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Well-behaved women seldom make history. Fantasy, sci-fi, speculative fiction. Biracial. 36/F/🇺🇸

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That's it. I'm making a Black hobbit in Tales of the Shire and naming it Andy Serkis.

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Little Free Library: African American Authors Edition

Welcome to this digital little free library! Feel free to take as many copies of these books as you like!

The Conjure Woman by Charles W. Chesnutt

A Voice from the South by Anna J. Cooper

Why is the Negro Lynched? by Frederick Douglass

There is Confusion by Jessie Redmon Fauset

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Olive Gilbert and Sojourner Truth

Iola Leroy by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes

How It Feels to be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson

The Book of American Negro Poetry by James Weldon Johnson

Negro Poets and Their Poems by Robert Thomas Kerlin

Octavia, the Octoroon by J. F. Lee

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

Cane by Jean Toomer

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley

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Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats

Courtney Gustafson

Full Review: Pagebound

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Last: The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

Current: The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson

Next: The Journal of a Thousand Years by CJ Archer

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Full Review: Pagebound

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Last: The Blueprint by Rae Giana Rashad

Current: Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats by Courtney Gustafson

Next: The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

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Full Review: Pagebound

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happy pride from some stretchy and sleepy cats <3

[dykecadence]

periodic reminder that the queer liberation library is an awesome non-regional library you can add on libby to access hundreds of queer titles. NO LIBRARY CARD NEEDED. i just found an audiobook for a pretty new release on there with no waitlist. also everyone use libby for your local library too NOW

Libby Access — Queer Liberation Library

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free!!! queer!! books!! for anyone, anywhere in the USA!

you can browse the collection here

sign up for a QLL card to check ebooks & audiobooks out

& if you love what we’re doing you can toss us a few bucks here so we can keep doing it <3

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OMG - really?

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really!!! we’ve got 501(c)3 status and everything! turning 2.5 years old next month <3

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, book covers

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Full Review: Pagebound

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To the lady at the bookstore who bought a stack of banned books and told me, “I want my child to be able to read these in the future,” I see you.

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Get a Library Card even if you never use it

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Happy Juneteenth!

If you like fantasy, sci-fi, or speculative fiction and want to diversify your reading, here's my book list on Pagebound:

Black Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Speculative Fiction | Pagebound

Representations of the Black experience through fantasy, science fiction, and speculative fiction. Recommendations welcome!

There are 213 books on the list currently, and I keep adding more all the time.

Enjoy!