On today’s episode we have one of the earliest supporters of The Stacks and one of Traci’s biggest fans, Sue Thomas, better known as Traci’s mom. That’s right, in honor of Mother’s day get to know the person who gave Traci her love of reading and so many book recommendations.
The Stacks Book Club selection for May is The Giver by Lois Lowry, we will discuss the book with Sue Thomas on May 27th.
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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.
Books
- Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- Beatrix Potter
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
- Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres
- A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
- Little Family by Ishmael Beah
- Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
- Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
- Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
- The Nightengale by Kristin Hannah
- Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan
- A Great Good Place for Books (Oakland, CA)
- Bookshop.org
- A walk in the woods
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Danielle Steel
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
- Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Diddion
- Libro.FM
- Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer
Everything Else
- Inglewood, CA
- The Forum
- University of California at Berkeley
- Asking the Stacks
- “Ep. 42 Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie — The Stacks Book Club (Tawney Newsome)” (The Stacks)
- Becoming (Nadia Hallgren, 2020)
- Save Indie Bookstores
- Kindle
- Gone with the Wind (Victor Flemming, 1939)
- Vivien Leigh
- George W. Bush
- Malia and Sasha Obama
- Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton, 2019)
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