Books Are My People

On this episode, author Mindy Mejia, author of Strike Me Down, comes to visit and we talk about The Echo Wife, You Will Know Me and other great books!  Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify Find me on instagram at @jennifercaloyeras email me at booksaremypeople at gmail dot com Books Discussed: Land of Shadows – Rachel Howzell Every Last Fear Alex Finlay Bad Habits by Am...

On this episode I discuss How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue, Who Is Maude Dixon? And other great books! Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify Find me on instagram at @jennifercaloyeras Books Discussed:  (click any book to be taken to my Bookshop.org store) The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen Justine by Forsyth Harmon The Babysitter by Liza Rodman and Jennifer How Beaut...

On this episode, author Heather Bell Adams comes to visit and we talk about The Dearly beloved by Cara Wall, Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz and other great books.   Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify Find me on instagram at @jennifercaloyeras Books Discussed: The All Night Sun Diane Zinna  Fourteen Talk by Age 14: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have With...

On this episode, I talk about Milkfed by Melissa Broder, Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan and other great books.   Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify Find me on instagram at @jennifercaloyeras Books Discussed: We Run the Tides by  Vendela Vida    Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan       The Delivery by Peter Mendelsund      Milkfed by Melissa Broder Burnt Sugar by Avni Dosh...

On this episode, Jacki Skole, author of Dogland,  and I talk about dog books including  The Friend by Sigrid Nunez, The Particulars of Peter by Kelly Conaboy and other great books.   Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify Find me on instagram at @jennifercaloyeras Books Discussed: Dogland: A Journey into the Heart of America’s Dog Problem by Jacki Skole The Friend by Sigr...

On this episode, I talk about The Rib King, My Brilliant Life  and other great books.  Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify Find me on instagram at @jennifercaloyeras Books Discussed: (click books to be taken to my bookshop.org shop) My Brilliant Life by Ae-ran Kim The Housewife Chronicles by Jennifer Snow The Rib King Ladee Hubbard We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen The M...

On this episode, I talk about The Wife Upstairs, The Fortunate Ones and other great books. And you can enter a book giveaway!  Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify Find me on instagram at @jennifercaloyeras Books Discussed: (click books to be taken to my bookshop.org shop) Ed Tarkington The Fortunate Ones The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rache...

On this episode, I go back in time and visit some of my favorites books  from 2017 including White Tears and Forest Dark.  Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify Find me on instagram at @jennifercaloyeras Books Discussed: (click books to be taken to my bookshop.org shop) The Leavers by Lisa Ko Her Body and other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado White Tears by Hari Kunsru F...

On this episode, author Marit Weisenberg visits and speaks about her novel, The Insomniacs. We also discuss The Dutch House, The Harpy  and other great books.  Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify Books Discussed: (click books to be taken to my bookshop.org shop) The Insomniacs by Marit Weisenberg The Harpy by Megan Hunter Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt T...

On this episode, I talk about Caste by Isabelle Wilkerson, Intimations by Zadie Smith and other great books. Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify FREE shipping on all orders in my Bookshop.org bookstore through November 30th. Click here to be taken there. Books Discussed: Caste by Isabel Wilkerson The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes Intimations by Zadie Smith Santa Monic...

On this episode, author Kitty Cook visits and speaks about her novel, Sleeping Together. We also talk about Why Fish Don’t Exist, This Is How You Lose the Time War and other great books.  Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify Books Discussed: (click books to be taken to my bookshop.org shop) Sleeping Together  by Kitty Cook Why Fish Don’t Exist: The story of Loss, Love a...

On this episode, I talk about White Ivy, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America and other great books. Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify Books Discussed: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi White Ivy by Susie Yang Anxious People by Fredrik Backman How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon Miss Iceland by Audor Ava Olafsdottir   Other...

On this episode, I speak with author Mallory Tater about The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun, Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss and other great books. Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify Books Discussed:  The Birth Yard by Mallory Tater The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun How a Woman Becomes a Lake by Marjorie Celona Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession Ghost Wall by Sarah Mo...

On this episode, I talk about Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi and other great books. Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify Want to join my writing workshop on October 18th from 10 - 11:30 am? Click here to register and learn more. You can purchase all the books I discuss on this episode by clicking this link!  Books Discussed:  Ha...

On this episode Midge Raymond, publisher and author of My Last Continent, stops by for a visit. We share some of our favorite environmentally friendly reads including We Are Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler, Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver and other great books. Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify Want to join my writing workshop on October 18th fr...

On this episode I discuss The Insomniacs by Marit Weisenberg, Luster by Raven Leilani and other great books! Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify You can purchase all the books I discuss on this episode by clicking this link! Books Discussed: Born A Crime - by Trevor Noah The Insomniacs – Marit Weisenberg Musical Chairs by Amy POeppel Luster by Raven Leilani Kasuma: The...

On this episode Julie Christine Johnson, author of The Crows of Beara, stops by for a visit. We share some of our favorite recent reads including The Vanishing Half, Disappearing Earth and other great books. Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify You can purchase all the books I discuss on this episode by clicking this link! Books Discussed: The Crows of Beara by Julie Ch...

On this episode I discuss Enter the Aardvark by Jessica Anthony, Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia and other great books! Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify You can purchase all the books I discuss on this episode by clicking this link! Books Discussed: Enter the Aardvark by Jessica Anthony Turbulence by David Szalay Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi This Was Our Pact...

On this episode Katy Yocom visits to discuss her novel Three Ways To Disappear and share some of her favorite reads. You can purchase all the books I discuss on this episode by clicking this link!  Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify Books Discussed: Three Ways to Disappear by Katy Yocom Sleeping Together by Kitty Cook Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino 2 am at the Cat’s...

On this episode I discuss The Last Flight by Julie Clark, Devolution:  A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks and other great books! You can purchase all the books I discuss on this episode by clicking this link. Or click on the individual book titles below.  Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify Books Discussed: The Last Flight by Julie Clar...

On this episode I get a visit from author JoeAnn Hart and we discuss her memoir Stamford '76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race and Feminism in the 1970's as well as Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld and The End of October by Lawrence Wright and other great books! You can purchase all the books I discuss on this episode by clicking this link!  Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS...

On this episode I discuss How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson and other great books! Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify Books Discussed: How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson   White Fragility by Robin Diangelo This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell and Aurelia Dorand   Between the World And Me...

Books Are My People #24 On this episode I discuss A Children's Bible by Lydia Miller, Woman on the Edge by Samantha M. Bailey and other great books! Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify Books Discussed: A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes One Day by David Nicholls Happy & you Know it by Laura Hankin Woman on the Edge by Samantha M. Ba...

On this episode I discuss Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker, We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry and other great books! Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify Books Discussed: Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa 2am at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino A Tender Thing by Emily Neuberg...

On this episode I discuss Pretend I'm Dead by Jen Beagin, The Southern Bookclub's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix and other great books! Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS , iTunes , or Spotify Books Discussed: Pretend I’m Dead by Jen Beagin   The Southern Bookclub’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix The Lonely City: Adventures in the art of being alone by Oli...