vanessa a. bee✌🏾🐝 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Vanessa A. Bee is a consumer protection lawyer and essayist. 🌴 🦜author of HOME BOUND 💌 book emails to vanessa.homebound à gmail 📸 IG:@baebee_snek

The School for Good Mothers
Jessamine Chan
close behind: IF I SURVIVE YOU by jonathan escoffery TMRW TMRW & TMRW by gabrielle zevin THE GOOD LORD BIRD by james mcbride TRUST by hernan diaz THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS by jessamine chan
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
Jane Alison
@yumcoconutmilk @Tanvim "Meander, Spiral, Explode" by Jane Alison; "The Art of Memoir" by Mary Karr; and "Dreyer's English" by Benjamin Dreyer
Paperback, 2019
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Glory
Noviolet Bulawayo
finally done after a MONTH+! in my defense: travel, baby, covid, writing, day job. many parts i sped through, a few i trudged. but the overall structure was interesting, bulawayo is funny, and imo she pulled off the ending.
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Prophets
Robert Jones Jr
BOOK TOUR STOP #7: Got to read w poet @mannheimerup & novelist Robert Jones Jr., which was so special ♥️♥️ Thx to all who joined last night. I’m VIBRATING w joy today. PLEASE read Rachel’s EARTH ROOM and Robert’s THE PROPHETS! Follow @DebutsAndRedos & buy books from @ptknitwear! https://t.co/P8Yjx47y1h
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
Joshua Cohen
novels i loved in 2022: 1. the netanyahus by joshua cohen (2021) 2. if i survive you by jonathan escoffery (2022) 3. the morning star by karl knausgaard (2021) 4. tomorrow tomorrow & tomorrow by gabrielle zevin (2022) 5. trust by hernan diaz (2022)
Paperback, 2021
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Gulag: A History
Anne Applebaum
unfortunately miso’s favorite living room scratch post is GULAG by anne applebaum
Paperback, 2004
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Heretic: A Memoir
Jeanna Kadlec
[It] is abt 🇺🇸 evangelicalism’s deep roots & evolution into a political powerhouse. but it’s also a vulnerable grappling w what evangelicalism meant to @jeannakadlec + the emotional/spiritual hole it left behind. loved HERETIC & as an ex evangelical, can’t recommend it enough
Hardcover, 2022
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
Derecka Purnell
happy book birthday to @dereckapurnell & BECOMING ABOLITIONISTS 🥳 🌞 🥰 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675803/becoming-abolitionists-by-derecka-purnell/ https://twitter.com/dereckapurnell/status/1445377488524357633
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Hernan Diaz
back after a 2-mos break due to job / baby / book anxiety but finished TRUST at last. loved the shifts in voice, had a bit of a hard time getting into pt 3 at first but ending really comes together. great payoff, not a hard read, highly rec!
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner)
James McBride
this one was so much fun. incredible voice, can’t believe mcbride kept it up for 450 pages
Paperback, 2014
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book