**updated** BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS POST: One thousand subscri..

**updated** BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS POST: One thousand subscribers. wow, thank you so much! We are incredibly proud of how our community of horny nerds and booksluts has grown. We see you, and we appreciate you. The Naked Quarantine Bookclub page serves as a sexy sanctuary where we can all tune out for a moment, and enjoy a daily softcore literary reading. It's pretty brilliant. We are having a lot of fun with this cheeky project but on the real real, one of our underlying missions in creating this naked niche space has always been to promote the books that inform our experiences, entertain us, and in some instances changed our lives. A lot has happened in 2020, and today the world is both figuratively and literally burning, dozens of major cities were uprising last night, and continuing this week. The Collective voice is exhausted and outraged but also determined. Determined to see a new system built, and to see our communities, and our lives flourish and be free. The Naked Quarantine Bookclub is a global collective made up of men and women from all walks of life. This week some of us are at actions and protests, others are behind the lines sending support and amplifying Black voices, while the rest of us must do our part with non-optical allyship. One of which practices is through research, and educating ourselves and reading books (we a bookclub, after all!). Here is a complied list, books that are 10/10 recommended for educating yourself on anti-racism, the Black experience, and USA history of oppression. 📚 NON-FICTION BOOKS (on whiteness and privilege) So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo Me and White Supremacy, Layla F Saad White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo How to Be An Anti-Racist, Ibram X. Kendi Waking Up White by Debby Irving White Rage, Carol Anderson (on the lived Black experience) I Know Why the C*ged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn. The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander Between The World And Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson The Indigenous Peoples History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (*not Black, but an important POC perspective) *additions: Faces at the Bottom of the Well, Derrick Bell The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein From Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation, Keeanga Yamahtta. Freedom Is A Constant Struggle, Angela Davis 📚 FICTION BOOKS Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (**bookclub babe @msbolde read this one for us below) Children of Bl*od And Bone by Toni Adeyemi The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid