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The Trans Rights Readathon starts today!

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March 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 20

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Book cover for Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler. The background is white and there is an illustration of a black woman wearing a red dress and head scarf. There are red, orange, and yellow shapes as part of the background that make it look like fire sparks.

February 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 19

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Book cover for Blood Debts by Terry J Benton-Walker. The background of the cover is black. In the center are two Black teenagers wearing purple. There are orange flowers behind them and the full moon behind that.

February 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 18

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February 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 17

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Black and green book cover for The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

February 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 16

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Book cover for Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. There is an orange scythe striking the C in chain and there are multicolored flames coming from the impact. The background is yellow and the title is in a bold black font.

January 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 15

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January 30, 2025 at 12:08 AM

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 14

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Book cover for Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White. The cover is illustrated. There is a boy with 6 wings that have eyes on them in the center. The background is a dilapidated city and cloudy sky.

January 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 13

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January 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 12

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Book cover for Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko. In the center is a Black girls's face, and a crown of light glows from behind her head bending out into dark smoke. The rest of the book cover is colorful patterns radiating out to the edges of the image.

January 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 11

Yeah I missed a few days *shrug*

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Book cover for Glory O'Brien's History of the Future by A. S. King. The image on the book cover is a girl's face behind a book, so only the top of her face is showing. She has light eyes and dark hair. The book title is in yellow.

January 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 10

Oops I missed yesterday so today is a double post.

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January 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 9

Oops I missed yesterday so there's a double post today 🙃

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January 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 8

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Book cover for The Polygamist Daughter by Anna LeBaron. The cover image is of a young girl with pigtails. Her eyes and mouth are covered by black boxes where the title and author name are written.

January 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 7

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January 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 6

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Book cover for The Book Theif by Markus Zusak. It is a brown sepia tone color. The cover image is of lined up dominoes and a finger going to push the first one over.

January 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 5

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January 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 4

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January 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 3

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(breaking the rules to simply say this was influential and fuck JKR)

January 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 2

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Cover image for the book I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. The cover is a light orange with a pattern of dark blue leaves along the left side. The font color matches the dark blue of the leaves. Behind the font are blocks of light light blue. On the upper right corner is a picture of Maya Angelou, a Black woman with short hair wearing a black and gold colored top.

January 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 1

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Book cover for The Dust of 100 Dogs by A. S. King. The title font is red. There is a faded white skull and crossbones with the white silhouette of a girl with red hair, holding a red ship, sitting in the eye of the skull.

January 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM

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5 favorite reads of 2024 (in no particular order)
📚The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
📚Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White
📚Radium Girls by Kate Moore
📚Blood Justice by Terry J Benton-Walker
📚Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

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