The pandemic has been terrible in so many ways, but one silver lining of staying home most of the year has been having more time to read. The following are the books I found most engaging this year, in no particular order. I list academic books separately below, although the division between the two lists isn't at all tidy. If you'd like to read more about the books or purchase them, check out Bookshop.
Memorial Drive by Natasha Tretheway
Uneasy Street by Rachel Sherman
Evil Geniuses by Kurt Anderson
Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe
Breathe by Imani Perry
Eclipse of Dreams by Marco Saavedra, Claudia Muñoz, Mariela Nuñez-Janes, Stephen Pavey, Fidel Castro Rodriguez, Pedro Santiago Martinez
That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (again!)
Wayward Lives by Saidiya Hartman
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Academic books:
Traveling with Sugar by Amy Moran-Thomas
Life on the Other Border by Teresa Mares
A Mexican State of Mind by Melissa Castillo Planas
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis
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