Our guest today is Traci Thomas. Thats right, Traci, the host of The Stacks, is finally spilling her answers to all The Stacks questions. She is talking about what she’s reading, what books make her angry, and pretty much all things books. The best part is, her guest host is none other than her husband, Mr. Stacks. It’s an episode unlike any other, but still has all the book recommendations you could possibly need.

The Stacks Book Club selection for July is Breathe by Imani Perry, we will discuss the book with Kiese Laymon on July 29th.

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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.

• The Office by Andy Greene
• The Office (NBC)
• Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey
• They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• Permanent Record by Mary HK Choi
• She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore
• How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
• The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
• Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
• Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson

• Bullet and Burn by Heather Ann Thompson
• “‘Attica’ Prison Revolt Doc in the Works at Showtime” (Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter)
• The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú
• Kindle
• Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
• “Silent ‘e'” Music Video (The Electric Company)
• #ShakeTheStacks Challenge
• The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
• Love’s Labor’s Lost by William Shakespeare
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• Richard III by William Shakespeare
• Tennessee Williams
• Goodreads
• Anna K by Jenny Lee
• Gossip Girl (CW)
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Crazy Rich Asian by Kevin Kwan
• Anna K Away by Jenny Lee
• “Anna Karenina YA TV Series From Jenny Lee, Scooter Braun & eOne In Works At HBO Max As Put Pilot” (Nellie Andreeva, Deadline)
• The Sixth Man by Andre Iguodala
• Sullivan Jones
• Welcome to the Terrordome by Dave Zirin
• Dave Zirin Twitter – @edgeofsports
• Dave Zirin Tweets with Traci
• The Nation
• David Stern
• “Remembering the NBA’s Implicitly Racist Dress Code, and the Players Who Were Most Affected” (Jackson Connor, Complex)
• Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
• “Ep. 58 Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed — The Stacks Book Club (Keltie Knight)” (The Stacks)
• Oklahoma City by Roger G. Charles and Andrew Gumbel
• Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy by E. L. James
• Hiroshima Nagasaki by Paul Ham
• Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
• Okonomiyaki
• Bryan Washington
• People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry
• Hiroshima by John Hersey
• Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
• Tuskegee Experiment
• A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley
• The Mueller Report by The Washington Post
• Unhinged by Omarosa Manigault Newman
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• John Steinbeck
• Richard Yates
• John Keats
• Jack London
• The Reckonings by Lacy M. Johnson
• Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
• Heavy by Kiese Laymon
• “Ep. 118 Living the Revision with Kiese Laymon” (The Stacks)
• Barack Obama
• Michelle Obama
• Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Jesmyn Ward
• James Baldwin
• Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
• Notes on a Native Son by James Baldwin
• Cornell West
• The Autobiography of Malcom X by Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• Toni Cade Bambara
• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
• “The Short Stacks 22: Ibbram X. Kendi//How to be an Antiracist” (The Stacks)
• Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan
• We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
• White Negroes by Lauren Michele Jackson
• “Why Vine Died” (Casey Newton, The Verge)
• “Twitter Just Shut Down Vine 4 Years After Buying It for $30 Million” (Christopher Heine, Adweek)
• Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
• Stanford Rape (Ray Sanchez, CNN)
• Stanford University
• “Sandra Bland, It Turns Out, Filmed Traffic Stop Confrontation Herself” (David Montgomery, The New York Times)
• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
• Range by David Epstein
• Know My Name by Chanel Miller
• Revisionist History (Pushkin Industries)
• New York University
• Los Angeles Riots, 1992 (CNN)
• Watts Rebellion (History)
• Tulsa Race Massacre (History)
• Eso Won Books (Los Angeles, CA)
• The Salt Eaters Bookshop (Inglewood, CA)
• “Ep. 101 Reading Black Women with Asha Grant” (The Stacks)
• “Ep. 102 Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde — The Stacks Book Club (Asha Grant)” (The Stacks)
• Politics and Prose (Washington, DC)
• National Museum of African-American History & Culture Gift Shop (Washington, DC)
• Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
• Outrage by Vincent Bugliosi
• Four Days in November by Vincent Bugliosi
• Divinity of Doubt by Vincent Bugliosi
• The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder by Vincent Bugliosi
• Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres
• A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres
• Columbine by Dave Cullen
• Jason Reynolds
• Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
• Obviously by Akilah Hughes
• Shea Serrano
• LadyGang Network
• Breathe by Imani Perry

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