When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy
This story is a book about unbreakable resolve and the narrator’s fight to reclaim her identity in the face of devastating circumstances.
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Jessica Riches
- Jan 11, 2021
- 10 min
Jessica's Best Books of 2020
This post is late. I’m sorry. But that’s because 2020 was a bit of a shit year for lots of reasons. And do you know what must have been...
Admin
- Dec 31, 2020
- 3 min
Our Best Books of 2020
The Book Slut contributors voted for their favorite releases of 2020...
Jessica Maria
- Dec 31, 2020
- 16 min
Jessica Maria's Best Books of 2020
These books will remain special because they managed to keep my attention in a year of a pandemic...
Courtney Dyer
- Dec 30, 2020
- 6 min
Courtney's Best Books of 2020
I simply cannot put them in a numbered order as they all exist in my brain and heart with different and at times fluctuating levels of...
Nikki Michaels
- Dec 30, 2020
- 4 min
Nikki’s Best Books of 2020
2020 might’ve been garbage, but at least the books I managed to read over the past 12 months weren’t. Here are my top 10 reads from this...
Mel Ann Rosenthal
- Dec 29, 2020
- 5 min
Mel's Best Books of 2020
In my reading life this year: I finally embraced revisiting my favorite genre of my youth: contemporary romance— and have gone out of my...
Karla Mendez
- Dec 29, 2020
- 5 min
Karla's Best Books of 2020
My list of favorite books from this year looks different from years past and shows the shift my taste has taken, both deliberately and...
Melissa Weirick
- Dec 28, 2020
- 6 min
Melissa's Best Books of 2020
2020 was a strange year for reading, at least in my case. Pre-lockdown, I was reading books like crazy—around two per week! Once we hit...
Maggie Briana Chidester
- Dec 28, 2020
- 9 min
Maggie's Best Books of 2020
We are so lucky that we had our books to comfort us in a time of strain and tragedy...
Maggie Briana Chidester
- Dec 25, 2020
- 4 min
Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
MILK FED. OH MY GOD. I LOVED THIS ABSOLUTELY CRAZY BOOK. This is one of my favorite books I have read this year. I almost DNF'd in the...
Courtney Dyer
- Dec 24, 2020
- 4 min
Loveless by Alice Oseman
Alice Oseman writes the type of books I one day hope to write. I can’t even be jealous because her work brings me so much comfort and I...
Hannah Abban
- Dec 23, 2020
- 5 min
In Conversation with Sofia Akel and The Free Books Campaign
It has been a rough eight months in some shape or form for everybody. In the summer as the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement experienced...
Cecilia Beard
- Dec 22, 2020
- 3 min
FIVE NON-FICTION BOOKS THAT READ LIKE FICTION
I once had a professor come up to me at a coffee shop, tap me on the shoulder, and ask when I was going to finally, finally give up...
Mel Ann Rosenthal
- Dec 21, 2020
- 14 min
In Conversation with Alexander Chee
In March, shortly after sharing a brief review on Instagram of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, I got an alert that Alexander Chee...
Mel Ann Rosenthal
- Dec 21, 2020
- 12 min
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
I first encountered Alexander Chee’s writing in 2018 when I took an afternoon master class with Catapult’s writing program in Manhattan....
Admin
- Nov 7, 2020
- 2 min
Friday Book Debrief Vol 48
This week; James Baldwin, Rachel Cusk, Kate Weinberg, Lindy West, Esmeralda Sanatiago, & Dorothy Allison.
Mel Ann Rosenthal
- Nov 4, 2020
- 8 min
An Incomplete Reading List for an American Citizen
While I and many people I know, in recent literature and in real life, still refer to the presidential election of 2016 as The Election™,...
Mel Ann Rosenthal
- Nov 3, 2020
- 17 min
What you Need To Know About Voting and Why
I have this shirt (thank you, Out of Print) that says “Let’s Get Political” on the front with the “lit” in political emphasized, and on...
Admin
- Oct 31, 2020
- 2 min
Friday Book Debrief vol 47
This week; Emma Jane Unsworth, Rumaan Alam, Marina Tsvetaeva & Angela Livingstone, Melissa Grace, Maria Semple, and James McBride.
Maggie Briana Chidester
- Oct 27, 2020
- 3 min
Branwell by Douglas A. Martin
I know jackshit about the Brontë family. I was an angsty teen who hated being told what to do, and reading old classics in Humanities and...
Marian Perales
- Oct 26, 2020
- 5 min
Grieving by Cristina Rivera Garza
Written by MacArthur Foundation fellow Cristina Rivera Garza, Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country is an astute compendium of...
Admin
- Oct 23, 2020
- 4 min
Friday Book Debrief vol 46
Every week we’re sharing what our some of our writers are currently reading. For all of our US readers, we now have our own Bookshop! You...
Courtney Dyer
- Oct 21, 2020
- 5 min
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
A modern gothic novel for the current generation of readers who are always looking for another queer icon. Full of spooky sapphic...