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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

256 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

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fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

Penguin Modern #23

Audre Lorde

50 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

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nonfiction essays feminism politics informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga

Cockroaches

Scholastique Mukasonga

165 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

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nonfiction history memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

Travels with Charley

John Steinbeck

275 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)

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nonfiction classics memoir travel reflective slow-paced
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay In Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay In Forty Questions

Valeria Luiselli

2 hours, 33 minutes • first pub 2016 (editions)

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nonfiction essays politics emotional informative reflective medium-paced
La guerre n'a pas un visage de femme by Svetlana Alexiévich

La guerre n'a pas un visage de femme

Voices of Utopia #1

Svetlana Alexiévich

414 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

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nonfiction feminism history dark emotional sad medium-paced
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Ocean Vuong

89 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

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nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry emotional reflective sad medium-paced
About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Peter Catapano

About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Peter Catapano

304 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

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nonfiction essays memoir emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Le Gourmet solitaire by Jirō Taniguchi, Masayuki Kusumi

Le Gourmet solitaire

The Solitary Gourmet / Kodoku no Gourmet #1

Jirō Taniguchi, Masayuki Kusumi

200 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

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fiction contemporary food and drink manga adventurous informative lighthearted medium-paced
Dark Days by James Baldwin

Dark Days

Penguin Modern #38

James Baldwin

50 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

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nonfiction classics essays politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced