The Short Stacks 29: The Best of 2019//Lauren Fanella
To close out this year on The Stacks we're sharing our favorite books of 2019. We brought back friend of the podcast, past guest, and avid reader Lauren Fanella. Today Lauren and Traci each share their top five books of 2019, see how their 2018 predictions held up, and look ahead at the books they are most excited for in 2020.
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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.
"Ep. 15 Talking Unconventional Women with Lauren Fanella" (The Stacks)
"Ep. 16 Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore -- The Stacks Book Club" (The Stacks)
"The Short Stacks 3: The Best of 2018//Lauren Fanella " (The Stacks)
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Our Bodies and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom
"The Short Stacks 23: Tressie McMillan Cottom//Thick" (The Stacks)
Bunny by Mona Awad
Heathers (Michael Lehmann, 1989)
The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff
"The Short Stacks 21: Grarrett M. Graff//The Only Plane in the Sky" (The Stacks)
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Conversation with Friends by Sally Rooney
"See the first photos from Hulu's adaptation of Sally Rooney's Normal People" (Ruth Kinane, Entertainment Weekly)
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
"Interview: Writer And Poet Saeed Jones On 'How We Fight For Our Lives'" (It's Been A Minute with Sam Sanders, NPR)
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
"Ep. 89 Staying True to Yourself with Jason Reynolds" (The Stacks)
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
Cleaness by Garth Greenwell
Lot by Bryan Washington
"The Short Stacks 10: Bryan Washington//Lot" (The Stacks)
"The Short Stacks 22: Ibram X. Kendi//How to Be an Antiracist" (The Stacks)
Memorial by Bryan Washington
Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
Fight of the Century edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman
Stray by Stephanie Danler
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
Black Futures by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham
Still Processing (The New York Times)
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Good Talk by Mira Jacobs
Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Old Fourth Ward by Tayari Jones
The Source of Self Regard by Toni Morrison
What I Know for Sure by Oprah Winfrey
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