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The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir by Ruth Wariner

The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir

Ruth Wariner

587 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0tesslaah's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment by Larry Wolff

Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment

Larry Wolff

436 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

5.0tesslaah's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran by Ziba Mir-Hosseini

Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran

Ziba Mir-Hosseini

304 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

5.0tesslaah's review
nonfiction gender informative reflective medium-paced
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby

The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism

Jemar Tisby

8 hours • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0tesslaah's review
nonfiction history race religion adventurous medium-paced
Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism by Drew G.I. Hart

Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism

Drew G.I. Hart

189 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0tesslaah's review
nonfiction race religion informative reflective slow-paced
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

287 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0tesslaah's review
nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X. Kendi, Jason Reynolds

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

Ibram X. Kendi, Jason Reynolds

320 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0tesslaah's review
nonfiction history politics race young adult challenging informative reflective fast-paced
Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution by Mona Eltahawy

Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution

Mona Eltahawy

256 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0tesslaah's review
nonfiction feminism politics religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay

Patron Saints of Nothing

Randy Ribay

497 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0tesslaah's review
fiction contemporary young adult challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone

The Cross and the Lynching Tree

James H. Cone

202 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0tesslaah's review
nonfiction history race religion emotional informative fast-paced