Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer RadicalsModern · Nonfiction, History, Feminism
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
2019 · 441 pages · Nonfiction
59
Modern
★ 4.40 on Goodreads · 5K ratings
≈ 11 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
On the NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list. 4.40★ from 5K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
59Must-Read Score
- Critics49 out of 100 · counts 35%+19
- Readers70 out of 100 · counts 50%+40
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Buzz rewards prizes and lists from the last few years, so older books start at zero.
Where it ranks
- #71 of the 220 history books we rank
- #100 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #284 of the 1,344 books we rank
On the lists
- NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Reads as
True story, Thought-provoking
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