Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

Read Dangerously

The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

By
Azar Nafisi
Azar Nafisi
2022 • 256 pages

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104 books

Essays

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Satellite Sisters' Uncommon Senses
Collections of Nothing
From Where You Dream
Between Panic and Desire
The best creative nonfiction
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

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Nonfiction

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Barefoot Books World Atlas Sticker Book
Carlos Santana: Sound of the Heart, Song of the World
Sinister Savannah
Deadly Spider Bite!
The Whaleship Essex: The True Story of Moby Dick
Skulls!
Half-Earth

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353 books

Diversity

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Under My Hijab
Charlie Hernández and the League of Shadows
Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets: A Muslim Book of Shapes
Holi Colors
Africville
Blended

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107 books

Social Justice

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Thanks to Frances Perkins: Fighter for Workers' Rights
The Hate U Give
The Undefeated
Africville
Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
Dear Martin

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305 books

Healing

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Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy
The boy who grew flowers
The Pocket Therapist: An Emotional Survival Kit
Perrault's Fairy Tales
Skellig
Unbroken
Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

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249 books

Books About Books

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Shakespeare Wrote for Money
The Wednesday Wars
Better Than Life
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Biblioholism
Beowulf on the Beach
Bad Things Happen

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273 books

Inspiration

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The World According To Mister Rogers
Dios Hara Algo Grande: God Is Up to Something Great
Too Busy To Count The Years
The Art of Noticing
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

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136 books

Challenge

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Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
The Shift
Notes from a Blue Bike: The Art of Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World
I Dare Me
Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone
Yes Man
Julie & Julia

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91 books

Reading

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Reading magic
More Baths, Less Talking
The End of Your Life Book Club
You've GOT to Read This Book!

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117 books

Disaster

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The earth dragon awakes
Pompeii: Lost & Found
Influenza 1918
Flu
Isaac's Storm
Separation Anxiety

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82 books

Imagination

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Off to See the Sea
Shy Willow
This Is Still Not a Book
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
The Tree in Me
Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature