NIGHTLY READING THREAD: This is Edition #79 of #GMGReads. Every night through this (increasingly) weird (and sad) time, I've been tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and a link to an indie bookstore where you can order them online....
I've been struggling all day about whether to feature a #GMGReads tonight, or just fall silent amid the awfulness of this moment. This has been the saddest week of my life as an American and my heart aches for the pain in so many places across the country....
In the end, it's Tuesday—the day of new books in publishing—so I decided to feature an appropriate list for the day and the time, new-(ish) books by writers of color, all available at @bookshop_org through the black-owned @SemicolonChi in Chicago:
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1) Brit Bennett's (@britrbennett) new novel, out today, THE VANISHING HALF follows a Louisiana family navigating race amid the 20th Century: bookshop.org/books/the-vani…
2) Also out today, Wayétu Moore's (@wayetu) THE DRAGONS, THE GIANT, THE WOMEN is about fleeing Liberia's civil war and dislocation amid arriving in America: bookshop.org/books/the-drag…
3) Poet Claudia Rankine used her book CITIZEN: AN AMERICAN LYRIC to collect observations on being black in America: bookshop.org/books/citizen-…
4) Sarah Broom's (@sarahmbroom) memoir THE YELLOW HOUSE, about growing up in New Orleans, won the National Book Award last year: bookshop.org/books/the-yell…
5) I was really excited last year to get Marlon James' BLACK LEOPARD RED WOLF (at @magersandquinn actually) so I'm finally going to get his A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS too: bookshop.org/books/a-brief-…
Those are tonight's #GMGReads. I'm going to order these myself—I hope you'll join me in picking up new writers with new perspectives. Buy a book. Expand your world. What are your favorite recent books by writers of color? What else should I be reading? Share! #avidreadersunite
