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    Janet Mock

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    Writer, television host and transgender rights activist Janet Mock came to the spotlight in a 2011 Marie Claire article in which she detailed the struggles and triumphs she faced as a transgender girl growing up in Hawaii, traveling to Bangkok for gender reassignment surgery. She is co-executive producer, writer and director on the Emmy-winning TV series, Pose, producer and interviewer for HBO’s The Trans List, author of New York Times best selling memoirs “Redefining Realness,” and Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me. As she told Rookie Mag, “[Reading] prompted me to get a library card and just sit among those stacks and read books by women who looked like my self-image. That was important to me, because [those women] lived the life that I saw myself living one day, as a black woman.”

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    Maggie Nelson

    $216.84

    The Fire Next Time

    James Baldwin

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    Betty Fussell

    $201.77

    Crime and Punishment

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

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    Marlon James

    $154.66

    The Master and Margarita

    Mikhail Bulgakov

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    Jay McInerney

    $163.84

    The Great Gatsby

    F.Scott Fitzgerald

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    John Berendt

    $175.08

    The Earl of Louisiana

    A.J. Liebling

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    Gary Shteyngart

    $165.64

    Remembrance of Things Past

    Marcel Proust

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    Garth Greenwell

    $161.96

    The Small Backs of Children

    Lidia Yuknavitch

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    Sloane Crosley

    $169.84

    Birds of America

    Lorrie Moore

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    Daniel Pinchbeck

    $206.74

    Minor Characters

    Joyce Johnson

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