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Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin

190 pages • hardcover • 1956

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fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe

441 pages • hardcover • 2018

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nonfiction history politics true crime dark informative reflective medium-paced
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

106 pages • paperback • 1963

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nonfiction classics essays memoir race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

363 pages • digital • 2020 user-added

5.0biscottipippen's review
nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

Harriet A. Washington

501 pages • hardcover • 2007

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nonfiction health history race science challenging informative slow-paced
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

Minor Detail

Adania Shibli

112 pages • paperback • 2017

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fiction contemporary historical literary dark sad tense medium-paced
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

247 pages • hardcover • 2019

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nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

Hanif Abdurraqib

285 pages • paperback • 2017

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nonfiction essays memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates

235 pages • hardcover • 2024

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nonfiction essays politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Sunday in the Park with George by

Sunday in the Park with George

Applause Libretto Library

224 pages • paperback • 1983

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nonfiction art music emotional sad medium-paced