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Lincoln in the Bardo
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
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  • Consent: A Memoir
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    Dec 31, 2025
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    A dissection of one’s own life for public display and personal contemplation

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  • Black Box
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    Dec 31, 2025
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    Imagine Chanel Miller’s Know My Name but with insane police corruption and what could potentially be the greatest gaslighter of all time

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  • The Seeds
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    Dec 31, 2025
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    A miraculous feat to have pictures somehow convey less information than words

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  • The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny
    rootbeer
    Dec 31, 2025
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    The ultimate success of this book is how well it raises the alarm on and explains the concerns of certain forms of online harassment that most people, including myself, don’t take very seriously

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  • You Have a New Memory: Essays
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    Dec 31, 2025
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    The Substack/Tolentino-fication of essay publishing is here and it's given us 2 or 3 really good pieces in an otherwise mess of mid

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    You Have a New Memory: Essays

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  • The Beautiful Ones
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    Dec 31, 2025
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    I don’t know why the longest part of the book is the editor/ghost writer/collaborator talking about landing the gig and his experience hanging out and getting to know Prince before he died but I actually kinda fw it

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  • Black Meme: A History of The Images That Make Us
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    Dec 31, 2025
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    My biggest issue with this book isn’t that it’s stating overt falsehoods or challenging my own beliefs because it isn’t. It’s that Russell is smart enough to read between the lines of these issues and is intentionally blurring them to cultivate frustration, animosity, and distrust

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    Hot for Slayer (Scared Sexy, #1)
    Pick a Color
    If It Makes You Happy
    Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
    One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
    Pachinko Parlor
    Beautyland
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    rootbeer's 2025 Reading Challenge

    100 of 1 read
    Hot for Slayer (Scared Sexy, #1)
    Pick a Color
    If It Makes You Happy
    Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
    One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
    Pachinko Parlor
    Beautyland
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