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When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut

When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamín Labatut

192 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0shorshewitch's review
fiction historical literary short stories challenging informative slow-paced
Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin

Last Words from Montmartre

Qiu Miaojin

161 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

5.0shorshewitch's review
fiction lgbtqia+ challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories by Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi

Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories

Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi

256 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0shorshewitch's review
fiction contemporary short stories challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
PET by Akwaeke Emezi

PET

PET #1

Akwaeke Emezi

203 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0shorshewitch's review
fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ young adult dark emotional reflective fast-paced
Kurdistan +100: Stories from a Future State by Ava Homa, Muharrem Erbey, Sema Kaygusuz, Jîl Şwanî, Qadir Agid, Yildiz Cakar, Omer Dilsoz, Meral Simsek, Jahangir Mahmoudveysi, Huseyin Karabey, Nariman Evdike, Selahattin Demirtaş, Karzan Kardozi

Kurdistan +100: Stories from a Future State

Futures Past

Ava Homa, Muharrem Erbey, Sema Kaygusuz, Jîl Şwanî, Qadir Agid, Yildiz Cakar, Omer Dilsoz, Meral Simsek, Jahangir Mahmoudveysi, Huseyin Karabey, Nariman Evdike, Selahattin Demirtaş, Karzan Kardozi

192 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0shorshewitch's review
fiction short stories
Entwined: Essays on Polyamory and Creating Home by Alex Alberto

Entwined: Essays on Polyamory and Creating Home

Alex Alberto

264 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0shorshewitch's review
nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Your Utopia: Stories by Bora Chung

Your Utopia: Stories

Bora Chung

242 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0shorshewitch's review
fiction horror short stories speculative fiction adventurous challenging dark slow-paced
They Fell Like Stars From the Sky & Other Stories by Sheikha Helawy

They Fell Like Stars From the Sky & Other Stories

Sheikha Helawy

114 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0shorshewitch's review
fiction literary short stories challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Sakina's Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag

Sakina's Kiss

Vivek Shanbhag

179 pages • first pub 2021 (editions) user-added

5.0shorshewitch's review
fiction literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya

I'm Afraid of Men

Vivek Shraya

96 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0shorshewitch's review
nonfiction feminism gender lgbtqia+ memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced