You all, The Stacks Pack, asked for ideas for books to gift to the people in your life this holiday season. And to make things more fun, I roped in Mr. Stacks to give his recommendations, too! So let’s get those last minute holiday gifts to the people in your lives.
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- The Color of Water by James McBride
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
- When We Rise by Cleve Jones
- National AIDS Memorial Quilt
- Harvey Milk
- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
- Shoutin’ in the Fire by Danté Stewart
- White Evangelical Racism by Anthea Butler
- “Ep. 186 We Need Better Voices with Danté Stewart” (The Stacks)
- CNN
- Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
- Salt by Mark Kurlansky
- Milk by Mark Kurlansky
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- “Ep. 21 Talking Fiction & Hollywood with Becca Tobin” (The Stacks)
- Neil Degrasse Tyson
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Body by Bill Bryson
- The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Grocery by Michael Ruhlman
- “Ep. 95 Keeping It Positive with Jordan Mobolo” (The Stacks)
- @jordys.book.club
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
- The Cult of We by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell
- WeCrashed (Wondery)
- WeWork: or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn (Hulu)
- Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
- Jonny Lambert’s Animal 123 by Jonny Lambert
- Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers
- The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt
- Once Upon an Alphabet by Oliver Jeffers
- What We’ll Build by Oliver Jeffers
- The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld
- Little Monkey Calms Down by Michael Dahl
- I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes
- Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
- Stuart Little by E. B. White
- Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
- A Twin is to Hug by Boni Ashburn
- I Love You All Ways by Marianne Richmond
- The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
- Greer Macallister
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Harry Potter Series by J. K Rowling
- Richard Dawkins
- Junot Díaz
- A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
- Big Little Lies (HBO)
- My Friend Leonard by James Frey
- The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
- There There by Tommy Orange
- Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb
- Heavy by Kiese Laymon
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- Surviving the White Gaze by Rebecca Carroll
- Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan
- How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
- “Ep. 190 Getting Cultish with Amanda Montell” (The Stacks)
- Cultish by Amanda Montell
- Going Clear by Lawrence Wright
- Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
- Manson by Jeff Guinn
- The Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn
- A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres
- Heaven’s Gate (Stitcher & Pineapple Street Media, Glynn Washington)
- Why Waco by James D. Tabor and Eugene V. Gallagher
- “How NXIVM Seduced Hollywood Stars and America’s Most Powerful Elite Into a Barbaric ‘Sex Cult'” (Lauren Kranc, Esquire)
- Revisionist History (Pushkin Industries)
- Talking with Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
- Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
- Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
- Wordslut by Amanda Montell
- Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen
- Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
- Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese, 2022)
- Columbine by Dave Cullen
- Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
- The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
- The Lynching by Laurence Leamer
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- David Duke
- The Fact of a Body by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
- The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber
- The Cadaver King and Country Dentist by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
- Unbroken (Angelina Jolie, 2014)
- “Ep. 193 Betting on the Kids with Angelina Jolie and Tokata Iron Eyes” (The Stacks)
- The Bible
- Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
- Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
- “Ep. 42 Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie — The Stacks Book Club (Tawny Newsome)” (The Stacks)
- Antigone by Sophocles
- The Arsonists’ City by Hala Alyan
- Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- Paradise by Lizzie Johnson
- How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
- God Level Knowledge Darts by Desus & Mero
- Desus & Mero (Showtime)
- Bodega Boys (Desus Nice & The Kid Mero)
- On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
- The Poisoned City by Anna Clark
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