This week on the podcast, our guest is Renée Hicks, founder of Book Girl Magic, an online book club that centers books by and about Black women. Renée shares with us her journey into reading, how her reading has inspired the reading life of her children, and her love of romance novels, one in particular.

You can find everything we talk about this week in the show notes below. By shopping through the links you help support The Stacks, at no cost to you. Shop on Amazon and iTunes.

BOOKS

• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• The Mothers by Brit Bennett
• You Can’t Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson
• We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
• The Perfect Find by Tia Williams
• Nappily Ever After by Trisha R. Thomas
• The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
• The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
• You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero
• Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper
• I’m Judging You by Luvvie Ajayi
• Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay by Phoebe Robinson
• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
• Toni Morrison
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Tayari Jones
• Octavia E. Butler
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
• Parable of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler
• Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
• Whiskey and Ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• Passing by Nella Larsen
• Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
• The Mother of Black Hollywood by Jennifer Lewis
• Roots by Alex Haley
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
• Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• Black Boy by Richard Wright
• Jason Reynolds
• The Coldest Winter Ever by Sista Souljah
• Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union
• Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth

EVERYTHING ELSE

• Book Girl Magic
• Noelle Gray Creative
• Nappily Ever After (Netflix)
• Sanaa Lathan
• Crazy Rich Asians (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Ep. 4 The Stacks Book Club — Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
• Anna’s Instagram (Renée’s book friend for more great recommendations)
• Family Matters (CBS)
• Kindle Paperwhite (Waterproof)
• Black-ish (ABC)
• Marsai Martin
• 23 and Me
• BlacKkKlansman (Focus Features)

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