Ep. 59 | Interview with Dr. Don Holmes

Becky chats again with Dr. Don Holmes Professor at University of Pittsburgh. They discuss the books from his childhood that helped to form his love of reading as well as suggest great books by black authors. All the books we mentioned: The Martian | Andy Weir Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist | Charles Brockden Brown My Side of the Mountain | Jean Craighead George T*Witches | H.B. Gilmour Silas Marner | George Eliot Frankenstein | Mary Shelley The Known World | Edward P. Jones The Color Purple | Alice Walker The Third Life of Grange Copeland | Alice Walker Corregidora | Gail Jones An American Marriage | Tayari Jones Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence | Robert G. Parkinson Authors to read: Phylis Wheatley Tony Morrison Gail Jones _________ Follow us on Goodreads too! Rachele: Littlelovedbooks Becky: Bexmex Follow us on instagram @yourbookstorebesties and join the conversation.