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The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care by Anne Boyer

The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care

Anne Boyer

320 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0collins1129's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin

Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

Jeremy Atherton Lin

306 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0collins1129's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir informative reflective medium-paced
Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution by Susan Stryker

Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution

Susan Stryker

320 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0collins1129's review
nonfiction history lgbtqia+ challenging informative slow-paced
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

Jennifer Ackerman

333 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0collins1129's review
nonfiction nature science informative inspiring medium-paced
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT Up New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman

Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT Up New York, 1987-1993

Sarah Schulman

736 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0collins1129's review
nonfiction history lgbtqia+ politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

Jack Lowery

422 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0collins1129's review
nonfiction art history lgbtqia+ challenging emotional informative medium-paced
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages by Janina Ramírez

Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages

Janina Ramírez

447 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0collins1129's review
nonfiction feminism history challenging informative medium-paced
Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond by Alice Roberts

Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond

Alice Roberts

352 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

5.0collins1129's review
nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba

246 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0collins1129's review
nonfiction feminism politics race hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk

274 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0collins1129's review
fiction crime literary mystery thriller dark mysterious reflective medium-paced