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| A Void

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| S. E. Anderson

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| Race for Justice: Mumia Abu-Jamal's Fight Against the Death Penalty

| {{Sortname|first= Art |last= Spiegelman}} & {{Sortname|first= Robert |last= Sikoryak}}, eds.

| The Narrative Corpse

| {{Sortname|first=Henry |last=Rollins}}

| Get in the Van: On the Road with Black Flag

| {{Sortname|first=Dale |last=Pendell}}

| Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft

| {{Sortname|first= Kitty |last= Tsui}}

| Breathless: Erotica

| David Robinson

| Saving Graces

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| Distorture

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| Transgender Warriors

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| Home in Three Days. Don't Wash.

| Peter Phillips

| Censored 1997: The News That Didn't Make the News: The Year's Top 25 Censored News Stories

| {{Sortname|first= Ted |last= Rall}}

| Real Americans Admit: "The Worst Thing I've Ever Done"

| {{Sortname|first= Susie |last= Bright}} & {{Sortname|first= Jill |last= Posener}}, eds.

| Nothing but the Girl: the Blatant Lesbian Image: A Portfolio and Exploration of Lesbian Erotic Photography

| Paul Joannides with {{Sortname|first= Dærick |last= Gröss Sr.}} (illus.)

| The Guide to Getting it On

| Everything I Know I Learned on Acid

| {{Sortname|first= Coco |last=Pekelis}} (editor)

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| I Need More

| Celina Hex and Betty Boob, editors/publishers

| Bust

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| The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children

| AK Press

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| Death Scenes

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| InterCourses: An Aphrodisiac Cookbook

| FC2/Black Ice Books

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| In Awe

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| Ono Ono Girl's Hula

| Gerry Gomez Pearlberg

| Queer Dog: Homo/Pup/Poetry

| {{Sortname|first=Howard |last=Zinn}}

| The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

| {{Sortname|first= Bob |last= Fingerman}}

| Minimum Wage Book 2: Tales of Hoffman{{cite news|title=Fingerman Collection Wins Book Award|work=The Comics Journal|number=205 |date=June 1998|page= 27|first=Tom|last=Spurgeon|department=News Watch}}

| {{Sortname|first=Javaka |last=Steptoe}}

| In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers

| {{Sortname|first=Laurent |last=de Wilde}}

| Monk

| Bobcat Press

| The Joint Rolling Handbook

| {{Sortname|first=Tristan |last=Taormino}}

| The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women

| {{Sortname|first=Max |last=Cannon}}

| Red Meat: A Collection of Red Meat Cartoons From the Secret Files of Max Cannon

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| {{Sortname|first= Carol |last= Queen}}

| The Leather Daddy and the Femme

| {{Sortname|first= Inga |last=Muscio}}

| Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

| {{Sortname|first= Michael |last= Madsen}}

| Burning In Paradise{{cite book |last=Waldo |first=Thea |title=Celebrities and Their Culinary Creations: Autographed Photos, Biographies, Trivia, & Recipes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pjOVp9Z_-jUC&q=madsen+Independent+Book+Publishers+Firecracker+Poetry+Book+of+the+Year&pg=PA15 |publisher=iUniverse |date=July 16, 2006 |isbn=978-0-595-39753-2 |via=Google Books}}

| {{Sortname|first= Gary |last= Webb}}

| Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion

| {{Sortname|first= Eric |last= Drooker}}

| Street Posters and Ballads: A Selection of Songs, Poems, and Graphics

| {{Sortname|first= Michael J. |last= Moynihan}} and {{Sortname|first= Didrik |last= Søderlind}}

| Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground

| {{Sortname|first=Maurice |last=Vellekoop}}

| Maurice Vellekoop's ABC Book: A Homoerotic Primer

| {{Sortname|first=Steven|last=Cerio}}

| Steven Cerio's ABC Book: A Drug Primer

| {{Sortname|first= Steve Diet |last= Goedde}}

| The Beauty of Fetish

| Teresa Cooper and Lisa Zale, publishers

| The Fish Tank

| {{Sortname|first=Charles|last= Burns (cartoonist)}} and {{Sortname|first=Gary|last= Panter}}

| Facetasm: A Creepy Mix & Match Book of Gross Face Mutations

| Cleis Press

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| {{Sortname|first=Kate |last=Bornstein}} with {{Sortname|first=Diane|last=DiMassa}}, illustrator

| My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely

| {{Sortname|first=Andrew |last=Davenport}}, editor

| Teletubbies: Dancing with the Skirt

| {{Sortname|first=Subcomandante |last=Marcos}}, Anne Bar Din (translator), Domitilia Dominguez (illustrator)

| The Story of Colors/La Historia de los Colores: A Bilingual Folktale from the Jungles of Chiapas

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| Po Man's Child

| {{Sortname|first=Howard |last=Zinn}} and {{Sortname|first=David|last= Barsamian}}, interviewer

| The Future of History

| {{Sortname|first= Alan |last= Kaufman (writer)}} and {{Sortname|first=S.A. |last=Griffin}}, eds.

| The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry

| {{Sortname|first=William Upski |last=Wimsatt}}

| No More Prisons

| {{Sortname|first= Julie |last= Doucet}}

| My New York Diary

| {{Sortname|first= Subcomandante |last= Marcos}} and Anne Bar Din, translator

| The Story of Colors/La Historia de los Colores: A Bilingual Folktale from the Jungles of Chiapas

| {{Sortname|first=Shawna |last=Kenney}}

| I Was a Teenage Dominatrix

| {{Sortname|first= Paul |last= Krassner}}, compiler

| High Times Presents Paul Krassner's Pot Stories for the Soul

| Bryan Ray Turcotte and Christopher T. Miller, eds.

| Fucked Up + Photocopied: Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement

| {{Sortname|first= Trina |last=Robbins}}

| From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of Women's Comics from Teens to Zines

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| Dori Stories

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| Mental Hygiene: Classroom Films 1945-1970

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| The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature

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| The Strange Case of Edward Gorey

| Shappy & {{Sortname|first=Sam |last=Henderson}}

| Little Book of Ass

| Ralph Nader

| The Ralph Nader Reader

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| Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth

| Katharine Gates

| Deviant Desires

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| Aunt Mary Jane's Baking With Pot

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| Strange Fruit

| Gina Garan

| This Is Blythe

| Mindy Morgenstern

| The Real Rules for Girls

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| Why Things Burn

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| This Too Can Be Yours

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| Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

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| Cunt-Ups

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| 9-11

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| Palestine

| Chris Cooper

| Devil's Advocate: The Art of Coop

| {{Sortname|first= Art|last= Spiegelman}} & {{Sortname|first= Françoise |last=Mouly}}, eds.

| Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids

| {{Sortname|first=Daniel |last=Sinker}}

| We Owe You Nothing

| {{Sortname|first=Phil |last=Shoenfelt}}

| Junkie Love

| {{Sortname|first=Annie |last=Sprinkle}} with Gabrielle H. Cody

| Hardcore from the Heart: The Pleasures, Profits and Politics of Sex in Performance

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| Self-Portrait in Green

| {{Sortname|first= Bernadette |last= Mayer}}

| Sonnets: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition

| {{Sortname|first= Hubert |last= Boulard}} and Kerascoët

| Beauty (Beauté)

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| Some Boys

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| Tin House

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| The Things We Don't Do

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| The World is On Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse

| {{Sortname|first= Anne |last= Boyer}}

| Garments Against Women

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| A Public Space

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| {{Sortname|first= Ananda |last= Devi}} with Jeffrey Zuckerman (trans.)

| Eve Out of Her Ruins

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| Calamities

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| Buck Studies

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| Bennington Review

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| Prairie Schooner

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| {{Sortname|first= Rivers |last= Solomon}}

| An Unkindness of Ghosts

| {{Sortname|first= Aisha Sabatini |last=Sloan}}

| Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit

| {{Sortname|first= Javier |last=Zamora}}

| Unaccompanied

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| Flock Literary Journal

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| One Story

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| {{Sortname|first= Casey |last=Plett}}

| Little Fish

| {{Sortname|first=Shaelyn |last=Smith}}

| The Leftovers

| {{Sortname|first= Sesshu |last= Foster}}

| City of the Future

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| ZYZZYVA

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|{{Sortname|first=Johannes|last=Anyuru}} with Saskia Vogel (trans.)

|They Will Drown in their Mothers' Tears

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|throughsmoke

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|Motion Studies

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|Porter House Review

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|Two Lines Journal

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|{{Sortname|first=Aoko|last=Matsuda}} with Polly Barton (trans.)

|Where the Wild Ladies Are

|{{Sortname|first=Melissa|last=Valentine}}

|The Names of All the Flowers

|{{Sortname|first=Justin Phillip|last=Reed}}

|The Malevolent Volume

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|Lucky Jefferson

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|Pleasantview

|{{Sortname|first=Allison|last=Cobb}}

|Plastic: An Autobiography

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|book of the other: small in comparison

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|Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora

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| {{Sortname|first=Zain |last=Khalid}}

| Brother Alive

| {{Sortname|first=Douglas |last=Kearney}}

| Optic Subwoof

| {{Sortname|Solmaz |last=Sharif}}

| Customs

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| 128 Lit

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