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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

320 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0leahtylerthewriter's review
fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-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

22 hours, 40 minutes • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0leahtylerthewriter's review
nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
Middlemarch by George Eliot

Middlemarch

George Eliot

904 pages • first pub 1871 (editions)

5.0leahtylerthewriter's review
fiction classics historical literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

176 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0leahtylerthewriter's review
nonfiction memoir race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Eartheater by Dolores Reyes

Eartheater

Dolores Reyes

224 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0leahtylerthewriter's review
fiction magical realism dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption by Gabrielle Glaser

American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption

Gabrielle Glaser

352 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0leahtylerthewriter's review
nonfiction history emotional reflective slow-paced
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin

226 pages • first pub 1953 (editions)

5.0leahtylerthewriter's review
fiction classics lgbtqia+ literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld

The Bass Rock

Evie Wyld

368 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0leahtylerthewriter's review
fiction historical literary dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Deacon King Kong by James McBride

Deacon King Kong

James McBride

370 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0leahtylerthewriter's review
fiction historical literary emotional funny reflective medium-paced
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros

110 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

5.0leahtylerthewriter's review
fiction literary emotional reflective fast-paced