Today we welcome author Nic Stone to the podcast. Nic is best known as the Young Adult and Middle Grade author of Dear Martin, Dear Justyce, and the Shuri series with Marvel Comics. We talk today about doubt, listening to young people, and the creative process. We also discuss the books that fill up Nic’s bookshelves.
The Stacks Book Club selection for March is Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh, we will discuss the book with Nic Stone on March 31st.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find everything we talked about on Amazon.
Books
- Dear Martin by Nic Stone
- Dear Justyce by Nic Stone
- Shuri by Nic Stone
- Jackpot by Nic Stone
- Jason Reynolds
- Shuri: The Vanished (Shuri Book 2) by Nic Stone
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- Odd One Out by Nic Stone
- Fast Pitch by Nic Stone
- Clean Getaway by Nic Stone
- To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
- Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen
- The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X. R. Pan
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
- Caucasia by Danzy Senna
- What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster
- Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
- The Mothers by Brit Bennett
- Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
- Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
- We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson
- All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide
- Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh
- The Arc of Scythe by Neal Shusterman
- Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
- Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
- Jesmyn Ward
- The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds
- Angie Thomas
- Becky Albertalli
- Tiffany D. Jackson
- Ashley Woodfolk
- Dhonielle Clayton
- Elizabeth Acevedo
- Lamar Giles
- Brendan Kiely
- Fiebre Tropical by Juliana Delgado Lopera
- Lemony Snicket
- One of the Good Ones by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite
- Dear Haiti by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite
- Wings of Ebony by J. Elle
- When You Look Like Us by Pamela N. Harris
- Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
- The Black Friend by Fredrick Joseph
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
- Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Damaris B. Hill
- The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
- The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
- Sunny by Jason Reynolds
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon
Everything Else
- “In Your Skin (Nic Stone)” (Pod Save the People, Crooked Media)
- Jordan Davis
- Latasha Harlins
- Target
- Walmart
- “Ep. 60 Beloved by Toni Morrison — The Stacks Book Club (Damaris B. Hill)” (The Stacks)
- Spellman College
- By the Book (New York Times)
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