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

WORD OF MOUTH — FALL

Novel: DEATH UNDER THE PERSEIDS — Teresa Dovalpage

Non-fiction: THE SCIENTIST AND THE SPY: A TRUE STORY OF CHINA, THE FBI AND INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE — Mara Hvistendahl

Resource: Ask the Trace: Are Militias Legal? — Jennifer Mascia, THE TRACE

Essay: Elizabeth McCracken Traces the Life of a First Edition: Her Own — Elizabeth McCracken, LITHUB

Opinion: Oh how the powerful wail and whine — Robin Givhan, THE WASHINGTON POST

Opinion: Trump should fill Christians with rage. How come he doesn’t? — Michael Gerson, THE WASHINGTON POST

TV: PAPER GIRLS – Stephany Folsom

TV: A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN – Will Graham, Abbi Jacobson

Podcast: Migrant relocations echo a dark past: Reverse Freedom Rides, CODE SWITCH

Podcast: Putin’s Nukes (with Julia Ioffe), STAY TUNED WITH PREET