Melissa

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Melissa

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Melissa’s favorite books

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

Rosa Lee by Leon Dash

Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Educated by Tara Westover

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

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Dismantling Mass Incarceration

by Premal Dharia

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Fantasy, Memoir, Science fiction, and Thriller

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