The Booklist Queen Reading Challenge 2021 - hosted by jrf1108

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The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans

The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories

Danielle Evans

269 pages • first pub 2020 (editions) user-added

fiction contemporary literary short stories challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

Harriet A. Washington

501 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction health history race science challenging informative slow-paced
New Kid by Jerry Craft

New Kid

New Kid #1

Jerry Craft

256 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction contemporary graphic novel middle grade funny hopeful reflective fast-paced
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

340 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today by Alice Wong

Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today

Alice Wong

139 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction essays challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig

Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body

Rebekah Taussig

256 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation by Brenda J. Child

My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation

Brenda J. Child

224 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Bryan Stevenson

368 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction memoir race challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

Migrations

Charlotte McConaghy

256 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction dystopian literary adventurous emotional sad medium-paced
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

The Death of Vivek Oji

Akwaeke Emezi

245 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced