Unabridged: Gifting Books Made Easy with Mr. Stacks
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
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)
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)
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)
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
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Harry Potter Series by J. K Rowling
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
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)
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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