Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Some nonfiction picks I've read in the past couple of years, plus a handful of modern classics.

books:
Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom (2019)
A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt (2020)
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon (2018)
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee (2018)
White Girls by Hilton Als (2013)
Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai by Nina Mingya Powles (2019)
Body Work by Melissa Febos (2022)
How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo (2022)
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner (2016)
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan (2021)
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary (2013)
Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch (2019)
Metazoa by Peter Godfrey-Smith (2020)
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds by Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake (2020)
Thelonius Monk: the Life and Times of an American Original by Robin D.G. Kelley (2009)
Pour une morale de l’ambiguïté (The Ethics of Ambiguity) by Simone de Beauvoir (1947)
Peau noire, masques blancs (Black Skin, White Masks) by Frantz Fanon (1952)
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (1955)
Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag (1966)
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (1984)
L’évènement (Happening) by Annie Ernaux (2000)

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