6 Impactful Reads from 2020
On the last day of the 2020, sharing 6 impactful books (that aren’t cookbooks) that nourished and challenged me this year:
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation by David Eng & Shinhee Han
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
Disability Visibility, edited by Alice Wong
The Language of Food by Dan Jerafsky
This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jenkins
In addition to these titles, a few more from Studio ATAO’s book discussions this year I found majorly impactful:
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
Ants Among Elephants by Sujatha Gidla
I’m now starting to compile reads for 2021 and would love recommendations! On the roster so far:
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind by Harriet A. Washington
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (reread) by Ocean Vuong
Feminist City (likely a book club read for later next year) by Leslie Kern (s/o to @_amykao for finding this one!)
The Selected Works Of Audre Lorde by Roxane Gay
If you want to read my awkward and vulnerable 2020 reflections you can read them in the Studio ATAO newsletter here!
