Uploaded January 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Welcome to my book chat: Recent reads, February possible TBR, goodbye to a miserable month

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Books finished
Birds of America, Lorrie Moore
(Favorite stories: People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk; Real Estate; Dance in America; Agnes of Iowa)
The Magus, John Fowles
The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad

Currently reading
Conviction, Denise Mina

Concrete TBR for February
If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin
In the Lost City, Edward P. Jones
Asperigon, Collum McCann

Pile of Possibilities (ty Kazen from Always Doing for the perfect phrase)
Everything Inside, Edwidge Danticat (kindle)
Sula, Toni Morrison (Norton Anthology)
Maude Martha, Gwendolyn Brooks (Norton Anthology)
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, Danielle Evans (library loan)
Training School for Negro Girls, Camille Acker (library loan)
Skies of Ash, #2 Elouise Norton crime series, Rachel Howzell Hall (audiobook, scribd)

Bonus Material: Film/Documentary
If Beale Street Could Talk
I am Not Your Negro, from the writings of James Baldwin
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am

Additional reading list
Short Stories by African American women, recommended by Camille Acker in 2018
electricliterature.com/a-reading-list-of-short-story-collections-by-black-women-writers
Miss Muriel and Other Stories, Ann Petry (1940s--1960s)
White Rat, Stories by Gayl Jones
In the Not Quite Dark, Dana Jones (2016, Southern California)
The Loss of All Lost Things, Amina Gautier
At Risk: Stories, Amina Gautier
Heads of the Colored People, Nafissa Thompson-Spires

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