The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

By
Joshua Hammer
Joshua Hammer
2016 • 288 pages

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65 books

Building A Better World

Indyrey
Indy
Outliers: The Story of Success
Surviving the Extremes
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Life of Pi

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86 books

Current Events

christinared
Christina
It's What I Do : A Photographer's Life of Love and War
The Terror Years
Jan Wong's China
American Fascists : the Christian Right and the War on America
The Unwinding
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

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35 books

Possible Book Club

sarah
Sarah
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
The Invention of Wings
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
The Martian
Reconstructing Amelia
Young and Damned and Fair
In the Shadow of the Banyan

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25 books

Book Club Suggestion

sarah
Sarah
The Light Between Oceans
The Night Circus
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Gone Girl
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Me Before You

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7 books

العربية

dsk
Dave
Arabs
The Travels of Ibn Battutah
Lost Islamic History
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
The Ornament of the World
Blood and Faith
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

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554 books

Non Fiction

Lemons
Danielle
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
The Dark Queens
The World's Worst Assistant
The Natural Mother of the Child
America's First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics

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31 books

Books About Books

Bookherd
Karen
The Novel Cure
People of the book
Consider the Birds: A Provocative Guide to Birds of the Bible
The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A Biography
A Burnable Book
Pioneer Girl
The Book of Speculation

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14 books

War

Bookherd
Karen
The Sympathizer
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
The Book of Joan
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
The Mere Wife
Pachinko
The Silence of the Girls

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7 books

Librarians

Bookherd
Karen
The Book of Speculation
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
The Changeling
Weather
Rex Libris, Volume I: I, Librarian (Rex Libris, #1-5)
The Historian
Whole Person Librarianship: A Social Work Approach to Patron Services

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7 books

Africa

Bookherd
Karen
The Icarus Girl
Americanah
We Need New Names
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
American Spy
Yoruba Girl Dancing
Homegoing

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174 books

Non Fiction

citrussunshine
Andrea Ward
Strapless
The map thief : the gripping story of an esteemed rare-map dealer who made millions stealing priceless maps
The Shark God
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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118 books

Novels

Indyrey
Indy
Slaughterhouse 5
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Kite Runner
Stranger in a Strange Land
Children of God
The First Chronicles Of Prydain
The Dispossessed

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200 books

Non Fiction

SettingShadow
Becca
Go Ask Alice
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
The Art of Possibility
Autobiography of a Face

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15 books

History

SettingShadow
Becca
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
Girl Sleuth
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
The Riddle of the Labyrinth
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London
The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

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25 books

Books On Books

SettingShadow
Becca
The Book Thief
How to buy a love of reading
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
When You Reach Me
How I Became a Famous Novelist
Alice I Have Been

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541 books

Read 2010 2019

perian
Cid
It's All Relative
River of Teeth
Whiskey Words & a Shovel III
Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals
Born to Rule
1177 B.C.

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55 books

Read The World

perian
Cid
The elusive Mrs. Pollifax.
The Bride Was a Boy
Last Night in Nuuk
The Bookshop

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19 books

December 2016

sera
Sarah
The Fate of the Tearling
The Wonder
The Sun is Also a Star
We Are Still Tornadoes
Still Life With Tornado
The Bookseller of Kabul
Today Will Be Different

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104 books

History Biography

haunt
Haunt
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Columbine
Che
In Cold Blood
Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire
Rasputin
Cannibal Killers: Monsters with an Appetite for Murder and a Taste for Human Flesh

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228 books

Rep

haunt
Haunt
Solito
Storm of Steel
Wild Women and the Blues
Leaving Atlanta
We Hunt the Flame
Crying in H Mart
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi

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58 books

Metalit

haunt
Haunt
The Swerve
Ella Minnow Pea
The Last Heir to Blackwood Library
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
A Gentle Madness

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201 books

Adult Nonfiction

annatschetter
Anna Tschetter
Lost in Shangri-la
God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion
Packing for Mars
Arguably
Hitch 22: A Memoir
Mortality
1493

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125 books

Read In 2019

annatschetter
Anna Tschetter
Educated: A Memoir
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
Babylon's Ashes
Вандербикеры с 141-й улицы
Artificial Condition
The Mushroom Fan Club

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127 books

Audiobooks

annatschetter
Anna Tschetter
Pilgrim's Wilderness
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Astoria
Empire of the Summer Moon
Alone on the Ice
The River of Doubt
Packing for Mars

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20 books

History

annatschetter
Anna Tschetter
Hidden Figures
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution
Lady from the Black Lagoon Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Displacement
Dark Archives
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