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Recommendations From

Roxane Gay

Bestselling author, critic, editor, and professor. Her work has appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, McSweeney’s, A Public Space, and many others.

Daughters of Smoke and Fire by Ava Homa
Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions by Lola Ogunyemi
How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo
Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen
Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Memphis by Tara Stringfellow
Ancestor Trouble by Maud Newton
How High We Go In the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
Noor by Nnedi Okorafor
Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be by Nichole Perkins
The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang
The Renunciations by Donika Kelly
Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade
Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia

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