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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Roxane Gay

368 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0daralexandria's review
nonfiction essays feminism memoir sociology challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour

Yerba Buena

Nina LaCour

293 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0daralexandria's review
fiction lgbtqia+ literary emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan

The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

Hugh Ryan

368 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0daralexandria's review
nonfiction history lgbtqia+ politics sociology challenging informative sad medium-paced
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

Bright Young Women

Jessica Knoll

376 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0daralexandria's review
fiction crime thriller challenging dark tense medium-paced
The Ingenue by Rachel Kapelke-Dale

The Ingenue

Rachel Kapelke-Dale

320 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0daralexandria's review
fiction literary emotional reflective medium-paced
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult

423 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

5.0daralexandria's review
fiction contemporary emotional mysterious medium-paced
Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family by Omid Scobie, Carolyn Durand

Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family

Omid Scobie, Carolyn Durand

528 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0daralexandria's review
nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

The Once and Future Witches

Alix E. Harrow

516 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0daralexandria's review
fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Just Happy to Be Here by Naomi Kanakia

Just Happy to Be Here

Naomi Kanakia

320 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0daralexandria's review
fiction lgbtqia+ young adult challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Come to this Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends by Linda Kinstler

Come to this Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends

Linda Kinstler

304 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0daralexandria's review
nonfiction history dark informative reflective medium-paced