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All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

All About Love: New Visions

Love Trilogy #1

bell hooks

272 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

3.0jill_reads's review
nonfiction essays gender informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

339 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

3.0jill_reads's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional sad medium-paced
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Brené Brown

287 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

4.0jill_reads's review
nonfiction psychology self help informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
The Perils of "privilege": Why Injustice Can't Be Solved by Accusing Others of Advantage by Phoebe Maltz Bovy

The Perils of "privilege": Why Injustice Can't Be Solved by Accusing Others of Advantage

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

336 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

4.0jill_reads's review
nonfiction politics informative reflective fast-paced
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat

The Farming of Bones

Edwidge Danticat

328 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

4.0jill_reads's review
fiction historical emotional reflective slow-paced
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

552 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

4.0jill_reads's review
fiction historical young adult dark emotional sad medium-paced
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin

The Conquest of Bread

Peter Kropotkin

241 pages • first pub 1892 (editions)

5.0jill_reads's review
nonfiction economics philosophy politics challenging reflective slow-paced
Kindred: Laços de Sangue by Octavia E. Butler

Kindred: Laços de Sangue

Octavia E. Butler

432 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

3.0jill_reads's review
fiction classics historical speculative fiction dark emotional tense medium-paced
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by asha bandele, Patrisse Khan-Cullors

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

asha bandele, Patrisse Khan-Cullors

272 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0jill_reads's review
nonfiction memoir race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin

197 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

4.0jill_reads's review
fiction classics literary romance emotional medium-paced