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27 books

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

300 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0elizabethnewell's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Austin Channing Brown

192 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0elizabethnewell's review
nonfiction memoir race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores by Dominique DuBois Gilliard

Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores

Dominique DuBois Gilliard

240 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0elizabethnewell's review
nonfiction politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood by P.E. Moskowitz

How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

P.E. Moskowitz

272 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0elizabethnewell's review
nonfiction economics history politics sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah

289 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0elizabethnewell's review
nonfiction memoir race emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced
Just Kids by Patti Smith

Just Kids

Patti Smith

279 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0elizabethnewell's review
nonfiction art memoir music emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Red Bird by Mary Oliver

Red Bird

Mary Oliver

78 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0elizabethnewell's review
nonfiction nature poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
Felicity: Poems by Mary Oliver

Felicity: Poems

Mary Oliver

96 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0elizabethnewell's review
nonfiction nature poetry hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced
Becoming Wise: An Inquiry Into the Mystery and Art of Living by Krista Tippett

Becoming Wise: An Inquiry Into the Mystery and Art of Living

Krista Tippett

304 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0elizabethnewell's review
nonfiction philosophy psychology reflective slow-paced
Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by Ted Orland, David Bayles

Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Ted Orland, David Bayles

122 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

5.0elizabethnewell's review
nonfiction art self help inspiring reflective slow-paced