Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay has written at least 73 books. Their most popular book is Bad Feminist with 408 saves with an average rating of 3.89⭐.

Author Bio

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Bad Feminist

Bad Feminist
ByRoxane Gay

2014 • 408 Readers • 336 pages 3.9

Hunger

Hunger
ByRoxane Gay

2017 • 285 Readers • 306 pages 4.2

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
ByAubrey Hirsch,Jill Christman,+27 more

2018 • 160 Readers • 368 pages 4.6

Difficult Women

Difficult Women
ByRoxane Gay

147 Readers 3.8

An Untamed State

An Untamed State
ByRoxane Gay

2014 • 88 Readers • 386 pages 4.3

Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business

2023 • 55 Readers • 320 pages 3.4

Ayiti

Ayiti
ByRoxane Gay

2011 • 40 Readers • 121 pages 4.3

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Graceful Burdens
ByRoxane Gay

2020 • 24 Readers • 21 pages 4.1

Hunger

Hunger
ByRoxane Gay

23 Readers 4.3

The Sacrifice of Darkness

The Sacrifice of Darkness
ByTracy Lynne Oliver,Roxane Gay

2020 • 22 Readers • 128 pages 3.3

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

2020 • 20 Readers • 384 pages 4.5

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

2017 • 19 Readers • 288 pages 4.2

Black Panther: World of Wakanda

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Black Panther: World of Wakanda
ByRoxane Gay(Writer),Yona Harvey(Writer)

2017 • 6 Readers • 144 pages

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Black Panther: World of Wakanda #1
ByYona Harvey,Roxane Gay

6 Readers • 36 pages 4

Drawing Power

Drawing Power
ByDiane Noomin(Editor),Roxane Gay(Introduction)

2019 • 6 Readers • 272 pages 3.5

Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation

Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation
ByJohn Freeman(Editor),Danez Smith(Contributor)

2017 • 5 Readers • 350 pages 5

Goodbye to All That

Goodbye to All That
BySari Botton(Editor),Elisa Albert(Contributor)

2013 • 5 Readers • 288 pages 3

How to Be Heard

How to Be Heard
ByRoxane Gay

2023 • 5 Readers • 256 pages

Selected Works of Audre Lorde

2020 • 4 Readers • 352 pages

The Best American Short Stories 2018

8 The Best American Short Stories

2018 • 4 Readers • 352 pages

Writing Into the Wound: Understanding Trauma, Truth, and Language

2021 • 3 Readers • 39 pages

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2018 • 3 Readers 4

Take Us to a Better Place: Stories

Take Us to a Better Place: Stories
ByMadeline Ashby,Hannah Lillith Assadi,+8 more

2020 • 3 Readers • 336 pages 3

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Black Panther: World of Wakanda #2
ByRoxane Gay,Ta-Nehisi Coates,+2 more

2 Readers • 23 pages

Zła feministka

Zła feministka
ByRoxane Gay,Anna Dzierzgowska(Translator)

2014 • 2 Readers • 440 pages

Haiti Noir 2: The Classics

Haiti Noir 2: The Classics
ByEdwidge Danticat(editor),Danielle Legros Georges(Contributor)

2013 • 2 Readers

The Best of Brevity: Twenty Years of Groundbreaking Flash Nonfiction

2020 • 2 Readers • 276 pages 4

The New Black

The New Black
ByRichard Thomas(Editor),Laird Barron(Foreword)

2014 • 2 Readers • 344 pages 5

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Black Panther: World of Wakanda #3
ByRoxane Gay,Ta-Nehisi Coates,+2 more

2 Readers

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018
ByQuim Monzó,Qiu Miaojin,+31 more

2018 • 2 Readers • 297 pages

The Best American Short Stories 2012

8 The Best American Short Stories

The Best American Short Stories 2012
ByAlice Munro,Lawrence Osborne,+18 more

2012 • 2 Readers • 356 pages 2

Do The Work: Unlearn your biases. Reclaim your personal power.

2023 • 2 Readers • 130 pages

Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women

Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women
ByJocelyn Bartkevicius,Chelsea Biondolillo,+15 more

2016 • 1 Reader • 287 pages

Best Sex Writing 2012: The State of Today's Sexual Culture

2012 • 1 Reader • 224 pages 4

Forty Stories

Forty Stories
ByBrandon Hobson,David Wesley Williams

2012 • 1 Reader • 464 pages

Out of Line: Women on the Verge of a Breakthrough

Out of Line: Women on the Verge of a Breakthrough
ByCheryl Strayed(Contributor),Roxane Gay(Contributor)

2020 • 1 Reader 3

McSweeney's #49

McSweeney's #49
ByPatrick Cottrell

2017 • 1 Reader • 203 pages 4

Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction

Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction
ByJudith Kitchen(editor),Dinah Lenney(Editor)

2015 • 1 Reader • 352 pages

The Portable Feminist Reader

The Portable Feminist Reader
ByRoxane Gay(editor)

2025 • 1 Reader

The Feminist Revolution: Second Wave Feminism and the Struggle for Women's Liberation

2018 • 1 Reader • 224 pages

Best Actress: The History of Oscar®-Winning Women

2019 • 1 Reader

Original Sisters: Portraits of Tenacity and Courage

1 Reader • 308 pages

Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival

Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival
ByDiane Noomin(Editor, Contributor),Roxane Gay(Foreword)

2019 • 1 Reader • 286 pages

Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For

2023 • 1 Reader 5

Dress Like a Woman: Working Women and What They Wore

2018 • 1 Reader • 224 pages

Mammoth Book of On The Road

Mammoth Book of On The Road
ByMat Coward,O'Neil De Noux,+31 more

2002 • 1 Reader • 499 pages

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Black Panther: World of Wakanda #4
ByRoxane Gay,Ta-Nehisi Coates,+2 more

1 Reader

Confesiones de una mala feminista

2014 • 1 Reader • 298 pages

The Banks #1

Planned book #1 of 1 in The Banks

The Banks #1
ByRoxane Gay

1 Reader 2

Fame: Storia del mio corpo

Fame: Storia del mio corpo
ByRoxane Gay,Alessandra Montrucchio(Translator)

2017 • 1 Reader • 280 pages 5

Hunger: Historien om min kropp

Hunger: Historien om min kropp
ByRoxane Gay,Emö Malmberg(Translator)

2017 • 1 Reader • 250 pages 3

Hambre: Memorias de mi cuerpo

Hambre: Memorias de mi cuerpo
ByRoxane Gay,Lucía Barahona(Translator)

2017 • 1 Reader • 268 pages

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2018 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

Affamée: une histoire de mon corps

2017 • 1 Reader • 305 pages 5

Urgent, Unheard Stories

2015 • 1 Reader • 64 pages

饥饿:一部身体的回忆录

饥饿:一部身体的回忆录
ByRoxane Gay,罗克珊·盖伊,+1 more

2017 • 1 Reader • 314 pages 4

Marvel's Voices #1

7 Marvel's Voices

Marvel's Voices #1
ByVita Ayala,Rob Markman,+1 more

2020 • 1 Reader • 34 pages

Má Feminista

Má Feminista
ByRoxane Gay,Tássia Carvalho(Translator)

2014 • 1 Reader • 401 pages 4

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Hunger: Une histoire de mon corps
ByRoxane Gay,Santiago Artozqui(Translator)

2017 • 1 Reader

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1 Reader 4

Um Estado Selvagem

Um Estado Selvagem
ByRoxane Gay,Raquel Dutra Lopes(Translator)

2014 • 1 Reader • 400 pages 5

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The Continental Literary Magazine
ByEszter Babarczy,Noam Chomsky,+21 more

1 Reader

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Bad Féministe
ByRoxane Gay

2014 • 1 Reader 4

Sacrifice of Darkness

Sacrifice of Darkness
ByRoxane Gay,Tracy Lynne Oliver

2020 • 128 pages

Donne difficili

Donne difficili
ByRoxane Gay,Alessandra Montrucchio(Translator)

2017 • 288 pages

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2018 • 322 pages

Honger

Honger
ByRoxane Gay

2017

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Schwierige Frauen
ByRoxane Gay

2021 • 320 pages

The Power Book

The Power Book
ByClaire Saunders,Hazel Songhurst,+3 more

2019 • 64 pages