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 and Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky
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
Jim
Holy Ghost by Richard Koloda
Linked Books
![Image for The Starless Sea](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97817847/9781784702861.jpg)
- title
- The Starless Sea
- author
- Morgenstern, Erin
![Image for An Everlasting Meal : Cooking with Economy and Grace](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97818007/9781800751613.jpg)
- title
- An Everlasting Meal : Cooking with Economy and Grace
- author
- Adler, Tamar
![Image for Dancing in Odessa](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97805713/9780571369188.jpg)
- title
- Dancing in Odessa
- author
- Kaminsky, Ilya
![Image for Men Who Hate Women : From incels to pickup artists, the truth about extreme misogyny and how it affects us all](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97813985/9781398504653.jpg)
- title
- Men Who Hate Women : From incels to pickup artists, the truth about extreme misogyny and how it affects us all
- author
- Bates, Laura
![Image for Haruko/Love Poems](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97818008/9781800814813.jpg)
- title
- Haruko/Love Poems
- author
- June Jordan
![Image for Holy Ghost : The Life And Death Of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97819110/9781911036937.jpg)
- title
- Holy Ghost : The Life And Death Of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
- author
- Koloda, Richard
![Image for Act Your Age, Eve Brown](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97803494/9780349425245.jpg)
- title
- Act Your Age, Eve Brown
- author
- Hibbert, Talia
![Image for Strangers to Ourselves : Stories of Unsettled Minds](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97817873/9781787301689.jpg)
- title
- Strangers to Ourselves : Stories of Unsettled Minds
- author
- Aviv, Rachel
![Image for Fevered Star](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97817861/9781786186041.jpg)
- title
- Fevered Star
- author
- Roanhorse, Rebecca
![Image for The Peckham Experiment](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97817846/9781784632632.jpg)
- title
- The Peckham Experiment
- author
- Ware, Guy
![Image for None of the Above : Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97818388/9781838854317.jpg)
- title
- None of the Above : Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary
- author
- Travis Alabanza
![Image for The Year of Miracles : Recipes About Love + Grief + Growing Things](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97815266/9781526622631.jpg)
- title
- The Year of Miracles : Recipes About Love + Grief + Growing Things
- author
- Ella Risbridger
![Image for Infamous](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97818041/9781804180013.jpg)
- title
- Infamous
- author
- Croucher, Lex
![Image for Of Black Study](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97807453/9780745344126.jpg)
- title
- Of Black Study
- author
- Joshua Myers
![Image for The Once and Future Witches](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97803565/9780356512501.jpg)
- title
- The Once and Future Witches
- author
- Harrow, Alix E.
![Image for The Seed Keeper](https://jackets.dmmserver.com/media/356/97815713/9781571311375.jpg)
- title
- The Seed Keeper
- author
- Diane Wilson
![Image for Crying in H Mart](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97815290/9781529033793.jpg)
- title
- Crying in H Mart
- author
- Zauner, Michelle
![Image for Network Effect : A Murderbot Novel](https://jackets.gardners.com/media/640/97812502/9781250229854.jpg)
- title
- Network Effect : A Murderbot Novel
- author
- Wells, Martha