Episode 154 - Battle of the Books 2022

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re giving our book pitches for our Battle of the Books 2022! Each of us has picked one title that we think we should all read and discuss and you get to vote for which one it is!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Books We Pitched

• Vote for the book you want us to read and discuss!
• Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien
• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
• Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston
• Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart

Our “Long List” of Titles

• Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
• The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
• The Unbroken by C.L. Clark
• Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
• Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
• Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner
• Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez
• Amoralman: A True Story and Other Lies by Derek Delgaudio

Podcast Episodes

• Just Plain Wrong - Zombies, Sharkfarmers, and Beavis & Butthead: Discussing Comics and Graphic Novels with Amish Characters (Featuring Matthew!)
• Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
• Episode 079 - Which Book Should We Read?
  • Episode 083 - The Fifth Season
• Episode 103 - Battle of the Books 2020
  • Episode 107 - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
• Episode 130 - Battle of the Books 2021
  • Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Episode 007 - Cozy Mysteries

Links, Articles, and Things

• PEDMAS - Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication/Division, Addition/Subtraction
  • Order of Operations (Wikipedia)
• Dim Sum of All Fears by Vivien Chien
• What Should I Read Next?
• At sign (@) (Wikipedia)
• Soft sign (ь) (Wikipedia)
• Financial domination (FinDom) (Wikipedia)
• “Our cats opened the bathroom cabinet drawer, thereby blocking the bathroom door from opening.”

30 LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction 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 - to help readers to diversify their reading and library professionals to diversify their readers' advisory. All of the lists can be found here.

• Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated Memoir by Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali
• Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas
• A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
• ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer
• Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome
• A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby
• When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love and Revolution by Jeanne Cordova
• Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill
• Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution by Shiri Eisner
• Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
• Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies by Francisco J. Galarte
• Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson
• We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib
• Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'Shaun Harrison
• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman
• Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
• All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson
• How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
• Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays by June Jordan
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
• Continuum by Chella Man
• The Black Trans Prayer Book edited by J Mase III and Dane Figueroa Edidi
• Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir by Rajiv Mohabir
• nîtisânak by Jas M. Morgan
• Borealis by Aisha Sabatini Sloan
• Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
• I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya
• I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom
• Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
• Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino

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Join us again on Tuesday, August 2nd we’ll be discussing the genre of Literary Fan Fiction.

Then on Tuesday, August 16th we’ll be discussing an update on what media we’ve been enjoying outside of the podcast!