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The Binding by Bridget Collins

The Binding

Bridget Collins

438 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0tortoisemonster's review
fiction fantasy historical lgbtqia+ dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition by Arthur Kleinman

The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition

Arthur Kleinman

304 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

5.0tortoisemonster's review
nonfiction health informative reflective fast-paced
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition by Liat Ben-Moshe

Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition

Liat Ben-Moshe

376 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0tortoisemonster's review
nonfiction sociology challenging informative medium-paced
Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and Occupation by Vijay Prashad

Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and Occupation

Vijay Prashad

232 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0tortoisemonster's review
nonfiction politics informative reflective medium-paced
Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art from the Womens Protests in Iran by Halasa Malu

Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art from the Womens Protests in Iran

Halasa Malu

272 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0tortoisemonster's review
nonfiction art essays gender politics
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng

368 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0tortoisemonster's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Thinking Through the Skin by Sara Ahmed

Thinking Through the Skin

Sara Ahmed

256 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

5.0tortoisemonster's review
nonfiction feminism challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson

288 pages • first pub 1959 (editions)

5.0tortoisemonster's review
fiction classics horror literary dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

Open Water

Caleb Azumah Nelson

146 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0tortoisemonster's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Burning My Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman by Sharan Dhaliwal

Burning My Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman

Sharan Dhaliwal

208 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0tortoisemonster's review
nonfiction feminism lgbtqia+ memoir race challenging informative reflective medium-paced