Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars, and Scoundrels – Isabel Sun Chao and Claire Chao Memoir is not my usual go-to genre and oftentimes…
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A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
– It Completes Me! I have a friend with whom I share very similar taste in books. Not everything she loves I love, or vice-versa,…
The Last American Man
– It’s Okay It’s not every day a skinny little, 271 page book leaves you deeply conflicted and wrestling both with what you enjoyed about…
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi – Shannon Chakraborty You know how sometimes you just want a fun and engaging book to snuggle up with? Well,…
The Woman They Could Not Silence
The Woman They Could Not Silence – Kate Moore As someone who cannot stop recommending ‘The Radium Girls’ to absolutely everyone who asks me for…
8 Books to Read for Juneteenth
This book list is a place to start if you’re interested in 1) learning more about Juneteenth and it’s significance in American history 2) encountering…
8 Non-Fiction Books About Women, by Women
Women are AMAZING!! Unfortunately, women’s stories and her-story (as opposed to his-tory) have been overlooked, dismissed as unimportant, and all too often simply never written…
Ithaca
Ithaca – Claire North In general I enjoy a creative retelling of a classic legend/myth so I was excited to read Claire North’s retelling of…
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers – Mary Roach This book may have been the one book I was looking most forward to reading…
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
– It’s Worth It! Handed to me by a teacher I have the privilege to work with on a weekly basis, Linda Sue Park’s “A…