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Laura Bassett 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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Outgoing EIC of Jezebel. Previously: GQ, HuffPost

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Book Cover for: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson
Laura BassettLaura Bassett

The banned books included Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, and Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings. https://t.co/BwWV68hYxk

Paperback, 2023

$21.00Member price:$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Tapped Out: Water: The Coming World Crisis and What We Can Do About It, Paul Simon

Tapped Out: Water: The Coming World Crisis and What We Can Do About It

Paul Simon
Laura BassettLaura Bassett

Went upstate, grilled burgers outside, napped on a blanket, got a spider bite, cuddled a baby, took walks to observe bodies of water, drank cheap beer in a lawn chair listening to Paul Simon. In short, I touched grass, and I am healed now

Paperback, 2022

$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs, Josh Hawley

Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs

Josh Hawley
Laura BassettLaura Bassett

Not sure I can go one more day without reading Josh Hawley's book on manhood

Hardcover, 2023

$29.99Member price:$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen, Jazz Jennings

Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen

Jazz Jennings
Laura BassettLaura Bassett

The banned books included Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, and Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings. https://t.co/BwWV68hYxk

Paperback, 2017

$12.99Member price:$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison
Laura BassettLaura Bassett

@stclair_dj "Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped, and @nhannahjones The 1619 Project have all been banned in certain school districts, which, plot twist, has resulted in an even higher demand for these books."

Paperback, 2007

$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group, Susan Campbell Bartoletti

They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group

Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Laura BassettLaura Bassett

The banned books included Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, and Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings. https://t.co/BwWV68hYxk

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Book Cover for: Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning, Jason Reynolds

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning

Jason Reynolds
Laura BassettLaura Bassett

@stclair_dj "Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped, and @nhannahjones The 1619 Project have all been banned in certain school districts, which, plot twist, has resulted in an even higher demand for these books."

Hardcover, 2020

$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book