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Books Discussed

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

anything by Willa Cather

Half an Inch of Water by Percival Everett

Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

Alexandre Dumas (black), Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde (LGBTQ), Tale of Genji

1001 Nights by Anonymous

The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin

Clotel: Or the President’s Daughter by William Wells Brown

Round House by Louise Erdrich

The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor

anything by Sherman Alexie

The Outside Circle by Patti LaBoucane-Benson

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan

Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia

Pym by Mat Johnson

Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley (Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie)

Mr Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

My Man Jeeves by PG Wodehouse

Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed

Ongoingness by Sarah Manguso

Dept of Speculation by Jenny Offill

Maybe Baby, edited by Lori Leibovich

Jump at the Sun by Kim McLarin

I Can Barely Take Care of Myself by Jen Kirkman

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