Author’s Bookshelf: Sarah Kay
NYC based poet shares her top 20 favorite books
ABOUT SARAH
Sarah Kay is a writer, performer, and educator from New York City. She is best known for her talk at the 2011 TED Talks conference, which garnered two standing ovations and has been seen over ten million times online. She has also been a featured performer at the United Nations, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Royal Danish Theater, and hundreds of other venues around the world. She is the author of four books of poetry including B, The Type, No Matter the Wreckage, and All Our Wild Wonder. A passionate educator, Sarah is the founder and co-director of Project VOICE, an organization that uses spoken word poetry to entertain, educate, and inspire students and teachers worldwide. Through Project VOICE, Sarah works to promote empowerment through self-expression, challenge traditional notions of literacy, and expand access to arts education. You can find out more about Sarah Kay at www.kaysarahsera.com or find her on twitter or facebook.
You can meet Sarah in person on April 2nd as she helps us kick off National Poetry Month with fellow poet Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz. Explore and select books to add to your shelves from Sarah’s recommendations here.
SARAH’S BOOKSHELF
City of Glass by Paul Auster, Paul Karasik
Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence by Nick Bantock
When My Brother Was An Aztec by Natalie Diaz
Everyone’s An Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too by Jonny Sun
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears by Jules Feiffer
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
I’m Supposed to Protect You From All This by Nadja Spiegelman
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
The Sense of An Ending by Julian Barnes
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Macbeth by Shakespeare
The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Holes by Louis Sachar
Counting Descent by Clint Smith
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
The January Children by Safia Elhillo
The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
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