Episode 171 - The Moving and Management of Books

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re talking about The Moving and Management of Books! We all own a lot of books. And we’ve all made big moves! We talk about when we leave books behind, how we choose the ones we keep, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Media We Mentioned

• Wonderland, vol. 6 by Yugo Ishikawa

Links, Articles, and Things

• Count Duckula (Wikipedia)
• Ero guro (Wikipedia)

28 Family Sagas by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
• An Unlasting Home by Mai Al-Nakib
• Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card
• America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo
• Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
• The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich
• Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
• Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
• The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama
• Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen
• The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
• Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan
• A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
• Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
• Cane River by Lalita Tademy
• The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
• Daughters of the New Year by E.M. Tran
• The Strangers by Katherena Vermette
• Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

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Join us again on Tuesday, April 4th when we’ll be discussing the genre of Domestic Thrillers!

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