TBR

I have more books on my TBR (to be read) list than I can count – and it’s growing every day. It’s hard to keep track of the books I’m most excited to read – let alone actually find time to read them! But because I enjoy lost causes, I’m going to try. These are the books (currently) next up on my TBR. It will change. Frequently.

Top of my TBR:

• The Magician – Colm Toibin (BookTube Prize Semifinals)
• How To Argue With a Racist – Adam Rutherford
• Still Life – Sarah Winman (BookTube Prize Semifinals)
• How Beautiful We Are – Imbolo Mbue (BookTube Prize Semifinals)
• How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House – Cherie Jones (BookTube Prize Semifinals
• This Bright Future – Bobby Hall
• How the Word Is Passed – Clint Smith
• Still Life – Josie George
• The Invisible Kingdom – Meghan O’Rourke
• The Matter of Black Lives – The New Yorker
• Four Hundred Souls – Ibram X. Kendi
• Things That Helped – Jessica Friedmann
• Black Fatigue – Mary-Frances Winters
• Caste – Isabel Wilkerson
• I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness – Claire Vaye Watkins
• Fire Keeper’s Daughter – Angeline Boulley
• Diary of a Young Naturalist – Dara McAnulty

Some books that have been on my TBR for ages and that I still want to get to soonish:

• Shoot the Damn Dog – Sally Brampton
• A Place for Us – Fatima Farheen Mirza
• Mouth Full of Blood – Toni Morrison
• I’m Telling the Truth But I’m Lying – Bassey Ikpi
• Reasons To Be Cheerful – Nina Stibbe
• Winter, Spring and Summer – Ali Smith
• Twas the Night Shift Before Christmas – Adam Kay
• Washington Black – Esi Edugyan
• Romany and Tom – Ben Watt
• Another Planet – Tracey Thorn
• All Involved – Ryan Gattis
• Go Ahead In the Rain – Hanif Abdurraqib
• The Collected Schizophrenias – Esmé Weijun Wang
• Voluntary Madness – Norah Vincent
• Christodora – Tim Murphy
• American Epidemic – John McMillian, ed.
• Heavy – Kiese Laymon
• Rife – Nikesh Shukla, ed.
• The Golden Rule – Amanda Craig
• We Begin at the End – Chris Whitaker
• Minor Feelings – Cathy Park Hong
• I Am Not Your Negro – James Baldwin and Raoul Peck
• Hood Feminism – Mikki Kendall
• The Souls of Yellow Folk – Wesley Yang
• Disability Visibility – Alice Wong, ed.
• The Undocumented Americans – Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• The Reader on the 6.27 – Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
• The Reader’s Room – Antoine Lauraine
• The Inconvenient Indian – Thomas King
• Indians On Vacation – Thomas King
• The Wild Silence – Raynor Winn
• This Is How We Come Back Stronger – Feminist Book Society, ed.
• Funny Weather – Olivia Laing
• The Panic Years – Nell Frizzell
• Greenlights – Matthew McConaughey
• Olive – Emma Gannon
• The Yellow House – Sarah M. Broom
• Ex Libris – Michiko Kakutani
• Letters on Motherhood – Giovanna Fletcher
• Dear Life – Rachel Clarke
• A Promised Land – Barack Obama
• All the Young Men – Ruth Coker Burks & Kevin Carr O’Leary
• Everybody – Olivia Laing
• The Prophets – Robert Jones, Jr.
• Pain and Prejudice – Gabrielle Jackson
• The Soul of a Woman – Isabel Allende
• The Stonewall Reader – New York Public Library
• The Office of Historical Corrections – Danielle Evans
• Rebellious Mourning – Cindy Milstein ed.
• The Removed – Brandon Hobson
• Why Indigenous Literatures Matter – Daniel Heath Justice
• Women of the Pandemic – Lauren McKeon
• We Still Here – Marc Lamont Hill
• They Can’t Kill Us All – Wesley Lowery
• Indigenous Relations – Bob Joseph
• Please Don’t Bomb the Suburbs – William Upski Wimsatt
• Things Are Good Now – Djamilla Ibrahim
• Until We Are Free – Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson and Syrus Marcus Ware, eds.
• Policing Black Lives – Robyn Maynard
• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee – David Treuer
• We Live for the We – Dani McClain
• Brown Baby – Nikesh Shukla
• Indigenous Writes – Chelsea Vowel
• Bunny – Mona Awad
• Brit(ish) – Afua Hirsch
• Night Witches – Bruce Myles