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The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition by Thenmozhi Soundararajan

The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition

Thenmozhi Soundararajan

256 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0swatreader's review
nonfiction feminism history politics religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne

The Heart's Invisible Furies

John Boyne

582 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0swatreader's review
fiction historical lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

Alice Wong

314 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0swatreader's review
nonfiction essays sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey

Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

Tricia Hersey

211 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0swatreader's review
nonfiction race sociology informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid

The Last White Man

Mohsin Hamid

180 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0swatreader's review
fiction dystopian literary challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

Freshwater

Akwaeke Emezi

229 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0swatreader's review
fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary challenging dark emotional medium-paced
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

Alice Wong

377 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0swatreader's review
nonfiction essays memoir politics funny informative reflective medium-paced
Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West by Justin Farrell

Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West

Justin Farrell

392 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0swatreader's review
nonfiction business economics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Detransition, Baby

Torrey Peters

337 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0swatreader's review
fiction contemporary gender lgbtqia+ literary challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

My Sister, the Serial Killer

Oyinkan Braithwaite

226 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0swatreader's review
fiction contemporary crime thriller dark tense fast-paced