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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

missing duration info • 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

644 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

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

Life of Pi

Yann Martel

319 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 feminism play poetry race 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

403 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

177 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

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

Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

S. Bear Bergman, Kate Bornstein

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

324 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

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