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Real Name

Darryl

About My Library

Books I've Read in 2026:

January:
1. And Finally: Matters of Life and Death by Henry Marsh
2. I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé
3. Cécé by Emmelie Prophète
4. Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs

February:
5. Everything Inside: Stories by Edwidge Danticat
6. Abscond by Abraham Verghese
7. Breaking Barriers: A Doctor's Journey from Broken Home to Battle-Tested Leader by LeRoy Graham, M.D.
8. A Parish Chronicle by Halldór Laxness
9. We Slaves of Suriname by Anton de Kom

March:
10. Queen by Birgitta Trotzig
11. Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson
12. America, América: A New History of the New World by Greg Grandin

About Me

I am a pediatric hospitalist (inpatient pediatrician) formerly based in Atlanta, but in late 2021 I resigned my position in order to serve as my mother's primary caregiver after the death of my father, and moved back to the Philadelphia area. I primarily enjoy world literature, including literature written by immigrants to North America and Europe, and nonfictional and fictional works about medicine, along with fiction, non-fiction and poetry written by authors of color.

I am participating in Club Read again this year. I'm also the administrator of the Booker Prize group.

Location

Middletown Township, PA

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Currently Reading

A Black Women's History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY) by Daina Ramey Berry

Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems by Nikki Giovanni

Aside from My Heart, All is Well by Hector Abad

[...]: Poems by Fady Joudah

Time Come: Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson

America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Favorite Authors

Tahmima Anam, James Baldwin, Albert Camus, Javier Cercas, Iris Chang, J. M. G. Le Clézio, J. M. Coetzee, Chick Corea, Edwidge Danticat, Toi Derricotte, Jean Echenoz, Ralph Ellison, Shusaku Endo, Tan Twan Eng, Louise Erdrich, Annie Ernaux, Paul Farmer, J. G. Farrell, Aminatta Forna, Damon Galgut, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yaa Gyasi, Ha Jin, Tony Judt, Ibram X. Kendi, Jamaica Kincaid, Maxine Hong Kingston, Karl Ove Knausgård, Mario Vargas Llosa, Alain Mabanckou, Naguib Mahfouz, Hilary Mantel, Colum McCann, Carson McCullers, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Sarah Moss, Haruki Murakami, Amélie Nothomb, Sherwin B. Nuland, Kenzaburō Ōe, Danielle Ofri, George Orwell, Yotam Ottolenghi, Amos Oz, Caryl Phillips, Roy Porter, Jacques Poulin, Roger Robinson, Salman Rushdie, José Saramago, Kamila Shamsie, Warsan Shire, Antonio Tabucchi, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Colm Tóibín, Natasha Trethewey, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Abraham Verghese, Jesmyn Ward, Colson Whitehead, William Julius Wilson, Alejandro Zambra, Stefan Zweig

Local Favorites

Bookstores: Blackwell at Wellcome Collection, Book Culture, Book Trader, Brick Lane Bookshop, Bristol Books & Bindery, City Lights Books, Come In (llibreria anglesa), Commonplace Reader, Daunt Books - Marylebone, Dominicanen (voorheen Selexyz/Polare), Farley's Bookshop, For Keeps! Books, Foyles (Charing Cross, London, GBR), Foyles Bookshop Royal Festival Hall, Green Apple Books, Harriett's Bookshop, Head House Books, Idlewild Books, Joseph Fox Bookshop, Joseph's Bookstore, La Central Del Museo Reina Sofía, Labyrinth Books, Livraria Bertrand, London Review Bookshop, National Theatre Bookshop, New Beacon Books, Posman Books - Ponce City Market, South Bank Book Market, Strand Bookstore, Tate Modern Shop, The Harvard Coop, Topping & Company, University Press Books, Virginia Highland Books, Waterstones (Piccadilly, London, GBR), Word Power Bookshop

Libraries: College of Physicians of Philadelphia -- Historical Medical Library and Wood Institute, Free Library of Philadelphia - Katharine Drexel Branch, Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library, Fulton County Public Library - Peachtree Library, Jimmy Carter Library & Museum, Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library, Robert W. Woodruff Library (Emory University)

Other: AJC Decatur Book Festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Museum of Modern Art, AJC Decatur Book Festival, National Theatre, Georgia Center for the Book, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Ivy Hall (SCAD - Savannah College of Art & Design), Asian Art Museum, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University, African American Museum in Philadelphia, The Commonwealth Club of California

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