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Kept Animals is an incredibly paced, gutting novel about growing up, fitting in, navigating class, and the reverberations of choices and trauma.
Is Rape a Crime? is a scorching, no-holds-barred work that’s part memoir, part investigation into a society that refuses to treat rape like the felony that it is.
Approachable but with significant depth, Transcendent Kingdom is contemporary literary fiction at its finest. I really, really enjoyed it, even though it was a tough read at times.
White Tears/Brown Scars is a thoughtfully researched, convincingly argued, incredibly important book that should be required reading for white people everywhere.
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing is devastatingly incredible, but also technically challenging and possibly the most emotionally difficult book I’ve read. But incredible.
Hamnet — a historical imagining about the death of William Shakespeare’s son — is so incredibly good. So beautiful, so sad, so impressive.
The Tiger’s Wife is so, so beautiful and compelling. This is storytelling at its best, and I’ll be recommending it for probably the rest of my life.
I totally loved A Song of Wraiths and Ruin. It has a fantastic tangly plot, intensely lovable characters, and a top-notch ending.
The Nickel Boys is not an easy read. But it is worth all the hype, and it absolutely deserved the Pulitzer it won.
Hood Feminism is a wake-up call that should be required reading for all white and/or mainstream feminists.
Everywhere You Don’t Belong was a moving, fast-paced, poignant coming-of-age story about a young Black man from Chicago.
Ordinary Hazards was a beautiful, heartbreaking novel about community and tragedy and hope and love and found family.
Intimations can be read in a single sitting, but it is packed with so much. These essays are the simultaneous balm and wake-up call we need right now.
A slightly mathy but surprisingly useful book about how to think critically about the information and research we read about in the news.
What Happens at Night is a dream-like and weird but very atmospheric and moving novel. I really liked it, but it won’t be for everyone.
This is a raw, gutting, absolutely beautiful book about a young Nigerian person navigating gender dysphoria. It’s incredible.
Luster is a searing, unflinching novel about art and sex and racism and womanhood that looks its characters right in the face. It was so good.
An Orchestra of Minorities is a stunningly beautiful, terribly sad novel written from the most unique narration I’ve ever read.
Stamped From the Beginning taught me so much more than any other book I’ve ever read about antiracism. It’s long, but very worth the process of working through it slowly.
On Beauty is a literary family drama that feels simultaneously like comfort food and watching a train wreck in slow motion.
