😍😍 good book mail today. Excited for these stories.

Incredibly timely collection of essays about race, the difference between diversity and equity, and why Donald Trump resonates with fearful white people. Read this now.

Cancel my plans for the rest of the week.

I'm reading this for the first time, and HOO BOY. I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't this.

No woman on earth doesn't give a fuck--no woman is that cool--she's just hidden her fire. Likely, it's burning her up.

After turning 25, an age he never expected to reach, Mychal Denzel Smith wrestles with how he learned to be a black man in a country that denies so many black boys the chance to do just that. An incredible memoir about race, identity, intersecting oppressions, and progress. This stands alongside Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jesmyn Ward, Margo Jefferson, and Colson Whitehead on the shelf of contemporary writing about race that everyone should read.

You don't need me to say it, but I'll say it anyway: everyone should read this book.

Three generations of women in one family all wrestle with sexuality, exposure, shame, and identity. It's smart, funny, wise, and (sometimes sadly) spot-on.

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I don't always love the pieces on Reductress, but I am Very Interested in how this will be.

Then there was restlessness--that fizzing pressure within that makes me long for what is elsewhere, for what is far away. That restlessness, that joy and curse that I have known for most of my life, brings unease when I ought to be content....It sends me out into the world, almost against my will.

Love Bourdain and cannot wait to try some of these.

Oh heyyyyyy. This looks rad!

#galleybrag and I ain't sorry. So excited to read this!

Pittard plumbs the depths of marriage through the lens of one couple who hit a rough patch and head out on a road trip. Perfectly paced, the story takes place over 2 days, and at fewer than 200 pages, this is a 👌one-sitting read.

Three 19-year-olds who have been friends their whole lives hang out in their usual bar with a movie star on the last night of his life. Narrator Maggie tells us about that night, and about how and why their friendships are unraveling. Tense narrative perfectly captures teenage cruelty.

Imagine if The Nest and The Affair had a really feminist baby. This is that book. Observant, unapologetic commentary on wealth, privilege, relationships, family, work, and gender. (Accidentally deleted my first post of this so here we are!)

Feel like I'm the last person to read this. Excited to jump in! (And I hope @Kelly doesn't disown me for having waited so long.)

Really enjoying this. It's substantial and fun and perfectly paced. An excellent choice for beach reading.

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I couldn't put this down. Fun, insightful read about two women who have been friends for decades and must navigate the transition from growing up to Being Grown-Ups. Fans of The Interestings, this one's for you.

Terry Tempest Williams celebrates the centennial of America's national parks with a mix of memoir, history, and meditation on what it means--and what it could mean--for a nation to set aside and protect wild, beautiful places. Excellent, gorgeously written, thought-provoking, often funny.

Stunning. This novel begins in 1775 in the country that will become Ghana, and from there each chapter moves us forward a generation. A chorus of voices show us Africans and those who become Americans, violence, slavery, and a war we still feel today. Absolutely 💯

I see our national parks as our ongoing struggle as a diverse people to create circles of reverence in a time of collective cynicism where we are wary of being moved by anything but our own clever perspective.

Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves.

Because telling someone to be quiet on the internet to avoid abuse and harassment is like telling women that the best way to avoid being raped is not to go outside, and there are many more of us who won't be silenced, because fuck that.

Few days are as exciting as New Mary Roach Day.

Anyone who has ever seen my house knows this is real. New favorite coffee table decor (in a pile of books, natch).

Picked this up at Bookends and Beginnings in Evanston, IL, thanks to a great shelftalker. Can't wait to dig in (not sorry).

I'm going in.

Started this morning, thought about it all day, will be consumed by it for a while. Mukherjee is a remarkable storyteller, and this is fascinating, fun, and nerdy.

GONE GIRL meets Milan Kundera in this domestic thriller that is also (because Lydia Millet is a 🦄 genius) a meditation on the nature of God, language, and consciousness. So weird. So excellent. So unlike anything else.

I'm supposed to be reading a million other things for All the Books, but this one has me by the throat.

#galleybrag

Short stories set in the American southwest and Mexico, these are mostly about real people living quiet lives on the edge of nowhere. They are extraordinary only in their ordinariness. The title story is a chilling, frighteningly possible future.

Been meaning to read Urrea forever! Can't wait to get into this short story collection.

Look, I can get down with a book that has bourbon and iced tea in the opening pages.

It took me two minutes of Meryl Streep narrating the audiobook to fall in love and only one whole chapter to realize it's a novel and not a memoir. Digging it so far!

Pretty excited about this self-assigned homework. Evidence-based methods for creating workplaces that support gender equality and counteract the effects of unconscious bias!

Straub takes on young love, aging, and what happens when you peak in your youth (or think you did) and continue to live alongside the friends who knew you when. Every voice in the ensemble is excellent; the teens and their middle-aged parents are equally believable. Smart, insightful, wise, witty.

Ready for the weeeeeekend.

This book pulls no punches about the vast ocean between the expectations and the realities of the American Dream and the immigrant experience.

Read a piece about this book, which presents evidence-based suggestions for how to change workplaces to combat sexism rather than trying to change people at work. Can't wait to read.

Started this last night and am so here for it. Investigative journalism meets sociology in a look at psychological problems that only show up in certain cultures. Fascinating so far.

Excited to spend the afternoon with a new voice.

Real-life librarians who pull an epic heist to prevent manuscripts from being stolen and destroyed by Al Qaeda? Here for it.

When the man who killed her aunt in 1969 is found in 2004, just as she is preparing to publish a book of poetry about the murder, Nelson finds herself with many more questions than answers. She explores them in a transfixing mix of memoir, essay, and investigative journalism.

Dead girls wash up on the beaches of San Juan, and 17-year-old Lucas sets out to find the killer...with some help from a girl with green skin who thrives on poisonous plants. Great characters, excellent writing, and the right touch of magic.

Timely book mail is timely.

Settling in with this for the evening. Look at that cover!