Quietly Hostile

Quietly Hostile

By
Samantha Irby
Samantha Irby
2023 • 277 pages

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45 books

Unyielding: Women’s Anger as Revolution

YmirYmirYmir
YmirYmirYmirSupporter
Taboo
All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot
Know My Name
Her Body and Other Parties
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
The Bell Jar

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39 books

G Memoir

indralei
Indra
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Turning Point: 1997-2008
This Boy's Life: A Memoir
The Bright Hour
Geisha, a Life
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Reading "Lolita" In Tehran

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113 books

Non Fiction

sophie_isms
Sophie
Childhood Unplugged: Practical Advice to Get Kids Off Screens and Find Balance
In It Together: Navigating Depression with Partners, Friends, and Family
I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
So You Want to Talk about Race
Grant
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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0 books

Owned

modernlove
kate
Advika and the Hollywood Wives
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Mumbo Jumbo
I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself
Magnolia Parks
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

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3 books

Did Not Finish

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Hannah
Inflamed
Quietly Hostile
A Tale for the Time Being

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39 books

(necessary) nonfiction to maybe read

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Fay
How to Sew a Button: And Other Nifty Things Your Grandmother Knew
Making Stuff and Doing Things: DIY Guides to Just About Everything
We're Not Broken
We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation
Sand Talk
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America

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86 books

Memoir Autobiography

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Michelle
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Fun home
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
The Things They Carried

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6 books

Definitely

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Chris
Demon Copperhead
You Like It Darker
Horror Movie
Playground
Quietly Hostile

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34 books

Dnf D

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Lexie Hardy
Brida
Beauty Queens
Looking for Alaska
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Pretty Little Liars
Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West

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129 books

Wishlisted

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Jane Doe
Hot and Bothered: What No One Tells You About Menopause and How to Feel Like Yourself Again
Quietly Hostile
Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy
Crying in H Mart
The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
All That Is Mine I Carry With Me

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831 books

Grownup

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Outlander
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
The Christmas sweater
Mr. Kiss and Tell
The Christmas Shoes
Texts from Jane Eyre
The Paying Guests

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503 books

Nonfiction

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Renata Sancken
Salt: A World History
High Tide in Tucson
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Zeitoun
Where the Girls Are
The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa
Small Wonder

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84 books

Audiobook

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Renata Sancken
The View From Saturday
First Light
Wishful Drinking
Sing a Song of Tuna Fish
Red Glove
Teen Idol
Little House on the Prairie

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86 books

Essays

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Renata Sancken
Small Wonder
The New Kings of Nonfiction
Me Talk Pretty One Day
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
High Tide in Tucson
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
The Best American Essays 2005

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40 books

Memoir

JAskey
Jennifer
The Year of Magical Thinking
Between Gods: A Memoir
The Glass Castle
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube
They Left Us Everything: A Memoir
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

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723 books

Non Fiction

Phyllis
Phyllis
Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family
August Wilson: A Life
The Year of Lear : Shakespeare in 1606
Shakespeare in Parts
The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice
The British Are Coming
The Woman They Could Not Silence

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127 books

Book Page

Phyllis
Phyllis
Slow Birding
The Ride of Her Life
Poverty, by America
Zorrie
Dreadful

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75 books

Humor

Phyllis
Phyllis
The Bandit Queens
Quietly Hostile
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist
The Rosie Project
SoulPancake
Yes Please

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189 books

Audiobook

Phyllis
Phyllis
The Paris Library
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
The Queens of Innis Lear
Quietly Hostile
The Heart Principle
Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream

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13 books

Illinois

Phyllis
Phyllis
Quietly Hostile
Forgotten Sisters
Twenty years at Hull-House
Roadside History of Illinois
The South Side
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Operation Greylord: The True Story of an Untrained Undercover Agent and America's Biggest Corruption Bust

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18 books

Essay

Phyllis
Phyllis
Quietly Hostile
Bad Feminist
The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas
A bone to pick
Furiously Happy
The Story of Philosophy

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153 books

Owned

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Cuckoo
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1
The Expanse: Origins
Persepolis Rising
Adrift
Dark Matter
The Secrets She Keeps

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390 books

Owned

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Anna Tschetter
Breathless
Dead Girls
The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics
Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books
Certain Dark Things
Caliban's War
Dawn

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158 books

Libro FM

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Anna Tschetter
Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy
Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History
Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire
The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas
A Living Remedy: A Memoir
God Is a Black Woman
Punch Me Up to the Gods

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36 books

ω Misc Recs

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North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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Quietly Hostile
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Demon Copperhead
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