Ilza's List

Top Recommendations

• Heavy: An American Memoir - Kiese Laymon

• The Color of Law - Richard Rothstein

• A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles

• Lincoln on the Verge - Ted Widmer

• The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

 

Solid Picks

• Caste - Isabel Wilkinson

• A Burning - Megha Majumdar

• Interior Chinatown - Charles Wolf

• Your House Will Pay - Steph Cha
   

Very Interesting

• Begin Again - Eddie Glaude

• My Sister the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite

• How to Steal a Country - Robin Renwick

• The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler

 

Lalita's Top Picks

• The Midnight Library - Matt Haig

• A Burning - Magha Majumdar

• The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

• The Cold Millions - Jess Walter

• Heavy: An American Memoir - Kiese Laymon

• The Promised Land - Barack Obama

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Barry's Old Favorites

• Underground Railroad - Colson Whiteheaad

• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The Sea Wolf - Jack London

• The Color of Water - James McBride

• Brother & Keepers - John Wideman

 

Memoirs by Barry's Friends

• Whom Shall I Fear - Dr. Ewart Brown
• In the Eye of the Storm - Dr. Walter Massey
• The Other Wes Moore - Wes Moore
• From Willard Straight to Wall Street - Tom Jones
• Change Agent - Jim Lowry

• Brother & Keepers - John Wideman