This week our guest is Lauren Fanella, Lauren is a book reader and reviewer on #bookstagram, you might know her as @literarylauren_. Lauren is a lover of books by and about unconventional women, she reads for joy, and she’s not scared of a big sad book. We talk about Lauren’s reading habits, what books she’s looking forward to reading, and how books help her to see the world differently.

Here are links to all the things we dicsussed this week on the show.

BOOKS

• Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
• Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg
• The Girl on the Train by  Paula Hawkins
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
• Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
• The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon
• A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
• The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles
• The Ensemble by Aja Gabel
• The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
• What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
• The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu
• The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
• Tell Me How it Ends by Valeria Luiselli
• The Far Away Brothers by Lauren Markham
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
• This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins
• Wild by Cheryl Strayed
• Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
• Hunger by Roxane Gay
• The Pisces by Melissa Broder
• Trenton Makes by Tadzio Koelb
• Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
• An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
• Candide by Voltaire
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
• If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
• Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
• Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
• The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
• Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

EVERYTHING ELSE

• “#Bookstagram: How Readers Changed The Way We Use Instagram” (Mara White, Huffington Post)

• Star Wars (20th Century Fox)
• It Happened One Night (Columbia Pictures)
• Double Indemnity (Paramount Pictures)
• Sunset Boulevard (Paramount Pictures)
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Gone with the Wind (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
• Little Women (Columbia Pictures)

• “Saoirse Ronan, Timothee Chalamet in Talks to Star in Greta Gerwig’s ‘Little Women’ Adaptation” (Mia Galuppo, Hollywood Reporter)

• Roxane Gay Goodreads
• The Girl on the Train (Universal Pictures)
• Riverhead Publishers
• Little, Brown & Company Publishers
• Riverhead Books Instagram Post on Social Justice
• Dear Sugars (The New York Times and WBUR)
• Ernest Hemmingway
• Roxane Gay
• Joan Didion
• Jacqueline Woodson
• Rebecca Solnit
• The Goldfinch (Warner Brothers Pictures)
• The Stacks Episode on Men We Reaped

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