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The boygenius Book Club

A collection of books and authors cited by the members (and voracious readers) of the band boygenius.

A Little Life

A Little Life
ByHanya Yanagihara()

2015 • 1,998 Readers • 720 pages 4.1

A Wrinkle in Time

#1 of 6 in Time Quintet

A Wrinkle in Time
ByMadeleine L'Engle

1962 • 1,765 Readers • 228 pages 3.8

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Bark

Bark
ByLorrie Moore

2014 • 38 Readers 3.8

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

2013 • 777 Readers • 391 pages 4.5

Catch-22

#1 of 2 in Catch-22

Catch-22
ByJoseph Heller

1961 • 2,064 Readers • 466 pages 4

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
ByTennessee Williams

1955 • 106 Readers • 127 pages 4

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Cleanness

Cleanness
ByGarth Greenwell

2020 • 83 Readers • 225 pages 4.1

Conversations with Friends

2014 • 799 Readers • 336 pages 3.6

Cool for You

Cool for You
ByEileen Myles

2000 • 13 Readers • 196 pages 3

Dead Souls

Dead Souls
ByNikolai Gogol,Bernard Guilbert Guerney(Translator)

1842 • 314 Readers • 520 pages 3.8

Dune

#1 of 9 in Dune

Dune
ByFrank Herbert

1965 • 5,970 Readers • 704 pages 4.3

East of Eden

East of Eden
ByJohn Steinbeck

1939 • 1,682 Readers • 601 pages 4.5

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Either/Or

#2 of 1 in Selin

Either/Or
ByElif Batuman

2022 • 181 Readers • 369 pages 4.2

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

2016 • 492 Readers • 434 pages 4.6

Exit West

Exit West
ByMohsin Hamid

2017 • 445 Readers • 242 pages 3.8

Gilead

#1 of 4 in Gilead

Gilead
ByMarilynne Robinson

2004 • 378 Readers • 289 pages 3.9

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Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest

2019 • 44 Readers • 207 pages 4.6

Her Body and Other Parties

Her Body and Other Parties
ByCarmen Maria Machado

2017 • 699 Readers • 245 pages 3.8

House of Leaves

House of Leaves
ByMark Z. Danielewski

1999 • 1,848 Readers • 709 pages 4.1

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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

2018 • 721 Readers 4.1

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In the Night Kitchen

In the Night Kitchen
ByMaurice Sendak

1970 • 39 Readers • 40 pages 4.1

Jazz

Planned book #2 of 3 in Beloved Trilogy

Jazz
ByToni Morrison

139 Readers 3.7

Just Kids

Just Kids
ByPatti Smith

2010 • 495 Readers • 304 pages 4.2

Letters to a Young Poet

#103 of 14 in Penguin Little Black Classics

Letters to a Young Poet
ByRainer Maria Rilke,Charlie Louth(Translator)

1929 • 418 Readers • 109 pages 4.3

Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life

Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life
ByTheodor W. Adorno,Edmund F.N. Jephcott(Translator),+1 more

51 Readers 3.6

Modern Tarot

Modern Tarot
ByMichelle Tea

2017 • 16 Readers • 400 pages 5

My Brilliant Friend

#1 of 4 in L'amica geniale

My Brilliant Friend
ByElena Ferrante,Ann Goldstein(Translator)

2011 • 837 Readers • 392 pages 4.1

My Struggle: Book 2

#2 of 6 in Min kamp

My Struggle: Book 2
ByKarl Ove Knausgård,Karl Ove Knausgaard

2009 • 51 Readers • 512 pages 4.2

Nightbitch

Nightbitch
ByRachel Yoder

2021 • 457 Readers 3.6

No Is Not Enough

No Is Not Enough
ByNaomi Klein

2017 • 53 Readers • 288 pages 3.5

No One Belongs Here More Than You

2007 • 182 Readers • 240 pages 3.7

Parable of the Sower

#1 of 2 in Earthseed

Parable of the Sower
ByOctavia E. Butler

1993 • 1,579 Readers • 350 pages 4.1

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Reach
ByDon Bajema

1996 • 1 Reader

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

1984 • 271 Readers • 208 pages 4.5

Stay and Fight

Stay and Fight
ByMadeline Ffitch

2019 • 59 Readers • 598 pages 4.3

Stone Butch Blues

Stone Butch Blues
ByLeslie Feinberg

1993 • 215 Readers • 582 pages 4.6

Tenth of December

Tenth of December
ByGeorge Saunders

2012 • 328 Readers • 272 pages 4.1

The Argonauts

The Argonauts
ByMaggie Nelson

2015 • 291 Readers 4

The Ballad of the Sad Café

The Ballad of the Sad Café
ByCarson McCullers

1951 • 75 Readers • 141 pages 4.2

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The Blazing World

The Blazing World
BySiri Hustvedt

2014 • 48 Readers • 368 pages 4.5

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

2014 • 984 Readers • 466 pages 4.3

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

1890 • 61 Readers • 770 pages 4.4

The Fire Next Time

The Fire Next Time
ByJames Baldwin

1962 • 471 Readers • 128 pages 4.6

The God of Small Things

1997 • 683 Readers • 344 pages 3.9

The Great Divorce

The Great Divorce
ByC. S. Lewis

1945 • 264 Readers • 94 pages 4.2

the idea of justice

the idea of justice
ByAmartya Sen

2009 • 14 Readers • 801 pages 4

The Idiot

The Idiot
ByElif Batuman

2017 • 467 Readers • 434 pages 3.7

The Incendiaries

The Incendiaries
ByR.O. Kwon

2018 • 166 Readers • 214 pages 3.3

The Left Hand of Darkness

#4 of 18 in Hainish Cycle

The Left Hand of Darkness
ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1969 • 1,676 Readers • 267 pages 4.1

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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

2016 • 227 Readers • 336 pages 3.6

The Portrait of a Lady

#1 of 2 in The Portrait of a Lady (2 volumes)

1881 • 214 Readers • 649 pages 3.7

The Seaplane on Final Approach

2022 • 21 Readers • 288 pages 1

The Story of a New Name

#2 of 4 in L’amica geniale

The Story of a New Name
ByElena Ferrante,Ann Goldstein(Translator)

2012 • 264 Readers • 471 pages 4.5

The Story of the Lost Child

#4 of 4 in L'amica geniale

The Story of the Lost Child
ByElena Ferrante,Ann Goldstein(Translator)

2014 • 191 Readers • 498 pages 4.4

The Sympathizer

#1 of 2 in The Sympathizer

The Sympathizer
ByViet Thanh Nguyen

2015 • 569 Readers • 384 pages 4.1

The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying

2012 • 44 Readers • 464 pages 4.1

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

2017 • 151 Readers • 291 pages 4.5

Think on These Things

Think on These Things
ByJiddu Krishnamurti

1989 • 33 Readers • 272 pages 4.2

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

#3 of 4 in L’amica geniale

2013 • 214 Readers • 400 pages 4.4

Tuck Everlasting

Tuck Everlasting
ByNatalie Babbitt

1975 • 330 Readers • 151 pages 3.8

War and Peace

War and Peace
ByLeo Tolstoy,Marcy Kahan,+1 more

190 • 1,305 Readers • 838 pages 4.1

Weather

Weather
ByJenny Offill

175 Readers 3.5

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

2005 • 338 Readers • 323 pages 4

Young Once

Young Once
ByPatrick Modiano

1981 • 5 Readers • 176 pages

Zelda

Zelda
ByNancy Milford

1970 • 25 Readers • 511 pages 4.3