This week on the podcast, our guest is Renée Hicks, founder of Book Girl Magic, an online book club that centers books by and about Black women. Renée shares with us her journey into reading, how her reading has inspired the reading life of her children, and her love of romance novels, one in particular.

You can find everything we talk about this week in the show notes below. By shopping through the links you help support The Stacks, at no cost to you. Shop on Amazon and iTunes.

BOOKS

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The Mothers by Brit Bennett

You Can't Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

Becoming by Michelle Obama

The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

The Perfect Find by Tia Williams

Nappily Ever After by Trisha R. Thomas

The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero

Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper

I'm Judging You by Luvvie Ajayi

Everything's Trash, But It's Okay by Phoebe Robinson

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Tayari Jones

Octavia E. Butler

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Whiskey and Ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Passing by Nella Larsen

Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

The Mother of Black Hollywood by Jennifer Lewis

Roots by Alex Haley

Native Son by Richard Wright

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley

Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Black Boy by Richard Wright

Jason Reynolds

The Coldest Winter Ever by Sista Souljah

Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union

Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth

EVERYTHING ELSE

Book Girl Magic

Noelle Gray Creative

Nappily Ever After (Netflix)

Sanaa Lathan

Crazy Rich Asians (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Ep. 4 The Stacks Book Club -- Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

Anna's Instagram (Renée's book friend for more great recommendations)

Family Matters (CBS)

Kindle Paperwhite (Waterproof)

Black-ish (ABC)

Marsai Martin

23 and Me

BlacKkKlansman (Focus Features)

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