Don’t Read Poetry is not quite the reading-poetry-how-to I’d expected, but I’m so glad I picked it up; it is an homage to the world of poetry that’s a delight to read.

The Queens' English is colorful and fun and very obviously crafted with so much love. It’s also packed with so much context, advocacy, history, and more. There is truly a delight on every page.

A portrait of grief and examination of resilience, Sanctuary is a gorgeously written, vulnerable, insightful memoir of Rapp Black’s experience losing her son and having her second child.

The Listening Path is a six-week approach to getting in touch with the world, yourself, and the beyond. It wasn’t for me — it was too “woo-woo” as she herself puts it — but it might be for you.

How to Read Poetry Like a Professor is fun, helpful, and the perfect book to help you start to read poetry more deeply.

It’s a celebration, an amplification, a deep-dive, a time capsule of a culture. A gift to everyone who reads it, but especially to the Black community. This book is a triumph.

Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain is a snack of a book, a conversational, fascinating, and revelatory bundle of great metaphors on how our brains work.

The Making of a Manager is a helpful, friendly, useful book specifically for people who are becoming managers for the first time. I really appreciated it!

Carry is one of those memoirs that just stands so far out from all the others. The writing is fierce, poetic, and self-assured. Read it.

Mediocre is an incredible work of nonfiction, a revelation on the history of white male supremacy. It’s in the top five best antiracist books I’ve read so far.

Radical Candor is a must-read for anyone who manages people in any way, or who expects to soon. I found it really helpful!

Shit, Actually is hilarious, timely, and honestly just the kind of great content we all need in 2020. And you don’t have to have seen all the movies to enjoy the book!

Is Rape a Crime? is a scorching, no-holds-barred work that’s part memoir, part investigation into a society that refuses to treat rape like the felony that it is.

White Tears/Brown Scars is a thoughtfully researched, convincingly argued, incredibly important book that should be required reading for white people everywhere.

So You Want to Talk About Race is a solid, foundational book about antiracism with even more depth than the title implies.

Reclaiming Her Time is an upbeat, vibrant biography of Maxine Waters that’s full of personality. It was a ton of fun to read, and I also learned a lot I didn’t know.

Hood Feminism is a wake-up call that should be required reading for all white and/or mainstream feminists.