I recently built a BookShop.org boutique—’The Sellman Shelf‘—to celebrate the voices and visions of my region as well as work I love that falls into those liminal speculative spaces.

I just added a new section:

RESISTANCE READER: HOPEPUNK & BEYOND

In the wake of the 2024 election, a lot of people I know are trying to understand “how we got here,” and still others are looking for how to “get to the next station.”

On this new shelf, I’ve included more than 40 diverse titles in nonfiction for those seeking knowledge, disruptive thinking, perspective, history, and inspiration as we move into a new shift in 2025. 

You’ll find historical and philosophical classics, hopeful visionary works, activist handbooks, inquiries into technological ethics, seeds of truthtelling, examples of resistance, and other perspectives that linger in the spaces of ecofeminism, AI, utopian leanings, spiritual guidance, and more on this newest shelf.

BookShop.org is a fantastic alternative to that “other” online bookstore as it prioritizes linking readers with books by way of independent and boutique booksellers. (BookShop.org, in case you didn’t already know, is the former IndieBound portal.)

Know this: By buying any of these books from my shop,
my local bookseller, Saltwater Bookshop, gets a little something-something.
SUPPORT LOCAL AUTHORS, SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESSES!

Do you have recommendations?

Please reach out to me with your favorites and I’ll see if I can add them (sometimes distribution challenges prohibit some adds, such as for self-published or books not distributed through Ingram, etc.). If you’re from AK, BC, ID, MT, OR, or WA, and you have published your books, I’d love to add them if I can!