Books like Stone Butch Blues
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg reads as raw, defiant. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Necessary Targets
V (formerly Eve Ensler) · 2001
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The Glory Field
Walter Dean Myers · 1993
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1962
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The Silver Sword
Ian Serraillier · 1956
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Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys · 1999
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The Color Purple
Alice Walker · 1982
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini · 2007
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It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover · 2016
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Ruined
Lynn Nottage · 2009
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The clay marble
Minfong Ho · 1991
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Comanche Moon
Larry McMurtry
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The Breadwinner
Deborah Ellis · 2000
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