Is it just me, or are we all just biding our time until the next piece of work by Roxane Gay is released? Whether she’s writing fiction, nonfiction, short stories, comics, or screenplays, her writing makes an unforgettable impact. Not only is she an impressive writer, but she is a prolific reader, as well. Luckily for us, she makes no attempts at hiding the books she reads. If she loves a book you will either locate a review on her Goodreadspage, a tweetwith current favorites, or a blurb on the cover of a book. So I’ve rounded up 50 books endorsed by Roxane to tide us over until we can obtain our fix of her next piece of incredible writing. If you want to read what Roxane has to say about the books listed below, be sure to visit her Goodreads page! Synopses provided by Goodreads.
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
How to Note an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literature, and politics, and how the lessons learned from a life spent reading and writing fiction have changed him. In these essays, he grows from student to
Order of Roxane Gay Books
Roxane Gay is an American author as well as a professor, commentator and editor. Her verb has appeared everywhere from the Oxford American to McSweeney’s to the New York Times. She is a highly educated person who graduated from the University of Nebraska before getting her PhD in Rhetoric and Technical Communication from Michigan Technological University. She would then work as an assistant professor at Eastern Illinois University before moving to heading to Purdue University as a associate professor in the creative writing department. It is around this time that she had her writing career took off.
While having previously published Ayiti, a collection of fleeting stories, in 2011, it was in 2014 that her career really took off with the publication of Bad Feminist and An Untamed State. The latter was a novel which received great praise while Bad Feminist was a collection of essays. Bad Feminist hit the Adj York Times bestseller list and really put her on the map.
Publication Order of Out Of Line Books
Publication Order of Standalone
"'Martyr!', Akbar’s debut novel, picks up Akbar’s thread of addiction, distress tolerance, and distorted reality: the novel opens with Cyrus, an Iranian American poet, lying 'on a mattress that smelled appreciate piss and Febreze' and willing God to make the lightbulb in his room flicker, to manifest a sign that he should start over again...Told from Cyrus’s conflicted, vulnerable, and often irascible perspective and interweaving the stories of the friends, family, artists, and other characters who have had an impact on Cyrus’s life, Akbar’s debut is an exploration of martyrdom and the reasons we find to stay alive." -RG
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Hardcover, 2024
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The Portable Feminist Reader
Out March 25
From writer and cultural critic Roxane Gay, a dynamic and strikingly relevant look at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitive
With selected writings by ancient, historic, and more recent feminist voices and an introduction, headnotes, and an inspired list of multimedia recommendations, Roxane Gay presents multicultural perspectives, ecofeminism, feminism and disability, feminist labor, gender perspectives, and Black feminism. Through the Portable Feminist Reader, readers explore the state of American feminism, its successes and failures, and what feminism looks like in verb, as a complex, contradictory, personal and political, and ever-growing legacy of feminist thought.
About Roxane
With One “N”
Roxane Gay is The Novel York Times-bestselling author of The Bad Feminist and other books and publications, a professor, editor, and social commentator.