John’s Book Giving Guide for the Holidays!

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty The Color Purple by Alice Walker Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather Are You My Mother by Alison Bechdel City of Clowns by Sheila Alvarado and Daniel Alarcón Beauty from Ashes by Eugenia Porter The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Gilead by Marilynne Robinson A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner Just Kids by Patti Smith No god but God by Reza Aslan SPQR by Mary Beard A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Gluck First and Then by Emma Mills The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds The Truth about Forever by Sarah Dessen Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie by Holly Black Ball Don’t Lie by Matt de la Peña Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline Woodson Last Stop on Market St