Episode 120 - Our 2020 Top Ten Books with Special Guest Russell Gray
Episode One Hundred Twenty Show Notes
KEY: CW = Chris Wolak and EF = Emily Fine
– Chris Wolak Top Ten –
The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics – Olivia Waite
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life – Joan D. Hedrick
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires – Grady Hendrix
Blacktop Wasteland – S.A. Cosby
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry – Imani Perry (the audiobook)
We Need to Talk: A Memoir about Wealth – Jennifer Risher
Forever Amber – Kathleen Winsor
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 – R.A. Scotti
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America – Ijeoma Oluo
Ring Shout – P. Djèlí Clark
– Emily Fine Top Ten –
The Revisioners – Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Transcendent Kingdom – Yaa Gyasi
The Prettiest Star – Carter Sickels
Shelter – Jung Yun
Separation Anxiety – Laura Zigman
A Small Thing to Want: Stories – Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger: A Memoir – Lisa Donovan
From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home – Tembi Locke (the audiobook)
Everything is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes – Phyllis Grant
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times – Katherine May (the audiobook)
– Russell Gray Top Ten –
[You can find Russell on his YouTube channel Ink and Paper Blog]
Interior Chinatown – Charles Yu
Cleanness – Garth Greenwell
The Great Offshore Grounds – Vanessa Veselka
Museum of Modern Love – Heather Rose
The Prettiest Star – Carter Sickels
The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories – Danielle Evans
The Street – Ann Petry
Call Me by Your Name – André Aciman
Memorial – Bryan Washington
Real Life – Brandon Taylor
– Also Mentioned –
Hub City Press
My Best Friend’s Exorcism – Grady Hendrix
Reading Women Podcast
Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
Shōgun – James Clavell
Matthew Goodman
Lot: Stories – Bryan Washington
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 – P. Djèlí Clark
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