Week of Friday, June 1, 2018
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In Whipping Girl (Seal Press, $20), Julia Serano combines personal essays, gender theories, feminist teachings and contemporary culture in a compelling account of what it means to be a woman--and a trans woman--in 21st-century America. Serano encourages each of us to "turn our energies and attention away from the way that individuals 'do' or 'perform' their own genders and instead focus on the expectations and assumptions that those individuals project onto everybody else." Any one of these books will force readers to look at those expectations and assumptions in new, sometimes challenging, ways--and maybe that can help shift the gendered systems in which we all operate today. --Kerry McHugh, blogger at Entomology of a Bookworm
Darwin's Ghosts
by Ariel Dorfman
The Island Dwellers
by Jen Silverman
Mystery & Thriller
For Those Who Know the Ending
by Malcolm Mackay
Romance
The Other Lady Vanishes
by Amanda Quick
Biography & Memoir
Excuse Me While I Slip into Someone More Comfortable
by Eric Poole
Body, Mind & Spirit
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
by Michael Pollan
Science
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
by Carl Zimmer
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
by Steve Brusatte
Travel Literature
Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier
by Mark Adams
Poetry
Tropic of Squalor
by Mary Karr
Children's & Young Adult
Anger Is a Gift
by Mark Oshiro
Girl Made of Stars
by Ashley Herring Blake
Puddin'
by Julie Murphy
longlisted for the 2024 booker prize |