The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things

Essays on Desire and Consumption

By
Katy Kelleher
Katy Kelleher
2023

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216 books

Non Fiction

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gabi
From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West
Plagued by Fire
Life Undercover
Queen Meryl: The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds, and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep
Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart

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115 books

2023

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gabi
Ghost Music
The Survivalists
Sense of Wonder
The Last Pomegranate Tree
Couplets
What Napoleon Could Not Do
The Applicant

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3 books

Hopepunk Book Club Over Consumption

MaristoTero
Maristo
The Day the World Stops Shopping
Consumed
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption

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9 books

Did Not Finish

Helenmelon
Melon
Hamnet
Carrie Soto Is Back
Rouge
Tired as F*ck: Burnout at the Hands of Diet, Self-Help, and Hustle Culture
Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
Anatomy of a Scandal
The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac: Stories

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52 books

Brain Using

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Shannon
The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy

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281 books

Tpl

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Allie
Behold the Dreamers
White Rage
Moonglow
A duke by default
A Hope Divided
Pōs na xekinēseis ena scandalo
By the Book

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135 books

Learning

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Allie
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
Give Us the Ballot
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
White Negroes
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It
How to Raise a Feminist Son

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107 books

Poetry And Short Stories

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Allie
Junk
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Sabrina & Corina
It's a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories
Nothing to See Here
The Pretty One
If I Had Two Wings

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168 books

Radar

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Sarah
Succeeding With Adult ADHD: Daily Strategies to Help You Achieve Your Goals and Manage Your Life
The Fiancée Farce
Pageboy: A Memoir
“You Just Need to Lose Weight”
We Are Too Many: A Memoir

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904 books

Nonfiction

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Katie
Citizen: An American Lyric
Negroland
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous
Modern Romance
Why Not Me?
The Ugly Game: The Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup
The Last Act of Love

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119 books

Short Stories

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Katie
Drown
No One Belongs Here More Than You
The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
Birds of America
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Nine Stories
Close Range: Wyoming Stories