#mapping the bones

I finally got to go through my books to find what ones I had for a black book stack! And October is a good month for it! And I've actually read 7 out of the 10 books in this stack, which is quite good for me!

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (not read yet)

Arrival by Red Chiang

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Mapping the Bones by Jane Yolen (not read yet)

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Emma by Jane Austen

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (not read yet)

Twilight Zone edited by Carol Serling

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

I also know that a lot of people have done their Black Book Stacks already so I'll just leave it here for others to look through!

Oh man we’ve got some good ones! 

The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen 

This award-winning novel about a young Jewish girl who finds herself transported back in time to the middle of the Holocaust is a can’t miss read full of emotion, horror, heart, and power. Jane Yolen is a master storyteller who handles history with a deft hand. Her newest book, Mapping the Bones, is also set during the Holocaust, and will be in stores next March. 

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

If you loved Salt to the Sea you’ll also love Ruta Sepetys other WWII book, Between Shades of Gray about a young girl and her family as they are sent to a prison camp in Siberia after Soviet forces invade her Lithuanian village. Full of heart, hope, and tears, this is one book you’ll never forget. 

Flygirl by Sheri L. Smith 

All Ida Mae Jones wants to do is fly, but as a young black woman in 1940s Louisiana, she knows she can’t... that is until America enters World War II, and the Army forms the WASP - Women Airforce Service Pilots. Ida uses her light skin to pass as a white, but struggles with the internal repercussions of her actions. Moving, hopeful, and self affirming this is one you don’t want to miss! 

“Such an ordinary sight, thirteen people walk by, hardly giving her a glance as if she were a rabbit dead in a field, or an old dog who died by the fire. Just another piece of drek on the cobbles to be taken away by the garbage collector. Three hundred calories a day, such rations could not sustain a growing child, so she stopped growing. Her feet, her legs, her face stiff and cold like pavement, and as gray. This child who once danced about in her mother’s kitchen, a bit of afikomen in her hand, the four questions so lately in her mouth. Dance, little Hannahleh, Chaya, Gittel, Rachael. Whatever your name was when you were alive, dance on the streets of Heaven, for you shall never dance here again.”

Mapping the Bones by Jane Yolen

What’s it about: It’s 1942 in Poland, and the world is coming to pieces. At least that’s how it seems to Chaim and Gittel, twins whose lives feel like a fairy tale torn apart, with evil witches, forbidden forests, and dangerous ovens looming on the horizon. But in all darkness there is light, and the twins find it through Chaim’s poetry and the love they have for each other. Like the bright flame of a Yahrzeit candle, his words become a beacon of memory so that the children and grandchildren of survivors will never forget the atrocities that happened during the Holocaust.