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Books I Own

A Brief History of Seven Killings

2014 • 182 Readers • 688 pages 4.1

Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial

2016 • 23 Readers 4.3

Against the Loveless World

2019 • 93 Readers • 385 pages 4.5

Almond

Almond
ByWon-Pyung Sohn

2020 • 274 Readers • 196 pages 4.1

American War

American War
ByOmar El Akkad

2017 • 228 Readers • 352 pages 3.8

A Tale for the Time Being

A Tale for the Time Being
ByRuth Ozeki(Narrator)

2013 • 336 Readers • 14h 43m 4

Binti

#1 of 3 in Binti

Binti
ByNnedi Okorafor

2015 • 169 Readers • 96 pages 3.9

Black Is the Body

Black Is the Body
ByEmily Bernard

2019 • 17 Readers • 297 pages 3.2

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

2013 • 471 Readers • 391 pages 4.6

Brave New World

Brave New World
ByAldous Huxley

1930 • 2,607 Readers • 332 pages 3.9

California: A History

1980 • 7 Readers • 416 pages 4

Cantoras

Cantoras
ByCarolina De Robertis

2019 • 44 Readers • 312 pages 4.6

Dark Money

Dark Money
ByJane Mayer

2017 • 143 Readers • 576 pages 4.2

Dept. of Speculation

Dept. of Speculation
ByJenny Offill(Reader)

2014 • 163 Readers • 3 pages 3.7

Devotions

Devotions
ByMary Oliver

2017 • 89 Readers • 480 pages 4.4

Erosion

Erosion
ByTerry Tempest Williams

2019 • 12 Readers • 318 pages 4

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

2016 • 341 Readers • 434 pages 4.6

Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451
ByRay Bradbury

1953 • 3,159 Readers • 227 pages 3.9

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Famous Adopted People
ByAlice Stephens

2018 • 1 Reader • 331 pages 5

Felix Ever After

Felix Ever After
ByKacen Callender

29 • 240 Readers • 288 pages 4.3

Good Talk

Good Talk
ByMira Jacob

2019 • 56 Readers • 349 pages 4.3

How Art Can Make You Happy

How Art Can Make You Happy
ByBridget Watson Payne

2017 • 1 Reader • 112 pages 2

Illegal Contact

Illegal Contact
BySantino Hassell

2017 • 9 Readers • 259 pages 4.5

In a Holidaze

In a Holidaze
ByChristina Lauren

2020 • 200 Readers • 336 pages 3.7

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1 Reader 2

Juliet Takes a Breath

Juliet Takes a Breath
ByGabby Rivera

2016 • 58 Readers • 322 pages 3.6

Kindred

Kindred
ByOctavia E. Butler

1979 • 799 Readers • 292 pages 4.3

Lab Girl

Lab Girl
ByHope Jahren

2016 • 162 Readers • 304 pages 4

Labyrinth Lost

#1 of 3 in Brooklyn Brujas

Labyrinth Lost
ByZoraida Córdova

2016 • 87 Readers • 324 pages 3.4

Listen, Liberal

Listen, Liberal
ByThomas Frank

2016 • 24 Readers • 320 pages 3.6

Lot: Stories

Lot: Stories
ByBryan Washington

2019 • 43 Readers • 240 pages 3.5

Lucky Boy

Lucky Boy
ByShanthi Sekaran

2016 • 17 Readers • 472 pages 4

March

#1 of 3 in March

March
ByJohn Lewis

2013 • 116 Readers • 128 pages 4.5

Murder on the Orient Express

#11 of 46 in Hercule Poirot

1933 • 1,047 Readers • 288 pages 4

Nagasaki

Nagasaki
BySusan Southard

2015 • 3 Readers 5

Never Look Back

Never Look Back
ByLilliam Rivera

2020 • 12 Readers • 320 pages 4.4

Ninefox Gambit

#1 of 3 in The Machineries of Empire

Ninefox Gambit
ByYoon Ha Lee

2016 • 367 Readers • 400 pages 3.6

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

2019 • 884 Readers • 242 pages 4

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One Year of Ugly
ByCaroline MacKenzie

1 Reader 4

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Palimpsest
ByLisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom

2016 • 2 Readers • 154 pages 4.5

Parable of the Sower

Parable of the Sower
ByOctavia E. Butler

1993 • 1,056 Readers • 350 pages 4.1

Party of Two

#5 of 6 in The Wedding Date

Party of Two
ByJasmine Guillory

2020 • 52 Readers • 312 pages 4.3

Patsy

Patsy
ByNicole Y. Dennis-Benn

2019 • 33 Readers • 419 pages 4.1

Pet

#1 of 1 in Pet

Pet
ByAkwaeke Emezi

2019 • 182 Readers • 143 pages 4.3

Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work

2014 • 16 Readers • 136 pages 3.5

Purple Hibiscus

Purple Hibiscus
ByChimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2003 • 154 Readers • 340 pages 4.2

Rainbirds

Rainbirds
ByClarissa Goenawan

2018 • 33 Readers • 304 pages 3.1

Rebecca

Rebecca
ByDaphne du Maurier

1938 • 736 Readers • 448 pages 4.1

Ring Shout

Ring Shout
ByP. Djèlí Clark

2020 • 479 Readers • 176 pages 4.1

Rosemary and Rue

#1 of 3 in Toby Daye

Rosemary and Rue
BySeanan McGuire

2009 • 164 Readers • 256 pages 3.4

Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals

1971 • 37 Readers • 196 pages 3.6

Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties

2015 • 4 Readers • 326 pages 3.5

Shelter

Shelter
ByJung Yun

2016 • 29 Readers • 336 pages 4.8

Sisters in Law

Sisters in Law
ByLinda R. Hirshman

2015 • 9 Readers • 390 pages 4

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Stamped

2016 • 233 Readers 4.5

Stay with Me

Stay with Me
ByAyọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

2017 • 9 Readers • 298 pages 4.3

Still Lives

Still Lives
ByMaria Hummel

2018 • 23 Readers • 275 pages 3

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

2012 • 53 Readers • 414 pages 3.7

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife

#1 of 2 in The Road to Nowhere

2014 • 77 Readers • 291 pages 4.2

The Boyfriend Project

#1 of 3 in The Boyfriend Project

The Boyfriend Project
ByFarrah Rochon

2020 • 58 Readers • 345 pages 3.3

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

2019 • 113 Readers • 223 pages 4

The Day of the Duchess

#3 of 3 in Scandal & Scoundrel

The Day of the Duchess
BySarah MacLean

2017 • 30 Readers • 400 pages 2.8

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The Ethics of Ambiguity
ByBernard Frechtman, Simone de Beauvoir

4 Readers 3

The Fishermen

The Fishermen
ByChigozie Obioma

2015 • 62 Readers • 297 pages 4

The Joy Luck Club

1989 • 25 Readers 4

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

2014 • 1,302 Readers • 518 pages 4.1

The Memoirs of a Polar Bear

2016 • 13 Readers • 288 pages 3

The Mermaid from Jeju

2020 • 19 Readers • 304 pages 3.8

The Meursault Investigation

The Meursault Investigation
ByKamel Daoud,John Cullen(Translator)

2013 • 24 Readers • 143 pages 3.8

The Moor's Account

The Moor's Account
ByLaila Lalami

2014 • 45 Readers • 360 pages 4.2

The Mother of All Questions

2017 • 45 Readers • 176 pages 4.2

The Nesting

The Nesting
ByC. J. Cooke

2020 • 2 Readers • 368 pages 2

The Nickel Boys

The Nickel Boys
ByColson Whitehead

2019 • 426 Readers • 210 pages 4.2

The Obelisk Gate

#2 of 3 in The Broken Earth

The Obelisk Gate
ByN.K. Jemisin

2016 • 766 Readers • 411 pages 4.3

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

2016 • 356 Readers • 404 pages 4.2

These Ghosts Are Family

2020 • 31 Readers • 271 pages 3.7

The social shaping of technology

2 Readers 3

The Sparrow

#1 of 2 in The Sparrow

The Sparrow
ByMary Doria Russell

1996 • 490 Readers • 515 pages 4

The Stone Sky

#3 of 3 in The Broken Earth

The Stone Sky
ByN.K. Jemisin

2017 • 700 Readers • 464 pages 4.4

The Switch

The Switch
ByBeth O'Leary

2020 • 155 Readers • 333 pages 3.9

The Three-Body Problem

#1 of 4 in The Three-Body Problem

The Three-Body Problem
ByCixin Liu,Ken Liu(Translator)

2006 • 2,678 Readers • 400 pages 3.9

The Three Musketeers

#1 of 2 in Les Trois Mousquetaires

The Three Musketeers
ByAlexandre Dumas

198 • 504 Readers • 855 pages 3.9

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

2019 • 179 Readers • 386 pages 3.9

The Unwinding

The Unwinding
ByGeorge Packer

2013 • 32 Readers • 448 pages 3.9

The Wangs vs. the World

2016 • 46 Readers • 355 pages 3.3

Three Daughters

Three Daughters
ByConsuelo Saah Baehr

2014 • 4 Readers • 720 pages 2

Tiny Imperfections

Tiny Imperfections
ByAlli Frank,Asha Youmans

2020 • 10 Readers • 338 pages 3.5

To the Bright Edge of the World

2016 • 61 Readers • 366 pages 3.9

Vinegar Girl

Vinegar Girl
ByAnne Tyler

2016 • 51 Readers • 256 pages 3.2

Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life

2015 • 8 Readers • 336 pages 4

Washington Black

Washington Black
ByEsi Edugyan

2018 • 159 Readers • 334 pages 3.9

We Are Not Free

We Are Not Free
ByTraci Chee

2020 • 58 Readers • 384 pages 4.4

Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

2016 • 11 Readers • 192 pages 3.5

What We Lose

What We Lose
ByZinzi Clemmons

2017 • 39 Readers • 213 pages 4.1

When No One is Watching

300 Readers 3.6

White Ivy

White Ivy
BySusie Yang

2020 • 69 Readers • 354 pages 3.3

White Rage

White Rage
ByCarol Anderson

2016 • 119 Readers • 256 pages 4.5

Why We Swim

Why We Swim
ByBonnie Tsui

2020 • 43 Readers • 288 pages 3.9