Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan - domestic/family drama. It's sad, hopeful and sexy all rolled into one story.

Anonymous wrote:College Know-It-Alls: How Liberal Students Use Plagiarism to Became Smarter than their Harvard Professors in Just One Semester. Anonymous Author

Didn’t they also write Harvard Freshmen: They Can't Read, Write or Think Critically, But Boy Are They Woke?

College Know-It-Alls: How Liberal Students Use Plagiarism to Became Smarter than their Harvard Professors in Just One Semester. Anonymous Author

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Such a Fun Age-Kiley Reid
Black Cake-Charmaine Wilkerson; now a Hulu original
The Water Dancer-Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Vanishing Half-Brit Bennett; HBO is developing a show
The Other Black Girl-Zakiya Dalila Harris; now a Hulu original

John Howard Griffin - Black Like Me

Britainy K Barnett’s A Knock at Midnight is a fave.

It’s nonfiction. she was, I believe very successful accountant type at a big consulting firm after escaping poverty in her youth. Her mom was jailed for several years when she was young for a drug crime, that if they had been white, she probably would not have served any jail time. It had a profound impact on her.

That in itself would make a good story, but the story of the book is how she decides she wants to help people like her mother, so she goes to law school, and in her free time spends nights working to get people out of jail who were or unfairly jailed, or their sentences were way too long for their crime.

Completely wonderful education for me about the injustices in our prison system especially for people of color, and also it’s just a really inspiring and well written.

Anonymous wrote:I really enjoyed James McBride's books Deacon King Kong and The Good Lord Bird.

I have The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, and am looking forward to reading it over the holidays!