Ep. 143 The Best of 2020 with Christine Bollow and Oscar Almonte-Espinal
Today we’re joined by two of The Stacks’ most favorite readers, Christine Bollow (@readingismagical) and Oscar Almonte-Espinal (@booksteahenny) to share the best books of 2020. We also discuss how 2020 impacted our reading and look ahead to the books we’re most excited about in 2021.
The Stacks Book Club selection for December is Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine, we will discuss the book with Darnell Moore on December 30th.
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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
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The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Displacement by Kiku Hughes
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
Black Futures edited by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham
OJ: Made in America(Ezra Edelman, 2016)
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
"Ep. 89 Staying True to Yourself with Jason Reynolds" (The Stacks)
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
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"Ep. 131 The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio -- The Stacks Book Club (Lupita Aquino)" (The Stacks)
Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Four Hundred Souls edited by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi and Dr. Kiesha N. Blain
My Broken Language by Quiara Alegría Hudes
In the Heights (2008)
In the Heights (Jon M. Chu, 2021)
Love in Color by Bolu Babalola
Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
"Episode 378: Ashley C. Ford" (Longform Podcast, Longform)
While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala
Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien
Bird Uncaged by Marlon Peterson
How to Slowly Kill Yourself an Others in America by Kiese Laymon
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
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