This episode explores environmentalism, international history, and adventure.

Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh

Windrush Child: The Tale of a Caribbean Child Who Faced a New Horizon by John Agard and illustrated by Sophie Bass

Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush by Patrice Lawrence and illustrated by Camilla Sucre

Mentioned

The Ibis Trilogy by Amitav Ghosh

Small Island by Andrea Levy

Birdgirl: Looking to the Skies in Search of a Better Future by Mya-Rose Craig

When Among Crows by Veronica Roth

Mentioned

The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham

Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper

The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus

The Circuit: The Graphic Novel by Andrew Rostan

The Mystery of Locked Rooms by Lindsay Currie

Mentioned

I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib

Segment on Re-Reading Books – Titles and Series Mentioned

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Earthsea Series by Ursula K. Le Guin

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

The Lord of the Rings Series J.R.R. Tolkien

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Beartown Series by Fredrick Backman

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Somebody’s Horse by Dorothy Nafus Morrison

Homesick:  My Own Story by Jean Fritz

The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins