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144 books

Small Talk by Roxanne Pink, Richard Pink

Small Talk

Roxanne Pink, Richard Pink

6 hours, 27 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions) user-added

5.0thoughtsfromtheafro's review
nonfiction psychology self help funny hopeful informative fast-paced
Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

Delilah Green Doesn't Care

Bright Falls #1

Ashley Herring Blake

11 hours, 42 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0thoughtsfromtheafro's review
fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ romance emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction—from Childhood Through Adulthood by John J. Ratey, Edward M. Hallowell

ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction—from Childhood Through Adulthood

John J. Ratey, Edward M. Hallowell

5 hours, 28 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0thoughtsfromtheafro's review
nonfiction health psychology informative medium-paced
The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center by Rhaina Cohen

The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

Rhaina Cohen

8 hours, 41 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0thoughtsfromtheafro's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir sociology informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun Harrison

Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

Da’Shaun Harrison

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

5.0thoughtsfromtheafro's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ politics race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Finding Charity's Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland by Jessica Millward

Finding Charity's Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland

Jessica Millward

160 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0thoughtsfromtheafro's review
nonfiction history emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Color Purple

The Color Purple Collection #1

Alice Walker

7 hours, 57 minutes • first pub 1982 (editions)

5.0thoughtsfromtheafro's review
fiction classics historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Ann Friedman, Aminatou Sow

Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

Ann Friedman, Aminatou Sow

5 hours, 34 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0thoughtsfromtheafro's review
nonfiction memoir sociology emotional reflective slow-paced
Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice by Yusef Salaam

Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice

Yusef Salaam

7 hours, 29 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0thoughtsfromtheafro's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
All the Black Girls Are Activists: A Fourth Wave Womanist Pursuit of Dreams as Radical Resistance by EbonyJanice Moore

All the Black Girls Are Activists: A Fourth Wave Womanist Pursuit of Dreams as Radical Resistance

EbonyJanice Moore

139 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0thoughtsfromtheafro's review
nonfiction essays feminism race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced