Dawn Dorland (she/her) Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Fiction/Nonfiction #Writer. Progressive Feminist Buddhist Angeleno. Keenly interested in what ppl hold sacred. #blacklivesmatter #shoutyrabortion #resist
Women Talking
Miriam ToewsDawn Dorland (she/her)Minute for minute, never cried as much at a movie as seeing WOMEN TALKING (yes, read the novel). Brava, beautiful adaptation of a brutal circumstance and brilliant book.
Paperback, 2020
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A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
Sue KleboldDawn Dorland (she/her)I recommend—as a way to understand, in part, what is happening to us—you read Sue Klebold’s memoir A MOTHER’S RECKONING (her son was one of the Columbine shooters). I finished it recently. An exquisite document of grief, despair, vulnerability, accountability, witness—and hope.
Paperback, 2017
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Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club)
Claire KeeganDawn Dorland (she/her)holy shit shit shit, Claire Keegan’s SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE, so quiet so assured then pounce “…was there any point in being alive without helping one another?” best art cry I’ve had in awhile
Hardcover, 2021
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Lost in the City
Edward P. JonesDawn Dorland (she/her)@stacystaces Big Edward P. Jones-shaped hole on this list! “The First Day” is a required (from Lost in the City), but I’m partial to his later, POV-roving stories in All Aunt Hagar’s Children, esp “Root Worker” and “Common Law.” I also see no one’s mentioned “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, canon.
Paperback, 2004
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All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
Edward P. JonesDawn Dorland (she/her)@stacystaces Big Edward P. Jones-shaped hole on this list! “The First Day” is a required (from Lost in the City), but I’m partial to his later, POV-roving stories in All Aunt Hagar’s Children, esp “Root Worker” and “Common Law.” I also see no one’s mentioned “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, canon.
Paperback, 2007
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Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag
Sigrid NunezDawn Dorland (she/her)@DerekVsOwusu Oh and Sigrid Nunez’s Sempre Susan: a memoir of Susan Sontag will put things in 3D
Paperback, 2014
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On Becoming a Novelist
John GardnerDawn Dorland (she/her)@stacystaces I read On Becoming a Novelist last year, by John Gardner (ppl typically reco a different book of his, The Art of Fiction). I found it demystifying, validating, inspiring, and instructive in equal parts. Practically my fave book I read last year.
Paperback, 1999
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The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
John GardnerDawn Dorland (she/her)@stacystaces I read On Becoming a Novelist last year, by John Gardner (ppl typically reco a different book of his, The Art of Fiction). I found it demystifying, validating, inspiring, and instructive in equal parts. Practically my fave book I read last year.
Paperback, 1991
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