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This Is Why They Hate Us by Aaron H. Aceves

This Is Why They Hate Us

Aaron H. Aceves

390 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0jreadsalot's review
fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ young adult emotional funny hopeful medium-paced
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin

192 pages • first pub 1955 (editions)

5.0jreadsalot's review
nonfiction classics essays race challenging reflective slow-paced
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

Salt Houses

Hala Alyan

312 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0jreadsalot's review
fiction historical emotional reflective medium-paced
Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez

Just for the Summer

Part of Your World #3

Abby Jimenez

405 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0jreadsalot's review
fiction contemporary romance emotional funny hopeful medium-paced
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Chain-Gang All-Stars

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

411 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0jreadsalot's review
fiction dystopian lgbtqia+ literary challenging dark tense medium-paced
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Legendborn

The Legendborn Cycle #1

Tracy Deonn

501 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0jreadsalot's review
fiction fantasy young adult adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

Akwaeke Emezi

240 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0jreadsalot's review
nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

224 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

5.0jreadsalot's review
fiction classics historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
Your Wound, My Garden by Alok Vaid-Menon

Your Wound, My Garden

Alok Vaid-Menon

52 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0jreadsalot's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry emotional reflective fast-paced
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke

Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

Tarana Burke

272 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0jreadsalot's review
nonfiction autobiography feminism gender memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced