Recs if you like The Woman Warrior...
⚔️ Rise, Sisters - Female Rage and Power
Books about feminine power and rage. Inspiring, enraging, validating. Let us rise, my sisters.
unconventional ghosts
strange and surprising hauntings. these ghosts defy or challenge conventions of commercial ghost stories, reimagining how memories and ancestry shape us. recommendations alway welcome!
Weird Women of the Late 20th Century (1945-2001)
Lives of outsiders rendered in sharp prose style. Descendants of Shelley, the Brontes, and Woolf; forebears to 'Weird Girl Lit'. Title refers to the authors, the subjects of the work may not always be women. Focused on novels published between WW2 and 9/11, with a few memoirs and short story collections.
California Dreamin'
I know there are already several lists with a California theme, but I am hoping this acts as a syllabus of sorts for books that deal with the core myth, history, violence, dream, and contradiction of California. Suggestions are welcome!
I want to read more diversely - classics edition
15 Classics That Prove the Canon Is Bigger Than You Think
15 Classics That Aren't by Dead White European Men — And Are Just as Essential
From this substack post : https://open.substack.com/pub/literaryfancy/p/the-i-want-to-read-more-diversely
Mary Karr's Required Reading: Memoirs & Hybrids
Abridged list curated by Mary Karr in Art of Memoir (2015). I've selected only the books she's denoted to be "better written" as the original list is seven pages long.
Kat Stratford reading list
In my own words - Powerful Memoirs
Memoirs that make you sit and think for an hour, a day, a week or maybe forever.
asian-american-canon
Literature on Asian migration, settlement, and diaspora in the Americas.
10th Grade Novel Studies
Novel studies for 10th grade
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