crime
Book: We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and Half a Century of Silence by Becky Cooper
Featured Businesses: Humdrum Paper Co. // B. Witching Soap Co. // Deanan Gourmet Popcorn // Girl of All Work
Charity Beneficiary: Manavi
September 2021
Theme: Back to School
Book: Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell
Featured Businesses: GetBullish // Carolyn Suzuki Goods // Night Owl Paper Goods // Treat House // Kwohtations
Charity Beneficiary: Fuck Student Debt
August 2021
Theme: Beach Reads
Book: Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Featured Businesses: HomebodyMN Candles // Boss Dotty Paper Co. // Moonlight Makers // Watermelon Road // 826 MSP
Charity Beneficiary: Students Against Voter Suppression
July 2021
Theme: Poetry
Book: Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill
Featured Businesses: Gustola Granola // A Fink and Ink // Rutabaga Bodega // Mad Gab’s // Aura Bora
Charity Beneficiary: Kundiman
June 2021
Theme: Non-Binary Voices
Book: A Year Without a Name by Cyrus Dunham
Featured Businesses: Liv Lyszyk Prints // We Are Fluide // Magnolia’s Customs // Bowties & Books // Enby Book Club
Charity Beneficiary: Grace Banu’s fundraiser for rural trans folks in India
May 2021
Theme: Disability Rights
Book: Disability Visibility edited by Alice Wong
Featured Businesses: Misti Blu Dream // The Loopy Spoonie // Tiny and Snail // Candy Witch // Rana Awadallah
Charity Beneficiary: Disability Visibility Project
April 2021
Theme: Environmental Justice
Book: As Long as Grass Grows by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Featured Businesses: Bee Kitchen // Brooklyn Made Natural // Empowered Cookie // Bim Bam Boo
Charity Beneficiary: Women’s Earth Alliance
March 2021
Theme: Read Caribbean
Book: Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Featured Businesses: Pisqueya Hot Sauce // NaturalAnnie Essentials // Dessie Essentials // Maries Halo // Afrocessories // Kadii Pinks
Charity Beneficiary: Eve for Life
February 2021
Theme: Fat Liberation
Book: The Body Is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
Featured Businesses: The Curvy Canvas // Citizen Ruth // Itty Bits Designs
Charity Beneficiary: The Body Is Not an Apology
January 2021
Theme: Courage
Book: Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
Featured Businesses: Papersushi // Peach Mindfulness // Tiny Deer Studio // Organic Bath Co. // Karmalize.Me
Charity Beneficiary: Rights4Girls
December 2020
Theme: Afro-Futurism
Book: Kindred by Octavia Butler
Featured Businesses: TranquiliTea House // Support Black Authors // XOX Handmade Journals // Aspiring Co.
Charity Beneficiary: Vermillion Ink
November 2020
Theme: Native/Indigenous Voices
Book: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Featured Businesses: Sequoia Soaps // Dawnte Stikker Prints // Bedré Chocolates // Sakari Botanicals
Charity Beneficiary: Native Women’s Wilderness
October 2020
Theme: Thriller
Book: The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
Featured Businesses: Rhino Parade // Pretty Peacock Paperie // Writer’s Atelier // Girl of All Work // Minneapolis Craft Market
Charity Beneficiary: March of Dimes
September 2020
Theme: Latinx Voices
Book: Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
Featured Businesses: Reina Rebelde // Swaye Tea // Candy’s Kloset // Gleam Eyewear
Charity Beneficiary: Mujeristas Collective
August 2020
Theme: Reimagining the Feminist Canon
Book: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
Featured Businesses: Lotus and Luna // Gigi’s Flair Emporium // Kafe Candy
Charity Beneficiary: The Loveland Foundation
July 2020
Theme: Food
Book: With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
Featured Businesses: Small Moments // Coconut Whisk // Take a Little Whiff // This Is Us
Charity Beneficiary: Soul Fire Farm
June 2020
Theme: Humor
Book: Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby
Featured Businesses: Fiction Reshaped // Erebus Coffee // Fly Paper Products
Charity Beneficiary: The Cupcake Girls
May 2020
Theme: Parenthood
Book: Good Talk by Mira Jacob
Featured Businesses: SoulKu // Lauren Strom // Larabar // Bim Bam Boo
Charity Beneficiary: The Letter Project
April 2020
Theme: Women and Nature
Book: These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling
Featured Businesses: Sweet Girl Farm // Go Sili Products // Elysian Cedar // Alessi // Marble + Vine
Charity Beneficiary: WEDO
March 2020
Theme: Women’s History
Book: We Were Feminists Once: From RiotGrrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement by Andi Zeisler
Featured Businesses: Espionage Cosmetics // Trix Magazine // Molarà
Charity Beneficiary: National Collaboration for Women’s History Sites
February 2020
Theme: Romance
Book: The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
Featured Businesses: Les Chocolateries Askanya // A Shop of Things // We Sparkle // Empowdered Sugar // Heidi Bennett
Charity Beneficiary: Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
January 2020
Theme: Immigration
Book: The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya
Featured Businesses: All Are Welcome Here // Leonetti Confetti // Eat Chic Chocolates // Epically Embroidered
Charity Beneficiary: Welcoming America
December 2019
Book: The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy
Featured Businesses: Funky Monkey Fashion Accessories // These Are Things // Cup and Kettle Tea
Charity Beneficiary: The Well Project
November 2019
Book: Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Featured Businesses: Vixed Baking Company // Soak It Up Cloths // Oh It’s Natural // Cultivate Counseling and Wellness
Charity Beneficiary: Abortion Access Front
October 2019
Book: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Featured Businesses: The Card Bureau // Matzo Project // Virgo Voodoo // HerStry
Charity Beneficiary: National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
September 2019
Book: Unladylike: A Field Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy and Claiming Your Space by Cristen Conger and Caroline Ervin
Featured Businesses: Unladylike // LOLLiDALE // CaribBrew // Fabulously Feminist // Mesic Movement
Charity Beneficiary: #HappyPeriod
August 2019
Book: Lead From the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change by Stacey Abrams
Featured Businesses: Fourth Wave Apparel // The Yes Bar // Confident Girls // Little Seed Farm
Charity Beneficiary: Nalgona Positivity Pride
July 2019
Book: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Featured Businesses: Primal Noms // Homespun Trades // Silk Road Wellness // AndieandErin // Unearth Women
Charity Beneficiary: INCITE!
June 2019
Book: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Featured Businesses: Emily McDowell & Friends // LUNA Bar // Crime Crazy Podcast
Charity Beneficiary: Benevolence Farm
May 2019
Book: Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman by Lindy West
Featured Businesses: Parchment Nail Polish // Book Art Bookmarks // Glee Gum
Charity Beneficiary: Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio
April 2019
Book: Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay by Phoebe Robinson
Featured Businesses: Unearth Women // Lil Bucks // Sweet B Design // MAIA Community // Women Drinking Beer
Charity Beneficiary: Animal Experience International
March 2019
Book: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Featured Businesses: Flip’em the Bird // Thumbs Cookies // ECOBAGS // Pursey Handbags // Maggie Germano
Charity Beneficiary: Young Minds Advocacy
February 2019
Book: F-Bomb: Dispatches from the War on Feminism by Lauren McKeon
Featured Businesses: Fast Mary’s // Smitten Kitten // Sprinkles & Confetti // Claws Out // Dressing Room 8 // Style for It
Charity Beneficiary: WEWIN
January 2019
Book: Women and Madness by Phyllis Chesler
Featured Businesses: Human Is Human // Siena Soap Company // Luxe Lathers Boutique // Compass Spanish // Boobies & Noobies
Charity Beneficiary: RAD Remedy
December 2018
Book: Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Featured Businesses: Isadore Nut Company // Nicole Piar // Dirty Lamb // Wise Ink // The Country Muffin // Rosemary’s Ladies
Charity Beneficiary: AnitaB.org
November 2018
Book: Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture edited by Roxane Gay
Featured Businesses: Kei & Molly Textiles // THIS FEM // Fabulously Feminist // Timber & Tulip
Charity Beneficiary: Safe BAE
October 2018
Book: Circe by Madeline Miller
Featured Businesses: Happy Hearts Tees // Evelyn Roger Beauty + Skincare // Bewitched Boneyard
Charity Beneficiary: Girls for a Change
September 2018
Book: Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis*
Featured Businesses: City Girl Coffee // Bewitched Boneyard
Charity Beneficiary: Cafe Femenino
*Not all our books are explicitly feminist but we do read them through a feminist lens. We chose this book so we could better critique the anti-feminist sentiments in it.
August 2018
Book: Austenistan edited by Laaleen Sukhera
Featured Businesses: Wood + Weiher // Arza Jewelry
Charity Beneficiary: Peaceful Families Project
July 2018
Book: This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins
Featured Businesses: Melissa C. Mark Jewelry // Pretty Prints and Paper by Jessica Chung
Charity Beneficiary: Trans Women of Color Collective
June 2018
Book: The Power by Naomi Alderman
Featured Business: Peney Cakes
May 2018
Book: Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Featured Businesses: Sweet B Design // Feminist Sticker Club
April 2018
Book: Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World by Kelly Jensen
Featured Business: Fabulously Feminist
March 2018
Book: Witches Sluts Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive by Kristen J. Sollee
