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Hardcore Heroines: Rachel Harrison’s Bookshelf for ‘Black Sheep’

by Rachel Harrison, September 21, 2023 9:19 AM
An image of author Rachel Harrison next to the cover for her new book, 'Black Sheep

Bookshelf organization is deeply personal. Some prefer by genre, by content, others by aesthetic attributes like color and size. I like to put books together that I think would be friends, that would get along or at least wouldn’t mind being neighbors. Books with protagonists that could maybe commiserate while they begrudgingly appear in the back of my Zoom calls or TikToks. In my imagination, my bookshelf is a bar, and the characters are all having a drink, swapping stories, gossiping to and about...

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