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Books Are My People

Find your next great read. Book recommendations, book news and guests, including top authors and other book enthusiasts who discuss what’s happening in the world of books with a focus on frontlist and backlist fiction including literary fiction, suspense, historical, memoir and nonfiction.

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99 - Books Are My People with Jenny Jackson, author of Pineapple Street Mar 27, 2023

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This week, editor and author, Jenny Jackson, comes on the show to discuss her novel, Pineapple Street.

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Books Recommended:

Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson

Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason

Women Are The Fiercest Creatures by Andrea Dunlop

Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey

The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Games and Rituals by Katherine Heiny

Other Books Mentioned:

The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue

Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman

Find Jenny Jackson on Instagram @jennyjacksonpineapple

Email me with ideas about how to celebrate my 100th episode at booksaremypeople@gmail.com

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98 - Books Are My People with Rebecca Makkai, author of I Have Some Questions For You Mar 13, 2023

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Books Recommended:
I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai

The Door by Magda Szabo

Letters To A Writer of Color edited by Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro

Madonna In A Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali

The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell

The Virgins by Pamela Erens

Other Books Recommended:
Black Candle Woman by Diane Marie Brown

A Likely Story by Leigh McMullan Abramson

Guest Author: Dog on Fire by Terese Svoboda

Terese’s recommendation: Pity the Beast by Robin McLean

Up next for us:

No Knives in the Kitchen of this City by Khaled Khalifa

Notes on an execution by Danya Kukafka

Find Rebecca online:
On Twitter, Instagram, etc. @RebeccaMakkai

On Substack: Submakk

LA Times Book Prize List of Finalists

Check out my new Etsy store where I am sell homemade journals from up cycled papers and books.

Listeners in San Francisco, check out my friend's shop, Simple, where my handmade journals are sold.

Story Studio Chicago (Rebecca Makkai's organization)

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97 - Books Are My People with Priya Guns, author of Your Driver Is Waiting Feb 27, 2023

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97 – Books Are My people with Priya Guns

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Episode Guest: Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns

Guest Author Recommendation: A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness: Stories by Jai Chakrabarti

Books Recommended:

Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy

Endpapers by Jennifer Savran Kelly

Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan

Yerba Buena by Nina Lacour

A Cup of Rage by Raduan Nassar

Other Books Discussed:

Tom Ripley Novels by Patricia Highsmith

Long Division by Kiese Laymon

The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani

In the Country by Mia Alvar

Letters to a Writer of Color edited by Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro

Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella

You can read "Prodigal Son," by Jai Chaibrakarty at Electric Literature.

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96 - Books Are My People with Amy Poeppel, author of The Sweet Spot Feb 13, 2023

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This week, Amy Poeppel and I discuss her new novel, The Sweet Spot, how monologues can help a writer find their character's voice and find out which one of us feels compelled to finish all the books they begin!
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Books Discussed:

The Matchmaker’s Gift by Lynda Cohen Loigman

Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

The World According to Fanny Davis by Bridgett M. Davis

Bookworm by Robin Yeatman

The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani

The Sweet Spot by Amy Peoppel
Other Books Mentioned:

Limelight by Amy Poeppel

Musical Chairs by Amy Poeppel

Small Admissions by Amy Poeppel

Bad Mexicans by Kelly Lytle Hernandez

The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty

Night of the Living Rez Morgan Talty

The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan

Sign Here by Claudia Lux

The Power by Naomi Alderman

Pretend I’m Dead Jen Beagin

Vacuum in the Dark by Jen Beagin

Link to Amy Poeppel on social media:
Website
Instagram
Twitter

Link to National Book Critics Circle Awards
First look at Naomi Alderman's The Power TV series
Link to the high cost of books in Egypt

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95 - Books Are My People with Grady Hendrix Jan 30, 2023

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We talk about puppets, Muppets, our mutual love for Jim Henson, how Grady viscerally has to feel horror when he writes and the fascinating subject matter of the next book he's researching and writing.
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The Elementals by Michael McDowell

Maame by Jessica George

Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

Vampire Weekend by Mike Chen

Shiver by Jungi Ito

When Darkness Loves Us / Beauty Is by Elizabeth Engstrom

Other Books Discussed:
Girls of Huntington House by Blossom Elfman

Next up:

Endpapers by Jennifer Savrin Kelly

Super Infinite by Katherine Rundell

Climate change article in New York Times

Click here to be taken to the Grady Hendrix Giveaway: How to Sell a Haunted House

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94 - Books Are My People with Parini Shroff, author of The Bandit Queens Jan 23, 2023

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This week, Parini Shroff, author of The Bandit Queens, visits and we talk about how we like to organize our books, what inspired her novel and what she is working on next. Plus a Grady Hendrix Giveaway!
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Enter my How to Sell A Haunted house Giveaway

Books recommended:
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

Animal by Lisa Taddeo

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Writers and Lovers by Lily King

How to Sell A Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade
Other books recommended:

Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

Night Wherever we go by Tracey Rose Peyton

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Spare by Prince Harry

The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks

Will There Be Wine? by Whitney Cubbison

The Midnight Library by Matthew Haig

Moonrise Over New Jessup by Jamila Minnicks

The Mitford Affair by Marie Benedict

The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict

Her Hidden Genius by Marie Benedict

The House at the End of the World by Dean Koontz

Tides by Sara Freeman

Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
Find Parini Shroff on Twitter and Instagram @Parinishroff
Instagram: @whitneycubbisonwrites Comments? Suggestions? Email me at booksaremypeople@gmail.com

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93 - Books Are My People with soThis founder, Annie Long Sullivan Jan 09, 2023

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This week, I speak with Annie Long Sullivan, founder of soThis, a bookclub with benefits. She speaks with me about some of her favorite recent reads and why she started a virtual bookclub community.

Books Recommended:
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All Signs Point to Paris by Natasha Sizlo

The Things We Do To Our Friends by Heather Darwent

I Miss you I Hate this by Sara Saedi

The Storied Life of AJ Fickry by Gabrielle Zevin

Wildcat by Amelia Morris

Other Books Recommended:

Kindred by Octavia Butler

The Age Of Vice

Spare by Prince Harry Duke of Sussex

The Club by Ellery Lloyd?

The Dream Builders by Oindrilla Mukherjee

How High We go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

I Came all thisWay to Meet You: Writing Myself Home by Jami Attenberg

The Maid by Nita Prose
Trust by Hernan Diaz

You Have a Friend in 10a by Maggie Shipstead

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Up Next for Us:

Maame by Jessica George

All Signs Point to Paris by Natasha Sizlo

Annie Long Sullivan’s Social Media info:

Sothisisawebsite.com

@SothisisAnnie on Instagram

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92 - Books Are My People - Back in Time 2015 Dec 26, 2022

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92 – Books Are My People – Just Jennifer – Back in time to 2015
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Books Recommended:

Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

The First Bad Man by Miranda July

Between the World and Me by Te Nehisi-Coates

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

The Sellout by Paul Beatty

Other Books Discussed:

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

The Lemon by S.E. Boyd

We Were Liars by E. Lockheart

Bluets by Maggie Nelson

Beatlebone by Kevin Barry

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

H is for Hawk by Helen McDonald

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Books Are My People #91 - with Anna Caputo Dec 12, 2022

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91 – Books Are My People with Anna Caputo

Books Discussed:

Thank you for Listening by Julia Whelan

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

Poster Girl by Veronica Roth

Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung Translated by Anton Hur

The Wilder women by Ruth Emmie Lang

Other Books Discussed:

The Splendid Ticket by Bill Cotter

The Bird Tattoo by Dunya Mikhail

At Certain Points We Touch by Lauren John Joseph

The Tudors in Love Passion and Politics in the age of England’s Most Famous Dynasty by Sarah Gristwood

My Annihilation written by Fuminori Nakamura Translated by Sam Bett

Out There: Stories by Kate Folk

The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb

The Super Powereds Series by Drew Hayes

The Sweet Spot by Amy Poeppel

Anna Caputo's Website
Instagram @annanarrates
Twitter @annanarrates

Search "Anna Caputo" on Audible to see other books she’s narrated.

Levar Burton Christmas Carol Free audiobook linkup

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90 - Books Are My People with Tracy Dawson Nov 28, 2022

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Books Are My People – Episode 90
This week, I welcome author and actor Tracy Dawson, author of Let Me Be Frank: A Book about Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren’t Supposed to Do.

Books Recommended:

Let Me Be Frank: A Book about Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren’t Supposed to Do by Tracy Dawson

If Neitzsche Were a Narwhal by Justin Gregg

Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley

Fatty Fatty Boom Boom by Rabia Chaudry

The Wreckage of my Presence by Casey Wilson

Other Books Mentioned:

Trust by Hernan Diaz

In Sensorium: Notes for my People by Tanais

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins

No Farther than the End of the Street by Benjamin Niespodziany

Burntcoat by Sarah Hall

The (Other) You: Stories by Joyce Carol Oats

Love in the Big City Sang Young Park

Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics for your Forever Files by Deb Pearlman

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

How to Sell A Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

You can purchase all of the books I talk about on the show on my Bookshop.org store: Books Are My People. It’s a great way to support the show as well as local bookstores.

Tracey: Twitter @dawsontracy

Instagram @dawsontracy

Artist Tina Berning: @tina_berning

NEWS NOTES:

Here are the list of Kirkus Prize Winners

Here is the official trailer for the film adaptaion of Lady Chatterly’s Lover

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