Or, How to Save Your Soul in America
by R. Eric Thomas
Recommended by Jenny Lawson
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in LGBTQ, Humor, and Most Recommended Books.
From the creator of Elle 's "Eric Reads the News," a poignant and hilarious memoirinessays about growing up seeing the world differently, finding his joy, and every awkward, extraordinary stumble along the way. R. Eric Thomas didn't know he was different until the world told him so. Everywhere he went?whether it was his rich, mostly white, suburb...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in LGBTQ, Humor, and Most Recommended Books.
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Jenny Lawson
“My friend Laura asked if I could score a copy of this book bc she thought I would love it and that very day it arrived in my mail. I can only conclude that @oureric is some sort of psychic. Also, go preorder this book bc it is fantastic.”
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Consider Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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