i’m a college student looking for a book to read on my spring break! i love reading nonfiction books/memoirs. very into sad books. i would also love to read some lgbtq books or books about disability
Incidents in the life of a slave girl by Harriet Jacobs
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my fav disability memoirs:
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating – it’s a beautiful book; Elisabeth Tova Bailey observes and cares for a snail while bed bound from illness. It’s gentle and lovely, I’m disabled and it felt like a hug.
Invisible Kingdom by Meghan O’Rourke is also wonderful
my fav Lesbian memoirs:
In the Dream House by Carmen Machado is a classic for a reason, but definitely read the content warnings
and if you ever feel like a ~fictional~ memoir, Biography of X by Catherine Lacey is really weird and compelling. Their relationship and how it impacted the narrator is really well done, it also plays with the concept of truth/deception/history in a very cool way
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Fall of the Guardians by Vanessa White. It is about the author’s time in a cult-run military boarding school for troubled girls.
They have a second book in the series that has not yet been published. That book is written by another girl that was in the program, and she went through that hell discovering she was gay.
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Crying in Hmart by Michelle Zauner (singer in the band Japanese Breakfast)
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If this is a man- the truce by Primo Levi
Incidents in the life of a slave girl by Harriet Jacobs
my fav disability memoirs:
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating – it’s a beautiful book; Elisabeth Tova Bailey observes and cares for a snail while bed bound from illness. It’s gentle and lovely, I’m disabled and it felt like a hug.
Invisible Kingdom by Meghan O’Rourke is also wonderful
my fav Lesbian memoirs:
In the Dream House by Carmen Machado is a classic for a reason, but definitely read the content warnings
and if you ever feel like a ~fictional~ memoir, Biography of X by Catherine Lacey is really weird and compelling. Their relationship and how it impacted the narrator is really well done, it also plays with the concept of truth/deception/history in a very cool way
Fall of the Guardians by Vanessa White. It is about the author’s time in a cult-run military boarding school for troubled girls.
They have a second book in the series that has not yet been published. That book is written by another girl that was in the program, and she went through that hell discovering she was gay.
Crying in Hmart by Michelle Zauner (singer in the band Japanese Breakfast)