Book Club of One

Featured Books and Resources Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich   Worldcat The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda (Translated by Alison Watts)   Worldcat The Martian by Andy Weir   Worldcat War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan   Worldcat We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust by Rafael Medoff, Neal Adams and Craig Yoe   Worldc...

Featured Books and Resources Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark    Worldcat The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye, (Trans) James Kirkup, (Intro) Toni Morrison   Worldcat Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson    Worldcat Fatelessness by Imre Kertész, Tim Wilkinson (Translator)   Worldcat Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds as They Were and as They are Today by  Tr...

2 poems by the musician and poet Ivor Gurney. 

Featured Books The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic By the New York Times Magazine   Worldcat American Road: The Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age by Pete Davies Worldcat Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread by Michiko Kakutani   Worldcat Generals Die In Bed by Charles Yale Harrison    Worldcat The Thursday Muder Club...

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Featured Books Conditional Citizen: On Belonging In America by Laila Lalami   Worldcat The City We Became  by N. K. Jemision    Worldcat Sermons and Soda Water  by John O’Hara   Worldcat Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror Edited by Lincoln Michel & Nadxieli Nieto   Worldcat The Health of the Commonwealth: A Brief History of Medicine, Public Health,...

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Books Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones   Worldcat Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom Worldcat Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers, 1852-1923 Edited by   Leslie S. Klinger and   Lisa Morton   Worldcat The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson, Michael Chabon...

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Booklist & Resources: One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson with a Foreword by Senator Dick Durbin.   Worldcat The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami      Worldcat The Writer’s Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives by Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager with an Introduction by Susan Orlean.   W...

Book Club of One reads his poem Ghost of a Memory and talks about its creation and influences.

Booklist & Resources Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison by Sarah, Omar El Akkad; and Gerardo Alba Mirk    Worldcat Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang Worldcat Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf   Worldcat Angel by Elizabeth Taylor   Worldcat The Green Man by Kingsely Amis   Worldcat Laura Jane Grace Bandca...

Book Club of One reads his poem Hefright and talks about its creation and influences. 

Booklist: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder   Worldcat Becoming by Michelle Obama    Worldcat When They Call You A Terrorist A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele, Angela Y. Davis (Foreword)   Worldcat Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah   Worldcat More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every M...

Booklist and resources: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein   Worldcat The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson   Worldcat The Need Helen Phillips     Worldcat Paul Tremblay Double Feature Survivor Song    Worldcat The Cabin at the End of the World   Worldcat Cumulative List of Featured Books New York Ti...

Booklist and resources: Paying The Land by Joe Sacco - Worldcat Drawing Power by Dianne Noomin (Editor) - Worldcat The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones - Worldcat Deal With the Devil by Kit Rocha - Worldcat Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff - Worldcat Cumulative List of Featured Books Tor’s List of the 25 Most Anticipated SFF Books for the Rest of 2020.

Booklist War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race by Edwin Black   Worldcat   Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In. By Phuc Tran   Worldcat   Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson   Worldcat   Castle Waiting Omnibus Vol. 1 by Linda Medley   Worldcat   Engleby by Sebastian Faulks &...

Booklist The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander   Worldcat Bookshop Eve of Man - Giovanna and Tom Fletcher Worldcat Bookshop An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - Hank Green Worldcat Bookshop Devolution - Max Brooks    Worldcat Bookshop Count and Spark - Sean Nelson   Worldcat Bookshop Other Links: Goodreads Cumulative List

Resources Showing Up For Racial Justice  Boston University Center for Antiracist Research Featured Book List White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo Worldcat  Bookshop (Read with caution: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/dehumanizing-condescension-white-fragility/614146/) How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi   Worldcat Bookshop...

Featured Books Strange Fruit, Volume 2: More Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History  by Joel Christian Gill    Worldcat BookShop Weather by Jenny Offill   Worldcat BookShop The First World War In 100 Objects by John Hughes-Wilson   Worldcat BookShop The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix Worldcat Let It Be by Colin Meloy Worldcat BookShop O...

Booklist Strange Fruit, Volume 1: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History  by Joel Christian Gill Worldcat    BookShop The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France by Ethan B. Katz   Worldcat     BookShop Penric’s Progress by Lois McMasters Bujold    Worldcat BookShop Shadows of a Childhood by Elisabeth Gille translated by Lind...

Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900 - 1925  by Vera Brittain   Worldcat   BookShop The Woods  By James Tynion IV Illustrated by Michael Dialynas Worldcat BookShop The New Frontier By Darwyn Cooke Worldcat BookShop Uncanny Valley  by Anna Weiner Worldcat BookShop Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror by W. Scott Poole Worldcat...

Episode 3:  Books Read So Far In May.  1. What Tommy Took to War, 1914 - 1918 - Peter Doyle, Photos by Chris Foster Worldcat 2. Feast Your Eyes - Myra Goldberg Worldcat BookShop.org 3. The Hard Times: The First 40 Years - Matt Sanicome and Bill Conway Worldcat BookShop.org 4. A Cosmology of Monsters - Shaun Hamill Worldcat BookShop.org 5. Beasts of Burden - Evan Dorkin, Art by Jill Thompson Worldc...

What I've read in April.  Meet Me In the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001- 2011 - Lizzy Goodman   Borrow    Buy   How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t with Your Kids: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Calmer, Happier Parent - Carla Naumburg   Borrow    Buy   A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles   Borrow    Buy   Harvey...

For the first episode, I talk through my 16 favorite books I've read so far in 2020. There was a limit to the number of links I could provide in the description, so there are no Indiebound links they can be emailed.  Where to find the books mentioned in this episode:  Howard's End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home - Susan Hill Worldcat Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri...