2019/2020 Reading List

This book list is so late overdue, but now more than ever, this quarantine time is probably also the best time to start reading or picking up the books you haven’t finished reading. Below, you find the books I’ve read in 2019, some of them I used for research and study, some others for pure pleasure. I hope you can find some joy, some inspiration, some new perspectives in them.

For 2020, I have added the books I just finished reading and the books I have on my mind / want to read the next couple of months. This list might change, but if you find any of the upcoming ones interesting and want to start a book club, reach out to me and let’s read together :)

BOOK LIST 2019

  1. Playing in the Dark & Tar Baby by Toni Morrison ✅

  2. If Beale Street Could Talk, The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin ✅

  3. Women’s Sports, what everyone needs to know by Jaime Schultz ✅

  4. I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou ✅

  5. More than enough by Elaine Welteroth ✅

  6. Red Juice by Hoa Nguyen ✅

  7. The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui ✅

  8. What I talk about when I talk about running by Haruki Murakami ✅

  9. Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde ✅

  10. Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown  ✅

BOOK LIST 2020 and more

  1. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong ✅

  2. How to cure a ghost by Fariha Roisin ✅

  3. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen ✅

  4. The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

  5. Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown

  6. Collected Poems by Audre Lorde

  7. Readings by Thich Nhat Hanh

  8. The Body keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

  9. Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

  10. Grand Union by Zadie Smith

  11. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

  12. When they call you a terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors 

  13. Woman, native, other: writing postcoloniality and feminism by Trinh T. Minh-ha

  14. Tell me how long the train's been gone by James Baldwin

  15. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  16. A Burst of Light: and Other Essays by Audre Lorde

  17. The Mothers by Brit Bennett

  18. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

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