Supernormal Reads

A queer space for queer people reading queer books

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Supernormal Reads is a queer-focused instance of Book Wyrm. Anyone can join regardless of their gender and sexual or romantic orientation. We welcome any kind of book: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, comics, cooking books, instruction manuals, etc. Queerness lies in the eyes of the beholder.

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Supernormal Reads is run by Supernormal, a queer literary collective based in Amsterdam. You can find them on Instagram: [@supernormalbooks](https://www.instagram.com/supernormalbooks/?hl=en)

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Recent Books

Sarah Schulman: The Gentrification of the Mind : Witness to a Lost Imagination (2012, University of California Press) 4 stars

The Gentrification of the Mind : Witness to a Lost Imagination

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In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981?1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and mainstream consumerism. Schulman takes us back to her Lower East Side and …

Yaa Gyasi: Homegoing (Paperback, 2017, Penguin Books, Limited) 4 stars

Homegoing

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Homegoing is the debut historical fiction novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2016. Each chapter in the novel follows a different descendant of an Asante woman named Maame, starting with her two daughters, who are half-sisters, separated by circumstance: Effia marries James Collins, the British governor in charge …