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Jamila is Currently Reading

Jamila is currently reading

Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World

by Scott Shigeoka (Goodreads Author)

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Mar 21, 2026 04:40PM

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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

by Kiran Desai

bookshelves: fiction, brown-diasporic, currently-reading

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Mar 20, 2026 07:58AM

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The Doodle Revolution: Unlock the Power to Think Differently

by Sunni Brown

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Jamila’s Notes & Highlights

Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González

2 highlights

It’s dangerous at your young age to be surrounded by people who don’t value who you are.

Poverty, by America

by Matthew Desmond

3 highlights
All My Rage

by Sabaa Tahir

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Jamila’s Groups

Clever — 39 members — last activity Oct 21, 2015 02:34PM
Clever employees who love reading!

El Castillo Bookclub — 7 members — last activity Mar 20, 2023 05:14PM
Apparently, that's what it was called in the inaugural email from Heather in February, 2018. ...more

Social Change & Activism — 1669 members — last activity Jul 13, 2025 12:04AM
People interested in progressive social change for advancing social justice and the environment. Exploring issues, ideas, solutions, organizing, metho ...more

South Asian Book Club — 231 members — last activity 6 hours, 35 min ago
We read and discuss books by South Asian writers. We currently meet virtually via Zoom every 4-6 weeks and sometimes have in-person meetings in NYC. ...more

Literary Fiction by People of Color — 13260 members — last activity 15 hours, 20 min ago
This can include genre fiction that is literary (e.g. speculative fiction, historical fiction, etc.), as long as it's written by a person of color (Af ...more

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