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Favourite books of 2019

1. Sarah M. Broom – The Yellow House: A Memoir (Grove Atlantic) 2. Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey – She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement (Penguin) 3.
The Yellow House
Fourteen years after the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina, Sarah M. Broom weaves layers of New Orleans cultural history through her book, The Yellow House: A Memoir.

1. Sarah M. Broom – The Yellow House: A Memoir (Grove Atlantic)

2. Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey – She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement (Penguin)

3. Wendy Wickwire – At the Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging (UBC Press)

4. Joanna Jolly – Red River Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine (Penguin)

5. Esmé Weijun Wang – The Collected Schizophrenias (Graywolf Press)

6. Bruce M. Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow – Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson (Chicago Review Press)

7. Judith Williams – Raincoast Chronicles 24: Cougar Companions: Bute Inlet Country and the Legendary Schnarrs (Raincoast Books)

8. Jon Savage – This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History (Faber & Faber)

9. Aaron Chapman – Vancouver After Dark: The Wild History of a City’s Nightlife (Arsenal Pulp Press)

10. John Corbett – Pick Up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music (University of Chicago Press)