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Tressie McMillan Cottom
Tressie McMillan Cottom
2019 • 244 pages

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269 books

Non Fiction

karlalikestoread
Karla
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Nicholas And Alexandra
Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Becoming
What She Ate

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89 books

Nonfic Nov

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Karla
The Magical Language of Others
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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97 books

Memoir

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Karla
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School in Paris
Ordinary Girls : A Memoir
Good Talk
My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education
The Reckonings
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

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60 books

Feminism

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Karla
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
The Cost of Living
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Red Clocks
The Reckonings
Why God is a Woman
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems

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45 books

Race

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Karla
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
The Reckonings
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
Heavy
All You Can Ever Know
The Other Americans
Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power

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97 books

Non Fiction

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Margaux
The Beauty Myth
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Skyscrapers, Celadon and Kimchi: A Korean Notebook
Youngblood 2.0
Tikman ang Langit: An Anthology on the Eraserheads
Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us

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24 books

Essays

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Margaux
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Bad Feminist
The Consolations Of Philosophy
The Fire Next Time
Moranthology
Girls Will Be Girls
Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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84 books

To Read 2023

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Things We Never Got Over
Colorblind
Caste
Kafka on the Shore
To Kill a Mockingbird
Crying in H Mart
Circe

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23 books

Read In 2024

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Happy Place
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for
Hello Beautiful
None of This Is True
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

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9 books

August 2019

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Sarah
The Nickel Boys
Wicked Saints
Laughing All the Way to the Mosque
Once & Future
Девочки с острыми шипами
The Need
In the Neighborhood of True

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177 books

Don T Own

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Krys
The Doors of Stone
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
Rules of Play
The Just City
The Dragon's Path
Wolf By Wolf

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9 books

Sociology

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Peter
Biracial Britain
Systems Thinking For Social Change
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help
This Will Be My Undoing

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4 books

Social Justice

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Peter
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
This Will Be My Undoing
Thick
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays

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46 books

Book Club

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Joy Fowlkes
Just Mercy
So You Want to Talk about Race
White fragility : why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Good Talk
The Vanishing Half
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

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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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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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10 books

Essays

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lincoln
Thick
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Understanding power
The Shadow of the Sun
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and Other Essays
Medallion Status
The White Album

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203 books

Bookclub

DaniReads
Dani
The Prince of Tides
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Olive Kitteridge
Still Alice
Little Heathens
The River of Doubt
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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68 books

W Expand Worldview

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Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Alexander Hamilton
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
Laziness Does Not Exist
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
Footprints in the Dust

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282 books

Nonfiction

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Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected
Girly Drinks
How To
Queerness in Play
America's Original Sin
Thick

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34 books

Owned

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Crush
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Ninth House
Selected Poems
Calling a Wolf a Wolf
Bluff
Love Poems

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132 books

Nonfiction

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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Her Fearless Run: Kathrine Switzer’s Historic Boston Marathon
A Boy and a Jaguar
It's Perfectly Normal
Reference and Information Services
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

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86 books

Read In 2020

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The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl
Woven in Moonlight
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Serpent & Dove

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46 books

memoir / essay

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Homie
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918 books

Nonfiction

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The Last Act of Love
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