Ep. 195 The Best Books of 2021 with Lupita Aquino and Morgan Hoit
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
It's time for The Stacks' annual Best Books of 2021 episode. To help put together this list, we're joined by professional readers Lupita Aquino (@lupita.reads) and Morgan Hoit (@nycbookgirl). In addition to sharing our top 10 books of the year, we also discuss the trends we saw in 2021, reading for work, and the books we're excited about in 2022.
You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2021/12/22/ep-195-best-books-of-2021
The Stacks Book Club selection for December is A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib, we will discuss the book on December 29th with Andrew Ti.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, the live in the stack store is on its last leg literally. We only have one show left |
| 0:08.5 | Join me in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 18th with three of my favorite ever podcast guests and friends of this show |
| 0:16.2 | We are gonna be joined by Rachel Lindsay |
| 0:18.4 | Yes, that Rachel Lindsay the first black bachelorette |
| 0:21.8 | Also, she is an author a podcaster a TV host and a wonderful human being |
| 0:26.4 | We're gonna be joined by Sam Sanders podcast host journalist and I think arguably the cultural critic of our time and |
| 0:33.7 | The wonderful hilarious and super duper smart Chelsea Devantes who is an any nominated TV writer comedian director and of course the host of |
| 0:42.6 | Glamrs trash formerly known as the celebrity book club podcast |
| 0:46.6 | We are going to have a blast bringing this tour to a close and not to mention that our friends from reparations book club |
| 0:52.6 | One of my favorite bookstores here in L.A. is curating a pop-up bookshop of our dreams |
| 0:57.8 | It's not too late to get your tickets head to the stacks podcast dot com slash tour before they sell out |
| 1:14.7 | Welcome to the stacks a podcast about books and the people who read them |
| 1:17.8 | I'm your host Tracy Thomas, and it is time for our annual best books of the year episode. I am so excited |
| 1:24.6 | I have brought two friends who I know read a lot and read widely to help me compile this list |
| 1:32.0 | Lupita Akino and Morgan Hoyt will be our guest today |
| 1:35.5 | They are both very active and promoting books on their Instagram pages as well as being reading |
| 1:41.4 | Professionals, I am thrilled with the list we came up with this year |
| 1:45.6 | Remember our December book club pick is a little devil in America notes and praise of black performance by Hennie of Dua Keebe |
| 1:52.0 | We will be discussing the book on Wednesday December 29th with Andrew T |
| 1:56.8 | If you want more of the stacks you can find bonus episodes a discord community virtual book clubs |
| 2:02.4 | Discount on merch and more over on patreon head to patreon dot com slash the stacks to join the stacks back and |
| 2:09.0 | Shout out to our newest members of the stacks back Sarah, Holly Duffy, Meta Swanson, Kat Trinidad, John Spencer, Mary and Muller, Sarah Brown, and Charlotte Stanton |
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