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Books about books (...call it book-ception 🤓)

by ayzrules
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36 books

Nonfiction about the history, development, and impact of books, literature, storytelling, knowledge, reading, archives, information, and related subjects. Always open to suggestions!

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Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient WorldDark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human SkinBook and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War IIBurning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient WorldDark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

Blending Memoirs with Research, Poetry, Culture

by violet.booklover
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194 books

Books that are part memoir part another genre: in a way that blends multiple mediums and/or themes in unique and engaging ways. Magical, explosive and memorable narratives expressed with creativity and depth. Books that inspire me to write more.

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Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with CureExile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and LiberationUnfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and DreamingThe Pain Journal (Native Agents)
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with CureExile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation

Decolonized Imaginations

by kishmish
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18 books

books about the imagination as limited/unlimited by racialization and colonization. suggestions welcome!

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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary ImaginationThe Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the MindImagination: A ManifestoThe Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (Postmillennial Pop, 13)
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary ImaginationThe Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind

Black History

by wednesdaymourning
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72 books

Books you SHOULD be reading all year

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A Black Women's History of the United States (ReVisioning History)Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of AmericaMedical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the PresentA Black Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning History)
A Black Women's History of the United States (ReVisioning History)Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

the measure of our lives: black writers on reading

by hibiscus299
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6 books

Books by Black writers about their lives as readers and their relationships with language. Title comes from the following Toni Morrison quote: “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”

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Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering OurselvesGather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved MeSalvage: Readings from the WreckRead Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering OurselvesGather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me
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