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Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? What it Means to Be Black Now by Touré

Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? What it Means to Be Black Now

Touré

272 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0alaiyo0685's review
nonfiction race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Millennium #1

Stieg Larsson

465 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0alaiyo0685's review
fiction contemporary crime mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Life of Pi

Yann Martel

460 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

5.0alaiyo0685's review
fiction classics literary magical realism adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced
Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger

Hard Love

Ellen Wittlinger

256 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

5.0alaiyo0685's review
fiction lgbtqia+ romance young adult emotional hopeful lighthearted slow-paced
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Ntozake Shange

80 pages • first pub 1975 (editions)

5.0alaiyo0685's review
fiction play poetry challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism by Daisy Hernández, Bushra Rehman

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism

Daisy Hernández, Bushra Rehman

432 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

5.0alaiyo0685's review
nonfiction essays feminism race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

Harriet A. Washington

501 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

5.0alaiyo0685's review
nonfiction health history race science challenging informative slow-paced
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

197 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

5.0alaiyo0685's review
fiction classics fantasy literary adventurous inspiring reflective medium-paced
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation by Kate Bornstein, S. Bear Bergman

Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

Kate Bornstein, S. Bear Bergman

304 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0alaiyo0685's review
nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

371 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0alaiyo0685's review
fiction historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced