2024 Pocket Books Challenge - hosted by acarter

Black author in a genre you don't normally read
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Wounded by Percival Everett

Wounded

Percival Everett

242 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ reflective slow-paced
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business by Roxane Gay

Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business

Roxane Gay

286 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction essays challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Counting Descent by Clint Smith

Counting Descent

Clint Smith

84 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction poetry race challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

Let Us Descend

Jesmyn Ward

305 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction historical lgbtqia+ literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin

176 pages • first pub 1956 (editions)

fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby

Quietly Hostile

Samantha Irby

9 hours, 32 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir funny lighthearted fast-paced
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Emergent Strategy #0

adrienne maree brown

280 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics informative reflective slow-paced
Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan

Before I Let Go

Skyland #1

Kennedy Ryan

391 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction romance emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
As You Walk On By by Julian Winters

As You Walk On By

Julian Winters

336 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ young adult emotional funny hopeful medium-paced
Incomparable World by S.I. Martin

Incomparable World

S.I. Martin

5 hours, 57 minutes • first pub 1996 (editions)

fiction historical dark emotional slow-paced