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  • Four Treasures of the Sky – Jenny Tinghui Zhang
  • Gilded Mountain- Kate Manning
  • Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta – James Hannaham
  • How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water- Angie Cruz
  • Moonrise Over New Jessup – Jamilla Minnicks
  • Deacon King Kong – James McBride
  • Shadows of Pecan Hollow – Caroline Frost
  • Harlem Shuffle – Colson Whitehead
  • The Lincoln Highway – Amor Towles
  • Stork Bite – L. K. Simonds
  • Unlikely Animals – Annie Hartnett
  • Broken (in the best possible way) – Jenny Lawson
  • Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 – Edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha Blaine
  • The Dictionary of Lost Words — Pip Williams
  • Chevy in the Hole – Kelsey Ronan

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The Dictionary of Lost Words — Pip Williams

This is about as perfectly written a piece of historical fiction as I've ever read. It is the story of Esme from ages six to twenty-five and no--- you don't have to be a history buff, an Oxford English Dictionary nerd, a turn of the century social history expert, a fan of women's suffrage lore, … Continue reading The Dictionary of Lost Words — Pip Williams →

Emily Leader Book Reviews Leave a comment April 5, 2021November 22, 2021 2 Minutes
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