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That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

340 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ sociology emotional reflective slow-paced
Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move by Nanjala Nyabola

Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move

Nanjala Nyabola

8 hours, 13 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays race travel challenging reflective slow-paced
Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories by Charlie Jane Anders

Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories

Charlie Jane Anders

240 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China After the Tiananmen Square Massacre by Liao Yiwu

Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China After the Tiananmen Square Massacre

Liao Yiwu

320 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Leslie Jamison

226 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir psychology challenging informative medium-paced
Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay

Bad Feminist: Essays

Roxane Gay

320 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced
What I Talk about When I Talk about Running by Haruki Murakami

What I Talk about When I Talk about Running

Haruki Murakami

4 hours, 24 minutes • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction memoir inspiring reflective medium-paced
When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? by George Carlin

When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

George Carlin

295 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction essays funny medium-paced
Proud to be a Mammal by Czesław Miłosz

Proud to be a Mammal

Czesław Miłosz

296 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction essays challenging reflective slow-paced
The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz

The Captive Mind

Czesław Miłosz

272 pages • first pub 1953 (editions)

nonfiction essays politics reflective slow-paced