Books I want to read on Scribd

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Today I want to share what fictional books I have saved in my scribd accont.

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Title: The Black Kids
Author: Christina Hammonds Reed
Genre: fiction, historical fiction, young adult, contemporary
Trigger warnings: racism, gun violence, police brutality, suicide, racist slur, homophobic language, fatphobia/body shaming, violence, toxic friendship, sexual content, bullying

Los Angeles, 1992
Ashley Bennett and her friends are living the charmed life. It’s the end of high school and they’re spending more time at the beach than in the classroom. They can already feel the sunny days and endless possibilities of summer.
But everything changes one afternoon in April, when four police officers are acquitted after beating a black man named Rodney King half to death. Suddenly, Ashley’s not just one of the girls. She’s one of the black kids.
As violent protests engulf LA and the city burns, Ashley tries to continue on as if life were normal. Even as her self-destructive sister gets dangerously involved in the riots. Even as the model black family façade her wealthy and prominent parents have built starts to crumble. Even as her best friends help spread a rumor that could completely derail the future of her classmate and fellow black kid, LaShawn Johnson.

Title: Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From
Author: Jennifer De Leon
Genre: fiction, young adult, contemporary
Trigger warnings: xenophobia, forced institutionalization, hate crime, racism, mental illness, racial slurs, deportation, bullying, domestic abuse, alcoholism, child abuse, classism, cultural appropriation, toxic relationship, colonisation

Liliana Cruz is a hitting a wall – or rather, walls.
There’s the wall her mom has put up ever since Liliana’s dad left – again.
There’s the wall that delineates Liliana’s diverse inner-city Boston neighborhood from Westburg, the wealthy – and white – suburban high school she’s just been accepted into.
And there’s the wall Liliana creates within herself, because to survive at Westburg, she can’t just lighten up, she has to whiten up.
So what if she changes her name? So what if she changes the way she talks? So what if she’s seeing her neighborhood in a different way? But then light is shed on some hard truths: It isn’t that her father doesn’t want to come home – he can’t… and her whole family is in jeopardy. And when racial tensions at school reach a fever pitch, the walls that divide feel insurmountable.

Title: Punching the Air
Author: Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
Genre: fiction, young adult, contemporary, poetry
Trigger warnings: racial slurs, racism, violence, police brutality, confinement, slavery, gaslighting, suicidal thoughts, grief, cursing, classism, death, medical content, slavery

The story that I thought 
was my life 
didn’t start on the day 
I was born 

Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. “Boys just being boys” turns out to be true only when those boys are white. 

The story that I think 
will be my life 
starts today 

Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal’s bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it? 

Title: Against the Loveless World
Author: Susan Abulhawa
Genre: fiction, adult, contemporary, historical fiction, literary fiction
Trigger warnings: abortion, rape, sexual assault, war, sex work, military violence, infertility, confinement, colonisation, police brutality, violence, torture, homophobia, antisemitism

As Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she barely knows.
Born in Kuwait in the 70s to Palestinian refugees, she dreamed of falling in love with the perfect man, raising children, and possibly opening her own beauty salon.
Instead, the man she thinks she loves jilts her after a brief marriage, her family teeters on the brink of poverty, she’s forced to prostitute herself, and the US invasion of Iraq makes her a refugee, as her parents had been.
After trekking through another temporary home in Jordan, she lands in Palestine, where she finally makes a home, falls in love, and her destiny unfolds under Israeli occupation.

Title: The Other Black Girl
Author: Zakiya Dalila Harris
Genre: fiction, adult, contemporary, thriller, literary fiction, mystery
Trigger warnings: racism, toxic friendship, emotional abuse, grief, cultural appropriation, mental illness, racial slurs, alcohol, bullying, cursing, misogyny

Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she’s thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They’ve only just started comparing natural hair care regimens, though, when a string of uncomfortable events elevates Hazel to Office Darling, and Nella is left in the dust.
Then the notes begin to appear on Nella’s desk: LEAVE WAGNER. NOW.
It’s hard to believe Hazel is behind these hostile messages. But as Nella starts to spiral and obsess over the sinister forces at play, she soon realizes that there’s a lot more at stake than just her career.

Title: A Chorus Rises
Author: Bethany C. Morrow
Genre: fiction, fantasy, contemporary, young adult, magical realism
Trigger warnings: racism, pedophilia, racial profiling, jail visitation, doxing, bullying, hate crime, stalking, outing, gaslighting, panic attacks/disorders, body horror, pedophilia, classism

Teen influencer Naema Bradshaw has it all: she’s famous, privileged, has “the good hair”— and she’s an Eloko, a person who’s gifted with a song that woos anyone who hears it. Everyone loves her — well, until she’s cast as the awful person who exposed Tavia’s secret siren powers.
Now, she’s being dragged by the media. No one understands her side: not her boyfriend, not her friends, nor her Eloko community. But Naema knows the truth and is determined to build herself back up — no matter what.
When a new, flourishing segment of Naema’s online supporters start targeting black girls, however, Naema must discover the true purpose of her magical voice.

Title: The Wrong End of the Telescope
Author: Rabih Alameddine
Genre: fiction, contemporary, historical fiction, lgbtqia+, literary fiction
Trigger warnings: transphobia, murder, xenophobia, death, genocide, hate crime, war, chronic illness, grief, medical content, terminal illness, suicide, emotional abuse, violence, anic attacks/disorders, pedophilia, death

Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there.
Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp’s children.
Soon, a boat crosses bringing Sumaiya, a fiercely resolute Syrian matriarch with terminal liver cancer. Determined to protect her children and husband at all costs, Sumaiya refuses to alert her family to her diagnosis.
Bonded together by Sumaiya’s secret, a deep connection sparks between the two women, and as Mina prepares a course of treatment with the limited resources on hand, she confronts the circumstances of the migrants displacement, as well as her own constraints in helping them.

Title: Breaking the Maafa Chain
Author: Anni Domingo
Genre: fiction, historical fiction, literary fiction

Salimatu and her sister Fatmata are captured, sold to slavers, renamed and split apart. Forced to change their names to Sarah and Faith, they end up on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Faith is taken to America, where slavery is still legal and she is stripped of all rights. Sarah ends up in a Victorian England and as the goddaughter of Queen Victoria.
Can the two sisters reclaim their freedom and identity in a world that is trying to break them down?
Will these once inseparable sisters survive without each other?
And if they do find each other again, will they find the other changed beyond recognition?

Title: Build Your House Around My Body
Author: Violet Kupersmith
Genre: fiction, horror, literary fiction, magical realism, historical fiction, mystery
Trigger warnings: body horror, gore, sexual violence, alcoholism, animal cruelty, chronic illness, eating disorder, colonisation, death, confinement, misogyny, rape, war, slavery, pregnancy, incest

In 1986, the teenage daughter of a wealthy family gets lost in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed by the experience. 
In 2009, pressed into a dangerous scheme by a former lover, a woman captures a rare two-headed cobra. 
And in 2011, a young, unhappy American living in Saigon with her sort-of boyfriend disappears without a trace. 
Over the course of the novel, the fates of these three women will lock together in an exhilarating series of nested narratives. Along the way, we meet a young boy sent to a boarding school in the mountains for the m tis children of French expatriates just before Vietnam declares its independence from colonial rule in 1945; two Frenchmen trying to start a business with the Vietnam War on the horizon; and the employees of the Saigon Spirit Eradication Co., called to investigate strange occurrences in a farmhouse on the edge of a forest. Each new character and timeline brings us one step closer to understanding what binds the three women together. 

Note: The information was taken from the storygraph and goodreads.