Heavy
By
Kiese Laymon
Kiese Laymon
2018 • 256 pages

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100 books

100 New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century

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Hardcover
My Brilliant Friend
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Wolf Hall
The Known World
The Corrections
2666
The Underground Railroad

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49 books

The New York Times's 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years

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Hardcover
Palimpsest
A Childhood
Patrimony
All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
A Life's Work
Boyhood
Always Unreliable

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Collection

inge
Inge
Little Fires Everywhere
Terminal Rage
Sharp Objects
American Kingpin
The Angel of Darkness
The Alienist
The story of B

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16,574 books

Ebook Library

gazzav
Gary
The Cavalier's Cup
The Reader Is Warned
The Problem of the Wire Cage
The House at Satan's Elbow
The Peacock Feather Murders
He Wouldn't Kill Patience
My Late Wives

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219 books

Owned

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Tim
The Making of Asian America: A History
This Is How You Lose the Time War
The Sun Also Rises: The Library of America Corrected Text
Station Eleven
Inventing Reality
Manufacturing Consent
Bushcraft 101

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489 books

Nonfiction

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kab
Pure Effect: Direct Mindreading and Magical Artistry
Tricks of the mind
Brief History of Time
Mythology
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
Riding the Iron Rooster
Catch Me If You Can

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209 books

Audiobooks

katemester
Kate Mester
Love, Hate & Other Filters
Saints and Misfits
White Smoke
As Good As Dead
Somebody's Daughter
I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are

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71 books

Blm

Mio
Mio
White fragility : why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism
Black Futures
How to Be an Antiracist
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
White Tears/Brown Scars
The Case for Reparations

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38 books

Memoirs Biographies

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Emma Brillhart
Know My Name
After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Half the Sky
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Wishful Drinking
Live from New York: An Oral History of Saturday Night Live

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8 books

Race Gender Class

katina
Katina
The Fire This Time
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Notes of a Native Son
Heavy
Like a Mother

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12 books

Work Adjacent

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Katina
The Fire This Time
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Notes of a Native Son
Why Art?
Feel Free: Essays
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73 books

Race

Renee
Renee
Before the Mayflower
How to Be an Antiracist
Assata: An Autobiography
Between the World and Me
I'm Still Here
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
On the Come Up

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216 books

Best Audio

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Renee
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
How to Be an Antiracist
Believing
Matrix
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Remember Us
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

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8 books

Twitter

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Renee
Culture Warlords: Dispatches from the Dark Web of White Supremacy
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Make Your Bed
The Song of Achilles
The Viral Underclass
The World According to Garp
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

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414 books

Finished Listening

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Michele R
Death Comes to Pemberley
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Austenland
The Beautiful and Damned
I've Got Your Number
Remember Me?
Love in a Nutshell

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132 books

Memoir

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kab
Common People: An Anthology of Working Class Writers
From the Ashes
All of Me
The Corpse Walker
How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
Lakota Woman
The Sasquatch at Home: Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling

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8 books

Libby

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Renee
Heavy
The Big Sleep
Madame Fourcade's Secret War
The Testaments
Horse Barbie
A Soldier of the Great War
The Laws of Human Nature

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264 books

Non Fiction Explorative

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Stories: How Mennonites Came to Be
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The Naked Anabaptist: The Bare Essentials of a Radical Faith

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9 books

Poc Writers

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American Spy
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
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The Three-Body Problem

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5 books

Social Justice

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
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Motherhood So White
Prison by Any Other Name

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141 books

Memoir Bio

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Zack D
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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Available Libby

Renee
Renee
Heavy
The Sweet Hereafter
Isaac's Storm
Like Life

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183 books

Short Reads 250 Or Less

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Animal Farm
The Catcher in the Rye
Of Mice and Men
Everything My Mother Taught Me

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Antiracism Anti Imperialism

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kab
But Some of Us are Brave
Deep Diversity: A Compassionate, Scientific Approach to Achieving Racial Justice
Identités Françaises: Banlieues, Féminités Et Universalisme
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
Rise Up!: How You Can Join the Fight Against White Supremacy
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985
Border Nation: A Story of Migration
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