Recs if you like My Dreadful Body...

Let’s say this is me collecting spoons, aka: a list of memoirs by fellow chronically ill spoonies. May the selection give you empathy or make you feel seen ❤️

lit fic and horror, mainly, and mostly books by women, nonbinary & trans writers, basically mostly non-cis-men

I feel like the name kind of covers it. These are books that weren't written in English but were translated to English and I read them in English and they were good. I bet they were probably also good in the language they were written in but sadly, I don't know any of those languages.

To stick it to Bret Stephens for his dumb op-ed in the NYT, here is a list of all the 77th Annual National Book Award Long List Honorees.

NBA Honoree Categories: Fiction Nonfiction Poetry Translated Literature Young People's Literature

If they release any others, I'll update this list!

Books requested to be added to PB: Still House (poetry)

The ten contenders for the National Book Award for the categories of Translated Literature, Nonfiction, Young People's Literature and Fiction.

One book from every country in the world. 🗺️