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3 Books by Women to Read this Black History Month (And All the Time)

It’s no surprise that Black women have delivered some of the most impactful fiction, essays, poetry, history and social commentary not only in our recent history, but throughout history. From Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Octavia Butler to Ijeoma Oluo, Jesmyn Ward, Roxanne Gay and N.K. Jemison, the canon of Black female authors… Continue reading 3 Books by Women to Read this Black History Month (And All the Time)

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I read 50 books in 2020. Here are my top 5.

By Micaela Cashman Micaela Cashman is a Des Moines writer, classic rock music enthusiast, and power-reading friend of Storyhouse Bookpub. Toward the end of 2019, I naively set a goal to read 50 books in one year. That averages out to one book a week. That’s doable, right? Maybe when I was 13 and didn’t… Continue reading I read 50 books in 2020. Here are my top 5.