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The Sound and the Fury: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism by Irving Howe, C. Vann Woodward, Robert Penn Warren, Richard H. King, Noel Polk, David Minter, Ben Wasson, William Faulkner, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ralph Ellison

The Sound and the Fury: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism

Irving Howe, C. Vann Woodward, Robert Penn Warren, Richard H. King, Noel Polk, David Minter, Ben Wasson, William Faulkner, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ralph Ellison

446 pages • first pub 1929 (editions)

5.0droo's review
fiction classics literary challenging dark sad slow-paced
Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

98 pages • first pub 1601 (editions)

5.0droo's review
fiction classics play dark tense medium-paced
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

224 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

5.0droo's review
fiction classics historical literary dark emotional sad medium-paced
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Investigations

Ludwig Wittgenstein

464 pages • first pub 1953 (editions)

5.0droo's review
nonfiction classics philosophy challenging slow-paced
Blud by Rachel McKibbens

Blud

Rachel McKibbens

88 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0droo's review
nonfiction feminism lgbtqia+ poetry reflective slow-paced
Madness by sam sax

Madness

Penguin Poets

sam sax

82 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0droo's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry challenging reflective slow-paced
The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limón

The Carrying: Poems

Ada Limón

120 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0droo's review
nonfiction poetry emotional reflective medium-paced
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

246 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0droo's review
fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Crush by Richard Siken

Crush

Yale Series of Younger Poets

Richard Siken

62 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0droo's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Wade in the Water: Poems by Tracy K. Smith

Wade in the Water: Poems

Tracy K. Smith

95 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0droo's review
nonfiction contemporary poetry challenging reflective slow-paced