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35 books

Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

Men We Reaped

Jesmyn Ward

7 hours, 20 minutes • first pub 2013 (editions) user-added

5.0linaslzr's review
nonfiction memoir race emotional reflective sad medium-paced
El Principito by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

El Principito

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

1 hour, 38 minutes • first pub 1943 (editions)

5.0linaslzr's review
fiction childrens classics fantasy emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin

7 hours, 7 minutes • first pub 1974 (editions)

5.0linaslzr's review
fiction classics literary romance emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Brother by David Chariandy

Brother

David Chariandy

4 hours, 11 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0linaslzr's review
fiction literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke

1 hour, 50 minutes • first pub 1929 (editions)

5.0linaslzr's review
nonfiction classics essays poetry inspiring reflective fast-paced
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

7 hours, 6 minutes • first pub 1970 (editions)

5.0linaslzr's review
fiction classics historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin

6 hours, 49 minutes • first pub 1956 (editions)

5.0linaslzr's review
fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner

7 hours, 23 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0linaslzr's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Earthseed #1

Octavia E. Butler

12 hours, 3 minutes • first pub 1993 (editions)

5.0linaslzr's review
fiction classics dystopian literary challenging dark tense medium-paced
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture

Sherronda J. Brown

6 hours, 54 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0linaslzr's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced