Book Bound: Episode 5

This episode explores environmentalism, international history, and adventure.

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Cheryl’s Books

• Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
• Windrush Child: The Tale of a Caribbean Child Who Faced a New Horizon by John Agard and illustrated by Sophie Bass
• Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush by Patrice Lawrence and illustrated by Camilla Sucre

Mentioned

• The Ibis Trilogy by Amitav Ghosh
• Small Island by Andrea Levy

Jessica’s Books

• Birdgirl: Looking to the Skies in Search of a Better Future by Mya-Rose Craig
• When Among Crows by Veronica Roth

Mentioned

• The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
• Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper
• The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus

Mari’s Books

• The Circuit: The Graphic Novel by Andrew Rostan
• The Mystery of Locked Rooms by Lindsay Currie

Mentioned

• I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib

Segment on Re-Reading Books – Titles and Series Mentioned

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• The Earthsea Series by Ursula K. Le Guin
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• The Lord of the Rings Series  J.R.R. Tolkien
• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Beartown Series by Fredrick Backman
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Somebody’s Horse by Dorothy Nafus Morrison
• Homesick:  My Own Story by Jean Fritz
• The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins