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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett

366 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0jennifergallo's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Elizabeth Kolbert

319 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0jennifergallo's review
nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

13 hours, 14 minutes • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0jennifergallo's review
nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi

592 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0jennifergallo's review
nonfiction history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

Dorothy Roberts

400 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0jennifergallo's review
nonfiction race science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
1984 by George Orwell

1984

George Orwell

328 pages • first pub 1949 (editions) user-added

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fiction classics dystopian literary dark reflective tense medium-paced
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket

The Bad Beginning

A Series of Unfortunate Events #1

Lemony Snicket

162 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

5.0jennifergallo's review
fiction middle grade mystery adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

This Is How It Always Is

Laurie Frankel

336 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0jennifergallo's review
fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Honor by Thrity Umrigar

Honor

Thrity Umrigar

352 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

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fiction contemporary literary challenging emotional sad medium-paced
The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage

The Power of the Dog

Thomas Savage

304 pages • first pub 1967 (editions)

5.0jennifergallo's review
fiction classics historical lgbtqia+ literary dark tense medium-paced