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In May, we're going places! All our book selections this month revolve around the theme "going places." Have a listen and check out our book recs, just in time for summer travels!

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• Rainbirds by Clarissa Goenawan (Soho Press)
• A Tale for a Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (Viking)
• The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert (Flatiron Books)
• Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel (Unbridled Books)
• The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser (Catapult)
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Square Fish)

• MEM by Bethany C. Morrow (Unnamed Press)
• Built: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures by Roma Agrawal (Bloomsbury)

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When we started podcasting, everyone and her mother's brother asked if we listened to Anne Bogel's podcast What Should I Read Next? And rightly so. She has a great podcast where she talks with guests about some of their favorite books and recommends titles she thinks they'll love. We couldn't be more thrilled to chat with Anne about her blog, Modern Mrs. Darcy, her podcast, and her latest book, Reading People. And be sure to be on the look out for our episode on What Should I Read Next?, which will go live on May 1st. 

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Reading People: How Seeing the World Through the Lens of Personality Changes Everythingby Anne Bogel (Baker Books)The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin(Algonquin)Rules of Civilityby Amor Towles(Viking) 

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 About AnneSince founding her blog, Modern Mrs. Darcy, six years ago, Anne has emerged as a talented writer, a skilled community builder, and a trusted tastemaker. She has a knack for getting the right books into the hands of the right readers, which makes her opinions sought-after by authors, publishers, and media outlets. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky with her family.

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We end our month featuring poetry by discussing Whereas by Layli Long Soldier and Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai.

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Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai (Harper)Whereas by Layli Long Soldier (Graywolf Press)

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Here in the U.S., it's National Poetry Month! In honor of the occasion, we're featuring amazing women poets all month long. Have a listen and check out our six selections, including our two discussion book that will be featured in our next episode!

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Women's Prize for Fiction Announces Its 2018 LonglistStella Prize Announces Its 2018 ShortlistCheck out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. A special thanks to our patrons Amy B., Jennifer P., Carley T., and Stephanie W. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews!

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Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai (Harper)Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey (Mariner Books)Falling Awake by Alice Oswald (W.W. Norton)Whereas by Layli Long Soldier (Graywolf Press)Cape Verdean Blues by Shauna Barbosa (University of Pittsburgh Press)Where Clouds Are Formed by Ofelia Zepeda (University of Arizona Press)

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 Children of Blood and Bone by Tomy Adeyemi (Henry Holt BYR)Though I Get Home by Y.Z. Chin (Feminist Press)

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Autumn and Kendra chat with Anjali Sachdeva about her debut short story collection All the Names They Used for God.

Anjali Sachdeva is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has taught writing at the University of Iowa, Augustana College, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Pittsburgh. She also worked for six years at the Creative Nonfiction Foundation, where she was Director of Educational Programs. She has hiked through the backcountry of Canada, Iceland, Kenya, and Mexico, and spent much of her childhood reading fantasy novels and waiting to be whisked away to an alternate universe. Instead, she lives in Pittsburgh, which is pretty wonderful as far as places in this universe go. This is her first book.

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This month, we're discussing Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, the first published African American poet, and Mary Wollstencraft Shelley's Frankenstein—which turns 200 this year!

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• Frankenstein by Mary Wollstencraft Shelley
• Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley

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March is all about classic women! From ancient Greece to early 20th-century New Orleans, our book selections feature a wide range of classics written or translated by women.

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• PEN America Awards
• Angie Thomas Wins ALL the Things
• Women's Prize for Fiction
• Stella Prize to Announce Its Shortlist on International Women's Day

• The Odyssey by Homer, Translated by Emily Wilson
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 
• Frankenstein by Mary Wollstencraft Shelley
• Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

• Circe (Little, Brown) by Madeline Miller
• Where the Line Bleeds (Scribner) by Jesmyn Ward

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Autumn and Kendra chat with Mira T. Lee, the author of Everything Here is Beautiful, about her debut novel, her road publication, and the importance of discussing the complexities of mental health.

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Mira T. Lee's debut novel, EVERYTHING HERE IS BEAUTIFUL, was recently named a Top 10 Debut of Winter/Spring 2018 by the American Booksellers Association. Her short fiction has appeared in journals such as the Southern Review, the Gettysburg Review, the Missouri Review, Harvard Review, and TriQuarterly, and has twice received special mention for the Pushcart Prize. Mira is a graduate of Stanford University and lives in Cambridge, MA.

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For our February discussion episode, we're talking about Kindred by Octavie E. Butler and Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.

• Kindred (Beacon Press) by Octavia E. Butler
• Homegoing (Knopf) by Yaa Gyasi 

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Autumn and Kendra chat with Maggie O'Farrell about her first work of nonfiction, her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am. O'Farrell talks about why she wanted to write a memoir after seven novels and about her own relationship with mortality, which inspired her to share the stories her seventeen brushes with death.

Maggie O'Farrell is the author of seven novels, After You'd Gone, My Lover's Lover, The Distance Between Us, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Hand That First Half Mine, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, Instruction for a Heatwave, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award, This Must Be the Place and I Am, I Am, I Am. She lives in Edinburgh.

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