Mariquita talks about some of her favorite backlist titles from Black authors, covering genres like non-fiction, humor, romance, mystery, sci-fi and more. There’s something for everyone to love.
Book Mentioned:
We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby
Please Don’t Sit On My Bed In Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson
Everything’s Trash, But It’s OK by Phoebe Robinson
You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
Long Division by Kiese Laymon
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi
White is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
The City We Became by NK Jemisin
Also mentioned:
Samantha Irby’s Substack: Bitches Gotta Eat!
Feminist Book Club’s Best Books of 2021 (In Our Opinion) Episode
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This episode was edited by Sarah Hernandez and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.
Original music by @iam.onyxrose
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