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This episode we’re Seeking Book Recommendations! We’ve each picked some topics and we’re going to perform Readers’ Advisory interviews to help figure out what titles to suggest to each other. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Recommendations Wanted! RJ An indie tabletop game Sci-fi/fantasy set in contemporary real world, but the sf/fan elements are NOT secret/hidden/underground Fiction set at Christmastime/non-fiction about Christmas Matthew Slavic Folklore Horror Space Opera Anna Humanism in/of healthcare Urban fantasy Feminist Essay Collection Meghan Fiction (not a thriller) that surprises Poetry Russian language learning materials Media We Mentioned Shadowrun (Wikipedia) Sleepaway FATE GURPS God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine by Victoria Sweet The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor by Arthur Kleinman Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk Your Republic is Calling You by Kim Young-Ha Meghan discusses this book in Episode 013 - Spies and Espionage Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams Curse Workers series by Holly Black Uzumaki by Junji Ito Solaris by Stanisław Lem Solaris (1972 film) (Wikipedia) The Stand by Stephen King Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola, John Byrne SCP Document 050 - "The Great Researcher Prank War of '██" SCP-087 - “an unlit platform staircase” SCP-2521 We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five Top Rated Pages IRL by Tommy Pico Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman The Day the Saucers Came Mass Effect (Wikipedia) The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White Links, Articles, and Things Desert Bus for Hope Gritty (mascot) Hark! Podcast Cyrillic script (Wikipedia) 20 Religious Non-Fiction Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. Decolonial Christianities: Latinx and Latin American Perspectives edited by Raimundo Barreto and Roberto Sirvent God is Red: a Native View of Religion by Vine Deloria Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens: The Divine Feminine in the African Religious Traditions by Lilith Dorsey Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story by Huda Fahmy The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl by Marra B Gad We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib Lovesong: Becoming a Jew by Julius Lester Stalking God: My Unorthodox Search for Something to Believe In by Anjali Kumar Her Name Is Kaur: Sikh American Women Write about Love, Courage, and Faith edited by Meeta Kaur See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur In Love With the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying by Yongey Mingyur, with Helen Tworkov The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation by Thich Nhat Hanh The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times by Dr. Anita Sanchez Why I am a Hindu by Shashi Tharoor The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church's Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations by Richard Wagamese I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation by Chanequa Walker-Barnes New World A-coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration by Judith Weisenfeld Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again next week, on Tuesday, November 24th as we give each other the Book Recommendations we asked for this week. Then on Tuesday, December 1st we’ll be discussing the genre that you chose for us to read, New Weird Fiction! Finally, on Tuesday, December 15th it’ll be our Best of 2020 episode!