Ep. 15 Talking Unconventional Women with Lauren Fanella
This week our guest is Lauren Fanella, Lauren is a book reader and reviewer on #bookstagram, you might know her as @literarylauren_. Lauren is a lover of books by and about unconventional women, she reads for joy, and she's not scared of a big sad book. We talk about Lauren's reading habits, what books she's looking forward to reading, and how books help her to see the world differently.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon
Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles
The Ensemble by Aja Gabel
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu
The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
Tell Me How it Ends by Valeria Luiselli
The Far Away Brothers by Lauren Markham
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Hunger by Roxane Gay
The Pisces by Melissa Broder
Trenton Makes by Tadzio Koelb
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
Candide by Voltaire
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
"#Bookstagram: How Readers Changed The Way We Use Instagram" (Mara White, Huffington Post)
Star Wars (20th Century Fox)
It Happened One Night (Columbia Pictures)
Double Indemnity (Paramount Pictures)
Sunset Boulevard (Paramount Pictures)
Gone with the Wind (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Little Women (Columbia Pictures)
"Saoirse Ronan, Timothee Chalamet in Talks to Star in Greta Gerwig's 'Little Women' Adaptation" (Mia Galuppo, Hollywood Reporter)
The Girl on the Train (Universal Pictures)
Dear Sugars (The New York Times and WBUR)
The Goldfinch (Warner Brothers Pictures)
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