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Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith by Sarah Bessey

Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

Sarah Bessey

256 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0shansometimes's review
nonfiction memoir religion self help hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

How to Say Babylon

Safiya Sinclair

352 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0shansometimes's review
nonfiction feminism memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Recitatif by Toni Morrison

Recitatif

Toni Morrison

96 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

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fiction literary short stories emotional reflective medium-paced
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Y. Davis

180 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

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nonfiction essays feminism politics race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth by Beth Allison Barr

The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

Beth Allison Barr

256 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0shansometimes's review
nonfiction feminism gender history religion informative reflective medium-paced
This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley

This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

Cole Arthur Riley

208 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

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nonfiction religion challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

Yellowface

R.F. Kuang

323 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0shansometimes's review
fiction contemporary literary thriller dark tense fast-paced
Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah

Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life

Amber Scorah

279 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0shansometimes's review
nonfiction memoir religion informative reflective slow-paced
You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith

You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir

Maggie Smith

313 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

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nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing by Stephanie Stokes Oliver

Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing

Stephanie Stokes Oliver

272 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0shansometimes's review
nonfiction essays history challenging informative reflective slow-paced