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3 weeks ago | 
lesen.de | Carley Fortune |James Baldwin |Chigozie Obioma |Margaret Atwood
PRE-ORDER THE BREATH-TAKING NEW NOVEL FROM THE MILLION COPY, NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR CARLEY FORTUNE NOW!I never anticipated Charlie Florek. But Charlie Florek changed my life. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by:TODAY E! News Buzzfeed Us Weekly The New York Post SheReads, and more--Good things happen at the lake. That's what Alice's Nan always says. And it's true. It's where Alice took that photo, the one that catapulted her career.
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3 weeks ago | 
lesen.de | Holly Gramazio |Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |James Baldwin |Alexander Smith
**READER FAVOURITE IN THE FIRST-EVER GOOD HOUSEKEEPING GOOD BOOKS COLLECTION** **SOON TO BE A MAJOR APPLE TV SERIES**'Properly laugh-out-loud funny, this was one of the most original novels I've read in years' RED, *Books of the Year*'A witty, ingenious debut novel... An enormously entertaining story that is both silly and sophisticated' SUNDAY TIMES, *Books of the Year*What if you could change husbands as easily as a lightbulb?
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2 months ago | 
penguinrandomhouselibrary.com | Jennifer Rubins |Hanya Yanagihara |James Baldwin
By Jennifer Rubins | February 14 2025 | Audiobook News To add to your library’s digital collections just in time for the 10th anniversary of this award-winning bestseller, Matt Bomer narrates a new audiobook edition of A LITTLE LIFE, on sale now.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
angeladenker.substack.com | James Baldwin |Maggie Smith |C.S. Lewis |Glynnis MacNicol
Re-sharing some introductory words I wrote last year …Hi Readers,I’m not quite sure I’m ready to sum up 2024 yet - but one thing I always enjoy at the end of each year is looking back at the books I read. (I use Goodreadsto track my reading each year and find it really helpful, with the caveat that I have to manually enter audiobooks and/or books I didn’t read via Kindle). This year (again), I wanted to share images of the books I read as well as a short sentence/blurb about them.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
williamspivey.substack.com | James Baldwin |William Spivey
William F. Spivey's History ChannelMost of my stories invariably return to history, a different perspective, and always in context. A recent story about the Red Summer of 1919 also described 1918-1923. You'll get some politics, education, and race, but history is what I always return to. No thanks
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | James Baldwin
In a tone equal parts naïve and urbane, Matt Bomer brings an authentic and absolutely American middle-class voice to James Baldwin's 1956 bestseller. The story, controversial at the time, is about a white New Yorker living in Paris who has a fiery and ultimately tragic love affair with a young, gay Italian bartender while his fiancée is on holiday in Spain.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | James Baldwin
James Baldwin's three-act play focuses on the power of religion to shield people from the perils outside church walls, as dramatized by an African American family. The cast are quirky, protective, gossipy, dogmatic, and spirited. Dion Graham begins the production as Baldwin, clearly and confidently sharing the importance of this story. A chorale then swells--warm, collective, and filled with the gospel.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
audible.com | Yvonne Durant |James Baldwin |Roxane Gay
Born in Harlem, James Arthur Baldwin would become one of the most important writers of the 20th century. No one wrote more beautifully, more poignantly, on the issues of the day, issues that remain relevant to this day—race, class, justice, LGBQTIA+ identity. He wrote it like it was, and spoke it too.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
nypl.org | James Baldwin
Novelist, essayist, intellectual, and activist James Baldwin (1924 - 1987) is renowned as one of the world’s most influential and prophetic voices of our time. His death in 1987 sent waves of grief around the world. Amiri Baraka’s eulogy, titled “Jimmy!”, spoke of James "Jimmy" Baldwin as “not only a writer, international literary figure” but as a “man, spirit, voice”. Baraka called Baldwin “God’s black revolutionary mouth” which speaks to Baldwin’s enduring legacy of radical truth-telling.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
news.temple.edu | James Baldwin |Zora Neale Hurston
According to the group PEN America, more than 30 states have banned books by Black authors, including classics such as The Color Purple and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. The same group reports that “books about race, racism or that feature characters of color” make up 30% of the titles that are being banned. Banning a book does not make it illegal to own, but it creates hurdles when it comes to locating that book in neighborhood bookstores and libraries.
