Let’s discuss LGBTQ+ representation in books: has anything changed in recent history and what are we reading? The novels include Will Grayson, Will Grayson, Baxter’s Requiem and Her Name in the Sky. Plus a discussion on Boy in Stripped Pyjamas.

Link: https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/june-28/

• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald • Death Notice by Zhou Haohui

All Systems Red by Martha Wells • The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben • Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson • There Should Have Been Five by Marilyn Honikman 

Check out We Need to Read Books on Anything Goes by Emma Chamberlain!

What factors influence us when we read? Are they good or bad? In this bonus episode, I'll discuss Goodreads, Youtube, Instagram, translated books and non-fiction.

• The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien  

• Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell

• Reasons to Be Cheerful by Nina Stibbe 

• The Shrink and the Sage: A Guide to Modern Dilemmas by Julian Baggini and Antonia Macaro 

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Books: 

• An Unreliable Man by Jostein Gaarder 

(Recommendation: Less by Andrew Sean Greer)

• Mortality by Christopher Hitchens 

• 99 Nights in Logar by Jamil Jan Kochai 

(Recommendations: Coconut and We Need New Names)

• City of Jasmine by Olga Grjasnowa 

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Want to know the winners, and the awards? Listen to this bonus podcast: the last episode of season one. 

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Books: 

• Extraordinary Insects by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson 

• The Sun Does Shine by Antony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Hardin

• The Red Ribbon by Lucy Adlington

 • Scythe by Neal Shusterman

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Books:

• The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

• The Art of War by Sun Tzu Explanation video: 9 Principles I Learned from The Art of War

• Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

• Animal Farm by George Orwell

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