Best Books of the Last 25 years or so 89-80

  

89. Birdology by Sy Montgomery.  Look it has a cassowary and makes you look at chickens a totally different way.

88. Say Her Name   by Dreda Say Mitchell and Ryan Carter.  A young unravels the secrets of her birth and family.  The best type of family drama mystery.

87. Down Girl  by Kate Manne.  Manne’s book looks at the impact of misogyny and how it works.

86.  The Cadaver King and County Dentist  by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington.  This book looks that the “science” of bite analysis and its impact on the justice system.  Heart breaking and rage inducing.  

85. Nimona  by ND Stevenson.  What is a bad guy exactly?  Stevenson’s graphic novel address so much and is so perfect.

84. There There  by Tommy Orange.  Orange’s debut novel deals with various aspects of Native American and family life.  

83. Unbelievable by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong.  This book suffers from a bad titles.  It details what happens when law enforcement pressures a woman into withdrawing her claim of rape – which she was telling the truth about.

82. All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson.  I am about as far from the target audience of Johnson’s book as you can get,  yet I am glad I read it, simply so I could past it on to a trans student.  That student, by the way, finished the book  in a weekend.  The first time the student by his own admission had read something so quickly.

81. The Wishing Pool and Other Stories   and  The Reformatory by Tananarive Due.  The story short collection is  of horror and science fiction  stories that deal with a variety of issues.  Some of them remind one of the work of Octavia Butler.  The Reformatory is based on Due’s own family history.

80. Fear is Just  A Word by Azam Ahmed.  This book of reporting relates the story of a mother in Mexico trying to discover what happened to her daughter.  Moving and powerful.