WORD OF MOUTH: Mid-Winter

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NONFICTION: DOPPELGANGER: A Trip into the Mirror World — Naomi Klein

YES! A Handy Manual for Republicans Commenting on Mass Shootings — Jamie Raskin

TV: Schmigadoon! Season 2 — Ken Daurio, Cinco Paul

TV: The Brothers Sun —Brad Falchuk, Amy Wang, Brian Wu

MOVIE: The Woman King — Gina Prince-Bythewood

PODCAST: “Chaos Theory Explains It.” Brian Klaas, author of  Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters, on the Brian Lehrer Show.

SPIRITUAL REWIRING: Train Yourself to Always Show Up — Rabbi Sharon Brous

IDEA: “The spread of lies and conspiracies online is now so rampant that it threatens public health and, quite possibly, the survival of representative democracy. The solution to this informational crisis, however, is not to look to tech oligarchs to disappear people we don’t like; it’s to get serious about demanding an information commons that can be counted upon as a basic civic right.” Naomi Klein

IDEA: “It’s time to pass the universal background check and restore the expired ban on military-style assault rifles, which was constitutional and effective. Weapons of war are unnecessary for hunting, recreation or self-defense in the home, which are the purposes of individual gun ownership outside of military service protected by the Second Amendment.” — Jamie Raskin

WORD OF MOUTH: FALL

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Short Stories: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies — Deesha Philyaw

Novel: How To Love Your Daughter — Hila Blum, translated by Daniella Zamir

Non-Fiction: Kill’em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul — James McBride

TV: Never Have I Ever — Lang Fisher, Mindy Kaling

Novel: The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac — Sharma Shields

Podcast: How to Think About AI — Freakonomics, Steven Dubner

WORD OF MOUTH: EARLY SUMMER

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Novel: The Liar — Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

Novel: Post-Traumatic — Chantal V. Johnson

Novel: Her — Harriet Lane

Non-fiction: Sorry, Sorry, Sorry: the Case for Good Apologies — Marjorie Ingall, Susan McCarthy

Memoir: The Summer of Fall: Gravity Is a Bitch, but I’m Still Standing — Laura Lippman

Young Adult Novel: Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass — Meg Medina

TV: Abbot Elementary — Quinta Brunson

Movie: You Hurt My Feelings — Nicole Holofcener

Documentary: Three Minutes: a Lengthening — Bianca Stigter, Glenn Kurtz

Word of Mouth: Spring

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Novel: Take What You Need — Idra Novey

Novel: Vera Kelly: Lost and Found — Rosalie Knecht

Novel: The Talented Miss Farwell — Emily Gray Tedrowe

Middle Grade: Cuba in My Pocket — Adrianna Cuevas

Middle Grade, in Spanish: Con Cuba el bolsillo — Adrianna Cuevas, traducción por Alexis Romay

Illumination: Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World — Maryanne Wolf

Podcast: “The Great Vaccinator” — RadioLab

Movie: The Bad Guys — Pierre Perifel

TV: Not Dead Yet — David Windsor and Casey Johnson

Word of Mouth: Early Spring

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Movie: The Swimmers — Sally El Hosaini

TV: Bad Sisters — Brett Baer, Dave Finkel, Sharon Horgan

TV: Gut Job — Sebastian Clovis

Change: White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better — Regina Jackson and Saira Rao

Novel: Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance — Alison Espach

Novel: City Under One Roof — Iris Yamashita

Novel: Follow Me — Kathleen Barber

Novel: The Great Man Theory — Teddy Wayne

WORD OF MOUTH: Early Winter Edition

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Novel: Take My Hand — Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Novel: The Work Wife — Alison B. Hart

History: Polio: An American Story — David M. Oshinsky

Middle Grade Novel: Merci Suarez Changes Gears— Meg Medina

Podcast: Ask a Librarian, With Julie Chavez: Translating Ways of Being, with Meg Medina and Alexis Romay.

Anthology: Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness — Anjanette Delgado

TV: My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend — Rachel Bloom, Aline Brosh McKenna

Movie: Vengeance — B.J. Novak

Music: Tinta y Tiempo — Jorge Drexler