Read and Appreciated in 2002
A Year’s Best List
- The Song of the Earth, Hugh Nissenson
- The Mount, Carol Emshwiller
- Stranger Things Happen, Kelly Link
- What’s Wrong? Explicit Graphic Interpretations Against Censorship, edited by Robin Fisher (i.e. dirty comics about censorship)
- The Red Tree, Shaun Tan (picture book)
- Where the Girls Are, Nikolaus Heidelbach (picture book)
- Beneath the Skins: The New Spirit and Politics of the Kink Community, Ivo Dominguez, Jr.
- The Elephant’s Child (audio book). Story by Rudyard Kipling, narrated by Jack Nicholson, soundscape by Bobby McFerrin
- The Boy in the Drawer, Robert Munsch (picture book)
- A Paradigm of Earth, Candas Jane Dorsey
- The Scar, China Miéville
- Queer Fear II, edited by Michael Rowe
- Conjunctions 39: New Wave Fabulists, edited by Peter Straub
- Bent on Writing: Contemporary Queer Tales, edited by Elizabeth Ruth
- Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity, edited by Anna Camilleri and Chloe Brushwood-Rose
- Coraline, Neil Gaiman
- The Dollmage, Martine Leavitt
- The Kappa Child, Hiromi Goto
- Dagmar’s Daughter, Kim Echlin
- Whylah Falls, George Elliott Clark
- PoMoSexuals Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality, edited by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel
- Whipstock, Barb Howard
- Eva Moves the Furniture, Margot Livesey
- The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar, Ashok Mathur
Copyright © 2002 by Nalo Hopkinson.





