LEAH DOUGLAS
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why a book roll?
Because books are my first and only love. Here's what I'm reading (and have read since August, 2013 when the book roll launched), with some small amount of curation. Continually updated.
currently reading:
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
recently read:
Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel
The Will to Change, by bell hooks
Black, White, and Jewish, by Rebecca Walker
My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante
Tubes, by Andrew Blum
The Empathy Exams, by Leslie Jamison
Corruption in America, by Zephyr Teachout
Can't and Won't, by Lydia Davis
Revolting Bodies? by Kathleen A. LeBesco
White Girls by Hilton Als
Long Division, by Kiese Laymon
Lean In, by Sheryl Sandberg
Mindset, by Carol Dweck
Rethinking Thin, by Gina Kolata
Unbearable Weight, by Susan Bordo
Another Country, by James Baldwin
Mating, by Norman Rush
An Untamed State, by Roxane Gay
Bad Feminist, by Roxane Gay
Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Love, by Toni Morrison
The Thing Around Your Neck, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paolo Friere
All About Love: New Visions, by bell hooks
Ain't I a Woman? by bell hooks
Communion, by bell hooks
Walking on Fire, by Beverly Bell
Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy, by Tricia Rose
Labor and the Locavore, by Margaret Gray
There is No End to This Slope, by Richard Fulco
Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Every Day is for the Thief, by Teju Cole
Open City, by Teju Cole
We Real Cool, by bell hooks
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Unbought and Unbossed, by Shirley Chisholm
Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America, by Lillian Faderman
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa V. Harris-Perry
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
Feminist Theory from Margin to Center by bell hooks
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Knew About Drugs and Society by Dr. Carl Hart
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, by Kiese Laymon
How to Be Black, by Baratunde Thurston
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost : My Life as A Hip Hop Feminist, by Joan Morgan
Memories of My Melancholy Whores, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism by Julie Guthman
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