The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (Format used for this read: Audiobook) Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to…
Here For It or How To Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas (Format used for this read: Audiobook) R. Eric Thomas didn’t know he was different until the world told him so. Everywhere he went – whether it was his rich, mostly white, suburban high school, his conservative Black church, or his…
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (Format used for this read: Audiobook) In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has…
Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala On the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, D.C., he’s a top student and a track star at his prestigious private high school. Bound for Harvard in the fall, his prospects are bright. But Niru has a painful secret: he is queer—an…
Pride: A Pride & Prejudice Remix by Ibi Zoboi (Format used for this book: Audiobook) In a timely update of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of first love in her vibrant reimagining of this beloved classic. A smart, funny, gorgeous retelling…
The School For Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan (Format used for this read: Audiobook) Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn’t have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents’ sacrifices. She can’t persuade her husband, Gust, to give up his wellness-obsessed younger mistress. Only with Harriet, their cherubic daughter, does Frida finally attain the perfection…
I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi (Format used for this book: Audiobook) “With over 500,000 readers a month at her enormously popular blog, AwesomelyLuvvie.com, Luvvie Ajayi is a go-to source for smart takes on pop culture. I’m Judging You is her debut book of humorous essays that dissects our cultural obsessions and calls out…
Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi (Format used for this book: Audio) Up until few years ago, my bookshelf was pretty racially and culturally homogenous when it came to authors. Meaning… Almost *ALL* the authors I read were WHITE….and either American or British. That was about it. This was not intentional….I seemed to just gravitate to what…
You Can’t Be Serious by Kal Penn (Format used for this read: Audiobook) When I told my husband I was reading Kal Penn’s autobiography he was like “Uhhh….Why?” I have not been known to be a huge Kal Penn superfan. In fact, I have not been known to be a fan at all 😬 To…
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement (Format used for this read: Print—hardback) SO many people recommended this book to me. I was so happy that my husband gifted it to me on my birthday back in November…he actually heard about it while listening to Glennon Doyle’s podcast “We…