Today on The Stacks we have on avid reader and friend of pod, Allison Punch, who you may know better as @AllisonReadsDC on Instagram. Allison talks with us about incorporating reading into her professional life, why she reads books by authors who don’t look like her, and gives you all a bunch of recommendations. Get your TBRs ready.
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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.
Books
- Educated by Tara Westover (Audiobook)
- The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung
- Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi
- A Particular King of Black Man by Tope Folarin
- Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
- Everyday People edited by Jennifer Baker
- Decolonizing Wealth by Edgar Villanueva
- Educated by Tara Westover
- Ghosts in the Schoolyard by Eve L. Ewing
- Burning the House Down by Nell Bernstein
- Pushout by Monique W. Morris
- Missoula by Jon Krakauer
- Shout Your Abortion edited by Amelia Bonow and Emily Nokes
- A False Report by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong
- Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
- All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
- Undivided Rights by Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Loretta Ross, and Elena Gutiérrez
- An Indigenous People’s History of The United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- An Indigenous People’s History of The United States (Young Readers Edition) by Roxanne Dubar-Ortiz
- The Mothers by Brit Bennett
- No Ashes in the Fire by Darnell L. Moore
- The Bridge Called My Back edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
- Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
- Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
- Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
- Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
- When and Where I Enter by Paula J. Giddings
- The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington
- The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
- Under This Beautiful Dome by Terry Mutchler
- Tinderbox by Robert W. Fieseler
- Unapologetic by Charlene Carruthers
- Brown White Black by Nishta J. Mehra
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- Meander Spiral Explode by Jane Alison
- What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
- Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
- The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory
- The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
- The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory
- Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey
- The Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory
- Mary Oliver
- Aracelis Girmay
- Audre Lorde
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Virginia Woolf
- Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
- Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter (Complete Series) by J. K. Rowling
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- Jesmyn Ward
- Celeste Ng
- Nicole Dennis-Benn
- The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
- Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden
- When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri
- How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Everything Else
- Allison on Instagram
- Old Town Books (Alexandria, VA)
- Emerging Writers Festival
- Kith and Kin (Washington DC)
- “The Short Stacks 16: Angie Kim//Miracle Creek” (The Stacks)
- Hannah Bae
- Ally Kirkpatrick from Old Town Books on Instagram
- “Ep. 61 The Publicizing of Books with Joseph Papa” (The Stacks)
- Lupita Reads on Instagram
- Spines & Vines on Instagram
- Climb the Stacks on Youtube
- “The Short Stacks 6: Nicole Chung//All You Can Ever Know” (The Stacks)
- “Ep. 46 All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung–The Stacks Book Club (Vanessa McGrady)” (The Stacks)
- Goodreads
- “Ep. 15 Talking Unconventional Women with Lauren Fanella” (The Stacks)
- Lauren Fanella on Instagram
- “Ep. 62 Tinderbox by Robert W. Fieseler — The Stacks Book Club (Joseph Papa)” (The Stacks)
- Book Girl Magic
- Meghan Markle
- Doria Ragland (Meghan Markle’s Mother)
- Nelson Rockerfeller
- Kindle
- Harry Potter (Chris Columbus, 2001)
- Holes (Andrew Davis, 2003)
- Neil Patrick Harris
- “How to Make a Reader with Allison Punch” (fictionmattersbooks.com)
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