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A Year in Reading: Jamia Wilson

Books line every corner of my apartment, and I’m constantly reading whenever possible. I read about 50 books from cover to cover this year and my two favorite books published this year were of course the first two published titles I edited at Random House, Victor Ray’s On Critical Race Theory and Hafizah Geter’s The Black Period. I’m inspired everyday by the brilliant authors I partner with as an editor, and although I have read both books many times, I still leave each reading with new insights and calls to action.

Overall, it was difficult to choose what to share since I try to read about a book per week outside of work and I grew as

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