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53 books

Native Son by Richard Wright

Native Son

Richard Wright

504 pages • first pub 1940 (editions)

5.0lauren_elizabeth's review
fiction classics race challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown, G.H. Gerould
Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Unknown, G.H. Gerould

Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Unknown, G.H. Gerould

210 pages • first pub 1935 (editions)

5.0lauren_elizabeth's review
classics adventurous reflective medium-paced
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Eduardo Galeano

317 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

5.0lauren_elizabeth's review
nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

581 pages • first pub 1952 (editions)

5.0lauren_elizabeth's review
fiction classics literary challenging dark reflective slow-paced
Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion

Play It as It Lays

Joan Didion

3 hours, 51 minutes • first pub 1970 (editions)

5.0lauren_elizabeth's review
fiction classics literary dark reflective sad fast-paced
Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis

Women, Race, & Class

Angela Y. Davis

271 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

5.0lauren_elizabeth's review
nonfiction feminism history politics race sociology challenging informative medium-paced
Blood in My Eye by George L. Jackson

Blood in My Eye

George L. Jackson

195 pages • first pub 1972 (editions)

5.0lauren_elizabeth's review
nonfiction essays history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Combat Liberalism by Mao Zedong

Combat Liberalism

Mao Zedong

4 pages • first pub 1937 (editions)

5.0lauren_elizabeth's review
nonfiction philosophy politics informative slow-paced
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Ocean Vuong

89 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0lauren_elizabeth's review
lgbtqia+ poetry emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

Home Fire

Kamila Shamsie

276 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0lauren_elizabeth's review
fiction contemporary literary dark emotional sad medium-paced