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Books Discussed
Not So Stories edited by David Thomas Moore
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Bachelor Nation by Amy Kaufman
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me by Jennifer Teege
Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink
Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City by Kate Winkler Dawson
Bachelor Girl by Betsy Israel (trigger warning: discussion of rape)
The Extra Woman by Joanna Scutts
I Can Barely Take Care of Myself by Jen Kirkman
The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum
Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America’s Greatest Unsolved Murder by Piu Eatwell
The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee
The Song Poet by Kao Kalia Yang
Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People by Helen Zia
“Stories of Your Life” from Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language by Melvyn Bragg
Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
From #blacklivesmatter To Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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