What we're reading Jan 2023
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Welcome! You've reached the place where we, on a monthly basis, gather up what the Lighthouse team have been reading. You can check out round-ups from previous months amongst our Read Think Act posts.
The year started with many-layered writing about food, a meditation on Black intellectuals, a memoir challenging the system of mental illness diagnoses and much more:
Trisha
None of the Above by Travis Alabanza and Of Black Study by Joshua Myers
Jess
Strangers to Ourselves by Rachel Aviv
Rachel
Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola, The Peckham Experiment by Guy Ware and The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Noor
The Year of Miracles by Ella Risbridger, The Everlasting Meal by Tamar Adler and Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse
Christina
Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert and Infamous by Lex Croucher
Anita
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow and The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
Peach
Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates, Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner and Haruko/Love Poems by June Jordan
Mairi
Kamila Shamsie's Best of Friends and Ashes & Stones by Allyson Shaw
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- The Seed Keeper
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- Diane Wilson
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- Ashes and Stones : A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness
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- Shaw, Allyson
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- Of Black Study
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- Joshua Myers
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- The Peckham Experiment
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- Ware, Guy
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- Best of Friends : The new novel from the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
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- Shamsie, Kamila
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- An Everlasting Meal : Cooking with Economy and Grace
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- Adler, Tamar
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- Act Your Age, Eve Brown
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- Hibbert, Talia
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- Fevered Star
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- Roanhorse, Rebecca
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- Haruko/Love Poems
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- June Jordan
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- Infamous
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- Croucher, Lex
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- The Once and Future Witches
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- Harrow, Alix E.
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- The Year of Miracles : Recipes About Love + Grief + Growing Things
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- Ella Risbridger
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- Men Who Hate Women : From incels to pickup artists, the truth about extreme misogyny and how it affects us all
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- Bates, Laura
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- None of the Above : Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary
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- Travis Alabanza
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- The Starless Sea
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- Morgenstern, Erin
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- Strangers to Ourselves : Stories of Unsettled Minds
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- Aviv, Rachel
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- Crying in H Mart
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- Zauner, Michelle
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- Honey & Spice : a heart-melting and addictive college romance from bestselling author, Bolu Babalola
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- Babalola, Bolu