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Help me love reading again | Ask a Book Critic

Aug 23, 202111 min
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Episode description

A listener asks for help with getting out of a reading rut. A voracious reader as a child, they now need some help falling in love with reading again. Vox Book Critic Constance Grady recommends big, grab-you-by-the-throat books to help us all rediscover our love of reading. Plus, hear some of Constance’s conversation with Tamsyn Muir from their Vox Book Club Zoom event.

Constance recommends:

  • The Carry On series by Rainbow Rowell
  • Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
  • The Shadow and Bone series by Leigh Bardugo
  • Sorcery and Cecilia: Or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Caroline Stevermer and Patricia Wrede
  • Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth of the Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir


If you’re looking for a book recommendation, you can email constance.grady@vox.com –  Be sure to use the subject line “Ask a Book Critic.” 

 

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