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Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez

Scarborough

Catherine Hernandez

272 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0clem's review
fiction contemporary challenging 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 • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0clem's review
nonfiction essays memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo

America Is Not the Heart

Elaine Castillo

408 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0clem's review
fiction historical lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective slow-paced
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson

240 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0clem's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga

Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

Tanya Talaga

329 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0clem's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative sad medium-paced
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

The Line of Beauty

Alan Hollinghurst

438 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

5.0clem's review
fiction historical lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews

All My Puny Sorrows

Miriam Toews

321 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0clem's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Know My Name

Chanel Miller

368 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0clem's review
nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan

Half-Blood Blues

Esi Edugyan

321 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0clem's review
fiction historical dark emotional sad medium-paced
Zami/Sister Outsider/Undersong by Audre Lorde

Zami/Sister Outsider/Undersong

Audre Lorde

667 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

5.0clem's review
nonfiction poetry challenging emotional reflective slow-paced