Renata rated How to Do Nothing: 4 stars
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our …
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Renata rated Are you my mother?: 5 stars
Are you my mother? by Alison Bechdel
From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine’s No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir …
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's …
Hunger by Roxane Gay
Renata rated James Baldwin. Steve Schapiro. The Fire Next Time: 3 stars
James Baldwin. Steve Schapiro. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
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A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave …
Renata rated Wide Sargasso Sea: 5 stars
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys's reputation was made upon publication of this passionate and heartbreaking novel, in which she brings into the light …
Renata rated Dune (Penguin Galaxy): 3 stars
Dune (Penguin Galaxy) by Frank Herbert
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family …
Renata rated Possession: 5 stars
Possession by A. S. Byatt
Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and …
Renata rated The Secret Commonwealth: 4 stars
Renata rated Dora: a Headcase: 4 stars
Renata rated On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: 5 stars
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the …
Renata rated The Lying Life of Adults: 3 stars
Renata rated Superior: the return of race science: 5 stars
Renata rated Oranges are Not the Only Fruit: 2 stars
Renata rated The End of Eddy: 3 stars
The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis
"An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy. "Every morning in the bathroom I would …