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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

Saidiya Hartman

462 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

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nonfiction feminism history lgbtqia+ race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Bibliophile: Diverse Spines by Jamise Harper, Jane Mount

Bibliophile: Diverse Spines

Jamise Harper, Jane Mount

144 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

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nonfiction art reference adventurous informative lighthearted medium-paced
The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village by Samuel R. Delany

The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village

Samuel R. Delany

584 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

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nonfiction autobiography lgbtqia+ memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi

Goliath

Tochi Onyebuchi

336 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

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fiction science fiction informative inspiring slow-paced
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

287 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

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fiction science fiction short stories challenging reflective medium-paced
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

Robin Wall Kimmerer

168 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

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nonfiction essays nature informative reflective slow-paced
A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler by Lynell George

A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler

Lynell George

176 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

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nonfiction biography history adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced
Passing by Nella Larsen

Passing

Nella Larsen

176 pages • first pub 1929 (editions)

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fiction classics literary emotional reflective tense medium-paced
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Left Hand of Darkness

Hainish Cycle

Ursula K. Le Guin

336 pages • first pub 1969 (editions)

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fiction classics lgbtqia+ science fiction speculative fiction adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

266 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

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nonfiction essays health lgbtqia+ sociology emotional reflective slow-paced