Reading Squad

Happy September reading squad! This month Rashmila and I have a great lineup of books written by Latin, Latina, and Latinx Authors for you to add to your TBR! So grab a hot drink and a warm sweat and give this episode a listen. 

Here is are the books that we mention/discuss/recommend: 

Afterlife by Julia Alvarez

Gods of Jade and Shadow  by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 

Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibanez 

It Is Wood It Is Stone by Gabriella Burnham 

Prime Meridian By Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

Upright Women Wanted by Sara Gailey Ester

The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

Punching The Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

Ready Player One By Ernest Cline

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

We are Not From Here by Jenny Tores Sanchez

Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine 

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

This Month, Rashmila and Rachel discuss Indigenious Authors and Book Pet Peeves. Give us a Listen, your TBR will thank us. 

Listen to Rachel and Rashmila talk about romance reads and the issues in the romance publishing industry on the newest episode of The Reading Squad. Here are the books mentioned/recommended:

Girl Gone Viral By Alisha Rai

Can’t Escape Love by Alyssa Cole

An Extraordinary Union By Alyssa Cole

This is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Twenty-One Truths About Love By Matthew Dicks 

Royal Holiday By Jasmine Guillory

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

Tipping The Velvet by Sarah Waters

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev

Windward Heights by Maryse Condé

The Seven Husband of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

Long Way Down By Jason Reynolds

Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby

The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller

The Sober Lush by Amanda Ward and Jardine Libaire

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

It's Pride and Juneteenth! Rachel and Rashmila discuss their current reads, current events, and how racism runs through families and the larger society.  Here are some of the books that we mentioned in our podcast. More recommendations for Juneteenth and Pride are on our social media sites. 

Fierce Fairy Tales by Nikita Gill

The Imperfects by Amy Meyerson

A Study in Charlotte and The Last of August by Brittany Cavallaro

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaiswal

How we Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

A People's History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian

The Priory fo the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Blache and the Talent Tenth by Barbara Neely

My Sister The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad

The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Sister Outsider: Essays & Speeches by Audre Lorde

This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell & Aurelia Durand

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Binti Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor

Welcome to The Reading Squad, a monthly podcast where Rashmila and Rachel discuss books on the monthly theme, what they are reading, and other tidbits on book culture. 

We celebrated May as Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. It honors the achievements and contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. We mentioned/discussed the following books in the podcast.