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Every book Elizabeth Harris recommended on podcasts
Elizabeth Harris’s most recommended books
- American Marxism by Mark R. Levin
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Vixen by Francine Prose
- A Journal for Jordan by Dana Canedy
- A Promised Land by Barack Obama
- American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Blackout by Candace Owens
Elizabeth Harris discussed and recommended several books during her appearances on The Book Review podcast. She mentioned reading Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun, expressing that she loved the book and found it very good. Harris also recommended Francine Prose's novel The Vixen, a humorous book centered around Ethel Rosenberg and the CIA, and Diane Seuss's poetry collection Frank: Sonnets, which had recently won the Pulitzer Prize. In addition to her personal reading recommendations, Harris spoke about several prominent nonfiction titles appearing on bestseller lists. She discussed Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist, Layla F. Saad's Me and White Supremacy, which helps readers understand their participation in white supremacy, Bakari Sellers's memoir My Vanishing Country about the Black working class, Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow, and Ijeoma Oluo's So You Want to Talk About Race, which includes sections for white people wanting to understand how race functions in America.
Books recommended by Elizabeth Harris
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American Marxism
Mark R.
Discussed“and the book American Marxism by the best-selling author Mark Levan has a chapter on critical race Theory and that book so 400,000 copies in just its first week on the market last month”
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How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X.
Discussed“I mean there's how to be an anti-racist came out last year wasn't on the bestseller list at all two weeks ago and is now number five in hard cover non-fiction so that's a ibram kendi book”
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frank: sonnets
frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss is a celebrated poetry collection that recently won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for its profound and striking verse.
Recommended“I am reading Frank sonnets by Diane Seuss which just won the Pulitzer”
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Klara and the Sun
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro is a dystopian novel narrated by an artificial intelligence companion observing the shifting human world.
Recommended“I read Kaz suar Clara and the Sun and I absolutely loved it I love that book was so good so good”
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The Vixen
The Vixen by Francine Prose is a historical novel set in 1950s New York that follows a young Harvard graduate editing a controversial book about Ethel and Julius Rosenberg amidst anticommunist hysteria.
Recommended“I just finished the Vixen by Francine Pros which we have a profile of her coming out next week um which is a book about Ethel Rosenberg the CIA and it's hilarious”
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A Journal for Jordan
Discussed“she wrote a bestselling Memoir called journal for Jordan which was about her experience with her partner First Sergeant Charles King who died in Iraq in 2006”
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A Promised Land
A Promised Land by Barack Obama is the presidential memoir by the 44th President of the United States, offering a detailed and reflective look into his early life, political rise, and the first term of his historic presidency.
Discussed“well the biggest news this week is that President Obama's presidential Memoir a promised land is going to be published shortly after the election on November 17th and the demand for this book is going to be enormous”
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American Dirt
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins is a gripping and intensely controversial novel that follows a mother and son fleeing their home in Mexico as migrants pursued by a violent drug cartel.
Discussed“and I remember at the last ba the book that was on everyone's list and people were just wildly enthusing about was American dirt Janine cummings's book which became a bit controversial after it came out”
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Beloved
Beloved by Toni Morrison is a powerful historical fiction novel that tells the harrowing story of Sethe, an escaped enslaved woman haunted by the trauma of her past and the literal ghost of her daughter.
Discussed“feature a mother who wanted beloved removed from her son's High School curriculum some years ago”
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Blackout
Blackout by Candace Owens is a conservative political book arguing that Black Americans should rethink their political alignment and make what the author describes as a second escape from the Democratic Party.
Discussed“also there's a book called blackout how black Americans can make its second escape from the Democrat Plantation which is by the right-wing media personality Candace Owens and that has sold 480,000 copies since it was published in the fall by a conservative impr printed Simon and Schuster”
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Deacon King Kong
Deacon King Kong by James McBride is a vibrant novel set in a 1960s Brooklyn housing project, following the colorful fallout after an aging church deacon inexplicably shoots a local drug dealer.
Discussed“and uh the other thing I I just started Deacon King Kong which came out last year like two weeks before the world shut down”
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Dreams from My Father
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama is an introspective memoir chronicling the future president's early life, family history, and journey toward self-discovery.
Discussed“his first book of course was Dreams of My Father”
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Emily Dickinson’s Poems
Discussed“and then the last thing I am reading is uh a collection of Emily Dickinson's poems called Emily Dickinson's poems as she preserved them by Christine Miller”
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Gender Queer
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe is an autobiographical graphic novel that details the author's journey of gender identity and self-discovery.
Discussed“so the most targeted was a book called gender queer by Maya kabi”
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Just Mercy
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson is a prominent memoir chronicling the author's foundational legal work with death row inmates through the Equal Justice Initiative.
Discussed“Jess Mercy which is Memoir by Brian Stevenson who a who founded the Equal justice initiative that's number six”
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Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Discussed“I also have some ya I have last night at the telegraph club which won the national book award this year for y”
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Lawn boy
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison is a contemporary novel that follows a young Mexican-American man working as a landscaper while coming to terms with his sexual identity and navigating socioeconomic challenges.
Discussed“the number two book was a book called lawn booy by Jonathan everon which is a novel that follows a young Mexican-American man who works as a landscaper and is coming to terms with his sexual identity”
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Little Fires Everywhere
Little Fires Everywhere is a contemporary novel that explores the intertwined fates of families in an idyllic Ohio suburb, touching on themes of race, class, and motherhood.
Discussed“and hard cover fiction little fires Everywhere by Celeste in is number one on the trade paperback list”
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Me and White Supremacy
Discussed“me and white supremacy was also not on the hard cover nonfiction list and is on there this week which helps readers understand their participation in white supremacy”
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Memory of departure
Discussed“he lives in Britain and has written several books about the Immigrant experience in Britain including memory of departure and Pilgrim's way”
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The other 12 books Elizabeth Harris recommended or discussed, ranked
- My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers
- Pilgrims way by Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Sex is a funny word by Cory Silverberg
- So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
- The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson
- Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump Ph.D.
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- White Fragility by Dr. Robin DiAngelo
Appearances
Other mentions (44: passing, ad reads, own books), the 30 most recent
“and his next book was The Audacity Of Hope which was published in 200 six and that has sold 4.2 million copies”
“so this is the the Obamas are really in A League of Their Own including Michelle Obama who's book becoming has sold 8.1 million copies in the US and Canada so far”
“there's I alone can fix it by two Washington Post reporters Carol lenck and Philip Rucker which is published by penguin press”
“there is Landslide by Michael wolf published by Henry Holt”
“frankly we did win this election by Wall Street Journal reporter Michael C Bender which is published by 12”
“there's American Marxism by Mark Levan published by threshold and this is a Fox News host talking about issues like the green New Deal social activism and critical race Theory”
“there's the authoritarian Moment by Ben Shapiro published by broadside describing what he considers to be threats to American Business education and politics”
“and then how I saved the World by Jesse Waters who is another Fox News host published by broadside and Wat is writing about his career and fighting what he describes as left-wing radicalism”
“so the big book news this week is that hasette which is one of the five biggest Publishers in the country has agreed to buy workmen publishing which was one of the biggest independent publishing houses they're known for books like What to Expect When You're Expecting or brain Crest workbooks which are huge in my household”
“he wrote the very lonely Firefly the very busy spider and one of the biggest children's books ever probably The Very Hungry Caterpillar”
“he wrote the very lonely Firefly the very busy spider and one of the biggest children's books ever probably The Very Hungry Caterpillar”
“he wrote the very lonely Firefly the very busy spider and one of the biggest children's books ever probably The Very Hungry Caterpillar”
“she was 86 and she wrote and Illustrated Chicka Chicka Boom Boom which I could probably recite”
“Eric Carle actually also did some collaborations with Bill Martin the brown bear brown bear what do you see”
“she edited Walter Isaacs and Steve Jobs books on All the President's Men”
“one by Michael wolf whose book fire and fury set off the mega sales of trump books”
“she's got two books in the top 10 this week faity and ugly love”
“she's got two books in the top 10 this week faity and ugly love”
“whereas you know trade paper grack for like a Casey misten book for example who wrote red white morial blue”
“it could be they're concerned about a book being sexually explicit or maybe they're concerned about the treatment of race in Of Mice and Men”
“and you know they say that on any given deal at least one smaller publisher will often compete and that some of the biggest authors in the country are not published by the big five like someone like Jeff Kenny for example who writes Diary of a Wimpy Kid series was published by Abrams”
“we also got the national book award finalists this week which includes Cloud cucko Land by Anthony der matrix by Lauren grath and zory by lar hunt”
“we also got the national book award finalists this week which includes Cloud cucko Land by Anthony der matrix by Lauren grath and zory by lar hunt”
“in the fiction category in non-fiction a little devil in America by hanif ABD duib and Grace Cho tastes like War a memoir”
“in the fiction category in non-fiction a little devil in America by hanif ABD duib and Grace Cho tastes like War a memoir”
“and then in poetry we have what noise against the cane by Desiree Bailey and floaters by Martin Espada”
“and then in poetry we have what noise against the cane by Desiree Bailey and floaters by Martin Espada”
“the song of Achilles which uh came out in 2012 and is a love story between Achilles and Petras has now sold two million copies because of book talk which is amazing because as its editor said to me this is a book about The Iliad and it just so million copies”
“the award for fiction went to Jason mot who won for his novel hell of a book which weaves together three different narrative threads”
“the non-fiction winner was tyia Miles who won for all that she carried the Journey of Ashley sack a black family's Keepsake”