Book Club for Masochists: a Readers' Advisory Podcast

It's our 5th anniversary episode and this time we're discussing Bad Book Reading Habits! Sticky notes, bookmarks, tagging and tracking, borrowing more library books than we can read, books on display in video calls, reading books out of order, throwing books in the garbage, and more! Plus: Which host is a book goblin? (The answer may surprise you.)

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Media We Mentioned

• If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
  • The copy of the book mentioned that had marginalia
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
• Acquired Traits by Raissa Berg
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
• Goodnight Tweetheart by Teresa Medeiros
• ttyl by Lauren Myracle

Links, Articles, and Things

• Marginalia (Wikipedia)
• WereBear (Wikipedia)
• Convergence (Wikipedia)
• Goblin (Dungeons & Dragons) (Wikipedia)
• Pathfinder Roleplaying Game (Wikipedia)
• Sequel Rights: A Review of Locus Reviews
• Twitterature (Wikipedia)

30 books by Indigenous authors published in the past 5 years

Since 2020, we've been sharing lists of books by authors of colour for every new genre we read - and with our non-genre episodes, sharing lists for the genres we covered in our early episodes. The early episode we're creating a booklist for this month is Episode 009: Aboriginal / Indigenous / First Nations. Our booklist for this episode features works by Indigenous authors that have been published since that episode came out in 2016.

Fiction

• Bawaajigan: Stories of Power edited by Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler
• Indians on Vacation by Thomas King
• There There by Tommy Orange
• Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
• Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

Non-Fiction

• A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
• 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph
• In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience by Helen Knott
• Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel
• From Where I Stand: Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for A Stronger Canada by Jody Wilson-Raybould

Young Adult

• The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
• Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones
• Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
• Strangers by David Alexander Robertson
• Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Picture Books

• Bowwow Powwow : Bagosenjige-niimi'idim by Brenda J. Child, Jonathan Thunder, and Gordon Jourdain
• You Hold Me Up by Monique Gray Smith and Danielle Daniel
• Awâsis and the World-Famous Bannock by Dallas Hunt and Amanda Strong
• We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade
• Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard and Juana Martinez-Neal

Poetry

• NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field by Billy-Ray Belcourt
• Holy Wild by Gwen Benaway
• From Turtle Island to Gaza by David Groulx
• it was never going to be okay by jaye simpson
• Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

Comics

• This Place: 150 Years Retold
• Dakwäkãda Warriors by Cole Pauls
• Surviving the City by Tasha Spillett and Natasha Donovan
• Pemmican Wars by Katherena Vermette and Scott B. Henderson
• Carpe Fin: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

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Join us again on Tuesday, April 6th we'll be talking about the genre of Psychological Horror! (With a special guest co-host!)

Then on Tuesday, April 20th we'll be giving an update on non-podcast media we've been reading, watching, and otherwise experiencing.

This episode we're talking about Biology Non-Fiction! We discuss epidemiology, genetics, microbes, kissing, sex, and more! Plus: using physical bookmarks when reading ebooks!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live by Nicholas A. Christakis
• Acquired Traits by Raissa Berg
• World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
• The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us by Sheril Kirshenbaum
• Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
• I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
• Clean: The New Science of Skin by James Hamblin
• What Happens When You Quit Showering?
• Don't Just Sit There: Transitioning to a Standing and Dynamic Workstation for Whole-Body Health by Katy Bowman
• Foundation: Redefine Your Core, Conquer Back Pain, and Move with Confidence by Eric Goodman
• The Cure for Everything: Untangling Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness, and Happiness by Timothy Caulfield

Other Media We Mentioned

• After Man: A Zoology of the Future by Dougal Dixon
• Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future by Dougal Dixon
• The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution by Dougal Dixon
• 30-Second Biology: The 50 Most Thought-Provoking Theories Of Life, Each Explained In Half A Minute
• Know It All Biology: The 50 Most Elemental Concepts in Biology, Each Explained in Under a Minute
• Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
• Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
• Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
• If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body by James Hamblin

Links, Articles, and Things

• Possum Every Hour
• Cégep (Wikipedia)
• Why Is Poop Brown?
• RJ's Instagram post
• Plague doctor (Wikipedia)
• Naukograd (science city) (Wikipedia)
• Lamarckism (Wikipedia)
• Lysenkoism (Wikipedia)
• Genetics and The Modern Synthesis: Crash Course History of Science #35
• Cybernetics (Wikipedia)

Biology Non-Fiction Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Science in Black and White: How Biology and Environment Shape Our Racial Divide by Alondra Oubré
• The Spectrum of Sex: The Science of Male, Female and Intersex by Hida Viloria and Maria Nieto
• Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science by Carol Kaesuk Yoon
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Monarchs and Milkweed: A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution by Anurag Agrawal
• The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
• I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
• World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

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Join us again on Tuesday, 16th we'll be talking about Bad Book Reading Habits!

Join us again on Tuesday, April 6th we'll be talking about the genre of Psychological Horror! (With a special guest co-host!)

This episode we're discussing what makes a good book cover: The Design and Art of Books! We talk about physically icky feeling books, hidden messages on (and under) book covers, the history of the book, women's pants, and more! Plus: We discuss whether we prefer hardcovers, trade paperbacks, or mass market paperbacks!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Books We Mentioned

• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
• Tampa by Alissa Nutting
• Made for Love by Alissa Nutting
• Rotherweird by Andrew Caldecott
• Cheap Toys #23 by Giz Medium (zine with sandpaper cover)
• Get Fuzzy by Darby Donley
• Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
• X-Statix Omnibus by Peter Milligan, Mike Allred, and others
• Wise Child by Monica Furlong
• Juniper by Monica Furlong
• The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
• Support Your Local Wizard by Diane Duane
• Weetzie Bat series (This is the Witch Baby edition RJ likes)
• Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
• The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
• Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned by Judd Winick
• Monstress series by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda
• Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
• Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
• Hidden messages on the book cover
• The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine
• The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
• A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White
• Old Man's War by John Scalzi
• Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
• The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz
• The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
• Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
• The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
• The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden

Links, Articles, and Things

• Dust jacket (Wikipedia)
• C.S. Richardson on Book Design, Clip 1
• Nicole Caputo talks about her design process x Belletrist
• Rotating book lectern
• Marvel Comics reveals 20 amazing cosplay-based covers
• Why Do So Many Book Covers Look the Same? Blame Getty Images
• How readers can react to 'Handbook' ruckus (stolen cover art)
• Meet the Online Vigilante Battling Heavy Metal Art Theft
• 2021 Book Cover Design Trends to Follow
• 8 Top Book Cover Design Trends for 2021
• Book Covers of Note, January 2021
• Variant cover (Wikipedia)
• Valiant to Use Different Foils for Variant Cover for QUANTUM AND WOODY! #1
• Radio-frequency identification (RFID) (Wikipedia)
• ISO 6357 — Spine titles on books and other publications
• Fore-Edge Paintings: Beauty on the Edge
• Painting hidden in gilt edges of rare book
• Fore-edge painting (Wikipedia)
• Fore-Edge Paintings
• The French Flap
• Moleskine (Wikipedia)
• Blog Talk: Are Romance Book Covers Starting A New Design Trend?
• At a Romance Cover Shoot, There's No Such Thing As Too Much Wind Machine
• How I Became A Romance Cover Model
• Why so many book cover male models are headless….
• With Romance Novels Booming, Beefcake Sells, but It Doesn't Pay
• New York Public Library collection of Russian bookjackets
• Alcuin Society – Promoting interest in the book arts
• Ain't That a Shame (2009 blog post by Justine Larbalestier about the whitewashed cover of the US edition of her book "Liar")
• Cover story: The curious case of a shared database
• Link to our Pinterest page with all the covers

22 Winter Holiday Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) Authors

Fiction

• Twelve Dates of Christmas by Rilzy Adams
• A Christmas Parranda by Andrea Beatriz Arango
• A Wedding One Christmas by Therese Beharrie
• Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory
• Seven Swans a' Shooting by Kyra Davis
• Sweet on You: A Filipino Christmas Romance by Carla de Guzman
• Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe by Melissa de la Cruz
• Noelle The First by Nicole Falls
• Kwanzaa Angel by by Shirley Hailstock
• The Magic of Mistletoe by Carolyn Hector
• Mangoes & Mistletoe by Adriana Herrera
• Wrapped Up in You by Talia Hibbert
• I'll Be Home for Christmas by Beverly Jenkins
• Her Pretend Christmas Date by Jackie Lau
• True Love for Christmas by D. Rose
• A Mistletoe Murder: A Christmas Novella by Necole Ryse

Non-Fiction

• An Aboriginal Carol by David Bouchard, Moses Beaver, & Susan Aglukark
• A Treasury of African-American Christmas Stories by Bettye Collier-Thomas
• A Christmas Story: Behind the Scenes of a Holiday Classic by Caseen Gaines
• Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture by Maulana Karenga
• Kwanzaa: Black Power and the Making of the African-American Holiday Tradition by Keith A. Mayes
• Christmas Gif': An Anthology of Christmas Poems, Songs and Stories Written By and About African-Americans by Charlemae Rollins, Joseph Rollins, and Ashley Bryan

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Join us again on Tuesday, March 2nd we'll be talking about the genre of Biology Non-Fiction!

Then on Tuesday, March 16th we'll be discussing Bad Book Reading Habits!

Just in time for Valentine's Day, we're talking about Regency Romance! We discuss dukes, sex, the ton, misunderstandings, feelings, and (of course) Bridgerton. Plus: someone's otter gets loose, if you know what we mean.

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• The Lady's Choice (visual novel)
  • Part 1 of our stream (with Meghan and Matthew)
  • Part 2 of our stream
• Northanger Abbey (visual novel)
  • Part 1 of our stream (with RJ and Matthew)
  • Part 2 of our stream
• The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare
• The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
• Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer
• My Darling Duke by Stacy Reid
• Her Wicked Marquess by Stacy Reid
• Redeeming the Reclusive Earl by Virginia Heath
• The Duke Who Didn't by Courtney Milan
• Unmasked by the Marquess by Cat Sebastian

Other Media We Mentioned

• Bridgerton (Wikipedia)
• Soulless by Gail Carriger
• People Are Still Having Sex by LaTour
• Imperial Space Regency Series by Kai Butler
• Accidentally Compromising the Duke by Stacy Reid
• Ten Things I Hate About the Duke by Loretta Chase
• The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite
• The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

Old Episodes of Our Podcast Specifically about Romance Fiction

• Episode 001 - Historical Romance
• Episode 061 - Romance Fiction
• Episode 070 - Erotic Romance
• Episode 094 - Chick Lit Romance

Links, Articles, and Things

• Regency era (Wikipedia)
• Ton (le bon ton) (Wikipedia)
• Georgette Heyer (Wikipedia
• Japanese era name (Wikipedia)
• Looking for Regency Romances written by People of Colour (Reddit thread) - Thanks to everyone for their suggestions!
• Regency Love (iPhone game we didn't play)
• RITA Award (Wikipedia)
• Vivian Award
• Why Are So Many Romances Set in the Regency Period?

14 Regency Romances by Authors of Colour

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• The Duke Identity by Grace Callaway
• The Duke Who Knew Too Much by Grace Callaway
• To Tame a Scandalous Lady by Liana De la Rosa
• The Beast of Beswick by Amalie Howard
• The Governess Affair by Courtney Milan
• Proof by Seduction by Courtney Milan
• Mrs. Martin's Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan
• Her Night with the Duke by Diana Quincy
• The Marquess and I by Stacy Reid
• The Scandalous Diary of Lily Layton by Stacy Reid
• A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby by Vanessa Riley
• The Bashful Bride by Vanessa Riley
• The Luckiest Lady in London by Sherry Thomas
• Beguiling the Beauty by Sherry Thomas

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Join us again on Tuesday, February 16th we'll be discussing What makes a good book cover? Design and art of books!

Then on Tuesday, March 2nd we'll be talking about the genre of Biology Non-Fiction!

This episode we're talking about Our Reading Resolutions and Intentions for 2021! We discuss failing our reading resolutions from 2020, reading in a pandemic, reading for fun, reading for work, reading (or not reading) books given to us as gifts, and how we deal with To Read lists. Plus: Matthew's appalling reading plans for 2021.

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Media We Mentioned

• I'm on lockdown so I watched all 14 Land Before Times by Jenny Nicholson
• SciShow YouTube channel
• Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People, and Fantastic Adventure from Chess to Role-Playing Games by Jon Peterson
• Drokk! Judge Dredd readthrough podcast
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Links, Articles, and Things

• Stream of The Lady's Choice (with Matthew & Meghan)
  • Part 2 on Friday, January 22nd, 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific at https://www.twitch.tv/bookclub4m
• Stream of Northanger Abbey (with Matthew & RJ)
  • Part 2 on Friday, January 29nd, 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific at https://www.twitch.tv/bookclub4m
• Episode 093 - 2020 Reading Resolutions and Intentions
• Episode 114 - Hot Cocoa & Book Recommendations
• Our 2020 Reading Resolutions and Intentions Bingo sheet

18 Cozy Mystery Books by POC (People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• The Plot Is Murder by V.M. Burns
• In the Dog House by V.M. Burns
• Murder, Mayhem, and a Fine Man by Claudia Mair Burney
• A Deadly Inside Scoop by Abby Collette
• Sex, Murder and a Double Latte by Kyra Davis
• Mama Solves A Murder by Nora DeLoach
• A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder by Shamini Flint
• Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett
• Murder in G Major by Alexia Gordon
• Going Nowhere Fast by Gar Anthony Haywood
• The Company You Keep by Angela Henry
• Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala (forthcoming, May 2021)
• The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
• Mayhem & Mass by Olivia Matthews
• Deep Fried Trouble by Tyora Moody
• Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely
• The Frangipani Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu
• Aunty Lee's Delights by Ovidia Yu

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Join us again on Tuesday, February 2nd, just in time for Valentine's Day, we'll be doing our annual romance fiction episode and talking about the genre of Regency Romance!

Then on Tuesday, February 16th we'll be discussing What makes a good book cover? Design and art of books!

This episode we're reading Sociology Non-Fiction! We discuss the differences between sociology and psychology, what Karl Marx and Aziz Ansari have in common, the over-educated but kind-of-broke worker, and the difficulties of reading books that make us both sad and angry. Plus: Pandemic Monkey Brains!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Amanda Wanner

Things We Read (or tried to read)

• From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
• Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks (this is better than Matthew implied in the episode, it is worth reading)
• Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
• The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr
• Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg
• Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
• All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers and the Myth of Equal Partnership by Darcy Lockman
• Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen
• What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon

Other Media We Mentioned

• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshona Zuboff
• Disasters: A Sociological Approach by Kathleen Tierney
• The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification by Randall Collins
• Engines of Anxiety: Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability by Wendy Nelson Espeland and Michael Sauder
• Beyond the Body: Death and Social Identity by Elizabeth Hallam, Glennys Howarth, Jenny Hockey
• The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
• The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
• Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America by Michael Ruhlamn
• Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal by Abigail Carroll
• Death of Sandra Bland (Wikipedia)
• Food Mirages in Guelph, Ontario: The Impacts of Limited Food Accessibility and Affordability on Low-income Residents by Benjamin Reeve (not mentioned during the episode, but this is someone's actual sociology thesis that Matthew thinks is neat)
• Body Politics: Power, Sex, and Nonverbal Communication by Nancy M. Henley (Amanda meant to mention this book but forgot!)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Where Do Librarians Come From? Examining Educational Diversity in Librarianship by Rachel Ivy Clarke (I think this is way less humanities-focussed than our program was…)
• Michel Foucault (Wikipedia)
• Dr. Thomas Kemple
• Readers' Advisory for Library Staff (Facebook Group)
• JUMPSUIT - "Jumpsuit: how to make a personal uniform for the end of capitalism"
• Code Switch (NPR Podcast)
• Louder Than A Riot (NPR Podcast)
• According to Need (99% Invisible Podcast)
• Sabrina and Friends: Answers in Progress
  • How Conspiracy Theories Work (a good example of a video showing the research process)
• Trader Joe's (Wikipedia)
• What does it mean to be working class in Canada? (Macleans article)

15 Sociology Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation by Oluwakemi M. Balogun
• W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America edited by by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert
• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs & Scott Kurashige
• Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
• Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
• Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
• Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims by Hussein Kesvani
• I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism by Lee Maracle
• Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and The Fight Against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson
• Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paola Ramos
• Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles by Rocío Rosales
• Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
• Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor by Sudhir Venkatesh
• Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Watch us Stream!

• Our Twitch channel - Fridays in January, 9pm Eastern
• Our YouTube channel - Recordings of streams

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Join us again on Tuesday, January 19th when we'll be talking about our Reading Resolutions for 2021!

Then on Tuesday, February 2nd, just in time for Valentine's Day, we'll be doing our annual romance fiction episode and talking about the genre of Regency Romance!

This episode we're talking about the Best Books We Read in 2020! (Not necessarily things that came out in 2020, but there are some of those too!) We discuss reading in the pandemic era, "good enough" reads, academic publishing, and more! Plus: Are noodles media?

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Favourite Fiction

• For the podcast
• • Matthew
  • • The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark
    • • (From Episode 106 - Alternative/Alternate History)
    • Serre
    • • Watch Matthew and Meghan play this visual novel!
      • (From Episode 108 - Visual Novels)
  • Anna
  • • Dead Astronauts by Jeff Vandermeer
    • • (From Episode 115 - New Weird)
    • Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville
    • • (From Episode 106 - Alternative/Alternate History)
  • Meghan
  • • The Etched City by KJ Bishop
    • • (From Episode 115 - New Weird)
  • RJ
  • • Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
    • • (From Episode 107 - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi)
• Not for the podcast
• • Anna
  • • Binding Shadows by Jasmine Silvera
  • Meghan
  • • The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
  • RJ
  • • Saturday by Oge Mora
    • Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira
    • • Read online for free
    • Delicious In Dungeon, vol. 1 by Ryoko Kui
  • Matthew
  • • A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark
    • • Read online for free
    • The Space Traders by Derrick Bell (Wikipedia)
    • • Collected in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora edited by Sheree Thomas
    • 68:Hazard:Cold by Janelle C. Shane
    • • Read online for free
      • Listen to the podcast version
    • Houses by Mark Pantoja
    • • Read online for free
    • The Murderbot Diaries Series by Martha Wells

Favourite Non-Fiction

• • For the podcast
    • Meghan
      • Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery
        • (From Episode 092 - Arts (Non-Fiction))
    • RJ
      • The Debunking Handbook by John Cook and Stephan Lewandowsky
        • (From Episode 100 - Library and Information Studies)
      • Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms by John Hodgman
        • (From Episode 104 - Entertainment Non-Fiction)
    • Matthew
      • Comics and Critical Librarianship: Reframing the Narrative in Academic Libraries edited by Olivia Piepmeier and Stephanie Grimm
        • (From Episode 100 - Library and Information Studies)

• • • • A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power by Paul Fischer
        • (From Episode 104 - Entertainment Non-Fiction)
  • Anna
    • Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction by Maria T. Accardi
      • (From Episode 100 - Library and Information Studies)
    • Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film by Adilifu Nama
      • (From Episode 104 - Entertainment Non-Fiction)

• Not for the podcast
• • RJ
  • • Dinosaur Feathers by Dennis Nolan
  • Matthew
  • • Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots by Kate Devlin
  • Anna
  • • On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
  • Meghan
  • • The Undying by Anne Boyer

Other Favourites Things of 2020

• Anna
• • The Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb (trailer on YouTube)
• RJ
• • Dan-Dan Noodles?? Noodles are media, right???
  • • Dandan noodles (Wikipedia)
    • RJ's recipe
  • Leather Archives & Museum Instagram account
  • Game Changer episode 1 - The Game Show Where Nobody Knows the Rules (YouTube)
• Matthew
• • Reply All, episode 158, The Case of the Missing Hit
  • Anarchism & Police Abolition｜Feat. Domri Rade
  • Mis(h)adra by Iasmin Omar Ata
• Meghan
• • Nature (no hyperlink, see: outside) (No, there's a hyperlink - Matthew)

Runner-Ups

• RJ
• • Fiction
  • • Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
    • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
• RJ
• • Other
  • • Steven Universe Future (Wikipedia)
    • Sohla El-Waylly / Stump Sohla
• Meghan
• • Fiction
  • • Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
    • The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya
    • Self Care by Leigh Stein
    • Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
    • After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones
    • The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
    • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
    • Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu
    • Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
    • Immigrant City by David Bezmozgis
• Meghan
• • Non-fiction
  • • Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck
    • The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara
    • In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
    • Turning by Jessica J. Lee
    • Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui
    • Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
    • Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
    • Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language by Katherine Russell Rich
• Meghan
• • French Language
  • • Tom Thomson, esquisses du printemps by Sandrine Revel
    • Les petites victoires by Yvon Roy
    • Waves by Ingrid Chabbert
    • Un soleil entre des planètes mortes by Anneli Furmak
• Matthew
• • Comics
  • • Emanon, vol. 1 by Shinji Kajio and Kenji Tsuruta
    • On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
    • • Read online
    • Super Fun Sexy Times by Meredith McClaren
    • When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll
    • Monstress, vol. 3: Haven by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda (yes, I'm two volumes behind, the next volume is literally sitting on my shelf waiting to be read)
    • Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle, vol. 1 by Kagiji Kumanomata
    • Steeple by John Allison (webcomic)
    • Blade Runner 2019, vol. 1 by Michael Green, Mike Johnson, Andres Guinaldo (Illustrator)
    • Le facteur de l'espace by Guillaume Perreault (in French! It's not just Meghan who reads French language things now)
    • • Available in English as The Postman from Space
    • Rock Mary Rock, vol. 1 by Nicky Soh
    • • Webcomic version
    • Gardens of Glass by Lando

Other Media We Mentioned

• You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane
• Robots: The Recent A.I. edited by Rich Horton and Sean Wallace
• Pulgasari (Wikipedia) - North Korean giant monster movie
• I Blame the Patriarchy by Twisty Faster

Links, Articles, and Things

• #LibFaves20 (library worker's favourite books published in 2020)
• National Magazine Awards Winners 2020
• AI Weirdness
• Overlay journal
• Our Twitch channel!

21 Books in Translation by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Mama Hissa's Mice by Saud Alsanousi, translated by Sawad Hussain (Arabic)
• Mirror of the Darkest Night by Mahasweta Devi, translated by Shamya Dasgupta (Bengali)
• Invisible Planets: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese SF in Translation, edited and translated by Ken Liu (Chinese)
• Beijing Comrades by Bei Tong, translated by Scott E. Myers (Chinese)
• The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar, translated by Anonymous (Farsi)
• Ru by Kim Thúy, translated by Sheila Fischman (French)
• Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila, translated by Roland Glasser (French)
• Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye, translated by John Fletcher (French)
• Last Night in Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen, translated by Anna Halager (Greenlandic/Danish)
• Beauty Is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan, translated by Annie Tucker (Indonesian)
• Beyond Babylon by Igiaba Scego, translated by Aaron Robertson (Italian)
• Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo, translated by Jamie Chang (Korean)
• Your Republic is Calling You by Young-Ha Kim, translated by Chi-Young Kim (Korean)
• The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya, translated by Asa Yoneda (Japanese)
• Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag, translated by Srinath Perur (Kannada)
• The Sun on My Head by Geovani Martins, translated by Julia Sanches (Portugese)
• Good Morning Comrades by Ondjaki, translated by Stephen Henighan (Portugese)
• Time Commences in Xibalbá by Luis de Lión, translated by Nathan C. Henne (Spanish)
• La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono, translated by Lawrence Schimel (Spanish)
• Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat by Perumal Murugan, translated by N. Kalyan Raman (Tamil)
• Doomi Golo: The Hidden Notebooks by Boubacar Boris Diop, translated by Vera Wülfing-Leckie and El Hadji Moustapha Diop (Wolof/French)

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Join us again on Tuesday, January 5th we'll be discussing the genre of Sociology!

Then on Tuesday, January 19th we'll be talking about our Reading Resolutions for 2021!

This episode we're talking about New Weird Fiction! Strap in, because we spend a lot of time discussing what this genre even is (or if it exists at all!). We talk about whether a genre needs more than two authors to be a genre, how to describe books in which the plot is not the point, "capital W" Weird vs "lowercase w" weird, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read

• The Etched City by KJ Bishop
• The Vorrh by Brian Catling
• Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer
• Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
• Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval
• The Blood of Angels by Johanna Sinisalo
• The Broken Hours by Jacqueline Baker
• Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti

Other Media We Mentioned

• The Yawhg - Friday Night Spooktacular Visual Novel Stream (Watch Matthew, Meghan, RJ, and Amanda play!)
• • The Yawhg
• A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832–1937: Disgust, Metaphysics, and the Aesthetics of Cosmic Horror by Jonathan Newell
• Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• Reply All podcast
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• Uzumaki by Junji Ito
• Are You Afraid of the Dark? (Wikipedia)
• Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• She Walks in Shadows edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles
• Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy by Transgender Authors edited by Casey Plett and Cat Fitzpatrick
• • Download a PDF free (and legal!)
• British Library's Tales of the Weird
• King City by Brandon Graham
• Prophet, Volume 1: Remission by a bunch of people
• Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
• • The Horror at Red Hook (Wikipedia)
• The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
• • Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
• Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo
• The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo
• Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët
• The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Links, Articles, and Things

• H. P. Lovecraft (Wikipedia)
• LockedOutOfElfland's definition of New Weird fiction
• Introduction: Old and New Weird
• Finnish Weird
• The Midnight Society (Twitter account)
• • Tweet about Lovecraft
  • Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals by BitterKarella
• Episode 019 - Weird Fiction (Book Club for Masochists)
• Episode 069 - Bizarro Fiction (Book Club for Masochists)
• China Miéville: Marxism and Halloween
• Men Writing Women (Reddit)

12 New Weird Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline
• Temper by Nicky Drayden
• Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden
• Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson
• Tentacle by Rita Indiana
• The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
• The Night Cyclist by Stephan Graham Jones
• A Song for Quiet by Cassandra Khaw
• The Changeling by Victor LaValle
• Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
• The Age of Blight by Kristine Ong Muslim

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Then on Tuesday, January 5th we'll be discussing the non-fiction genre of Sociology!

This episode we're Receiving Book Recommendations! Last episode we asked each other for books in specific areas and this week we're back with our suggestions for table top role playing games, folklore, healthcare, poetry, urban fantasy and more.

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Recommend

• An Indie Tabletop Game
  • The Queen of Cups
    • TTRPG Safety Toolkit by Kienna Shaw & Lauren Bryant-Monk
  • The Skeletons
• Slavic/Eastern European Folklore
  • Slavic Folklore: A Handbook by Natalie Kononenko
    • Natalie Kononenko (Wikipedia)
  • Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs by John Colarusso
  • Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales
    • Baba Yaga cross stitch Matthew's working on
• Humanism in/of Healthcare
  • 2020 Summer Reading for Compassionate Clinicians - The Gold foundation
  • The Finest Traditions of My Calling: One Physician's Search for the Renewal of Medicine by Abraham M. Nussbaum
  • Journal of Applied Hermeneutics - Canadian Hermeneutic Institute
• Fiction that Surprises
  • Bunny by Mona Awad
  • Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah
• Sci-fi/Fantasy set in the Contemporary World
  • The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke
  • Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
  • Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu
  • Spellhacker by M.K England
  • The Lost Coast by A.R. Capetta
  • Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
  • The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
  • The Nobody People by Bob Proehl
• Urban Fantasy
  • Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Minimum Wage Magic by Rachel Aaron
• Horror
  • Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear
  • Parasite Eve by Hideaki Sena
    • Parasite Eve (video game) (Wikipedia)
  • The Fog Knows Your Name
• Poetry
  • Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media by Heid E. Erdrich
  • Ledger by Jane Hirshfield
  • Catrachos by Roy G. Guzmán
  • Dub: Finding Ceremony by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
  • Queer Poets Write About Nature by edited by Dylan Ce
• Feminist Essay Collection
  • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown
  • Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
• Fiction set at Christmastime/Non-Fiction about Christmas
  • Christmas Inn Maine by Chelsea M. Cameron
  • Glass Tidings by Amy Jo Cousins
  • The Battle for Christmas by Stephen Nissenbaum
• Russian Language Learning Materials
  • Learn to Read and Write Russian - Russian Alphabet Made Easy
  • Sputnik: An Introductory Russian Language Course, Part I by by Julia Rochtchina
• Space Opera
  • Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
  • To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

Suggestions from our Listeners!

• An Indie Tabletop Game
  • Bluebeard's Bride from Magpie Games
• Slavic/Eastern European Folklore
  • Slavic Folklore: A Handbook by Natalie Kononenko
  • On the Banks of the Yaryn by Aleksandr Kondratiev
• Humanism in/of Healthcare
  • The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story by Christie Watson
• Fiction that Surprises
  • Slade House by David Mitchell
• Sci-fi/Fantasy set in the Contemporary World
  • Empire State by Adam Christopher
  • The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie
  • Finna by Nino Cipri
• Urban Fantasy
  • God Save the Queen by Kate Locke
  • Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone
• Horror
  • And the Trees Crept In by Dawn Kurtagich
  • Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng
• Poetry
  • The Octopus Museum by Brenda Shaughnessy
• Feminist Essay Collection
  • Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
  • This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Cherríe L. Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa
  • Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism edited by Bushra Rehman and Daisy Hernández
  • Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture by Nora Samaran
• Fiction set at Christmastime/Non-Fiction about Christmas
  • Whiteout by Elyse Springer
  • Glad Tidings of Struggle and Strife by Llew Smith
  • Mangos & Mistletoe by Adriana Herrera
  • Better Not Pout by Annabeth Albert
• Russian Language Learning Materials
  • We Read These Tales by Syllables by Vladimir Suteev
• Space Opera
  • Alien People by John Coon
  • Dreamships by Melissa Scott
  • A Matter of Oaths by Helen S. Wright

Other Media We Mentioned

• Fiasco
• Ring by Kōji Suzuki
• Tomie by Junji Ito
• Spirit of the Season
• The Coldest City by Antony Johnston and Sam Hart
• Atomic Blonde (Wikipedia)
• Saga, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
• On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
• House of Reeds by Thomas Harlan

Links, Articles, and Things

• Eisner Award for Best Lettering (Wikipedia)
• Lambda Literary Award (Wikipedia)
• Episode 078 - Supernatural Thrillers
• Shadowrun (Wikipedia)

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Join us again on Tuesday, December 1st we'll be discussing the genre that you chose for us to read, New Weird Fiction!

Then on Tuesday, December 15th it'll be our Best of 2020 episode!

This episode we're Seeking Book Recommendations! We've each picked some topics and we're going to perform Readers' Advisory interviews to help figure out what titles to suggest to each other.

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Recommendations Wanted!

• RJ
• • An indie tabletop game
  • Sci-fi/fantasy set in contemporary real world, but the sf/fan elements are NOT secret/hidden/underground
  • Fiction set at Christmastime/non-fiction about Christmas
• Matthew
• • Slavic/Eastern European Folklore
  • Horror
  • Space Opera
• Anna
• • Humanism in/of healthcare
  • Urban fantasy
  • Feminist Essay Collection
• Meghan
• • Fiction (not a thriller) that surprises
  • Poetry
  • Russian language learning materials

Media We Mentioned

• Shadowrun (Wikipedia)
• Sleepaway
• FATE
• GURPS
• God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine by Victoria Sweet
• The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor by Arthur Kleinman
• Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
• Your Republic is Calling You by Kim Young-Ha
• • Meghan discusses this book in Episode 013 - Spies and Espionage
• Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams
• Curse Workers series by Holly Black
• Uzumaki by Junji Ito
• Solaris by Stanisław Lem
• • Solaris (1972 film) (Wikipedia)
• The Stand by Stephen King
• Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola, John Byrne
• SCP
• • Document 050 - "The Great Researcher Prank War of '██"
  • SCP-087 - "an unlit platform staircase"
  • SCP-2521
  • We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five
  • Top Rated Pages
• IRL by Tommy Pico
• Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman
• • The Day the Saucers Came
• Mass Effect (Wikipedia)
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
• A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White

Links, Articles, and Things

• Desert Bus for Hope
• Gritty (mascot)
• Hark! Podcast
• Cyrillic script (Wikipedia)

20 Religious Non-Fiction Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Decolonial Christianities: Latinx and Latin American Perspectives edited by Raimundo Barreto and Roberto Sirvent
• God is Red: a Native View of Religion by Vine Deloria
• Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens: The Divine Feminine in the African Religious Traditions by Lilith Dorsey
• Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
• That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story by Huda Fahmy
• The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl by Marra B Gad
• We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib
• Lovesong: Becoming a Jew by Julius Lester
• Stalking God: My Unorthodox Search for Something to Believe In by Anjali Kumar
• Her Name Is Kaur: Sikh American Women Write about Love, Courage, and Faith edited by Meeta Kaur
• See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur
• In Love With the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying by Yongey Mingyur, with Helen Tworkov
• The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation by Thich Nhat Hanh
• The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times by Dr. Anita Sanchez
• Why I am a Hindu by Shashi Tharoor
• The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church's Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby
• Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon
• Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations by Richard Wagamese
• I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation by Chanequa Walker-Barnes
• New World A-coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration by Judith Weisenfeld

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Join us again next week, on Tuesday, November 24th as we give each other the Book Recommendations we asked for this week.

Then on Tuesday, December 1st we'll be discussing the genre that you chose for us to read, New Weird Fiction!

Finally, on Tuesday, December 15th it'll be our Best of 2020 episode!