Jocelyn Nicole Johnson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Jocelyn Nicole Johnson is a teacher and author. check out MY MONTICELLO, on shelves now from @HenryHolt & @HarvillSecker, rep'd @Mere215 @Brooke_Ehrlich (she/her)

We the Animals
Justin Torres
@kt_sinback WE THE ANIMALS, by Justin Torres! (super gorgeous) HALF by my friend, @harrigan_sharon, and I attempted one we story in the collection, SOMETHING SWEET ON OUR TONGUES, you can read it at Kweli journal!
Paperback, 2012
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
Taylor Harris
Happy Bday @thurris !!! @NicolesChung is wise to say that you should gift Taylor (and yourself) by buying and reading her fabulous memoir, THIS BOY WE MADE!! https://twitter.com/nicolesjchung/status/1509224290289389569
Paperback, 2023
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Half
Sharon Harrigan
@kt_sinback WE THE ANIMALS, by Justin Torres! (super gorgeous) HALF by my friend, @harrigan_sharon, and I attempted one we story in the collection, SOMETHING SWEET ON OUR TONGUES, you can read it at Kweli journal!
Paperback, 2020
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Aftershocks: A Memoir
Nadia Owusu
Thanks for the book love @molsbymoonlight! Happy to be listed here with @DeeshaPhilyaw, @dantielwmoniz, @RachelYoder among others, and to shout out some story love for @NadiaOwusu1's memoir Aftershocks. #MyMonticello https://twitter.com/molsbymoonlight/status/1472153190153998337
Paperback, 2021
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Yellow Wife
Sadeqa Johnson
My Monticello is a fiction finalist for the Library of Virginia's PEOPLE'S CHOICE award! What an honor and in such incredible company with: Razorblade Tears: A Novel by S.A Cosby; Yellow Wife: A Novel by Sadeqa Johnson and others! Go My Monticello! https://t.co/4lDsMRw734
Paperback, 2021
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Me (Moth): (National Book Award Finalist)
Amber McBride
In the green room on campus at USC for the LA Times Book festival with author Scott Weidensaul (A World on the Wing 🦅) & @ambsmcbride Amber McBride (Me:Moth) https://t.co/u0YdmLMRGu
Paperback, 2023
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
Isaac Fitzgerald
Bookmail: Excited to read this highly anticipated memoir, because Isaac Fitzgerald has a big, wild heart, but also cause of early praise like this! Pubs 7/19! Keep an eye out! #bookmail #bookstagram #dirtbag #issacfitzgerald
Paperback, 2023
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
What We Fed to the Manticore
Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
Excited to check out my friend, @TaliaKolluri’s debut collection, WHAT WE FED TO THE MANTICORE, stories told from the POV of animals spanning the globe. 🐼🐯🦊 @NDBookshop @Tin_House https://t.co/aBlDWx9yx3
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Mira Jacob
Good Talk was so good! Thanks, Mira Jacob!📕🙏🏾🎉 https://t.co/LyCTn5RSQ8
Paperback, 2020
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Wrong End of the Telescope
Rabih Alameddine
I so enjoyed The Wrong End of the Telescope 📗, by @rabihalameddine, when I read it, for its humor, smarts, sensory moments, sense of dislocation, sense of home & more! 💚https://www.altaonline.com/california-book-club/a40705856/rabih-alameddine-wrong-end-of-the-telescope-opening-scenes/
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book