veronicacarmen

Veronica Carmen

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23 books

Books everyone should read

Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
The Complete Maus
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Lord of the Rings
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

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25 books

Essaylicious

Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
The Empathy Exams
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Bluets
Mythologies
Shakespeare Wrote for Money
In Praise of Messy Lives: Essays

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11 books

Essays

We Should All Be Feminists
Selected Essays
The Decay of Lying and Other Essays
Notes on Grief
Bluets
The Second Common Reader
The Fire Next Time

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22 books

Essays

Dear Ijeawele: A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Where I Was From
Can You Tolerate This?
The Argonauts
Bluets

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55 books

Essays

Bradbury Speaks: Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars
Why I Write
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Three Essays On The Theory Of Sexuality

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40 books

Non Fiction

Bad Feminist
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
My Body

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23 books

One Sitting

We Were Liars
The Extreme Self
Bluets
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
The Old Man and the Sea
Letters of Note: Sex
Wide Sargasso Sea

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4 books

Poetry

The Raven
Bluets
Milk and Honey
Love Is a Dog from Hell

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29 books

Short

Mr Salary
Lucy
Small Things Like These
The Orange and Other Poems
Assembly
Elena Knows
Girl, Interrupted

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122 books

Women

A Room of One's Own
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Frankenstein
The Lais of Marie de France
On the Abolition of All Political Parties
Women & Power: A Manifesto