Each month I blog through a book on substack. This list is for possible candidates. I am open to a variety of good books that I expect to find interesting enough to spend a month both reading and writing about. I'm not interested in anything particularly gruesome, and YA isn't really my thing. The books that I have read or have chosen for the next month are on my picks list: bookwyrm.social/list/720/s/jde-reads-picks
JDE Reads candidates Public
Created and curated by Jennifer Ekstrand
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Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
4 stars
This luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked …
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5 stars
Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear: fear of the government, the medical establishment, …
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Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
4 stars
Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic …
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Ten Great Ideas about Chance by Persi Diaconis, Brian Skyrms
4 stars
"In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gamblers and mathematicians transformed the idea of chance from a mystery into the discipline …
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The Book of Joy by 14th Dalai Lama
4 stars
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World is a book by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Tenzin …
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Street Fight by Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow
4 stars
More livable cities, transportation, bicycles
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Jennifer Ekstrand says: A Much Ado telling with an autistic heroine. I recently started and am enjoying it enough to see spending a month with it.
