2020 reads
conversations with friends, sally rooney (¼)
dear edward, ann napolitano (1/24)
the possible world, liese o’halloran schwarz (2/12)
inside the battle of algiers, zohra drif (2/18)
rage becomes her: the power of women’s anger, soraya chemaly (2/24)
finding time: the economic of work-life conflict, heather boushey (3/2)
the other america: poverty in the united states, michael harrington (3/30)
guest house for young widows: among the women of isis, azadeh moaveni (4/8)
odyssey to the north, mario bencastro (4/12)
when they call you a terrorist: a black lives matter memoir, patrisse khan-cullers and asha bandele (4/16)*
the perks of being a wallflower, stephen chbosky (4/17)*
what doesn’t kill you makes you blacker, damon young (4/20)
the great gatsby, f. scott fitzgerald (4/21)*
my sister, the serial killer, oyinkan braithwaite (4/24)
i’m fine… and other lies, whitney cummings (4/25)
promise me, dad, joe biden (4/27)
i will always write back: how one letter changed two lives, caitlin alifirenka and martin ganda (4/29)
the opposite of loneliness, marina keegan (4/30)*
the giver, lois lowry (5/9)
little weirds, jenny slate (5/10)
all the bright places, jennifer niven (5/12)
little fires everywhere, celeste ng (5/14)
the cure for lonely, jessica thummel (5/16)
why i’m no longer talking to white people about race, reni eddo-lodge (5/19)
me, earl, and the dying girl, jesse andrews (5/23)
red, white, and royal blue, casey mcquiston (5/27)
on the come up, angie thomas (6/13)
the color purple, alice walker (6/16)
true grit, charles portis (6/18)*
speak, laurie halse anderson (6/18)
eleanor oliphant is completely fine, gail honeyman (6/24)
the seven husbands of evelyn hugo, taylor jenkins reid (6/29)
untamed, glennon doyle (7/1)
heartstopper, alice oseman (7/2)
know my name, chanel miller (7/5)
the beautiful things that heaven bears, dinaw mengestu (7/7)
the year of magical thinking, joan didion (7/8)
the hunger games, suzanne collins (7/11)*
catch and kill: lies, spies, and a conspiracy to protect predators, ronan farrow (7/13)
periods gone public: taking a stand for menstrual equity, jennifer weiss-wolf (7/15)
catching fire, suzanne collins (7/18)
mockingjay, suzanne collins (7/20)
lord of the flies, william golding (7/25)
the vanishing half, brit bennet (7/26)
just mercy: a story of justice and redemption, bryan stevenson (7/28)
simon snow book 2: wayward song, rainbow rowell (8/15)
where the crawdads sing, delia owens (9/1)
circe, madeline miller (9/5)
sharp objects, gillian flynn (9/7)
such a fun age, kiley reid (9/10)
daisy jones and the six, taylor jenkins reid (9/11)
conviction, denise mina (9/16)
this is how you lose her, junot díaz (9/17)
how to behave in a crowd, camille bordas (9/29)
white fragility: why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism, robin diangelo (9/30)
the ballad of songbirds and snakes, suzanne collins (10/4)
harry potter and the sorcerer’s stone, j. k. rowling (10/6) *
someone we know, shari lapena (10/7)
where’d you go, bernadette, maria semple (10/8)
beach read, emily henry (10/10)
all adults here, emma straub (10/13)
one true loves, taylor jenkins reid (10/15)
maybe in another life, taylor jenkins reid (10/19)
i wish you all the best, mason deaver (10/20)
furia, yamile saied méndez (10/22)
after i do, taylor jenkins reid (10/23)
don’t look back, karin fossum (10/24)
charlotte’s web, e.b. white (11/2)*
room, emma donoghue (11/4)
wit’s end, karen joy fowler (11/5)
the midnight library, matt haig (11/5)
forever, interrupted, taylor jenkins reid (11/6)
mary poppins, p.l. travers (11/7)*
a plague of prisons: the epidemiology of mass incarceration in america, ernest drucker (11/10)
the last story of mina lee, nancy jooyoun kim (11/13)
ask again, yes, mary beth keane (12/3)
the girls, emma cline (12/9)
the importance of music to girls, lavinia greenlaw (12/13)
the guest list, lucy foley (12/15)
harry potter and the chamber of secrets, j.k. rowling (12/15)*
matilda, roald dahl (12/17)*
harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban, j.k. rowling (12/17)*
homegoing, yaa gyasi (12/18)
play it as it lays, joan didion (12/19)
the thing around your neck, chimamanda ngozi adichie (12/20)
the time traveler’s wife, audrey niffeneggar (12/23)*
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2/6 Book Deals
Good morning, everyone! I hope you’re have a wonderful week! I’m back again with some books on sale, and today it seems like there is a pretty nice selection today, so definitely take a look. Assassin’s Apprentice and The Lies of Locke Lamora are always good options to check out if you haven’t! :)
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Obama Shares His Summer Reading List https://nyti.ms/2H5uflG
Obama Shares His Summer Reading List
The former president recommended new books by Téa Obreht and Colson Whitehead, as well as well-known works by Hilary Mantel and Toni Morrison.
By Arit John | Published August 14, 2019 | New York Times | Posted August 16, 2019 |
Former President Barack Obama shared his summer reading list on social media on Wednesday, offering a mix of novels, short story collections and nonfiction for anyone, in his words, “looking for some suggestions.”
The list covers both new releases and older works from authors such as Téa Obreht, Colson Whitehead, Ted Chiang, Haruki Murakami, Dinaw Mengestu and Hilary Mantel. Mr. Obama started with an invitation to read works by the Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, who died last week at the age of 88.
“Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Sula, everything else — they’re transcendent, all of them,” he wrote. “You’ll be glad you read them.” The former president presented the author with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.
Mr. Obama’s interest in reading has been well documented. The former New York Times chief book critic Michiko Kakutani reported at the end of Mr. Obama’s presidency that he would read for about an hour on most nights. Mr. Obama said that reading fiction left him “better able to imagine what’s going on in the lives of people throughout my presidency.”
He shared recommendations for books and movies throughout his presidency and has continued the tradition after leaving office. Last summer, he posted a more academic list of nonfiction works to his Facebook page. At the end of the year he released a list of his favorite works of 2018. His wife Michelle Obama’s memoir “Becoming” topped the list.
In the reading list he shared on Wednesday, Mr. Obama continued to promote a diverse group of writers, many of whom focus on issues of race, immigration, gender and class.
“I am deeply honored to be on @BarackObama’s summer reading list, and more than a little nostalgic for a president who values reading,” the author Lauren Wilkinson wrote on Twitter.
Mr. Obama wrote that Ms. Wilkinson’s “American Spy,” her debut novel about a black female secret agent, is “a whole lot more than just a spy thriller, wrapping together the ties of family, of love, and of country.”
The list also includes “The Nickel Boys,” Mr. Whitehead’s fictionalized account of the state-run Dozier School for Boys, where dozens of students were tortured. Mr. Whitehead was among a handful of novelists, along with Zadie Smith, Barbara Kingsolver, Junot Díaz and Dave Eggers, whom Mr. Obama invited to a luncheon at the end of his presidency.
Stephanie Land’s recent memoir, “Maid,” which chronicles her time as a single mother and cleaner, offers an “unflinching look at America’s class divide” and “a reminder of the dignity of all work,” according to Mr. Obama.
“I’m so dead rn,” Ms. Land wrote on Twitter in response to the list. “I can’t believe I get a chance to be on this list with these very incredible writers.”
President Obama recommends Téa Obreht, Lauren Wilkinson, and more for your late summer reading.
This afternoon, on Facebook, President Barack Obama posted one of his periodic reading lists, updating us all on the books—new and old—that he’s been reading and enjoying this summer.
Another memoir, Hope Jahren’s “Lab Girl,” follows both the writer’s personal journey to becoming a scientist and her work on the secret life of plants. In her 2016 review of the work, Ms. Kakutani called it “a book that, at its best, does for botany what Oliver Sacks’s essays did for neurology.”
Here’s the full summer reading list, with links to reviews:
The collected works of Toni Morrison
“The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead
“Exhalation” by Ted Chiang
“Wolf Hall” by Hilary Mantel
“Men Without Women” by Haruki Murakami
“American Spy” by Lauren Wilkinson
“The Shallows” by Nicholas Carr
“Lab Girl” by Hope Jahren
“Inland” by Téa Obreht
“How to Read the Air” by Dinaw Mengestu
“Maid” by Stephanie Land
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