Bookish | Twenty Edgy/Transgressive Novels @BookishTexan | Uploaded March 2024 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
This is a list of books that I think challenge the idea that novels have become boring or cookie cutter as a result of a greater focus on diversity in publishing

Books Mentioned:
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Noopiming by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
North Woods by Daniel Mason
The Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Ohio by Stephen Markley
The Trees by Percival Everett
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernsteing
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
A Safe Girl to Love by Kasey Plett
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Darryl by Jackie Ess
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James
There, There by Tommy Orange
Mrs. S. by K. Patrick
Destransition Baby by Torey Peters
Milkman by Anna Burns
The Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan


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