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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Toni Morrison

104 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

5.0mschmidt's review
nonfiction essays race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth by Elizabeth Rush

The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

Elizabeth Rush

384 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0mschmidt's review
nonfiction memoir nature informative reflective medium-paced
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau by Bill McKibben

American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau

Library of America #182

Bill McKibben

1047 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0mschmidt's review
nonfiction essays nature poetry reference informative slow-paced
Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver

Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

Mary Oliver

67 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0mschmidt's review
nonfiction essays nature poetry reflective slow-paced
The Book of Ramallah: A City in Short Fiction by Liana Badr, Ameer Hamad, Ahmed H Jaber, Maya Abu Al-Hayat, Khaled Hourani, Mahmoud Shukair - محمود شقير, زياد خداش, أنس أبو رحمة, مايا أبو الحيات, Maya Abu al-Hayat, Ibrahim Nasrallah, أحلام بشارات

The Book of Ramallah: A City in Short Fiction

Reading the City

Liana Badr, Ameer Hamad, Ahmed H Jaber, Maya Abu Al-Hayat, Khaled Hourani, Mahmoud Shukair - محمود شقير, زياد خداش, أنس أبو رحمة, مايا أبو الحيات, Maya Abu al-Hayat, Ibrahim Nasrallah, أحلام بشارات

108 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0mschmidt's review
fiction short stories emotional reflective medium-paced
A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

A History of My Brief Body

Billy-Ray Belcourt

192 pages • first pub 2020 (editions) user-added

5.0mschmidt's review
nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

Camille T. Dungy

336 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0mschmidt's review
nonfiction memoir nature race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Passing by Nella Larsen

Passing

Nella Larsen

122 pages • first pub 1929 (editions)

5.0mschmidt's review
fiction classics literary emotional reflective tense medium-paced
A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt

A Minor Chorus

Billy-Ray Belcourt

167 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0mschmidt's review
fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary reflective medium-paced
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

The Great Believers

Rebecca Makkai

18 hours, 17 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0mschmidt's review
fiction contemporary historical lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced