Ep. 73 Reading with Purpose with Allison Punch

Today on The Stacks we have on avid reader and friend of pod, Allison Punch, who you may know better as @AllisonReadsDC on Instagram. Allison talks with us about incorporating reading into her professional life, why she reads books by authors who don't look like her, and gives you all a bunch of recommendations. Get your TBRs ready.

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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.

• Educated by Tara Westover (Audiobook)

• The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung

• Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi

• A Particular King of Black Man by Tope Folarin

• Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

• Everyday People edited by Jennifer Baker

• Decolonizing Wealth by Edgar Villanueva

• Educated by Tara Westover

• Ghosts in the Schoolyard by Eve L. Ewing

• Burning the House Down by Nell Bernstein

• Pushout by Monique W. Morris

• Missoula by Jon Krakauer

• Shout Your Abortion edited by Amelia Bonow and Emily Nokes

• A False Report by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong

• Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

• All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung

• Undivided Rights by Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Loretta Ross, and Elena Gutiérrez

• An Indigenous People's History of The United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

• An Indigenous People's History of The United States (Young Readers Edition) by Roxanne Dubar-Ortiz

• The Mothers by Brit Bennett

• No Ashes in the Fire by Darnell L. Moore

• The Bridge Called My Back edited by Cherríe Moraga and  Gloria Anzaldúa

• Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

• Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson

• Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

• Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown

• When and Where I Enter by Paula J. Giddings

• The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington

• The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

• Under This Beautiful Dome by Terry Mutchler

• Tinderbox by Robert W. Fieseler

• Unapologetic by Charlene Carruthers

• Brown White Black by Nishta J. Mehra

• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

• Meander Spiral Explode by Jane Alison

• What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund

• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

• The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory

• The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

• The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory

• Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey

• The Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory

• Mary Oliver

• Aracelis Girmay

• Audre Lorde

• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

• Virginia Woolf

• Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

• Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

• Harry Potter (Complete Series) by J. K. Rowling

• Holes by Louis Sachar

• Jesmyn Ward

• Celeste Ng

• Nicole Dennis-Benn

• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart 

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

• Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden

• When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri

• How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

• Allison on Instagram

• Old Town Books (Alexandria, VA)

• Emerging Writers Festival

• Kith and Kin (Washington DC)

• "The Short Stacks 16: Angie Kim//Miracle Creek" (The Stacks)

• Hannah Bae

• Ally Kirkpatrick from Old Town Books on Instagram

• "Ep. 61 The Publicizing of Books with Joseph Papa" (The Stacks)

• Lupita Reads on Instagram

• Spines & Vines on Instagram

• Climb the Stacks on Youtube

• "The Short Stacks 6: Nicole Chung//All You Can Ever Know" (The Stacks)

• "Ep. 46 All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung--The Stacks Book Club (Vanessa McGrady)" (The Stacks)

• Goodreads

• "Ep. 15 Talking Unconventional Women with Lauren Fanella" (The Stacks)

• Lauren Fanella on Instagram

• "Ep. 62 Tinderbox by Robert W. Fieseler -- The Stacks Book Club (Joseph Papa)" (The Stacks)

• Book Girl Magic

• Meghan Markle

• Doria Ragland (Meghan Markle's Mother)

• Nelson Rockerfeller

• Kindle

• Harry Potter (Chris Columbus, 2001)

• Holes (Andrew Davis, 2003)

• Neil Patrick Harris

• "How to Make a Reader with Allison Punch" (fictionmattersbooks.com)

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