Welcome to Inga’s 2020 holiday gift guide! Browse and you will find a hand-picked selection of new, notable, & staff favorite titles arranged according to giftable reading themes. For even more options, use our tagging system or web shop filter to further explore the 700+ titles on our virtual shelves.

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Anthologies and...
Collections of writing on ethical aesthetics, systemic oppression, and the ritual landscape; fiction as a curatorial tool for social change through speculative design, afro-surrealism, and alternative pedagogies; economics and science fiction; how-to guides for connecting to self, community and the planet; and the landscape of self-determined gender, among many other things.
Architecture & Public Space
For those interested in the built form, these books touch upon things like creating diagrams to tell inconvenient stories that upset and resist the status quo; the implications of architecture and the built environment as they relate to land, memory, rights, and civic participation; the intersection of political action, public policy, and changing notions of nationality; and chairs!
Art
With an expansive definition of what constitutes art, this collection covers things like curatorial practice; art world etiquette (or lack thereof); the art institution vis-à-vis political activism; children’s play across the world; thinking through performing; and flower arrangements.
Artist Novels & Poetry
A selection of poetry and prose with a special fix for the artist’s novel. “Kill the language. Kill it. Get the shovel. We’re making a belt.” Discomforting poems playing with language’s brutality; poetic challenges to historical accounts of incarceration; plus a new collection by major Latin American poet, Blanca Valera, brought to English-language readers for the first time. Dive deep into fictions about quadrilateral relationships; ”classic novels” rewritten and undone; page-turners about passions and politics, and more.
Environment & Ecology
"No geology is neutral" writes Kathryn Yusoff in A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. This collection thinks through what it means to relate to and live with the world and all its inhabitants in the context of the current climate regime.
Everywhere is a Classroom: Alternative Education
Doing (and undoing) it yourself, these books are exercises in (un)learning covering models for art organizations; self-organized education; open-ended games to un-train the body and recondition space; community autonomy and the reclaiming of public space; and radical pedagogy.
Femme & Feminisms
Glitch feminism; a a takeover of the history of the book; feminist film journals; blackfishing the IUD; the experience of birth; and "the indefensible claim that femaleness is less a biological state and more a fatal existential condition that afflicts the entire human race," these titles chronicle femme & feminist stories and communities.
Film, Video, & Moving Image
Filmic books about the textured landscape of memory; “film dinners” where narratives bounced from the plate to the screen and back again; the history of the bicycle in cinema; and filmmaker spotlights, among many other things.
Food Reading
The overlaps, intersections, and entanglements between reading and food—this collection features acts of solidarity and self-nourishment and touches upon the politics of food; artist cocktails; colorful foodways; and themes of labour, duty, sustenance and loss.
Graphic Design & Typography
Books on letters, languages, and scripts; the history of graphic design; a guide to visually understanding and shaping the increasingly networked world of information and design; the power of printing, publishing, design, and distribution; the Ecstasy, Joy, Serenity, and Love found in type design; and graphic design-led research.
Illustration & Comics
Colorful and experimental books featuring investigations into the abstraction of language and form; a ‘technodrama’ about bodies, borders and surveillance; risograph-printed call-and-response comics; adventures through the space-time continuum, and much more.
Libros en Español
A collection of titles written in or translated into Spanish, these books cover things like community archaeology; Peruvian poetry; Ulises Carrión; and struggles surrounding water, land, and territory in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Photography
These books turn their lens on the practice of photography itself, featuring deep dives into textual and visual essays about the making and viewing of photographs; photographic meta data; the technology of the camera; and meaning and choreography via sports photography.
Posters, Prints, & Things
An expanded notion of published things, including riso prints, posters, archaeological sticker packs, musical artifacts, T-shirts, lots of tote bags and artist-made screensavers—highly giftable to everyone working from home!
Printing, Publishing, & Books on Books
Books about books: this collection features titles about the print industry’s inequalities; an artist’s guide to copyright; the "tactile" in print; the post-digital age of publishing; and publishing as an artistic practice.
RISO & Zines
Making nice pairings with the Printing, Publishing, & Books on Books collection, these books look specifically at and feature examples of publishing made with the Risograph, in addition to the expansive world of zine publishing.
Sound & Music
For readers who contemplate topics like the philosophy of audio to the trials and triumphs of independent music. The books, cassettes, CDs and vinyls on this list span typographical scores; sketches of performance on the musical stage; punk/hardcore/noise zines dedicated to subcultural sonic communities; (failed) 1970s musical experiments; vinyl soundscapes; plus the supreme collection of Madonna Fan Mail Art.
Speculative & Otherworldly
From personal science fiction surveys to notes on future economies and non-linear storytelling, this selection of books teleport, transfigure, and challenge previously held notions while offering a glimpse into worlds afar and sometimes... closer than you think!
Sports
Artist’s books on sports! The joys of the “quintessential communal experience” in wide ranging form and content. Multiple issues of our favorite football journal to the cinematic history of the bicycle to a pocket-sized riso book with baseball iconography from the 2001 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Time for Change: Activism, Anti-Racism, & Radical Thinking
From the A of Abolition Worlds (or ACAB) to the Z of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, these readings are timely and essential for thinking about the world we live in, inviting us to ask the questions that matter most. Through these books, we learn about the politics of interdependence, how to organize for autonomy, and how artists can confront the justice system.