Queer Your Year 2023 - hosted by laura_sackton

A Black history book
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Didn't We Almost Have It All: The Genius, Shame, and Audacity of Whitney Houston by Gerrick Kennedy

Didn't We Almost Have It All: The Genius, Shame, and Audacity of Whitney Houston

Gerrick Kennedy

320 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction biography music emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Surge by Jay Bernard

Surge

Jay Bernard

80 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ poetry challenging reflective sad slow-paced
That Self-Same Metal by Brittany N. Williams

That Self-Same Metal

The Forge & Fracture Saga #1

Brittany N. Williams

334 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction fantasy historical young adult adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin

6 hours, 49 minutes • first pub 1956 (editions)

fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Black Futures by Kimberly Drew, Jenna Wortham

Black Futures

Kimberly Drew, Jenna Wortham

544 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction art essays poetry race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
That Could Be Enough by Alyssa Cole

That Could Be Enough

Alyssa Cole

107 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction historical lgbtqia+ romance emotional hopeful fast-paced
The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom

The Yellow House: A Memoir

Sarah M. Broom

400 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Walking On Water: Black American Lives At The Turn Of The Twenty First Century by Randall Kenan

Walking On Water: Black American Lives At The Turn Of The Twenty First Century

Randall Kenan

668 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

Saidiya Hartman

10 hours, 5 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history lgbtqia+ race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe

Ordinary Notes

Christina Sharpe

379 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced