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If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin

197 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

5.0hayleyfdz's review
fiction classics literary romance emotional reflective sad medium-paced
We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity by bell hooks

We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity

bell hooks

184 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0hayleyfdz's review
nonfiction feminism gender race emotional reflective slow-paced
How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs

How to Love a Jamaican

Alexia Arthurs

256 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0hayleyfdz's review
fiction contemporary short stories challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
How to Love a Country: Poems by Richard Blanco

How to Love a Country: Poems

Richard Blanco

112 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0hayleyfdz's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

James Baldwin

496 pages • first pub 1968 (editions)

5.0hayleyfdz's review
fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective slow-paced
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah

289 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0hayleyfdz's review
nonfiction memoir race emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land by Aimé Césaire

Notebook of a Return to the Native Land

Wesleyan Poetry

Aimé Césaire

100 pages • first pub 1939 (editions)

5.0hayleyfdz's review
nonfiction classics poetry challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

Fever Dream

Samanta Schweblin

183 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0hayleyfdz's review
fiction horror literary dark mysterious tense fast-paced
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

The Women of Brewster Place

Brewster Place #1

Gloria Naylor

220 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

5.0hayleyfdz's review
fiction classics emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

96 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0hayleyfdz's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced