The Breaks: An Essay
By: Julietta Singh
4.36
Format: 168 pages, None
A profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the world In a let…
Want to Read $ 9.99"All we knew of ourselves is that, as mixed bodies, we belonged nowhere and to nothing"-Julietta Singh, The Breaks: An Essay
"All we knew of ourselves is that, as mixed bodies, we belonged nowhere and to nothing"-Julietta Singh, The Breaks: An Essay
"How we are perceived is often misaligned with how we feel, or how we desire to be seen."-Julietta Singh, The Breaks: An Essay
"How we are perceived is often misaligned with how we feel, or how we desire to be seen."-Julietta Singh, The Breaks: An Essay
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1. The Professor's House
By: Willa Cather , A.S. Byatt
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
On the eve of his move to a new, more desirable residence, Professor Godfrey St. Peter finds himsel… read more
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"He knew that he was terribly selfish about personal pleasures, fought for them. if a thing gave him delight, he got it, if he sold his shirt for it. By doing without many so-called necessities he had…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
"To people off alone, as we were, there is something stirring about finding evidence of human labour and care in the soil of an empty country. It comes to you as a sort of message, makes you feel diff…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
"It struck him that the seasons sometimes gain by being brought into the house, just as they gain by being brought into painting, and into poetry. The hand, fastidious and bold which selected and plac…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
"I had no plans, I wanted nothing but to get back to the mesa and live a free life and breathe free air, and never, never again to see hundreds of little black-coated men pouring out of white building…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
2. Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #3)
By: Maya Angelou
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In this third self-contained volume of her autobiography, which began with I Know Why the Caged Bir… read more
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- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"A smart man only tells half of what he thinks."-Maya Angelou, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #3)
"Usually when one throw's oneself at another's feet, one should be prepared to do a fast roll to avoid being stepped on."-Maya Angelou, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #3)
"It wasn't wise to reveal one's real feelings to strangers. And nothing on earth was stranger to me than a friendly white woman."-Maya Angelou, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #3)
"For all his theatrics, or maybe because of them, I knew he was a strong man. I had always been more comfortable around strong people."-Maya Angelou, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #3)
3. Christopher and His Kind
By: Christopher Isherwood
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
An indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent writers of his generation Originally published… read more
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- queer
- nonfiction
- memoir
- lgbt
4. Days in the History of Silence
By: Anne Bruce , Merethe Lindstrøm
3.53
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
Eva and Simon have spent most of their adult lives together. He is a physician and she is a teache… read more
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5. The Queer Art of Failure
By: J. Jack Halberstam
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Queer Art of Failureis about finding alternatives--to conventional understandings of success in… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
6. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- memoir
- lgbt
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- essays
- queer
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8. Written on the Body
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
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10. Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives
By: Carolyn Steedman
4.46
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
There are lives, real lives, and there are the theories that explain them. Partly autobiographical,… read more
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11. Ciała
By: Annie Ernaux
4.28
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Jak oddać paraliżujący strach towarzyszący niechcianej ciąży i potajemnej aborcji? Jak opisać nasto… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
12. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.34
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
13. Zły syn
By: Jarek Skurzyński
3.60
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Czy dziecko musi kochać rodzica? Historia matki samotnie wychowującej syna w małej, osiedlowej s… read more
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14. The Children's Bach
By: Helen Garner
3.53
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Helen Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. Her perfectly formed novels … read more
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15. My Work
By: Olga Ravn
4.01
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
In this radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood, Anna is utterly lost after g… read more
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- feminism
16. West Farragut Avenue
By: Agnieszka Jelonek
3.90
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Myślałam, że piszę książkę o pamięci, ale napisałam love story. Chciałam stworzyć plot, ale prawdzi… read more
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17. Wczoraj byłaś zła na zielono
By: Eliza Kącka
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Prozatorskie studium relacji z autystyczną córką. Kącka szuka odpowiedzi na pytanie, w jaki spos… read more
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18. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
19. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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- memoir
- politics
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- nonfiction
- essays
20. Basic Black with Pearls (A List)
By: Helen Weinzweig
3.53
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A lost feminist classic — and winner of the Toronto Book Award — reissued to coincide with the 35th… read more
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21. Oczy, nosy, usta, brwi
By: Kanako Nishi
4.04
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Narukido Sada to młoda, zdolna redaktorka — choć jest doceniana za swoją pracę, zawsze stoi z boku.… read more
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22. Znaki zodiaku
By: Maciej Marcisz
3.51
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Toskania, słońce, grupa przyjaciół, piękna sceneria, dom na wzgórzu, dwa miesiące wolnego i wróżba,… read more
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23. The Breaks: An Essay
By: Julietta Singh
4.36
Format: 168 pages, None
A profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the world In a let… read more
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- parenting
- memoir
- lgbt
- feminism
- politics
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- india
- essays
- queer
"All we knew of ourselves is that, as mixed bodies, we belonged nowhere and to nothing"-Julietta Singh, The Breaks: An Essay
"How we are perceived is often misaligned with how we feel, or how we desire to be seen."-Julietta Singh, The Breaks: An Essay
24. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
By: Sara Ahmed
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A renowned feminist thinker argues we need to get in the way of happiness, our own and other people… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
"Iris Marion Young discusses how some girls learn to “throw like girls"-Sara Ahmed, The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
25. Pastoraali
By: Aki Ollikainen
3.39
Format: 138 pages, Hardcover
Aki Ollikaisen odotettu kolmas romaani hehkuu suvisen päivän maalaisidylliä ja kesäyön unelmaa, suv… read more
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26. Black Box
By: Shiori Itō
4.47
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
真実は、ここにある。 なぜ、司法はこれを裁けないのか? レイプ被害を受けたジャーナリストが世に問う、 法と捜査、社会の現状。 尊敬していた人物からの、思いもよらない行為。 しかし、その事実を証明する… read more
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- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"I needed to communicate all of this in my own words, with my own voice. If I waited for someone else to speak out, things would never change."-Shiori Itō, Black Box
"If I were going to die, there would be time for that later--after doing everything I could and using all that I had to confront the systemic problems that I knew needed to change."-Shiori Itō, Black Box
"I felt as though everything inside me had been obliterated. However much I tried, however much I wanted to go back to being who I was before, it was impossible--all that was left was an empty husk of…"-Shiori Itō, Black Box
27. Insurrecto
By: Gina Apostol
3.52
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
Histories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines' present a… read more
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"It is their country, sergeant. You only hold the keys."-Gina Apostol, Insurrecto
28. The Rock Eaters: Stories
By: Brenda Peynado
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, … read more
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29. Małe pająki
By: Łukasz Barys
3.47
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
(Nie)zwykłe życie. Miłość, literatura i poszukiwanie własnej drogi. Nowa powieść laureata Paszpo… read more
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30. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
31. In Exile: Rupture, Reunion, and My Grandmother’s Secret Life
By: Sadiya Ansari
4.30
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In a deeply personal investigation, award-winning journalist Sadiya Ansari takes us across three co… read more
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- memoir
