“Runes: The Icelandic Book of Futhark,” by Teresa Drofn Freysdottir Njardvik. What’s your favorite book no one else has heard of? “The Scarlet Letter” is best appreciated by folks of a certain age.Īlso “Roger Chillingworth” is a brilliant name for an antagonist in a book about adultery. Why, oh why, do we force that book on unsuspecting high school students? ::pounds forehead on desk:: I love the book - now - but few teenagers will read it with joy when there are so many great (and relevant!) books to choose from in this golden age of young adult literature. “ The Scarlet Letter,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. What book should nobody read until the age of 40? “All American Boys” is a great place to start. The only way we’ll eliminate the racial inequities and injustice in America is if we give the next generation a shared vocabulary and set of experiences for their conversations. “ All American Boys,” by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely.

What book should everybody read before the age of 21? I will be rereading it for a very long time. when you’re done, please.) Gay’s experience of trauma, of shame, of being a fat (her preferred word), black woman in America, of navigating spaces that reject her, of weaving a life from the shreds of childhood left after being gang-raped at age 12, of being both trapped by and sheltered within her body - this book contains multitudes. If you haven’t read it yet, start right now. “ Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body,” by Roxane Gay. My current Danish book is “ Mit Lykkelige Land,” by Grevinde Alexandra and Rikke Hyldgaard, a delightful examination of what makes Denmark such a terrific place to live. I generally read several books at a time, and I try to make sure that one of them is always in Danish, my second language. In English I have “Black Leopard, Red Wolf,” by Marlon James, “ White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide,” by Carol Anderson, and “ Here to Stay,” by Sara Farizan. I want all kinds of stories on my plate.” The author, most recently, of the memoir “Shout” doesn’t shun any genres: “That’s like avoiding colors or parts of the flavor spectrum.

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