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the Crossing by Cormac McArthur. A meandering western about two brothers on a journey together but also the individual journey and meaning they take from their adventure.
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Desert Flower by Waris Dirie. The autobiography of a woman who grew up a in Somalia and how female genital mutilation affects them and their community. She escaped an arranged marriage and made her way eventually to London and became a successful model
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Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup. A memoir of Solomon's time as a kidnapped free man and enslaved in Louisiana
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Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. Future scifi about immortality, the brutality of it and revolution
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The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley. A space opera set on an organic ship with not particularly likeable characters and plenty of body gore
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the Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. A short story and a condemnation of the patriarchy. The main character slowly slides into madness.
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the Green Mile by Stephen King. "He kill them with their love" (note: I'm not usually a fan of Stephen King)
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the Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle. The unicorn travels with her new companions, a mediocre wizard, Molly Grue (the heart) and a spoiled prince, to find out the truth of the unicorns
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Where the heart is by Billie Letts. Pregnant Novalee is abandoned by her BF in a Walmart where she hides away. Novalee creates her own loving family and Wily gets his just deserts.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. I actually have a love hate relationship with this book. I dont enjoy the misogynistic themes but appreciate the way it was written. Told from the perspective of a "mostly" silent observer, we see the main character through his eyes.
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