This week we are joined by Traci Thomas! Traci is the host of The Stacks Podcast, a mom to twin girls, and an avid non-fiction reader. We get a behind the scenes look at how she chooses books for the pod, her favorite books of 2020 (and all time), and talk about the book she wishes would be written. We loved getting her perspective as she’s such a big non-fiction reader and both filled up our Bookshop.org carts with her recs while recording this episode. We talk about BLM, Black authors, and how to really do anti-racism work. We also chat about what happened with Book of the Month and how she is feeling about that.

More Traci:

• The Stacks Patreon
• @thestackspod  on Instagram
• @thestackspod_  on Twitter
• thestackspodcast.com

Book Subscriptions:

• Check out Traci’s Post 

Episodes to listen to in the Stacks:

• Beloved with DeMaris B. Hill
• Kiese Layman Interview
• Red at The Bone with Jason Reynolds 
• Homefire With Tawny Newsome
• Ibram X Kendi Interview

Top 3 books 2020:

• Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey
• Sula by Toni Morrison
• Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry

Top 3 books Ever:

• Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White and Garth Williams 
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• The Reckonings by Lacy M. Johnson

Memoirs:

• The Other Side by Lacy M Johnson
• Heavy by Kiese Laymon
• Men we Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
• Jesus Land by Julia Sheeres

Audiobooks:

• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
• The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
• Inside Out by Demi Moore
• Open Book by Jessica Simpson

Other books mentioned:

• Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases 
• The Dead are Arising: The Life of Malcom X by Les Payne
• The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America by Marcus J Moore
• Columbine by Dave Cullen
• A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Jonestown by Julia Sheeres

Obsessions:

• Group Chat Realness Podcast
• Taylor Swift’s New Album: Folklore

Instagram:

• @wantshowasyoung
• @holycitychic

We’re Reading:

• The Wife Stalker by Liv Constantine
• Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall
• Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
• Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline Woodson

August Book Club:

• The Comeback by Ella Berman

Sponsor:

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