September Reads

Ms.Bjork here, it’s time for my September Reads on bookstagram! This month, the 9 books I read are in tiers of MUST READs, Add these to your TBR, and Read them if they come your way.

Favorite Book This Month:

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

TIER 1: MUST READS 4 - #5stars

• A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

Set in an alternative universe in Cairo 1912, a Special Agent must solve a magical murder and save the world.

• No Longer At Ease by Chinua Achebe

The sequel to Things Fall Apart, this story follows Okonkwo’s grandson in Lagos

• You Are Your Best Thing Edited by Tarana Burke and Brene Brown

A collection of essays on shame and vulnerability in the Black experience.

TIER 2: Add these to your TBR (all 4 star books)

• Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn

A Hawaiian family comes to terms with their son’s power to heal.

• Magma by Thora Hjörleifsdóttir

An Icelantic woman falls deeper into a relationship brimming with domestic violence.

• Monster by Walter Dean Meyers

The trial of a 16 year old being sentenced to life in prison.

TIER 3: Read them if they come your way (3 star books)

• Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley Ford

A memoir of a Black woman raised by her mother and grandmother while her father is in prison.

• Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

A father and his sons grief the loss of their mother/wife with the help of a trickster crow.

• From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Koningsburg

Two siblings run away and live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Read any of these?

What did you read this month?