Dirty River
By
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
2015 • 240 pages

Ratings2

Average rating5

15

List

155 books

Biography

zach
zach
Henry Clay
Eisenhower : in War and Peace
Grant
On the Move: A Life
Chronicles: Volume One
Wishful Drinking
Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

List

17 books

Canada

zach
zach
Alone Against the North: An Expedition into the Unknown
A Fair Country
Seven Fallen Feathers
Three Against The Wilderness
Das dunkle Herz
The Tenderness of Wolves
Indian Horse

List

30 books

Intersectionality

elisalromagnoli
Elisa Romagnoli
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Sing, Unburied, Sing
When I Was White: A Memoir
The Fire This Time
Black Is the Body
They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

List

247 books

Girl

pickles_is_reading
pickles
Abhorsen
Lirael
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Firestarter
A Book of Common Prayer

List

276 books

Canadian

pickles_is_reading
pickles
Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Issues in Canada
Lockpick Pornography
A Grain of Salt: The Science and Pseudoscience of What We Eat
Kukum
Kamouraska

List

294 books

United States

pickles_is_reading
pickles
Ninefox Gambit
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
Shut Up and Run: How to Get Up, Lace Up, and Sweat with Swagger
A Book of Common Prayer
Girlhood

List

140 books

Queer

pickles_is_reading
pickles
Ninefox Gambit
Dread Nation
Feed
How to Be Both
The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures

List

553 books

Non Fiction

pickles_is_reading
pickles
Gender Failure
Work
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

List

24 books

Mental Illness

pickles_is_reading
pickles
Calvin
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Fast Girl
Me, Myself and Why?
Running Is a Kind of Dreaming: A Memoir
The Agony of Bun O'Keefe
Truth & Beauty

List

153 books

Autobiographical

pickles_is_reading
pickles
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
Feed
Butch Is a Noun
Chop Suey Nation

List

76 books

Race

pickles_is_reading
pickles
Old Drift
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Vermilion
Buffalo Soldier
Dreaming in Hindi
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South

List

20 books

New York

pickles_is_reading
pickles
Ten Thousand Saints
Shut Up and Run: How to Get Up, Lace Up, and Sweat with Swagger
New Kid
City of Ashes
The Diviners
Girl in a Band
This Is Big: How the Founder of Weight Watchers Changed the World

List

31 books

Toronto

pickles_is_reading
pickles
Noopiming : The Cure for White Ladies
Chop Suey Nation
You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.
The Skin We're In
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays
The Broken Girls
Had It Coming: What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo?

List

36 books

Ontario

pickles_is_reading
pickles
This One Summer
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
The Sun and Her Flowers
I Can't Believe It's Not Better
The Illegal
A Confederation of Valor

List

12 books

Illness

pickles_is_reading
pickles
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
The Undying
Cancer Ward
Mis(h)adra
Memento mori
Dirty River

List

13 books

Sex

pickles_is_reading
pickles
Fast Girl
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
Sex and the City
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
The Sex Myth: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality
Action: A Book About Sex

List

4 books

Depression

pickles_is_reading
pickles
The Noonday Demon
Nevada
Dirty River
Marbles

List

7 books

Brutal

pickles_is_reading
pickles
Bitter Seeds
Dirty River
The Coldest War
Necessary Evil
Rapture
Never Knew Another
When We Were Executioners

List

310 books

Lbgt Friendly

Courtreader
Court
Seriously... I'm Kidding
Aristotle and an Aardvark Go To Washington: Understanding Political Doublespeak Through Philosophy and Jokes
We Do: A Celebration of Gay and Lesbian Marriage
A Tale of Two Castles
Fun home
The IHOP Papers
Barrel Fever

List

816 books

Unread

Courtreader
Court
1984
A Clockwork Orange
Franny and Zooey
The Fall
Catch-22
Cat's Cradle
Sweet Thursday

List

77 books

Our Shared Shelf

Courtreader
Court
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Alanna: The First Adventure
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama
The Hate U Give
Persepolis, Vol. 1
The Mists Of Avalon
The Handmaid's Tale

List

231 books

Transgender

mxphoebesviewpoint
Mx. Phoebe
I Am J
Stay Gold
I Was Born for This
If I Was Your Girl
The Art of Being Normal
Redefining Realness

List

481 books

Poc

mxphoebesviewpoint
Mx. Phoebe
Teddy’s Truth
The Whispering Grass
Survival Kit
Rage to Live
The Color Purple
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

List

98 books

Lgbt History

mxphoebesviewpoint
Mx. Phoebe
Queer Joints, Wiseguys and G-Men
Groom Will Keep His Name
Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living
Something That May Shock and Discredit You
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays

List

90 books

Biography Memoir

mxphoebesviewpoint
Mx. Phoebe
Redefining Realness
Mean
Indignant heart, a black worker's journal
XOXY, A Memoir