Welcome to Top Shelf Reads, on today’s episode we review Zama, Giovanni’s Room, The Deep, Ace of Spades, and The Forest of Stolen Girls. And we discuss reading fiction for the self.

3:47 -- Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (teaser impressions)
6:00 -- Ace of Spades  by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
11:06 -- Zama by Antonio di Benedetto
28:45 -- Nick teases current reads

• The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard
• The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
• My Struggle series by Karl Ove Knausgaard

34:15 -- The Deep by Rivers Solomon
40:55 -- The Forests of Stolen Girls by June Hur
46:25 -- Discussion: reading fiction for the self

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