Binary

7 best books like Binary (Stephanie Saulter): So You Want to Talk About Race, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Five Dark Fates, Girls with Sharp Sticks, The Tenderness of Wolves, Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was, The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

So You Want to Talk About Race

Author	Ijeoma Oluo
ISBN	1580056776

In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the...

An Unkindness of Ghosts

Author	Rivers Solomon
ISBN	1617755885

Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until...

Five Dark Fates

Author	Kendare Blake
ISBN	0062686178

After the battle with Katharine, the rebellion lies in tatters. Jules’s legion curse has been unbound, leaving her out of her mind and unfit to rule. Arsinoe must find a cure, even as the responsibility of stopping the ravaging mist rests heavy on her shoulders, and her shoulders alone. Mirabella...

Girls with Sharp Sticks

Author	Suzanne Young
ISBN	1534426132

The Girls of Innovations Academy are beautiful and well-behaved—it says so on their report cards. Under the watchful gaze of their Guardians, the all-girl boarding school offers an array of studies and activities, from “Growing a Beautiful and Prosperous Garden” to “Art Appreciation”...

The Tenderness of Wolves

Author	Stef Penney
ISBN	1416540741

A brilliant and breathtaking debut that captivated readers and garnered critical acclaim in the United Kingdom, The Tenderness of Wolves was long-listed for the Orange Prize in fiction and won the Costa Award (formerly Whitbread) Book of the Year.

The year is 1867. Winter has just tightened...

Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was

Author	Angélica Gorodischer
ISBN	1931520054

This is the first of Argentinean writer Angélica Gorodischer's nineteen award-winning books to be translated into English. In eleven chapters, Kalpa Imperial's multiple storytellers relate the story of a fabled nameless empire which has risen and fallen innumerable times. Fairy tales, oral...

The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

Author	Leslie Jamison
ISBN	0316259616

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams, an exploration of addiction, and the stories we tell about it, that reinvents the traditional recovery memoir.

With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and journalistic reportage,...