Literal Summer Reads

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by E. V. Gross (12 Lists)



Touching Feeling by Eve Kosofsky SedgwickCruel Optimism by Lauren BerlantAn Archive of Feelings by Ann CvetkovichThe Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara AhmedOrdinary Affects by Kathleen Stewart
Affect Theory
23 books — 15 voters
Stoner by John WilliamsChess Story by Stefan ZweigThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonThe Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy CasaresA Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
New York Review Books - Classics
633 books — 907 voters

Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks by Donald BogleStealing the Show by Miriam J. PettyThe Last Book Written by a Human by Jeff BurninghamThe Devil Finds Work by James BaldwinBlack Cinema Treasures by G. William Jones
Blacks and the Big Screen
82 books — 12 voters
Hunger by Roxane GayYou Can't Buy Love Like That by Carol E. AndersonDear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSouth and West by Joan DidionThe Radium Girls by Kate Moore
2017 Non-male Non-Fiction
247 books — 86 voters

Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. DavisMore Brilliant Than the Sun by Kodwo EshunWild Seed by Octavia E. ButlerThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeSexual Difference by Libreria delle donne Di Milano
HUMAN_3.0 Reading List
44 books — 3 voters
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max HorkheimerGender Trouble by Judith ButlerPostmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric JamesonHistory and Class Consciousness by György LukácsImagined Communities by Benedict Anderson
Mapping Critical Theory
107 books — 41 voters

This Bridge Called My Back by Cherríe L. MoragaSister Outsider by Audre LordeOn Intersectionality by Kimberlé Williams CrenshawFeminist AF by Brittney CooperKilling Rage by bell hooks
Black Feminism, Womanism, & Critical Race Feminism
44 books — 27 voters
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rain... by Ntozake ShangeBeloved by Toni MorrisonSula by Toni Morrison
Lemonade Syllabus - A Collection of Works Celebrating Black Womanhood. Inspired by Beyonce
229 books — 77 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
No White Men
285 books — 21 voters
Pachinko by Min Jin LeeSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardExit West by Mohsin HamidThe Hate U Give by Angie ThomasThe Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Anticipated Literary Reads For Readers of Color 2017
225 books — 259 voters

A Blessed Olive Tree by Zain Hashmialmost any shit will do by emji speroAs They Fall by Ivy JohnsonCommunism is up there and we are down here but it is happenin... by Olive BlackburnGhost Box by Emerson Whitney
Timeless, Infinite Light
10 books — 3 voters
Lincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersExit West by Mohsin HamidPachinko by Min Jin LeeHuman Acts by Han KangThe Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great 2017 Book Preview
85 books — 168 voters