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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World by Dorothy Roberts

Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

Dorothy Roberts

384 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction politics race challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
The Deep by Rivers Solomon

The Deep

Rivers Solomon

176 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ speculative fiction challenging dark emotional medium-paced
The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth by Josh Levin

The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth

Josh Levin

432 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history true crime informative medium-paced
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

Alice Wong

314 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Stone Butch Blues

Leslie Feinberg

431 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

Beth Macy

384 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history politics emotional informative sad medium-paced
The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: The Transgender Trial that Threatened to Upend the British Establishment by Zoë Playdon

The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: The Transgender Trial that Threatened to Upend the British Establishment

Zoë Playdon

416 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction gender history lgbtqia+ challenging emotional informative medium-paced
The Undiscovered Country - Essays by Andre Bagoo

The Undiscovered Country - Essays

Andre Bagoo

196 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

Guards! Guards!

Discworld #8

Terry Pratchett

355 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

fiction fantasy adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

Samuel R. Delany

356 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

fiction science fiction adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced