Chyna Reavers

She has three books out and they are interconnected, but you do not have to read them in order.

So I would highly recommend any of them.

She's one of my favorite authors.

Also on my list was Witchcraft for Wayward Girls for Anyone Who Loves Horror by Grady Hendrix.

It is a book about teenage girls who are pregnant and sent to a home in Florida.

This is based in the 70s, I believe.

So it's that situation where if you get pregnant, your family tells everyone that you're visiting your aunt for the summer or something like that.

So these girls are in a home together and their agency is taken away from them.

So they decide to become witches and it is just about female rage and empowerment.

And I found that exhilarating and as well as heartbreaking.

So I had a lot of emotions reading this book and would recommend it to anyone.

Last pick is going to be One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El-Akkad.

Omar El-Akkad is just a wonderful writer.

He discusses world events while making it both accessible, applicable, and

and palatable and that sounds so unusual I think because he isn't discussing things that are easy to discuss and I don't believe in any way he is watering them down or making them easy I think just the way that he writes it

engenders understanding and engenders grace and engenders truth.

And so you're more focused on being in relationship with the book and being in relationship with everything that he's discussing from all different points of view.

And it allows you to sit with it in a way that I don't think is overwhelming.

And so that's how it's palatable.

Not that it minimizes anything, but it shares it in a way