March 10, 2025

Have We Convinced You?

41 minutes

Rebecca and Tara share some of their favorite books that others have recommended to them AND they wonder if they have convinced you to read any of their recommendations.

Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall; illustrated by Hugo Martinez

Stories Left in Stone: Trails and Traces in Cáceres, Spain by Troy Nahumko

The Undertaking of Billy Buffone by David Giuliano (interviewed 6/25/22)

A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine

Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense by Marcello Di Cintio (interviewed 1/11/21)

Tenth of December by George Saunders

Nora Watts series by Sheena Kamal (interviewed 12/6/22)

The Street by Ann Petry

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho

Tara (@onabranchreads):

Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman; Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol; The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O’Meara

Yellow Barks Spider by Harman Burns

Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest by Ariel Gordon

Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe

Cravings by Garnett Kilberg Cohen (interviewed 2/13/24)

Unwind series by Neal Shusterman

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