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Roxane Gay's Reading List

Bestselling author of Bad Feminist, Hunger, and Difficult Women. Runs The Audacity newsletter on Substack and The Audacious Book Club.

The Audacious Book Club — Monthly Picks (2024–2026) (2026)

Roxane Gay's monthly book club picks. Picks for Jan–Jul 2024 from her annual selections post; Oct 2024 onwards corroborated by Chicago Public Library's tracked list.

Source: audacity.substack.com

Start Here

Sohla El-Waylly · 2023 · Buy on Amazon

Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

Lessons for Survival

Emily Raboteau · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

Real Americans

Rachel Khong · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

With My Back to the World

Victoria Chang · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

Bite by Bite

Aimee Nezhukumatathil · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

Cuckoo

Gretchen Felker-Martin · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

We're Alone

Edwidge Danticat · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

Women's Hotel

Daniel M. Lavery · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

Private Rites

Julia Armfield · 2024 · Buy on Amazon

Homeseeking

Karissa Chen · 2025 · Buy on Amazon

Back After This

Linda Holmes · 2025 · Buy on Amazon

The Dream Hotel

Laila Lalami · 2025 · Buy on Amazon

Mỹ Documents

Kevin Nguyen · 2025 · Buy on Amazon

Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson

Tourmaline · 2025 · Buy on Amazon

Great Black Hope

Rob Franklin · 2025 · Buy on Amazon

Nice Girls Don't Win

Parvati Shallow · 2025 · Buy on Amazon

Moderation

Elaine Castillo · 2025 · Buy on Amazon

The Wilderness

Angela Flournoy · 2025 · Buy on Amazon

We Survived the Night

Julian Brave NoiseCat · 2025 · Buy on Amazon

Cursed Daughters

Oyinkan Braithwaite · 2025 · Buy on Amazon

The Hitch

Sara Levine · 2026 · Buy on Amazon

The Age of Calamities

Senaa Ahmad · 2026 · Buy on Amazon

Tell Me How You Eat

Amber Husain · 2026 · Buy on Amazon

Black. Single. Mother.

Jamilah LeMieux · 2026 · Buy on Amazon

The Violence

Adriana E. Ramirez · 2026 · Buy on Amazon

Books from Service95: Is ‘Bad Feminist’ More Relevant Than Ever? Dua Lipa In Conversation With Roxane Gay (2026)

Extracted via LLM from auto-captions of Service95 (2026-03-04).

Source: www.youtube.com

Heated Rivalry

Rachel Reid · 2019 · Buy on Amazon

"I just read the gay hockey books. I know they have names. Heated rivalry and the other one. I don't care about hockey at all. I I literally can think of nothing care less, but I'm all in. I'm like, let's go."

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