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Book recs if you hated the state of the union
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items The sotu sickened me š¤¢ these books are some of my all time favorites and I feel like I never see them recommended! Support stories about undocumented and trans lives by reading any of these books. I always recommend using your library, Libby, or hoo...
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More well known but still great books!
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My favorite book of 2025!!! Everyone in America should read this. Nonfiction, memoir, and extremely relevant.
The Cost of Being Undocumented: One Woman's Reckoning with America's Inhumane Math
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I dragged my feet finishing this book because I did not want it to end. Absolutely beautiful storytelling and prose. I already miss the world and the characters now that it's over.
The Story of the Hundred Promises
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It was hard to put down: every chapter grabbed and pulled me through, I loved Maddie and all the varied personalities that surrounded her, and of course I became invested in their Free People's Village.
This alternate timeline Kern has designed is ...
The Free People's Village
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A great reference book! Whether youāre cis and want to expand your knowledge of trans experiences (esp if youāre a helping professional!), or if youāre trans and looking to feel seen and to receive information directly from your community, this book ...
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities
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Hilarious coffee table book. Can be read quickly or thumbed through a bit a day. If you donāt already follow Kyle Prue, you should. Heāll have you cracking up!!
How to Piss Off Men: 109 Things to Say to Shatter the Male Ego
More well known but still great books!
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I loved this book. I'm not one who tends to love dystopian, but I read it from time to time. If it's too dark, I drag my feet reading it. For example, Parable of the Sower/Talents by Octavia E. Butler - loved it but took me awhile to get through beca...
The Light Pirate: GMA Book Club Selection
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When I was in high school, ābloodchildā was a required short story. And wow, was I weirded out š but when I got older, I just NEEDED to know more. āBloodchildā is just one story in a collection of short stories and I loved them all. This story has l...
Bloodchild and Other Stories
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Another nonfiction memoir. I listened to the audiobook of this coming-of-age story and loved it. It was hard to put down! Itās impossible to not feel compassion towards Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrezās experiences, family, and story. It was so good th...
My Side of the River: A Memoir
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While this is a young adult novel, adults who love urban fantasy will love it, too. It deals with some pretty heavy topics. A queer polyamorous fantasy about teenagers who realized they are REINCARNATED GODS!! And the sequel is even better than the f...
Godly Heathens: A Novel
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Heavy but worth the read. Another nonfiction memoir on my list. This book melds pertinent history regarding the politicization of reproductive care, the confusion and misunderstanding around abortion and miscarriage, and the personal story of two wom...
I'm Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America
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In 1998, Octavia E Butler wrote a sequel to āParable of the Sowerā ā āParable of the Talentsā
In her dystopian novel, she writes of a frightening America, and a presidential candidate who āinsists on being a throwback to some earlier, āsimplerā tim...
Parable of the Sower
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If you STILL havenāt read it, itās never too late! Great audiobook too. You could start here and read in the order of publication! Or, you could read chronologically (ballad of songbirds and snakes, sunrise on the reaping, hunger games, catching fire...
The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Book One)
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One of my fave reads ever!! Immaculate nature vibes, beautiful prose, easy to get lost in this novella šæšŖµ a dystopian fable about the last two humans alive: a young girl and her father. He teaches her about what was once civilization, and about ho...
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