We’ve Got Even More Book Suggestions
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🗓️ 5 August 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In early April, we were both struggling to focus and looking for an escape from a shut-down world, so we turned to the National Book Foundation's Lisa Lucas and author and Books Are Magic owner Emma Straub for some reading recs. Now, exactly 99 days later, Lisa is back, this time with podcast regular and Riverhead Books publisher Jynne Dilling Martin to restock our shelves with recommendations. There's something for everyone this episode, whether you're looking for a graphic novel to keep your short attention span in check, a historical trilogy set in the court of Henry V (complete with its own plague), a sci-fi battle royale set in New York City, or a New York Times bestseller all your friends are probably reading right now. A reminder to order any of the books that make it on your must-read list from your local bookseller or one of these Black bookstores across the U.S.—or, from Bookshop.org, which gives money from sales for independent bookstores.
Here's a full list of what we talked about:
- The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
- Weather by Jenny Offill
- Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
- The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
- Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
- Severance by Ling Ma
- What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez
- The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
- Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- The Mothers by Brit Bennett
- 12 Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
- Man V. Nature by Diane Cook
- The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
- The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone, and welcome to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Connie Nass Traveler. I'm Meredith |
| 0:08.4 | Carrie, and with me, as always, is my co-host, Lala Eric Hoaglu. Hello. We started off this |
| 0:13.5 | pandemic with a book's episode to help transport us while we stayed home, and here we are, |
| 0:18.6 | 99 days later, still at home and running out of books to read |
| 0:22.1 | to help take us to other worlds, real or fictional. So we brought back two of our very favorite |
| 0:26.4 | guests to help us stock up on more incredible books. Today we're joined by Jin Dilling |
| 0:31.4 | Martin, Associate Publisher at Riverhead Books. Thanks for coming back, Jen. So happy to be back. |
| 0:39.7 | And Lisa Lucas, executive director of the National Books Foundation and soon-to-be publisher of Pantheon and Shoken Books. Thanks, Lisa. |
| 0:45.1 | Nice to be back. And before we get started, I know that we need to talk about like new books |
| 0:50.1 | that we haven't talked about before on this podcast. But I read The Yellow House by Sarah |
| 0:55.4 | M. Brown, which Lisa had chastised me for not having read before because I love New Orleans. And it |
| 1:01.0 | was hands down, one of the best books that I've ever read. And I would highly recommend it to |
| 1:05.0 | everyone. Just read it. It's amazing. It's so good. But now we can get to other books that we haven't already |
| 1:12.0 | talked about. Jim, do you want to kick us off with a book that you've really loved reading? |
| 1:17.1 | Oh, sure. I would be honored to. I want to just warn everyone that maybe like other people on this |
| 1:25.3 | planet, I actually found the past couple months to be very |
| 1:28.6 | stressful. And maybe because I'm such a big traveler in real life, I didn't feel like or was not |
| 1:36.9 | in the mood for reading books set in faraway lands because it actually felt like it would be |
| 1:41.5 | so demoralizing and so lonely and so sad to think and fantasize |
| 1:46.4 | about the places that I could not access right now. So this is all to say what I've been |
| 1:51.7 | obsessively reading has been any kind of fiction that is very interior and neurotic and like |
| 1:58.3 | about people just like stuck in their own homes grappling with the |
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