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Kendra, Sachi, Jaclyn, and Sumaiyya announce the winners of the 2020 Reading Women Award! Learn More about the 2021 Reading Women Challenge! Ideal Bookshelf by Jane Mount Mug 11oz and 15oz 10 Reading Women postcards Prints Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Grab one of our totes for 20% off by heading over to our Etsy Store! Thank you to The House of Chanel for sponsoring this episode. Find out more at inside.Chanel.com. Things Mentioned Find out more about the Reading Women Award! Nonfiction Shortlist Episode Fiction Shortlist Episode Nonfiction Shortlist In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press) White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad (Catapult) The Dragons, the Giant, the Women by Wayétu Moore (Graywolf Press) Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami (Pantheon) Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong (One World) The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (One World) Fiction Shortlist The Yield by Tara June Winch (Harper Via) The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Riverhead) How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang (Riverhead) Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle (University of Kentucky Press) Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (Grove Press) Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa (Atria Books) CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week’s episode, Kendra chats Meredith McCarroll, the author of Appalachian Reckoning, which is out now from West Virginia University Press. Grab one of our totes for 20% off by heading over to our Etsy Store! Thank you to The House of Chanel for sponsoring this episode. Find out more at inside.Chanel.com. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things Mentioned Interview with Elizabeth Catte Interview with Leah Hampton Interview with Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle Black in Appalachia Appodlachia @ReadAppalachia on Instagram Books Mentioned Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film by Meredith McCarroll Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll Meredith Recommends F*ckface and other Stories by Leah Hampton Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle When These Mountains Burn by David Joy What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While you wait for our next episode, we wanted to share Wondery’s newest podcast, Little Stories Everywhere, with you. Little Stories Everywhere is the perfect immersive experience to share by the fireplace with loved ones this holiday season. Each week, hosts Virginia Madsen and Robbie Daymond will read a different children’s classic - some of the most magical stories ever told, now reimagined with enchanting sound design that is sure to captivate the whole family. Listen now to a preview of "A Merry Christmas" by Louisa May Alcott from Little Stories Everywhere. While you’re listening, subscribe to Little Stories Everywhere on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or listen ad-free in the Wondery app, by going to http://wondery.fm/readingwomen_LSE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week’s episode, Kendra and Joce talk to Leigh Bardugo, the author of Ninth House, which is out now in paperback from Flatiron, and The Lives of Saints, which is out from Imprint. Grab one of our totes for 20% off by heading over to our Etsy Store! Thank you to The House of Chanel for sponsoring this episode. Find out more at inside.Chanel.com. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Lutz Get Down to Business We are two cousins from opposite ends of the globe who have way too many opinions about figure skating! So we decided to record ourselves talking about anything and everything that has recently gone down in the skating world. Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Other Platforms Instagram | Twitter Books Mentioned Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo Lives of Saints by Leigh Bardugo Author Bio Leigh Bardugo is the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House and the creator of the Grishaverse (coming soon to Netflix) which spans the Shadow and Bone Trilogy, the Six of Crows Duology, The Language of Thorns, and the King of Scars duology. Her short stories can be found in multiple anthologies, including Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy. Leigh grew up in Southern California and graduated from Yale University. These days she lives and writes in Los Angeles. Website | Twitter Buy the Book CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra, Sachi, Jaclyn, and Sumaiyya announce the 2020 Reading Women Award Fiction Shortlist! Thank you to The House of Chanel for sponsoring this episode. Find out more at inside.Chanel.com. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things Mentioned Reading Women Award Info Page Interview with Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle Interview with C Pam Zhang Q&A with Tara June Winch Books Mentioned The Yield by Tara June Winch (Harper Via) The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Riverhead) How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang (Riverhead) Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle (University of Kentucky Press) Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (Grove Press) Against the Lovelace World by Susan Abulhawa (Atria Books) CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra, Sachi, Jaclyn, and Sumaiyya announce the 2020 Reading Women Award Nonfiction Shortlist! Thank you to The House of Chanel for sponsoring this episode. Find out more at inside.Chanel.com. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things Mentioned Reading Women Award Info Page Interview with Wayétu Moore Sachi and Kendra’s Discussion of Minor Feelings Lupita’s Review of The Undocumented Americans Books Mentioned In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf) White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad (Catapult) The Dragons, the Giant, the Women by Wayétu Moore (Graywolf Press) Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami (Pantheon) Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong (One World) The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (One World) CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the final episode of our series of interviews in partnership with the Miami Book Fair, Kendra talks to Raven Leilani, the author of Luster, which is out now from FSG. Sign up for the Miami Book Fair! Grab one of our totes for 20% off by heading over to our Etsy Store! Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books MentionedLuster by Raven Leilani Angela Recommends These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card Lakewood by Megan Giddings Bestiary by K-ming Chang Bunny by Mona Awad Author BioRaven Leilani's debut novel, Luster, is forthcoming from FSG August 2020. Her work has been published in Granta, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Yale Review, Conjunctions, The Cut, and New England Review, among other publications. She completed her MFA at NYU. Represented by Ellen Levine @ Trident. You can reach her at @RavenLeilani Website | Twitter Buy the Book CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the second installment of our series of interviews in partnership with the Miami Book Fair, Kendra talks to Naima Coster, the author of Halsey Street, which is out now from Little A. Sign up for the Miami Book Fair! Grab one of our totes for 20% off by heading over to our Etsy Store! Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned Halsey Street by Naima Coster What’s Mine is Yours by Naima Coster Naima Recommends Want by Lynn Steger Strong The Mothers by Brit Bennett The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Author BioNaima Coster is the author of two novels. Her debut, Halsey Street, was a finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. It was recommended as a must-read by People, Essence, BitchMedia, Well-Read Black Girl, The Skimm, and the Brooklyn Public Library among others. Her forthcoming novel, What’s Mine and Yours, will be published in March 2021. Naima’s stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Rumpus, Aster(ix), Kweli, The Paris Review Daily, The Cut, The Sunday Times, and elsewhere. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree for 2020. Naima tweets as @zafatista and writes the newsletter, Bloom How You Must. She lives in Brooklyn with her family. Website | Twitter | Instagram Buy the Book CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To kick off a series of interviews in partnership with the Miami Book Fair, Kendra talks to K-Ming Chang, the author of Bestiary, which is out now from One World. Sign up for the Miami Book Fair! Grab one of our totes for 20% off by heading over to our Etsy Store! Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned Bestiary by K-Ming Chang K-Ming Recommends Ghost Forrest by Pik-Shuen Fung The Black Cathedral by Marcial Gala, Translated by Anna Kiushner Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen by Marilyn Chin The White Book by Han King Author Bio K-Ming Chang / 張欣明 is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the debut novel BESTIARY (One World/Random House, 2020), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her micro-chapbook BONE HOUSE, a queer retelling of Wuthering Heights, is forthcoming from Bull City Press’ INCH series in 2021, and she is currently working on a collection of short stories. Website | Twitter Buy the Book CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra talks to Angela Chen, the author of Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex, which is out now from Beacon Press. Thanks to our sponsors: Acorn TV - Use code readingwomen at https://acorn.tv to receive your first 30 days free! Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books MentionedAce: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen Angela Recommends The Invisible Orientation by Julie Sondra Decker Loveless by Alice Oseman Asexual Erotics by Ela Przyblo Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives edited by Karli June Cerankowski and Megan Milks Author: Angela Chen Website | Twitter | Buy the Book CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To close out October’s theme, Kendra and Sumaiyya discuss Say Hello by Carly Findlay and If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned Say Hello by Carly Findlay If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha Further Reading Winter in Sokcho by Elise Shua Dusapin, Translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins Betty by Tiffany McDaniel Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism edited by Nikki Khanna Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture by Emma Dabiri Modesty: A Fashion Paradox by Hafsa Lodhi The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett SPONSOR This episode is brought to you by Modcloth. To get 20% off your purchase of $75 or more INCLUDING sale items, go to modcloth.com and enter code readingwomen at checkout. Promo code can not be combined with other offers. CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra talks to Cinelle Barnes, the editor of A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New South, which is out now from Hub City Press. Thanks to our sponsors: Wrong Kind of Woman For 15% off your first Aurate purchase, go to AurateNewYork.com/readingwomen and use promo code readingwomen Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books MentionedA Measure of Belonging: Twenty-one Writers of Color on the New South edited by Cinelle Barnes Cinelle Recommends Jesmyn Ward Karen Good Marable Crystal Wilkinson Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art The Bitter Southerner Scalawag Author Cinelle Barnes: Website | Instagram | Buy the Book CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra, Sumaiyya, and Joce talk about books around October’s theme, Beauty Privilege! Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things Mentioned 2020 Booker Shortlist Announced JCB Longlist National Book Award Longlists National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Books Mentioned My Past is a Foreign Country by Zeba Talkhani Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha Say Hello by Carly Findlay Miss Meteor by Tehlor Kay Mejia and Anna-Marie McLemore One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London Currently Reading The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra talks to Julianne Clancy, an Assistant Marketing Director with Knopf! Julianne gives listeners a behind-the-scenes look at book marketing and answers listeners’ FAQs! Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things Mentioned Knopf Doubleday’s Website Guest Bio Julianne Clancy is an Assistant Director of Marketing with Knopf, Pantheon, and Schocken. Prior to working with Knopf, she held positions within the marketing, copywriting, and production departments of Berkley, NAL, and Penguin Young Readers, as well as working as a freelance copywriter for numerous other publishers. Outside of her publishing career, Julianne is an amateur chef, Tar Heel alum, Nintendo aficionado, distance runner, wife, mother, kitty-mom, and certified Master of Horror, having received her M.Phil in Popular Literature from Trinity College Dublin, with a thesis on Satanic horror. She is a contributor in the recently published From Bayou to Abyss: Examining John Constantine, Hellblazer, from the Sequart Organization. Instagram | Facebook | Twiter CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra talks to Vicki Laveau-Harvie about her memoir, The Erratics, which is out now from Knopf. Thanks to our sponsor, The War of the North Saga! Find out more here. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie Vicki Recommends A Plea for Eros by Siri Hustvedt The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt Between You and Me by Mary Norris The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion Author: Vicki Laveau-Harvie-Harvie: Instagram | Facebook | Buy the Book Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter to be sure you don’t miss the latest news, reviews, and furchild photos. Support us on Patreon and get insider goodies! CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To close out September, Kendra and Jaclyndiscuss About Us and Growing Up African in Australia edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Things Mentioned Patreon Episode For a brilliant review of this book check out Vuma’s IGTV review @the_diaspora_reader Books Mentioned Growing Up African in Australia edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times edited Peter Catapano and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Further Reading New Australian Fiction 2020 edited by Rebecca Starford Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy edited by Kelly Jensen Collisions: Fictions of the Future edited by Leah Jing McIntosh, Cher Tan, Adalya Nash Hussein and Hassan Abul (forthcoming November 2020) LGBTQ Poetry and Fiction from Appalachia edited by Jeff Mann and Julia Watts Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter to be sure you don’t miss the latest news, reviews, and furchild photos. Support us on Patreon and get insider goodies! CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra talks to Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle about her debut novel, Even As We Breathe, which is out now from University of Kentucky Press. Read the Transcript Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle Morgan Recommends Crooked Hallelujah by Kelly Jo Ford The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones When These Mountains Burn by David Joy F*ckface and Other Stories by Leah Hampton Author: Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle: Instagram | Twitter | Website | Buy the Book CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For September’s theme, Kendra, Jaclyn, and special guest Dani Roulette recommend anthologies! Many Thanks to Our Sponsors EveryPlate Miracle Country by Kendra Atleework Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things Mentioned 2020 Booker Longlist Announced International Booker Prize Winner Announced Nakkiah Lui has launched a publishing imprint called JOAN with Allen and Unwin Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction Shortlist Announced Teela Reid (co-founder of @blackfulla_bookclub on IG) won the Daisy Utemorrah Award for her manuscript Our Matriarchs Matter Past Coverage A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home edited by Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary Interview with Nicole Chung Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism edited by Nikki Khanna Ep. 87 | API Heritage Month: Nonfiction Black Marks on the White Page edited by Witi Ihimaera and Tina Makereti Ep. 73 | Indigenous Women Writers from Around the World Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia edited by Dr. Anita Heiss Ep. 74 | An American Sunrise and Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia It’s Not About the Burqa edited by Miriam Khan Ep. 63 | Ramadan Reading Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World edited by Zahra Hankir Ep. 76.5 | Honorable Mentions Books Mentioned Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power Today edited by Allison Whittaker Video of Author Readings What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence edited by Michele Filgate Growing Up African in Australia edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times edited Peter Catapano and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson This Place: 150 Years Retold Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water edited by Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair and Warren Cariou Currently Reading A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South ed by Cinelle Barnes We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib About Our Guest Danielle Roulette is Anishinaabeg from Dog Creek First Nation. She is a literary blogger and an aspiring writer living on the shores of Lake Winnipeg. Blog | YouTube | Instagram CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To close out August, Kendra and Sachi discuss The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa and Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Things Mentioned Women in Translation Month The Translators Aloud Project Q&A with Deborah Smith Interview with Tina Kover Books Mentioned The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, Translated by Stephen Snyder Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami, Translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd Further Reading Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami, Translated by Allison Markin Powell The Court Dancer by Kyung-sook Shin, Translated by Anton Hur Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, Translated by Megan Backus Human Acts by Han Kang, Translated by Deborah Smith CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As a special episode, here is a live show that Kendra and Jaclyn recorded at the Weekend of Words virtual book festival this spring. The episode is only lightly edited to give listeners the feel of really being there as the episode was recorded. A special thanks to the Shuffle Collective who hosted this event. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Weekend of Words Live ShowLearn more about the Shuffle Collective Things Mentioned List of This Year’s Author Interviews Caribbean Heritage Month Episode Books Mentioned A Burning by Megha Majumdar Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deep Anappara Conjure Women by Afia Atakora The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham Saltwater by Jessica Andrews The Yield by Tara June June When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra talks to Morgan Jerkins about her latest book, Wandering in Strange Lands, which is out now from Harper. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned Wandering in Strange Lands by Morgan Jerkins Morgan Recommends Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell The Yellow House by Sarah Broom Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson Black is the Body by Emily Bernard Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman Hazel Carby Henry Louis Gates Jr. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston About the Author: Twitter | Website Buy the Book Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter to be sure you don’t miss the latest news, reviews, and furchild photos. Support us on Patreon and get insider goodies! CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For August’s theme, Kendra, Sachi, and Joce share books by Asian authors for Women in Translation Month! Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things MentionedWomen in Translation Month Books Mentioned Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo, Translated by Jamie Chang Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin, Translated by Bonnie Huie The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, Translated by Stephen Snyder Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami, Translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd Almond by Won-pyung Sohn, Translated by Joosun Lee Bright by Duanwad Pimwana, Translated by Mui Poopoksakul Currently Reading Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West Running by Natalia Sylvester CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra talks to Leah Hampton about F*ckface: and Other Stories, which is out now from Henry Holt. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! This Episode is sponsored by: EveryPlate - Promo Code: readingwomen3 HerStry Things MentionedInterview with Sarah Moss Books MentionedF*ckface: and Other Stories by Leah Hampton Leah Recommends Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg When These Mountains Burn by David Joy Clay’s Quilt by Silas House The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels About the Author: Leah Hampton Twitter | Website Buy the Book CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra talks to Alice Wong about Disability Visibility: First-person Stories from the 21st Century, a new essay collected she edited and published with Vintage. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things Mentioned Alejandra Ospina, the narrator of my audiobook The Disability Visibility Project Disability Visibility Podcast Disability Visibility Discussion Guide Plain Language Access for Disability Visibility Books Mentioned Disability Visibility: First-person Stories from the 21st Century edited by Alice Wong Alice Recommends Golem Girl by Riva Lahrer More Disability Recs from the Disability Book Circle CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To close out July's theme, Fight Like a Girl, Kendra and Sumaiyya discuss The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar and A Burning by Megha Majumdar. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned A Burning by Megha Majumdar The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar Further Reading The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf Say Hello by Carly Findlay The Baghdad Clock by Shahad Al Rawi Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was A Girl by Jeannie Vanasco CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra talks to Jasmine Guillory about her book Party for Two, which is out now from Berkeley. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books MentionedParty for Two by Jasmine Guillory Jasmine’s Recommends The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby by Vanessa Riley One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria Jasmine Guillory is the New York Times bestselling author of five romance novels, including The Wedding Date and The Proposal. Her work has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, and Cosmopolitan. She lives in Oakland, California. Twitter | Website Buy the Book CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For July’s theme, Kendra, Sumaiyya, and RuthAnn share books around the theme Fight Like a Girl. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things Mentioned Reading Women Month Books Mentioned Passage to the Plaza by Sahar Khalifeh A Burning by Megha Majumdar The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar I Am Nujood: Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali We Are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai Currently Reading Woman at Post Zero by Nawal El Saadawi The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra talks to Wayétu Moore about her book The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir, which is out now from Graywolf Press. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books MentionedThe Dragons, The Giant, The Women by Wayétu Moore Wayétu Recommends His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie Author BioWayétu Moore is the author of The Dragons, the Giant, the Women and She Would Be King, and is the founder of One Moore Book. She is a graduate of Howard University, Columbia University, and the University of Southern California. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Twitter | Website Buy the Book CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To close out Caribbean Heritage Month, Kendra and Jaclyn discuss Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid and The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Black Lives Matter Resources https://blacklivesmatter.com US Bail Funds: https://bailfunds.github.io/?utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-crookedmedia&utm_content=later-7527860&utm_medium=social&utm_source=instagram How to financially support the Black Lives Matter bail funds if you don’t have $: https://youtu.be/bCgLa25fDHM https://t.co/Zgdy82hNYF Things Mentioned It’s Reading Women Month! Check out more details over on our info page all about this month’s events. Check out our new Bonfire Store with our new T-shirts and Mugs #ReadCaribbean by Cindy of @BooksofCinz #CaribAThon Interview with Tara June Winch Sara Collins’ Waterstones Shelfie interview (what inspired the novel) Sara Collins (true crime video) Books Mentioned The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid Further Reading Dew Angels by Melanie Schwapp Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat We didn’t realize both Laura (this month’s guest) and Jaclyn recommended the same book! With this double recommendation, you definitely have to read it! Dominicana by Angie Cruz Lupita’s Recommendation CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra talks to Marie Mutsuki Mockett about her book American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland, which is out now from Graywolf. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland by Marie Mutsuki Mockett Marie Recommends Heartland by Sarah Smarsh God Land by Lyz Lenz This Blessed Earth by Ted Genoways Apostles of Reason by Molly Worthen Author: Website | Buy the Book CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For June’s theme, Kendra, Jaclyn, and special guest Laura discuss books for Caribbean Heritage Month! Many thanks to our sponsor! Penguin Random House Audio Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Things Mentioned It’s Reading Women Month! Check out more details over on our info page all about this month’s events. Check out our new Bonfire Store with our new T-shirts and Mugs The New Zealand Books Awards The Miles Franklin Awards #BookstaPride Initiative #ReadCaribbean by Cindy of @BooksofCinz #CaribAThon Interview with Tara June Winch (Coming Soon!) Sara Collins’ Waterstones Shelfie interview (what inspired the novel) Sara Collins (true crime video) Books Mentioned Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid Guest Picks My Mother’s House by Francesca Momplaisir Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat Currently Reading Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe Muslim Women Are Everything: Sterotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure by Seema Yasmin, Illustrated by Fahmida Azim Our Guest: Laura | Instagram | Spoonie Challenge CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra Winchester talks to C Pam Zhang about her debut novel How Much of These Hills Is Gold, which is out now from Riverhead. Thanks to our sponsor! A Farewell to Arms, Legs and Jockstraps by Diane Shah Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books MentionedHow Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang Roshani Recommends Days of Distraction by Alexandra Chang Lakewood by Megan Giddings Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid Author: C Pam Zhang Twitter | Instagram | Website | Buy the Book CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To close out our month on API Heritage Month Nonfiction, Kendra and Sachi discuss The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston and Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong. Many thanks to our sponsor! A Farewell to Arms, Legs and Jockstraps by Diane Shah Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Things MentionedOur coverage of Pacific Islander Titles on Instagram Books Mentioned Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston Further Reading Dear Girls by Ali Wong Malaya by Cinelle Barnes Not My White Savior by Julayne Lee Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden Our Interview with T Kira Madden CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra talks to Roshani Chokshi about her latest novel Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes, the third book in her Pandava series, which is out now from Rick Riordan Presents. Thanks to our sponsors! A Farewell to Arms, Legs and Jockstraps by Diane Shah Get $10 off your purchase of a Skylight Frame go to SkylightFrame.com/READING and enter code READING. EveryPlate Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentionedby Roshani Chokshi Aru Shah and the End of Time Aru Shah and the Song of Death Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes The Star-Touched Queen The Crown of Wishes The Gilded Wolves Roshani Recommends The Serpent’s Secret by Sayantani DasGupta Mirage by Somaiya Daud The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh Author - Roshani Chokshi: Twitter | Instagram | Website CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For May’s theme, Kendra, Sachi, and RuthAnn discuss nonfiction books for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Book Blind Date Sale: Get 15% off our hardback and paperback book blind dates! Many thanks to our sponsors! Kobo Audiobooks. Learn more at kobo.com/READINGWOMEN. Get $10 off your purchase of a Skylight Frame go to SkylightFrame.com/READING and enter code READING. Novel Gazing, a Podcast from Book Riot A Farewell to Arms, Legs and Jockstraps by Diane Shah Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Things Mentioned Our special episode all about Cleveland! Shop for today’s book picks on Bookshop.org Virtual Indie Bookstore Day The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevado Libro.fm Socks Y’all Stay At Home Book Festival Weekend of Words Virtual Book Festival Short Clip from 1990 Documentary Discussing MHK’s THE WOMAN WARRIOR Discussion with Celeste Ng and MHK in August 2019 Books Mentioned Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism edited by Nikki Khanna The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir by E.J. Koh Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston The Making of Asian America: A History by Erica Lee Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America by Sharmila Shen Currently Reading How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a special edition of Reading Women, we’re featuring women from Cleveland, Ohio! Kendra Winchester talks Raechel Anne Jolie, author of Rust Belt Femme, and Eliese Colette Goldbach, author of Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit, about their memoirs, and Reading Women co-host Sachi Argabright shares her experience growing up and living in the greater Cleveland area. Get $10 off your purchase of a Skylight Frame go to SkylightFrame.com/READING and enter code READING. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned Rust Belt Femme by Raechel Anne Jolie Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette Goldbach Raechel Recommends Midwest Futures by Phil Christman The Last Children of Mill Creek by Vivian Gibson Adrian Murray Brown Eliese Recommends Anne Trubek, Belt Publishing Heartland by Sarah Smarsh Sachi Recommends Beloved by Toni Morrison Little Fire Everywhere by Celeste Ng You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson Eliese Colette Goldbach: Buy the Book | Website Raechel Anne Jolie: Instagram | Website | Buy the Book CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To close out our month on Marriage Stories, Kendra and Sumaiyya discuss A Pure Heart by Rajia Hassib and Love from A to Z by S.K. Ali. Many thanks to our sponsors! This episode is also sponsored by Kobo Audiobooks. Learn more at kobo.com/READINGWOMEN. Get $10 off your purchase of a Skylight Frame go to SkylightFrame.com/READING and enter code READING. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned It’s Not About the Burqa edited by Miriam Khan Our episode about It’s Not About the Burqa A Pure Heart by Rajia Hassib Love from A to Z by S.K. Ali The Pleasure Seekers by Tishani Doshi Marriage of Thousand Lies by S.J. Sindu Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀̀ Q&A with Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀̀ CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra talks to Samantha Irby about her essay collection Wow, No Thank You, which is out now from Vintage. Book Blind Date Sale: Get 15% off our hardback and paperback book blind dates! Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned Meaty by Samantha Irby We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby Author: Samantha Irby: Twitter | Instagram | Website | Buy the Book CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra talks to Meena Kandasamy about her novel When I Hit You; Or the Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife, which is out now from Europa. Book Blind Date Sale: Get 15% off our hardback and paperback book blind dates! This episode is sponsored by Book of the Month. Get your first month for just $9.99 with code READINGWOMEN. This episode is also sponsored by Kobo Audiobooks. Learn more at kobo.com/READINGWOMEN. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books MentionedWhen I Hit You: Or, a Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy Meena Recommends Kamala Suraiyya Das Arundhati Roy Desires Become Demons translated by Meena Kandasamy Author: Twitter | Website | Buy the Book CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Things have been rough out in the world recently, so we have an EXTENDED episode for you today. For April’s theme, Kendra, Sumaiyya, and Joce discuss Marriage Stories! Book Blind Date Sale: Get 15% off our hardback and paperback book blind dates! This episode is sponsored by Kobo Audiobooks. Learn More at kobo.com/READINGWOMEN. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things Mentioned Shop for today’s book picks on Bookshop.org! Old Town Books - Check out their writing classes! Books Mentioned Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik Brown, White, Black by Nishta J. Mehra A Pure Heart by Rajia Hassib Love from A to Z by S.K. Ali The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa K. Adams Permanent Record by Mary H.K. Choi Currently Reading Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra talks to Emily St. John Mandel, the author of The Glass Hotel, which is out now from Knopf. Book Blind Date Sale: Get 15% off our hardback and paperback book blind dates! Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Author: Emily St. John Mandel: Twitter | Instagram | Buy the Book CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To close out our month on Women in History, Kendra and Jaclyn discuss These Truths by Jill Lepore and The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson. This episode is sponsored by Book of the Month. Get your first month for just $9.99 with code READINGWOMEN. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned These Truths by Jill Lepore The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson The Knowledge Solution: Australia History: What Place Does History Have in a Post-Truth World? edited by Anna Clark The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter She Came To Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman by Erica Armstrong Dunbar The ReVisioning History Series A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz A Black Woman's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra talks to Abi Daré, the author of The Girl with the Louding Voice, which is out now from Dutton. Many thanks to today’s sponsors: The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi and Writers & Lovers by Lily King! Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré Abi Recommends Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀̀ Our Q&A with Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀̀ A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For March’s theme, Kendra, Jaclyn, and Bree discuss book about women in history. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Many thanks to today’s sponsors: The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi and Writers & Lovers by Lily King! Things Mentioned The Stella Prize Longlist “Romance Novels Are Feminist” TedTalk Books Mentioned Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia by Samia Khatun These Truths by Jill Lepore The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman Scandal Takes the Stage by Eva Leigh Temporary Wife Temptation by Jayci Lee Currently Reading Blueberries by Ellena Savage Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette Goldbach CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra talks to Nicole Chung, the Editor in Chief of Catapult Magazine and one of the co-editors of A Map Is Only One Story, which is out now from Catapult. Right now, for a limited time Blinkist has a special offer just for our audience: Go to Blinkist.com/WOMEN try it FREE for 7 days AND save 25% off your new subscription. Get 20% off of our book blind dates over in our store! Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned Catapult Magazine A Map Is Only One Story edited by Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To close out our month on Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism, Kendra, Sachi, and Bezi discuss Afrofuturism and Parable of the Sower. Get 20% off of our book blind dates over in our store! Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things Mentioned Afrofuturism Discussion Page for the Reading Women Challenge Nnedi Okorafor’s TED Talk Books Mentioned Afrofuturism by Ytasha L. Womack Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra talks to Kiley Reid about her debut novel, Such a Fun Age, which is out now from Putnam. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid Sarah Recommends Long Bright River by Liz Moore Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence by Rachel Sherman The Nanny by Leila Slimani Jillian by Halle Butler The Little Friend by Donna Tartt Author: Kiley Reid: Website | Instagram | Twitter Buy the Book Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter to be sure you don’t miss the latest news, reviews, and furchild photos. Support us on Patreon and get insider goodies! CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For February’s theme, Kendra, Sachi, and new Reading Women contributor Bezi discuss Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism! Get 20% off of our book blind dates over in our store! Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things Mentioned 'Binti' Adaptation From Michael Ellenberg in the Works at Hulu ‘Wild Seed’ Drama Series Based On Sci-Fi Book In Works At Amazon From Viola Davis & Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions Nnedi Okorafor’s Definition of Africanfuturism Q&A with Bethany C. Morrow Books Mentioned Binti by Nnedi Okorafor Dread Nation by Justina Ireland Afrofuturism by Ytasha L. Womack The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler How Long ‘Til Back Future Month by N.K. Jemisin Further Reading Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora edited by Sheree Thomas MEM by Bethany C Morrow Temper by Nicky Drayden CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra talks to Tishani Doshi about her latest novel, Small Days and Nights, which is out now from W.W. Norton. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned Small Days and Nights by Tishani Doshi Sarah Recommends Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy Author: Tishani Doshi: Website | Instagram | Buy the Book Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter to be sure you don’t miss the latest news, reviews, and furchild photos. Support us on Patreon and get insider goodies! CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kendra and Joce talk about their most anticipated books for the first half of 2020. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao (Atria, Jan. 21st) The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg (Hachette. Jan. 21st) Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong (One World, Feb. 24th) Witches of Ash and Ruin by E Latimer (Freeform, March 3rd) So We Can Glow by Leesa Cross-Smith (Grand Central Publishing, March 10th) Conjure Women by Afia Atakora (Random House, March 17th) Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby (Vintage, March 31st) You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat (Catapult, June 9th) CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected]. SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices