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Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty

Night of the Living Rez

Morgan Talty

285 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0laylajohnston's review
fiction contemporary literary short stories dark emotional sad medium-paced
Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism by Jack D. Forbes

Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism

Jack D. Forbes

258 pages • missing pub info (editions)

3.0laylajohnston's review
nonfiction history politics race informative reflective slow-paced
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler

288 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

5.0laylajohnston's review
fiction classics historical speculative fiction dark emotional tense medium-paced
Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier

Thirteen Moons

Charles Frazier

422 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

2.0laylajohnston's review
fiction historical emotional reflective slow-paced
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith

336 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0laylajohnston's review
nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Man Made Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers

Man Made Monsters

Andrea L. Rogers

320 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0laylajohnston's review
fiction horror short stories young adult adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom by Kathryn Olivarius

Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom

Kathryn Olivarius

320 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0laylajohnston's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

Jamie Ford

362 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

3.0laylajohnston's review
fiction historical magical realism emotional medium-paced
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt

How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt

312 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

4.0laylajohnston's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Dawn of Everything by David Wengrow, David Graeber

The Dawn of Everything

David Wengrow, David Graeber

704 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

4.0laylajohnston's review
nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced