Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re giving our book pitches for our Battle of the Books 2023! Each of us has picked one title that we think we should all read and discuss and you get to vote for which one it is! Will we read Trust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy edited by carla joy bergman, The Seep by Chana Porter, A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher, or Inheritance: a Pick-the-path Experience by Daniel Arnold, Darrell Dennis, and Medina Hahn? You decide!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

What Book Should We Read?

• Trust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy edited by carla joy bergman
• The Seep by Chana Porter
• A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher
• Inheritance: a Pick-the-path Experience by Daniel Arnold, Darrell Dennis, and Medina Hahn

Our Long Lists

• Jam
  • How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler
  • Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis
• Anna
  • Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew
  • Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
• Meghan
  • The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
• Matthew
  • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
  • Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez

Podcast Episodes

• Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
• Episode 079 - Which Book Should We Read?
  • Episode 083 - The Fifth Season
• Episode 103 - Battle of the Books 2020
  • Episode 107 - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
• Episode 130 - Battle of the Books 2021
  • Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Episode 154 - Book pitches
  • Episode 159 - Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart
• Episode 179 - Battle of the Books 2023
  • Episode 183 - One Book One Podcast: Upright Women Wanted

Links, Articles, and Things

• One City One Book (Wikipedia)
• Canada Reads (Wikipedia)
• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
• INHERITANCE - a "pick-the-path" teaser (YouTube)
• Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience - trailer (YouTube)
• Inheritance - interview with the playwrights (YouTube)

22 Nature/Outdoor Non-Fiction by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land by Noé Álvarez
• Better Living Through Birding: Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper
• Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy
• Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors by Carolyn Finney
• Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
• The Urban Birder by David Lindo
• Nature Swagger: Stories and Visions of Black Joy in the Outdoors by Rue Mapp
• Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation by Tiya Miles
• The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors by James Edward Mills
• World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, illustrated by Fumi Nakamura
• Heartbeat of the Earth: A Handbook on Connecting Children to Nature through Indigenous Teachings by Launa Purcell
• Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy
• A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars by Erin Sharkey
• A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
• Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks by Mark David Spence
• The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan
• Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui
• Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World by Rae Wynn-Grant
• An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

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Join us again on July 2nd we’ll be discussing the genre of Law/Legal Non-Fiction!

Then on Tuesday, August 6th we’ll be talking about the romance genres of Yaoi and Danmei!