5 BOOKS TO READ THIS FALL !
I am currently reading “educated” by Tara Westover, although I am enjoying this book very much I cannot wait to finish it so I can move on to the next book. My to-read list is growing far faster than my finished reading list and my nightstand is stacked with unread book but that does not stop me from buying more books, and I feel no guilt about this whatsoever.
READ : 12 BOOKS EVERY BLACK WOMAN NEEDS TO READ IN 2019
If you are wondering what book should you read this fall, let me tell you there are plenty of brand new stories coming this fall including Margaret Atwood’s new book “The testaments”, which is one of the most anticipated book of this fall season.
This fall we’re going to need a lot of feminism, mental health, society & cultural reading material…. Scroll down to see fall's most anticipated books to look out for!
1. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives -- a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys. Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.
2. NoirEs sous surveillance : Esclavage, répression et violence d'Etat au Canada Policing ( Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present) by Robyn Maynard
Delving behind Canada's veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and punishment of Black lives in Canada.
3. Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
An unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes and exposes the private hopes, disappointments, and longings that can bind or divide us from each other. As it explores sexual desire and identity, ambition, gentrification, education, class and status, and the life-altering facts of parenthood, Red at the Bone most strikingly looks at the ways in which young people must so often make long-lasting decisions about their lives--even before they have begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be.
Release date: September 17, 2019.
4. The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden. In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood. The Grace Year examines the complex and sometimes twisted relationships between girls, the women they eventually become, and the difficult decisions they make in-between.
Release date : October 8, 2019.
5. White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue ... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation by Lauren Michele Jackson
American culture loves blackness. From music and fashion to activism and language, black culture constantly achieves worldwide influence. Yet, when it comes to who is allowed to thrive from black hipness, the pioneers are usually left behind as black aesthetics are converted into mainstream success--and white profit. White Negroes exposes the new generation of whiteness thriving at the expense and borrowed ingenuity of black people—and explores how this intensifies racial inequality.
Release date: November 12, 2019.
Happy reading!
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