Books

The best and latest books writing from The Stranger

Person of Interest: Tyler Thrasher

The Guy Who Grows Crystals on Dead Things

Writing the Ship

How Nonfiction for No Reason Is Helping Seattle’s Literary Scene Stay Afloat

What Are Ya Readin’ This Season?

Our Favorite Authors Recommend Your Next Favorite Book

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Look Out, Artists! We’re Gonna Dump Some Money on Your Asses!

The Stranger’s Genius Awards are coming back in the Spring of 2025!

Books Aug 2 9:50 AM

Stop Sanctifying James Baldwin

His Humanity—Not His Holiness—Is What Made Him the Greatest Essayist in the English Language

Summer Issue 2024 Jul 23 10:00 AM

Octavia Butler Saw Our Doom

Parable of the Sower Is the Opposite of a Light Summer Read, but You Need to Read it This Summer Anyway

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Books Jul 16 4:47 PM

Into the Soil

How Author Noé Álvarez Uses Music and Memoir to Confront Death in His New Book Accordion Eulogies

Books Jul 3 12:35 PM

Octavia Butler Didn't Predict the Domination of the Supreme Court

But the Brilliant Black Sci-Fi Author Did Accurately Predict the Rise of Donald Trump and MAGA    

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Queer Issue 2024 Jun 5 4:00 AM

The Books of Love

Charlie’s Queer Books Is a Welcoming Space for Seattle’s LGBTQ+ Lit Nerds

Books May 20 10:36 AM

Pressing On

Local Seattle Book Distributor Asterism Books Extends Lifeline for Indie Publishers

Books May 3 11:49 AM

Time in Tent City

Tony Sparks's New Book Tent City, Seattle Offers Valuable Participatory Research of Life in a Sanctioned Homeless Encampment

Tessa Hulls’s Feeding Ghosts Is Instant Canon Fodder

Too Bad She’ll Never Write Another Graphic Novel

Person of Interest: Taha Ebrahimi

Seattle’s Coolest Street Tree Expert

Queen of Our World

When Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe Writes, the Revolution’s Coming

News Apr 11 9:00 AM

The Seattle Public Library Announces 1,500 Hours of Closures in the Next Eight Weeks

Library Workers Say It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way