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The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

The Obelisk Gate

The Broken Earth #2

N.K. Jemisin

410 pages • paperback • 2016

5.0salemander's review
fiction fantasy science fiction adventurous dark medium-paced
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide by Steven W. Thrasher

The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

Steven W. Thrasher

352 pages • hardcover • 2022

5.0salemander's review
nonfiction history lgbtqia+ race science challenging informative 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 • paperback • 2003

5.0salemander's review
nonfiction essays nature informative reflective slow-paced
Miss Major Speaks: The Life and Times of a Black Trans Revolutionary by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Miss Major Speaks: The Life and Times of a Black Trans Revolutionary

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

192 pages • paperback • 2023

5.0salemander's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

391 pages • hardcover • 2013

5.0salemander's review
nonfiction essays nature science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine by Ben Ehrenreich

The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine

Ben Ehrenreich

448 pages • hardcover • 2016

5.0salemander's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced
Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Nona the Ninth

The Locked Tomb #3

Tamsyn Muir

480 pages • hardcover • 2022

5.0salemander's review
fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ science fiction adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

A Closed and Common Orbit

Wayfarers #2

Becky Chambers

365 pages • hardcover • 2016

5.0salemander's review
fiction science fiction adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

The Fifth Season

The Broken Earth #1

N.K. Jemisin

498 pages • paperback • 2015

5.0salemander's review
fiction fantasy science fiction adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

Derecka Purnell

288 pages • hardcover • 2021

5.0salemander's review
nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced