North Enough: AIDS and Other Clear-Cuts
By: Jan Zita Grover
4.19
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Overwhelmed after her intense years as an AIDS worker in San Francisco, Jan Zita Grover moved cross…
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1. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
By: Samuel R. Delany
4.18
Format: 203 pages, Paperback
If one street in America can claim to be the most infamous, it is surely 42nd Street. Between Seven… read more
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"A glib wisdom holds that people like this just don’t want relationships. They have “problems with intimacy."-Samuel R. Delany, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
"In order to dismantle such a discourse we must begin with the realization that desire is never “outside all social constraint."-Samuel R. Delany, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
2. Invisible Man
By: Ralph Ellison
3.91
Format: 581 pages, Paperback
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare… read more
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3. Their Eyes Were Watching God
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … read more
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4. Lagoon
By: Nnedi Okorafor
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
When a massive object crashes into the ocean off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria's most populous and le… read more
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5. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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6. The Street
By: Ann Petry
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Streettells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and … read more
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7. Native Son
By: Richard Wright
3.46
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or pet… read more
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8. The Spectral Wilderness
By: Oliver Baez Bendorf
3.96
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
It's a joy. . .to come nearer to a realm of experience little explored in American poetry, the live… read more
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9. Sula
By: Toni Morrison
3.97
Format: None pages,
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10. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more
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11. A Natural History of Transition
By: Callum Angus
4.22
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
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12. Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
4.47
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subve… read more
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"I respect you as so much bigger than my own understanding. And me too. I don't have to be available to be eligible for breath. I don't have to be measurable in a market of memes. I don't have to be v…"-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
13. The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
By: Meghan O'Rourke
4.03
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise… read more
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"Knowledge brings the hope of treatment or cure. And even if there is no cure, a diagnosis is a form of knowing (the word “diagnosis"-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
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"Is illness, in any way, a lesson? Illness is a travesty; illness is shit; illness is not redemptive unless it happens to be for a particular ill person, for reasons that are not replicable nor should…"-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
14. Making Love with the Land: Essays
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.11
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more
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"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
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"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
15. North Enough: AIDS and Other Clear-Cuts
By: Jan Zita Grover
4.19
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
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