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Someone Who Isn’t Me by Geoff Rickly 

Greenglass House by Kate Milford 

Where the Body Was by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips  

Look Again: A Memoir by Elizabeth A. Trembley  

The Best Strangers in the World by Ari Shapiro  

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The Wind Up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi  

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia  

Tabula Rasa: Volume 1 by John McPhee 

Hell of a Book by Jason Mott 

Knight’s Wyrd by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald 

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  • How Music Got Free: A Story of Obsession and Invention by Stephen Witt

  • Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian by Ethelene Whitmire

  • Abeni's Song by P. Djèlí Clark

  • Dust Bowl Descent by Bill Ganzel

  • Hicksville: A Comic Book by Dylan Horrocks

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Featured Books:   The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth by Germaine Fowler Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War  by Matthew Clavin The Conjure-Man Dies: A Harlem Mystery  By Rudolph Fisher The Left-Handed Book Sellers of London by Garth Nix On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed 2023 Cumulative Featured Books via Good Reads  Follow or Contact Book Club of One:  Instagram @bookclubofuno  bookclubofuno@gmail.com

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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond 

American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild 

This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian 

America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History by Ariel Aberg-Riger 

Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 by Chris Payne 

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Witch King by Martha Wells 

Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman 

Terminal Alliance (Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse #1) by Jim C. Hines 

The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1) by Liu Cixin Translated by Ken Liu 

Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers by Emma Smith 

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  • Material World : a global family portrait by Peter Menzel
  • The Guest Lecture by Martin Riker
  • The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Vol. 1 by Catherynne M. Valente
  • American Cheese: An Indulgent Odyssey Through the Artisan Cheese World by Joe Berkowitz
  • The Secret Book of Flora Lee by Patti Calahan Henry 2023 Cumulative Featured Books via Good Reads 

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    • My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durell
    • Gideon the Ninth by Tasmyn Muir
    • Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
    • Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed
    • This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas

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Featured Books Taste makers : seven immigrant women who revolutionized food in America by Mayukh Sen. The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America’s Top Secrets by Matthew Connelly The British Soldier and His Libraries C. 1822-1901 by Sharon Murphy The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War by Chad Williams Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation by Steven Hyden 2023 Cumulative Featured Books via Good Reads Follow or Contact Book Club of One: Instagram @bookclubofuno bookclubofuno@gmail.com

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Featured Books The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan KarunatilakMongrels by Stephen Graham Jones Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day by Dan Nott Dance-Punk by Larissa Wodtke How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr Daniel Immerwahr’s Books of the Century 2023 Cumulative Featured Books via Good Reads Follow or Contact Book Club of One: Instagram @bookclubofuno bookclubofuno@gmail.com

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Featured Books The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi The Trees by Percival Everett Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War By Timothy Phillips Mercury Pictures Presentsby Anthony Marra The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV, Álvaro Martínez Bueno (Artist), Jordie Bellaire (Colorist) 2023 Cumulative Featured Books via Good Reads Follow or Contact Book Club of One: Instagram @bookclubofuno bookclubofuno@gmail.com

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Featured Books: 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1) by N.K. Jemisin The Angel of Rome and Other Stories by Jess Walter Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome 2023 Cumulative Featured Books via Good Reads Follow or Contact Book Club of One: Instagram @bookclubofuno bookclubofuno@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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Featured Books Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Dere Bill: Mable’s Love Letters to her Rookie by Florence Elizabeth Summers and Natalie Stokes Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the Wars by Tara Zahra The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America’s Largest Labor Uprising by Robert Shogan 2023 Cumulative Featured Books via Good Reads Follow or Contact Book Club of One: Instagram @bookclubofuno bookclubofuno@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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Through Their Eyes: A Graphic History of Hill 70 and Canada's First World War Matthew Barrett, Robert C. Engen

Die, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans (Artist), Clayton Cowles (Letterer)

Dere Mable: Love Letters of a Rookie Edward Streeter, George William Breck (Illustrator)

The Night Eaters, Vol. 1: She Eats the Night Marjorie M. Liu , Sana Takeda (Illustrator)

Love and Death in the Great War Andrew J Huebner

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Finna (LitenVerse #1) by Nion Cipri

Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth van Armin with an Introduction by Cathleen Schine

Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson

At the Crossroads: Qandahar in Images and Empires by Alka Patel, Frances Terpak, Aparna Kumar

Bookriot May 9, 2022 article “Short Sci-Fi Novellas”

Amy Crawford  “What Can We See in the Oldest-Known Photographs of Kandahar?”  Atlas Obscura January 3, 2023.

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Liberation Day: Stories by George Saunders

Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir  by Bob Odenkirk

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

Uncle Sam by Steve Darnall and Alex Ross

Socks (Object Lessons) by Kim Adrian

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Papyrus: the Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo (translated by Charlotte Whittle)

Veil (Object Lessons) by Rafia Zakaria 

Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter - Then, Now, and Forever by John McWhorter

We Return Fighting: World War I And the Shaping of Modern Black Identity Edited by Kinshasha Holman Conwill

Saga by Brian Vaughan and Fiona Staples 

Book Riot – Holstrom – “Recommending Books Based on the Weirdest Facts They Taught Me.”

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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror Edited by Joe Vallese

How to Win the War on Truth: An Illustrated Guide to How Mistruths Are Sold, Why They Stick, and How to Reclaim Reality by Samuel C. Spitale, Illustrations by Allan Whincup

But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust Edited by Charlotte Schallie

‘Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints By Cullen Bunn (Writer) , Tyler Crook (Artist, Letterer)

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Gross Anatomy: Dispatches from the Front by Mara Altman

What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz

His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham

Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 by Scott Ellsworth

Book Riot – Holstrom – “Recommending Books Based on the Weirdest Facts They Taught Me.”

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Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post Human Landscape by Cal Flyn

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad

A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan

Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

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Factory Summers by Guy Delisle

Sweet Tooth by Jeff Lemire

A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, On Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

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You’ve Got Read On You: How Shaun of the Dead Was Brought to Life by Clark Collis

Far Sector by N. K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell

The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharrs

Gender Queer by Maia and Phoebe Kobabe

Tenements, Towers and Trash: An Unconventional History of New York City  by Julia Wertz

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Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future. Edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer.

Men At Arms by Evelyn Waugh

The Jewish Journey: 4000 Years in 22 Objects From the Ashmolean Museum by Rebecca Abrams with a Foreword by Simon Schama

Cryptid Club by Sarah Anderson

Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash by Elizabeth Royte

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Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America by Cameron McWhirter

Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars by Nick Duerden

Swallowing Clouds: A PLayful Journey Through Chinese Culture, Language, and Cuisine by A. Zee

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine

How Does it Feel to be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi

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Books:

  1. On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed

  2. Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton

  3. Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library by Amanda Oliver

  4. The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix

  5. Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

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Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times   By Azar Nafisi

The Candy House by Jennifer Egan

Mouse Guard (Series) by David Petersen

Pollack’s Arm by Hans von Trotha Translated by Elisabeth Lauffer

Eat the Rich by Sarah Gailey  Illustrated by Pius Bak and Roman Titov

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Featured Books:

  • Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021 by Margaret Atwood

  • Tender is the Fleshy by Agustina Bazterrica as translated by Sarah Moses

  • 500 Essential Graphic Novels by Gene Kannenberg Jr (and many other contributors) 

  • Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects by Edward Posnett 

  • At the Edge of Night by Friedo Lampe as translated by Simon Beattie  

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Love Goes to  Buildings On Fire:Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever by Will Hermes

Paradox Hotel by Rob by Hart

The Hearing Trumpet

Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

The Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

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The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman

Making Comics by Lynda Barry

Motley Stones by Adalbert Stifter Translated by Isabel Fargo Cole

The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk Translated by  Jennifer Croft

An Iranian Metamorphosis by Mana Neyestani translated by Chazal Mosadeq

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Featured Books Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret by Catherine Coleman Flowers with a foreward by Bryan Stevenson A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot #1)  by Becky Chambers Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice Maisie Dobbs (Maise Dobbs #1) By Jacqueline Winspear Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal 2022 Cumulative Featured Books via Good Reads Follow or Contact Book Club of One: Instagram @bookclubofuno bookclubofuno@gmail.com Goodreads


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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone And How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee

Noir by Christopher Moore

A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler

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Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home by Nora Krug

I, Rene Tardi, Prisoner of War in Stalag IIB Vol. 1 by Jacques Tardi

The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew

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Saturday by Ian McEwan

Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham

A Test of Wills by Charles Todd

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Ramble Book by Adam Buxton

The Department of Rarebooks and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk

Enid (The Four Sisters #1) by Malika Ferdjoukh,  illustrated by Cati Baur, and translated by Edward Gauvin

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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story  Organized and featuring contributions by Nikole Hannah-Jones

The Way of Kings (Stormlight Archives #1) by Brandon Sanderson

The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka 

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The Work: The Lyrics of Scott Hutchison by Scott Hutchinson

Red Lines: Political Cartoons and the Struggle Against Censorship by Cherian George and Sonny Liew.

The Museum: A Short History of Crisis and Resilience by Samuel J. Redman

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Featured Books Comics Confidential: Thirteen Graphic Novelists Talk Story, Craft, and Life Outside the Box by Leonard S. Marcus. Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling by Sabrina Jones, Marc Mauer, Michelle Alexander (Foreward) Devil House by John Darnielle 2022 Cumulative Featured Books via Good Reads Follow or Contact Book Club of One: Instagram @bookclubofuno bookclubofuno@gmail.com Goodreads


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Featured Books:

It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

The Middle Ages: A Graphic History by Eleanor Janega Illustrated by  Neil Max Emmanuel

The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 by Mary E. Jones Parrish

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Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross Edited by Maia-Mari Sutnik

Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century by Christina Riggs

The Labyrinth  by Simon Stålenhag

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The Company of the Dead by David Kowalski

Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt Translated by Nancy Forest-Flier

Traces of War Edited by Dr Birger Stichelbaut

Reprieve by James Han Mattson

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Featured Books:

  1. Bibliophile: Diverse Spines by Jamise Harper and Jane Mount
  2. In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jeffrey Veidlinger
  3. Revival, Vol. 1: You’re Among Friends by Tim Seeley, Mike Norton, Mark Englert and Jenny Frison

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  1. Grave Reservations (The Booking Agents #1) by Cherie Priest
  2. Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacobs
  3. I, Rene Tardi, Prisoner of War in Stalag IIB Vol. 1 by Jacques Tardi

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All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told by Douglas Wolk

This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno

The Storyteller: Tales of My Life and Music by Dave Grohl

Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer’s Guide by Cecily Wong and Dylan Thuras with additional writing by Rachel Rummel, Anne Ewbank, and Sam O'Brien.

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

Gastro Obscura Presents: The World’s Most Unusual Vending Machine 

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Run For It: Stories of Slaves Who Fought For Their Freedom  by Marcelo d’Salete translated by Andrea Rosenberg

Hell of a Hat: The Rise of ‘90s Ska and Swing by Kenneth Patridge

Around the World in 80 Books

Noor by Nnedi Okorafor

Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu, Montana Kane (Translator)

Nnedi Okorafor - Sci-fi Stories that imagine a Future Africa 

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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America by Eyal Press

The First World War by Hew Strachan

Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-1007) by Dan Ozzi

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book: Revised and Expanded by Gord Hill, with a Foreword by Pamela Palmater.

ComicsBeat - Interview: Gord Hill on The 500 Year of Indigenous Resistance

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Featured Books:

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach

The Wrong Turning: Encounters with Ghosts Selected and Edited By Stephen Johnson

The Book Tour by Andi Watson

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Three Pianos: A Memoir by Andrew McMahon

Can India Solve Its Macaque Conundrum With Contraception? - Mary Roach via Atlas Obscura

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Featured Books:

Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement by Jane Ziegelman

Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of the ‘70s and ‘80s Horror Fiction by Grady Hendrix

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Featured Books:

Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology by Ellen Ullman

Götz and Meyer by David Albahari and translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać

Monstress (Series) by Marjorie M. Liue and Illustrator by Sana Takeda.

Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang and Illustrated by Gurihiru

Stiff: THe Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

TEDX Why Comics Belong in the Classroom - Gene Luen Yang

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The End of Bias: A Beginning by Jessica Nordell

The Icepick Surgeon by Sam Kean

You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples by Patricia Marx, illustrated by Roz Chast

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Afterparties: Stories by Anthony Veasna So

NPRs Books Summer Poll 2021: A Decade of Great Sci Fi And Fantasy

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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History Of African America, 1619-2019 Edited by Ibram X Kendi and Keisha N Blain

Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat by Matt Siegel

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

Midtown Scholar 400 Souls Panel Discussion February 22, 2021

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Featured Books Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them by Nancy Marie Brown No Room at the Morgue by Jean-Patrick Manchette The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis by David E. Fishman Show Me A Story!: Why Picture Books Matter: Conversations with 21 of the World's Most Celebrated Illustrators by Leonard S. Marcus, David Wiesner (Foreword) In Defense of Ska by Aaron Carnes

2021 Cumulative Featured Books via Good Reads Avclub - If Emo can be Rehabbed Why Not Ska? By Ashely Naftule May 4,2021. "I Don't Love You Anymore" is by Bomb the Music Industry and is licensed under a  Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 License. Visit Quote Unquote Records for more music or to donate!  Follow or Contact Book Club of One: Instagram @bookclubofuno bookclubofuno@gmail.com Goodreads


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  1. On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
  2. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Clare North
  3. The 100 Most Jewish Foods
  4. The Magic of Terry Pratchett
  5. How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith

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  1. The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
  2. No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education by Leigh Patel
  3. The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
  4. The Backwash of War: An American Classic and Other Essays by Ellen N. La Motte and Cynthia Wachtell
  5. Lost Classics Edited by Michael Ondaatje, Micheal Redhill, Linda and Esta Spalding.

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  1. Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe, with an Introduction by Matt Weiland
  2. Another World: Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Print Culture by Patricia Mainardi
  3. Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America by Sarah Menkedick
  4. Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration by Hasia R. Diner
  5. Ayoade on Top by Richard Ayoade

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Feature Books

  1. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martínez
  2. The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by D. G. Compton
  3. The Anthropocene Reviewed  by John Green
  4. The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Editor)
  5. A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark

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  1. Inhuman Traffick: The International Struggle Against the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Graphic History by Rafe Blaufarb and Liz Clarke
  2. Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas by Henry Dumas, John Keene (Introduction), Eugene B. Redmond (Editor)
  3. When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann
  4. Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion . . . So Far (Discworld Companion Books) by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs, Marc Simonetti (Cover Artist)
  5. Galactic Empires Edited by Neil Clarke

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Featured Books:

  1. Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America by Alec MacGillis
  2. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
  3. A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
  4. Don’t Pigeon Hole Me!: Two Decades of the Mo Willems Sketchbook By Mo Willems
  5. The World’s War by David Olusoga

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  1. The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion
  2. The Monumental Challenge of Preservation: The Past in a Volatile World by Michele Cloonan
  3. To Be Taught If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
  4. Security by Gina Wohlsdorf
  5. Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri

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  1. The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
  2. The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
  3. Memorial by Bryan Washington
  4. Millennium by John Varley
  5. Nailbiter, Vol. 1 There Will Be Blood.  by Joshua Williamson, Mike Henderson, Adam Guzowski and John. J. Hill

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  1. The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz translated by Philip Boehm
  2. Salvation Day by Kali Wallace
  3. Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure by Menachem Kaiser
  4. How To Ru(i)n a Record Label by Larry Livermore
  5. Gideon Falls, Vol 1 The Black Barn  by Jeff Lemire (writer),   Andrea Sorrentino (Artist), and Dave Stewart (Colorist)

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The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth and Power. By Deirdre Mask

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders

Lost Transmissions: Science Fiction and Fantasy's Untold, Underground, and Forgotten History edited by Desirina Boskovich, Jeff VanderMeer (Foreword)

Scars Upon My Heart: Women's Poetry And Verse Of The First World War Selected by by Catherine Reilly

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  1. The Refugees by Viet Thanh Ngueyen
  2. For Bread Alone by Mohamed Choukri
  3. At Night All Blood is Black by  David Diop, Anna Moschovakis (Translator)
  4. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
  5. You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day by Mo Willems, Dave Barry (Foreword by)

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Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War by Leila Tarazi Fawaz Worldcat

The Long Trail: What the Soldiers Sang and Said in the Great War of 1914 to 1918 by John Brophy and Eric Partridge Worldcat

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey Worldcat

Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock By Steven Hyden Worldcat

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang Worldcat

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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X Kendi. Worldcat

Ghoster by Jason Arnopp Worldcat

The Burning of the World by Béla Zombory-Moldován Translated by Peter Zombory-Moldovan Worldcat

The Neil Gaiman Library Volume 1. Written by Neil Gaiman illustrated by P Craig Russel, Rafael Albuquerque, Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá. Worldcat

Speedboat Renata Adler Worldcat

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  1. The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon Worldcat
  2. Seasons of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih Worldcat
  3. The Cold Millions by Jess Walter Worldcat
  4. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of American Supermarkets by Benjamin Lorr Worldcat
  5. All Systems Red by Martha Wells Worldcat

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Featured Books and lists

  1. Welcome to the New World by Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan Worldcat
  2. Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Ekstein Worldcat
  3. The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust: A Memoir by Noam Chayut, Translated by Tal Haran Worldcat
  4. Guts & Glory: Great American War Movies by Lawrence Howard Suid Worldcat
  5. Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, translated by Olena Bormashenko Worldcat

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  1. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich Worldcat
  2. The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda (Translated by Alison Watts) Worldcat
  3. The Martian by Andy Weir Worldcat
  4. War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan Worldcat
  5. We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust by Rafael Medoff, Neal Adams and Craig Yoe Worldcat

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  1. Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark Worldcat
  2. The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye, (Trans) James Kirkup, (Intro) Toni Morrison Worldcat
  3. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson Worldcat
  4. Fatelessness by Imre Kertész, Tim Wilkinson (Translator) Worldcat
  5. Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds as They Were and as They are Today by Travis Elborough Worldcat

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  1. The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic By the New York Times Magazine Worldcat
  2. American Road: The Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age by Pete Davies Worldcat
  3. Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread by Michiko Kakutani Worldcat
  4. Generals Die In Bed by Charles Yale Harrison Worldcat
  5. The Thursday Muder Club By Richard Osman Worldcat

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  1. Conditional Citizen: On Belonging In America by Laila Lalami Worldcat
  2. The City We Became by N. K. Jemision Worldcat
  3. Sermons and Soda Water by John O’Hara Worldcat
  4. Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror Edited by Lincoln Michel & Nadxieli Nieto Worldcat
  5. The Health of the Commonwealth: A Brief History of Medicine, Public Health, and Disease in Pennsylvania by James E Higgins Worldcat

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  1. Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones Worldcat
  2. Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom Worldcat
  3. Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers, 1852-1923 Edited by Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa MortonWorldcat
  4. The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson, Michael Chabon (Introduction), Michael Meyer (Translator). Worldcat
  5. Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots Worldcat

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  1. One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson with a Foreword by Senator Dick Durbin. Worldcat
  2. The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami Worldcat
  3. The Writer’s Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives by Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager with an Introduction by Susan Orlean. Worldcat
  4. The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories Edited by J. A. Cuddon. Worldcat
  5. Cold Storage by David Koepp Worldcat

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  1. Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison by Sarah, Omar El Akkad; and Gerardo Alba Mirk Worldcat
  2. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang Worldcat
  3. Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf Worldcat
  4. Angel by Elizabeth Taylor Worldcat
  5. The Green Man by Kingsely Amis Worldcat

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  1. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder Worldcat
  2. Becoming by Michelle Obama Worldcat
  3. When They Call You A Terrorist A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele, Angela Y. Davis (Foreword) Worldcat
  4. Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah Worldcat
  5. More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl Worldcat

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  1. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein Worldcat
  2. The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson Worldcat
  3. The Need Helen Phillips Worldcat
  4. Paul Tremblay Double Feature
    1. Survivor Song Worldcat
    2. The Cabin at the End of the World Worldcat

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  1. Paying The Land by Joe Sacco - Worldcat
  2. Drawing Power by Dianne Noomin (Editor) - Worldcat
  3. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones - Worldcat
  4. Deal With the Devil by Kit Rocha - Worldcat
  5. Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff - Worldcat

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  1. War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race by Edwin Black Worldcat
  2. Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In. By Phuc Tran Worldcat
  3. Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson Worldcat
  4. Castle Waiting Omnibus Vol. 1 by Linda Medley Worldcat
  5. Engleby by Sebastian Faulks Worldcat

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  1. The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander WorldcatBookshop
  2. Eve of Man - Giovanna and Tom Fletcher WorldcatBookshop
  3. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - Hank Green WorldcatBookshop
  4. Devolution - Max Brooks WorldcatBookshop
  5. Count and Spark - Sean Nelson WorldcatBookshop

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Resources Showing Up For Racial Justice  Boston University Center for Antiracist Research Featured Book List

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo Worldcat  Bookshop (Read with caution: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/dehumanizing-condescension-white-fragility/614146/)

How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi   Worldcat Bookshop

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold Worldcat Bookshop

Outlander   (Outlander #1) by Diana Gabaldon  Worldcat  Bookshop

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  1. Strange Fruit, Volume 2: More Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History by Joel Christian Gill WorldcatBookShop
  2. Weather by Jenny Offill WorldcatBookShop
  3. The First World War In 100 Objects by John Hughes-Wilson WorldcatBookShop
  4. The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix Worldcat

Let It Be by Colin Meloy Worldcat BookShop

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Black Lives Matter: A Reading List from Left Bank Books

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  1. Strange Fruit, Volume 1: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History by Joel Christian Gill WorldcatBookShop
  2. The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France by Ethan B. Katz WorldcatBookShop
  3. Penric’s Progress by Lois McMasters Bujold WorldcatBookShop
  4. Shadows of a Childhood by Elisabeth Gille translated by Linda Coverdale WorldcatBookShop
  5. Shakespeare for Squirrels (Fool #3) by Christopher Moore WorldcatBookShop

Black Lives Matter Reading Lists:

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  1. Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900 - 1925 by Vera Brittain WorldcatBookShop
  2. The Woods By James Tynion IV Illustrated by Michael Dialynas WorldcatBookShop
  3. The New Frontier By Darwyn Cooke WorldcatBookShop
  4. Uncanny Valley by Anna Weiner WorldcatBookShop
  5. Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror by W. Scott Poole Worldcat

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Episode 3:  Books Read So Far In May.  1. What Tommy Took to War, 1914 - 1918 - Peter Doyle, Photos by Chris Foster

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  1. The Hard Times: The First 40 Years - Matt Sanicome and Bill Conway

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  1. A Cosmology of Monsters - Shaun Hamill

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What I've read in April.

  1. Meet Me In the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001- 2011 - Lizzy Goodman BorrowBuy
  2. How to Stop Losing Your Sht with Your Kids: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Calmer, Happier Parent - Carla Naumburg BorrowBuy*
  3. A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles BorrowBuy
  4. Harvey Pekar's Cleveland by Harvey Pekar, Joseph Remnant (Illustrator), Alan Moore (Foreword) BorrowBuy
  5. The Enemy at His Pleasure: A Journey Through the Jewish Pale of Settlement During World War I- S. Ansky, Joachim Neugroschel (Translator) Borrow

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For the first episode, I talk through my 16 favorite books I've read so far in 2020. There was a limit to the number of links I could provide in the description, so there are no Indiebound links they can be emailed.

Where to find the books mentioned in this episode:

  1. Howard's End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home - Susan Hill Worldcat
  2. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri Worldcat
  3. The Tangier Archive: The Great War Photographs of Captain Givord - Carlos Traspaderne (Ed) Worldcat
  4. Exposing Slavery: Photography,Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America - Matthew Fox-Amato Worldcat
  5. Once More We Saw Stars - Jayson Greene Worldcat
  6. The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa Worldcat
  7. The Vanished Birds - Simon Jimenez Worldcat
  8. Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers, and the Strangest Movie Never Made - Josh Frank (Author),Tim Heidecker and Manuela Pertega (Illustrator) Worldcat
  9. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami Worldcat
  10. The Diving Pool: Three Novellas - Yoko Ogawa Worldcat
  11. America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today - Pamela S. Nadell Worldcat
  12. Catboy - Benji Nate Worldcat
  13. A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785 - 1812. - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Worldcat
  14. Rise: A Newsflesh Collection - Mira Grant Worldcat
  15. Red Clocks - Leni Zumas Worldcat
  16. Asto City Kurt Busiek (Author) Alex ross and Brent Anderson (Artists). Worldcat

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Welcome to Book Club of One.

I am Jacob, a librarian, and through the course of a year I read a lot of books.

Join me this year as I focus on reading books from home and sharing details and reactions for the ones I like.

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