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Sai Marie Johnson Author Of Embracing His Empire

From Sai's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Sai's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Sai Marie Johnson Why Sai loves this book

Kindred shocked me, and in both good and bad ways. I knew it was going to be a compelling story, but once I got into it was stunningly surprised by the timeline shifts and various lens scopes it relays. Octavia's a brilliant storyteller.

By Octavia E. Butler ,

Why should I read it?

17 authors picked Kindred as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner

The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.

“I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.”

Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’s plantation. She soon…


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The Rosewood Penny by J.S. Fields,

2023 Queer Indie Award Nominee!

The dragons of Yuro have been hunted to extinction.

On a small, isolated island, in a reclusive forest, lives bandit leader Marani and her brother Jacks. With their outlaw band they rob from the rich to feed themselves, raiding carriages and dodging the occasional vindictive…

Book cover of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Sai Marie Johnson Author Of Embracing His Empire

From Sai's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author

Sai's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Sai Marie Johnson Why Sai loves this book

I read through this voraciously and then read through it again and again.

By Timothy Snyder ,

Why should I read it?

9 authors picked On Tyranny as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**

'A sort of survival book, a sort of symptom-diagnosis manual in terms of losing your democracy and what tyranny and authoritarianism look like up close' Rachel Maddow

'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten' Observer

History does not repeat, but it does instruct.

In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to give voice to the people, promised…


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