December Reading List

Some of my Favorite Reads of 2023!

This month’s reading list is a bit different because it’s just books I loved from this year! I haven’t been reading that much recently, but I do have a few books that I read and loved.

• Scorched Grace by Margot Douiahy
  Chain-smoking nun solves crime

• How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
  A memoir by a former Rastafarian from her unconventional childhood through early adulthood

• “You Just Need to Lose Weight” & 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon
  A collection of essays tackling the pervasive fatphobia of American culture

• Drama Free by Nedra Glover Tawwab
  Your guide to creating and maintaining healthy family relationships

• Milk, Blood, Heat by Dantiel Moniz
  A collection of short stories that scrape away the façade of mundane life

• The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee
  An epic non-fiction book chronicling everything we know about the cell and how we came to know it

• How not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz
  A story about motherhood, gentrification and immigration told through a series of interviews

Full list available on Bookshop.

Also, here are some books released this year that I’m excited to pick up soon!

• Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

• I Feed her to the Beast and the Beast is Me by Jamison Shea

• Temple Folk by Aaliyah Bilal

• Soil by Camille T Dungy

• Rootless by Krystle Zara Appiah