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My Favorite Books That I Read in 2020 (THREAD, Pt. 1):
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The Undefeated by @kwamealexander and @KadirNelson
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#books #booksof2020 #bookblogger
The Undefeated by @kwamealexander and @KadirNelson
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2020 Favorite Books (Pt 2):
The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe by @RichardRohrOFM
American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump by @TimAlberta 2/
The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe by @RichardRohrOFM
American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump by @TimAlberta 2/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 3):
Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College by @jessewegman (courtesy of @NetGalley & @StMartinsPress) 3/
Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College by @jessewegman (courtesy of @NetGalley & @StMartinsPress) 3/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 4)
The Amen Corner by James Baldwin, I read this after I got to see the amazing play at @ShakespeareinDC before the pandemic began.
Mother to Son: Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope by @JasmineLHolmes (courtesy of @NetGalley and @ivpress) 4/
The Amen Corner by James Baldwin, I read this after I got to see the amazing play at @ShakespeareinDC before the pandemic began.
Mother to Son: Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope by @JasmineLHolmes (courtesy of @NetGalley and @ivpress) 4/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 5):
Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women's Suffrage by Sandra Sider and @PamWeeksQuilts (courtesy of @NetGalley and Schiffer Publishing)
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by @charliemackesy 5/
Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women's Suffrage by Sandra Sider and @PamWeeksQuilts (courtesy of @NetGalley and Schiffer Publishing)
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by @charliemackesy 5/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 6):
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by @PenielJoseph (courtesy of @NetGalley and @BasicBooks)
Navigate Your Stars by @jesmimi and @ginatriplett 6/
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by @PenielJoseph (courtesy of @NetGalley and @BasicBooks)
Navigate Your Stars by @jesmimi and @ginatriplett 6/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 7):
Coronavirus: A Book for Children by @MissCellany, Kate Wilson, Nia Roberts, Axel Scheffler
The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler 7/
Coronavirus: A Book for Children by @MissCellany, Kate Wilson, Nia Roberts, Axel Scheffler
The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler 7/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 8):
The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt by @jillmwatts (courtesy of @NetGalley and @groveatlantic) (also joint @MochaGirlsRead and @blackmenreadnow June 2020 Book of the Month) 8/
The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt by @jillmwatts (courtesy of @NetGalley and @groveatlantic) (also joint @MochaGirlsRead and @blackmenreadnow June 2020 Book of the Month) 8/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 9):
The Nut That Fell from the Tree by Sangeeta Bhadra and France Cormier
Little Wise Wolf by @gijsvdhammen and Hanneke Siemensma (courtesy of @KidsCanPress and @NetGalley) 9/
The Nut That Fell from the Tree by Sangeeta Bhadra and France Cormier
Little Wise Wolf by @gijsvdhammen and Hanneke Siemensma (courtesy of @KidsCanPress and @NetGalley) 9/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 10):
A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America by @PhilipRucker and @CarolLeonnig
Pelosi by @mollyesque (courtesy of @NetGalley and @HenryHolt) 10/
A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America by @PhilipRucker and @CarolLeonnig
Pelosi by @mollyesque (courtesy of @NetGalley and @HenryHolt) 10/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 11):
The Vanishing Half by @britrbennett
See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by @valariekaur (courtesy of @NetGalley and @OneWorldLit) 11/
The Vanishing Half by @britrbennett
See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by @valariekaur (courtesy of @NetGalley and @OneWorldLit) 11/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 12):
Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US by @lennyaduncan
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by @HenryLouisGates 12/
Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the US by @lennyaduncan
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by @HenryLouisGates 12/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 13):
We Are Called to Be a Movement by @RevDrBarber
The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi by @richardgrant4 (courtesy of @NetGalley and @simonschuster)
Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood by @jillmwatts 13/
We Are Called to Be a Movement by @RevDrBarber
The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi by @richardgrant4 (courtesy of @NetGalley and @simonschuster)
Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood by @jillmwatts 13/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 14):
Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics by Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, and @maya_sen 14/
Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics by Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, and @maya_sen 14/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 15):
Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope by @esaumccaulley (courtesy of @NetGalley and @ivpacademic)
Snow, Glass, Apples by @neilhimself and @ColleenDoran 15/
Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope by @esaumccaulley (courtesy of @NetGalley and @ivpacademic)
Snow, Glass, Apples by @neilhimself and @ColleenDoran 15/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 16):
Love Matters More: How Fighting to Be Right Keeps Us from Loving Like Jesus by @jbyas (I was part of the book launch team, thanks to @Zondervan)
God and the Pandemic: A Christian Reflection on the Coronavirus and Its Aftermath by N.T. Wright 16/
Love Matters More: How Fighting to Be Right Keeps Us from Loving Like Jesus by @jbyas (I was part of the book launch team, thanks to @Zondervan)
God and the Pandemic: A Christian Reflection on the Coronavirus and Its Aftermath by N.T. Wright 16/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 17):
Down Along with That Devil's Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy by @towneoneill (courtesy of @NetGalley and @AlgonquinBooks) 17/
Down Along with That Devil's Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy by @towneoneill (courtesy of @NetGalley and @AlgonquinBooks) 17/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 18):
Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by @Ty_Seidule (courtesy of @NetGalley & @StMartinsPress) (forthcoming January 2021) 18/
Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by @Ty_Seidule (courtesy of @NetGalley & @StMartinsPress) (forthcoming January 2021) 18/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 19):
Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara (the @blackmenreadnow September 2020 Book of the Month)
Ring Shout by @pdjeliclark (courtesy of @NetGalley & @tordotcom) 19/
Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara (the @blackmenreadnow September 2020 Book of the Month)
Ring Shout by @pdjeliclark (courtesy of @NetGalley & @tordotcom) 19/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 20):
Represent! (2020-) #1: It's a Bird by Christian Cooper, @Ariotstorm, @mark_morales11, and @EMannLand
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by @MehrsaBaradaran (the @blackmenreadnow October 2020 Book of the Month) 20/
Represent! (2020-) #1: It's a Bird by Christian Cooper, @Ariotstorm, @mark_morales11, and @EMannLand
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by @MehrsaBaradaran (the @blackmenreadnow October 2020 Book of the Month) 20/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 21):
Talking Back to Purity Culture: Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality by @racheljwelcher (courtesy of @NetGalley and @ivpress) 21/
Talking Back to Purity Culture: Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality by @racheljwelcher (courtesy of @NetGalley and @ivpress) 21/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 22):
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by @poetweatherford and @floydcooper4 (courtesy of @NetGalley and Carolrhoda Books) (forthcoming Feb. 2021) 22/
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by @poetweatherford and @floydcooper4 (courtesy of @NetGalley and Carolrhoda Books) (forthcoming Feb. 2021) 22/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 23):
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, @aristofontes (Translator) (for the second time)
Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell by @AlisonMParker1 (courtesy of @NetGalley and @uncpressblog) 23/
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, @aristofontes (Translator) (for the second time)
Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell by @AlisonMParker1 (courtesy of @NetGalley and @uncpressblog) 23/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 24):
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois
Stillness Is the Key by @RyanHoliday
The Mueller Report Illustrated: The Obstruction Investigation by @washingtonpost, @PostRoz, and Jan Feindt 24/
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois
Stillness Is the Key by @RyanHoliday
The Mueller Report Illustrated: The Obstruction Investigation by @washingtonpost, @PostRoz, and Jan Feindt 24/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 25):
Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African American Marriage by @diannemstewart (the joint @MochaGirlsRead, @Book_Pearl, and @blackmenreadnow December 2020 Book of the Month) 25/
Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African American Marriage by @diannemstewart (the joint @MochaGirlsRead, @Book_Pearl, and @blackmenreadnow December 2020 Book of the Month) 25/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 26):
The Negro and Fusion Politics in North Carolina, 1894-1901 by Helen G. Edmonds
The ABCs of Black History by @OhReallyRio and Lauren Semmer 26/
The Negro and Fusion Politics in North Carolina, 1894-1901 by Helen G. Edmonds
The ABCs of Black History by @OhReallyRio and Lauren Semmer 26/
2020 Favorite Books (Pt. 27):
In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece by @salamishah (courtesy of @NetGalley and @AbramsPress) (forthcoming January 2021) 27/
In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece by @salamishah (courtesy of @NetGalley and @AbramsPress) (forthcoming January 2021) 27/
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