Ep. 15 Talking Unconventional Women with Lauren Fanella

This week our guest is Lauren Fanella, Lauren is a book reader and reviewer on #bookstagram, you might know her as @literarylauren_. Lauren is a lover of books by and about unconventional women, she reads for joy, and she's not scared of a big sad book. We talk about Lauren's reading habits, what books she's looking forward to reading, and how books help her to see the world differently.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon

• Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington

• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

• Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

• All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg

• The Girl on the Train by  Paula Hawkins

• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

• Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

• The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon

• A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

• My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

• The Air You Breathe by Frances de Pontes Peebles

• The Ensemble by Aja Gabel

• The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

• What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah

• The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu

• The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea

• Tell Me How it Ends by Valeria Luiselli

• The Far Away Brothers by Lauren Markham

• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

• Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

• This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins

• Wild by Cheryl Strayed

• Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

• Hunger by Roxane Gay

• The Pisces by Melissa Broder

• Trenton Makes by Tadzio Koelb

• Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

• An Untamed State by Roxane Gay

• Candide by Voltaire

• The Stranger by Albert Camus

• Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck

• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

• The Giver by Lois Lowry

• Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

• If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson

• Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

• Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

• The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

• Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

• "#Bookstagram: How Readers Changed The Way We Use Instagram" (Mara White, Huffington Post)

• Star Wars (20th Century Fox)

• It Happened One Night (Columbia Pictures)

• Double Indemnity (Paramount Pictures)

• Sunset Boulevard (Paramount Pictures)

• Alfred Hitchcock

• Gone with the Wind (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)

• Little Women (Columbia Pictures)

• "Saoirse Ronan, Timothee Chalamet in Talks to Star in Greta Gerwig's 'Little Women' Adaptation" (Mia Galuppo, Hollywood Reporter)

• Roxane Gay Goodreads

• The Girl on the Train (Universal Pictures)

• Riverhead Publishers

• Little, Brown & Company Publishers

• Riverhead Books Instagram Post on Social Justice

• Dear Sugars (The New York Times and WBUR)

• Ernest Hemmingway

• Roxane Gay

• Joan Didion

• Jacqueline Woodson

• Rebecca Solnit

• The Goldfinch (Warner Brothers Pictures)

• The Stacks Episode on Men We Reaped

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