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Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

Mira Jacob

358 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0tracithomas's review
nonfiction graphic novel lgbtqia+ memoir race emotional funny reflective medium-paced
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke

Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

Kristen Radtke

352 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0tracithomas's review
nonfiction graphic novel psychology sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Heather Ann Thompson

752 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0tracithomas's review
nonfiction history politics true crime challenging informative slow-paced
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

Derecka Purnell

288 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0tracithomas's review
nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

341 pages • first pub 1977 (editions)

5.0tracithomas's review
fiction classics literary magical realism challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib

312 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0tracithomas's review
nonfiction history music race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne, Tamara Payne

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

Les Payne, Tamara Payne

640 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0tracithomas's review
nonfiction biography history informative reflective slow-paced
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson

622 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0tracithomas's review
nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

Men We Reaped

Jesmyn Ward

260 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0tracithomas's review
nonfiction memoir race emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus

William Shakespeare

106 pages • first pub 1594 (editions)

5.0tracithomas's review
fiction classics play dark tense fast-paced