Books in Conversation
Books that won't stop talking to each other.
Each stack is one thread: a feeling that runs through every book in it.
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Rage, finally said out loud
She was never quiet. She was waiting.
- Classic Literature
- Thriller
- Fiction
- Historical Fiction
- YA
- Fantasy
- Sula by Toni Morrison (1973). Sula comes home and refuses to be the woman the Bottom expects her to be.
- My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (2018). Korede keeps cleaning up after her sister. The loyalty is the scary part.
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982). Celie writes her way from silence to a voice no one can take back.
- The Vegetarian by Han Kang (2007). One quiet refusal at the dinner table splits her family open.
- Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo (2016). An ordinary life, told flat and exact, until the anger in it is impossible to miss.
- The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris (2021). The only Black assistant in the office, until another one shows up.
- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (2018). Magic was taken from Zélie's people. She's taking it back.
- The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang (2018). A war orphan tests into the elite academy and learns what her fury can burn.
Grief that turns into a ghost
Someone is gone. Someone is still in the room.
- Classic Literature
- Historical Fiction
- Fiction
- Fantasy
- Horror
- Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987). Sethe's daughter comes back, and the house fills up with her.
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (2017). A road trip to Parchman, with a boy's ghost riding along.
- The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2019). Hiram's memory of his mother becomes the power that carries people north.
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (2016). Two half-sisters, two continents, three hundred years of what was lost.
- Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (2018). Ada was born with spirits in her, and they have opinions.
- The Deep by Rivers Solomon (2019). One woman carries the memories of a whole people so the rest don't have to.
- The Good House by Tananarive Due (2003). Angela goes back to the house where her son died, and the house is waiting.
Love that takes its sweet time
No rush. The slow part is the good part.
- Romance
- Fiction
- The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory (2018). One fake date at a wedding that neither of them can stop thinking about.
- Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (2019). A list of ways to get a life. Nothing on it mentioned the guy downstairs.
- Seven Days in June by Tia Williams (2021). Two writers who loved each other at seventeen get one week to tell the truth.
- The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang (2018). Stella decides to learn dating the way she learns everything: with a tutor.