Cory Doctorow

My second choice is a book by Bridget Reid.

It's a book called Little Bosses Everywhere.

And it's an argument that the American pyramid scheme is kind of the...

It's the center of our current rot.

And everywhere you look in the MAGA movement, you find people who have been predated upon by the kinds of scams that are characteristic of this and who've adopted the kind of toxic positivity that comes with it.

It is an incredibly illuminating, beautifully researched book.

And then the final book is a kid's book by my favorite kid's book author ever, this guy called Daniel Pinkwater.

And last year, he had a book out from Tachyon Press called Jules, Penny, and the Rooster.

And recapping the plot of this book would take 10 minutes because it is so gonzo and weird.

But suffice it to say, it revolves around a young woman

And a talking prize dog who find a haunted woods nearby where the young woman is welcomed by a sort of Beauty and the Beast story as a kind of savior, but who wants no part of it.

It's funny.

It's madcap.

It's gonzo.

It's full of heart.

It is like everything great about a kid's book.

I read my daughter so many Daniel Pinkwater books when she was little.

They're so fun to read at bedtime.

It's a middle grades book, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.

Jules, Penny, and the Rooster by the incredible Daniel Pinkwater.