Take a look at my rarely-updated library 🙂. Disclaimer: these are not all the books I read. In between dense reads, I often enjoy picking up a cheesy romance novel!
The 5-star rating system should be taken with a grain of salt! I tend to do a lot of research on books I decide to read, so they end up being great reads. The quotes are my favorite excerpts.
(ordered by most recent)
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi #medicine #death | ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer #religion | ⭐⭐⭐
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson **#race #justice | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou #memoir #race | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh #religion | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Without the Mask by Charlie Bird #memoir #religion | ⭐⭐⭐⭐
<aside> ✍🏼 “She loved to help others, but accepting help made her feel weak and incapable, especially at a time when she wanted to feel strong and confident.”
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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls #memoir #family #mentalillness | ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates #race #biography | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
<aside> ✍🏾 “I am not a cynic. I love you, and I love the world, and I love it more with every inch I discover. But you are a black boy, and you must be responsible for your body in a way that other boys cannot know.”
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<aside> ✍🏾 “No one told those little white children, with their tricycles, to be twice as good.”
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Playing the Wh*re: The Work of Sex Work by Melissa Gira Grant #feminism #politics | ⭐⭐⭐
<aside> ✍🏼 “… by obsessively displaying dirty pictures, filmed evidence, confessions, and exhibits, the prostitution trial reveals itself as structured around the very fetishism it sets itself to isolate and punish.”
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The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy #feminism #politics | ⭐⭐⭐⭐
<aside> ✍🏼 “Did I mock the dreamer in my mother and then insult her for having no dreams?”
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Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward by Gemma Hartley #feminism | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
<aside> ✍🏼 “Do you do a lot compared to other men, or do you do a lot compared to your partner?”
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Know My Name by Chanel Miller #feminism #memoir #trauma | ⭐⭐⭐⭐
<aside> ✍🏼 “… it never occurred to me that it was important I was dating someone; … Was having a boyfriend the only way to have your autonomy respected?”
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Becoming by Michelle Obama #feminism #politics #memoir |⭐⭐⭐⭐
<aside> ✍🏾 “Everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.”
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Educated by Tara Westover #memoir #education | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
<aside> ✍🏼 “Curiosity is a luxury reserved for the financially secure”
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