Reese's Book Club (Updated October 2022)

Each month, Reese Witherspoon chooses a book with a woman at the center of the story. There's not a formula to the books she spotlights. Reese's team makes their choices thoughtfully and looks for ways to deepen our connection to books, authors, and ourselves.
 

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1. I'm still here: black dignity in a world made for whiteness

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Author:
Brown, Austin Channing
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Formats:
Book, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
An "account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America ... [that looks] at how white, middle-class, evangelicalism has participated in an era of rising racial hostility, inviting the reader to confront apathy, recognize God's ongoing work in the world, and discover how blackness--if we let it--can save us all"--Amazon.com.

2. You should see me in a crown

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Author:
Johnson, Leah (Young adult author)
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
Formats:
Book, OverDrive eAudiobook
Description:
Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through...