Reggie Bailey is a podcaster and bookstagrammer and the genius behind the #10Books10Decades reading challenge. We talk today about Reggie’s road to becoming an “adult reader”, book recommendations from many different decades, and his newest endeavor, Books are Pop Culture.
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- #10Books10Decades Reading Challenge
- Books Are Pop Culture
- NBA.com
- Slam Magazine
- XXL
- Archie Comics
- Slam! by Walter Dean Myers
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
- Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
- Babe the Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith
- Babe (Chris Noonan, 1995)
- All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin
- The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
- Books Are Pop Culture (Instagram)
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
- @Thestackspod Valentine’s Day Post 2018
- 2016 National Book Award
- Black No More by George C. Schuyler
- August Wilson
- Toni Morrison
- Ann Petry
- John A. Williams
- William Melvin Kelley
- Jubilee by Margaret Walker
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Passing by Nella Larsen
- Sula by Toni
- Caucasia by Danzy Senna
- New People by Danzy Senna
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- The Outsider by S. E. Hinton
- #2BooksUnder50reviews Challenge
- Goodreads
- The World Doesn’t Require You by Rion Amilcar Scott
- Liveright Publishing
- Insurrections by Rion Amilcar Scott
- University Press of Kentucky
- August Wilson’s Century Cycle
- The Street by Ann Petry
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- Black Boy by Richard Wright
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
- The Narrows by Ann Petry
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- The Known World by Edward P. Jones
- Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
- Hue and Cry by James Alan McPherson
- Ecco Books
- Jagua Nana by Cyprian Ekwensi
- The Housing Lark by Sam Selvon
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine l’Engle
- A Wrinkle in Time (Ava DuVernay, 2018)
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
- Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- “Kindred’ TV Adaptation Ordered to Series at FX” (Jennifer Maas, Variety)
- The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
- The Trees by Percerval Everett
- The StoryGraph
- Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee and Books (Philadelphia, PA)
- Eso Won Books (Los Angeles, CA)
- Welch’s Fruit Snacks
- Chewy Granola Bars
- Akili Nzuri (@ablackmanreading)
- Real Dads Network
- Books Are Pop Culture (Youtube.com)
- StreamYard
- Anchor.fm
- Game of Thrones (HBO)
- Game of Thrones Series by George R. R. Martin
- Sex and the City (HBO)
- Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell
- “Mariah Carey and the Fiction of the Color Line” (Brittany Luse, Vulture)
- The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- For Colored Nerds (Brittany Luse, Eric Eddings, and Stitcher)
- Miss Muriel and Other Stories by Ann Petry
- Luster by Raven Leilani
- The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
- The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers (Audiobook)
- Will by Will Smith (Audiobook)
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