Otherness


Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
Americanah
I Who Have Never Known Men
A Little Life
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
Imago (Xenogenesis, #3)
Crying in H Mart
Convenience Store Woman
The Underground Railroad
Lord of the Flies
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
The Handmaid's Tale
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi VoCirce by Madeline MillerPractical Magic by Alice HoffmanConvenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Outsider Women
160 books — 11 voters
The Chain by Robin LamontBarn 8 by Deb Olin UnferthBête by Adam RobertsThe Awareness by Gene  StoneIn the Barn by Piers Anthony
The Lives of Animals (Fiction)
100 books — 1 voter

Ocean Vuong
I was seen—I who had seldom been seen by anyone. I who was taught, by you, to be invisible in order to be safe.
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Clarice Lispector
Beyond thought I reach a state. I refuse to divide it up into words - and what I cannot and do not want to express ends up being the most secret of my secrets. I know that I'm scared of the moments in which I don't use thought and that's a momentary state that is difficult to reach, and which, entirely secret, no longer uses words with which thoughts are produce. Is not using words to lose your identity? is it getting lost in the harmful essential shadows? ...more
Clarice Lispector

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