Genre Study – Relationship Fiction: Crossovers – Romance & Mystery
October 2 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Our 2024-2025 genre study provides an overview of relationship fiction by looking at key authors, tropes, and themes. The study will also explore crossover appeal with various genres.
Relationship Fiction Genre Study: Crossovers: Nonfiction
The meeting will be Thursday, October 2 from 2-4pm in-person at the Lisle Library District. We will continue our venture into relationship fiction crossovers by exploring a variety of nonfiction–there are common themes, frames, etc. Read two books, preferably from different categories. Below is a list of suggestions of titles and authors; feel free to choose your own.
Memoirs
- Everything I learned, I learned in a Chinese restaurant by Curtis Chin
- Birding while Black by Christian Cooper
- Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley
- Left on Tenth by Delia Ephron
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- My Childhood in Pieces by Edward Hirsch
- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
- The Night Parade by Jami Nakamura Lin
- The Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
- Alfie & Me by Carl Safina
- Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
- Wild by Cheryl Strayed
- Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa
Essays
- I’m Judging You by Luvvie Ajayi
- The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell by W. Kamau Bell
- In the Company of Women by Grace Bonney
- Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
- Alligator Tears by Edgar Gomez
- We are never meeting in real life by Samantha Irby
- How to live free in a dangerous world by Shayla Lawson
Graphic Nonfiction
- Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
- Special Topics in being a Human by S. Bear Bergman
- The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
- Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
- Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls
- Something New by Lucy Knisley
- Past Tense by Mardou
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Poetry
- Maya Angelou
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Emily Dickinson
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Mary Oliver
- Sylvia Plath
- Adrienne Rich
- Alice Walker