Books By Topic

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Showing posts with label coping with trauma/loss. Show all posts

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons For Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (NON-FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: American Dream, class, coping with trauma/loss, historical, identity, justice, non-fiction, nonconformity, oppression, politics, race, sexuality, social criticism

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, art, class, coping with trauma/loss, creativity, fiction, gender, identity, justice, love, mental health, morality, oppression, race, search for self, social criticism

The Abstainer by Ian McGuire (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: colonialism/imperialism, coping with trauma/loss, fiction, historical, identity, justice, morality, politics, revolution

Deacon King Kong by James McBride (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: aging, alienation, class, coping with trauma/loss, fiction, historical, identity, justice, morality, oppression, perception/truth/subjectivity, race

The New Wilderness by Diane Cook (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: coping with trauma/loss, dystopian, existentialism, family, fiction, morality, nature/environmentalism, social criticism

Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: American Dream, assimilation, class, consumerism, coping with trauma/loss, family, fiction, identity, immigration, justice, perception/truth/subjectivity, politics, race, search for self, social criticism

How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith (NON-FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55643287-how-the-word-is-passed

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: coping with trauma/loss, education, historical, identity, justice, morality, non-fiction, oppression, perception/truth/subjectivity, politics, race, social criticism

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: assimilation, colonialism/imperialism, coping with trauma/loss, family, fiction, historical, identity, justice, love, morality, nonconformity, oppression, politics, race, social criticism

The Friend by Sigrid Nunez (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: aging, alienation, coping with trauma/loss, fiction, love, mental health

The Good Lord Bird by James McBride (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: coming of age, coping with trauma/loss, fiction, historical, identity, justice, morality, nonconformity, oppression, race, search for self

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt (NON-FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: coping with trauma/loss, historical, justice, morality, non-fiction, perception/truth/subjectivity, philosophy, politics, race

Bewilderment by Richard Powers (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, coping with trauma/loss, family, fiction, justice, love, memory, mental health, morality, nature/environmentalism, nonconformity, science (or sci-fi), social criticism, tech

Writers & Lovers by Lily King (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: art, coping with trauma/loss, creativity, fiction, fiction's role, identity, love, mental health, power of language, search for self

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, assimilation, class, colonialism/imperialism, coming of age, coping with trauma/loss, fiction, identity, justice, media, nonconformity, race, search for self

The Between: A Novel by Tananarive Due (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, coping with trauma/loss, family, fiction, identity, justice, memory, mental health, race

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: aging, class, coping with trauma/loss, fiction, historical, identity, justice, love, morality, search for self

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (FICTION)

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: coping with trauma/loss, fiction, love, mental health, morality, nature/environmentalism, perception/truth/subjectivity, science (or sci-fi)

Parable of the Sower (FICTION) by Octavia Butler

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower?ac=1&from_search=true

Posted by Mr. Reynolds

Labels: American Dream, class, coming of age, coping with trauma/loss, dystopian, family, fiction, identity, morality, nature/environmentalism, religion/spirituality, social criticism

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31434883-eleanor-oliphant-is-completely-fine

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, coping with trauma/loss, family, fiction, gender, identity, mental health, morality, search for self

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson (FICTION)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11529868-the-orphan-master-s-son

Posted by Mr. Markley

Labels: alienation, coping with trauma/loss, fiction, identity, justice, morality, oppression, perception/truth/subjectivity, politics, search for self, social criticism

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