Behind the Patreon paywall, I tend to be even more straightforward.Īll of that being said, I’ve made the decision not to publicly share rankings on social media or elsewhere. Obviously, I do! Sometimes, I’ll even refer to my favorites or say that a title is one of “the best' from a certain period of time. This isn’t to say that I don’t share opinions about what I read-positive, negative, or somewhere in between. I’ve also never ranked books this way on the podcast. If you follow me on Instagram, you may have noticed that I’ve never once (at least not in a very, very long time) publicly posted a star-rating. In my experience, most bookstagrammers, book bloggers, and other bookish creators include ratings when they post about their reads. If you’re big on Goodreads or StoryGraph, you’re used to rating books there. People had a lot to say in the comments, so I thought it might be interesting to share more of my thoughts here.įirst, let’s clarify what I mean when I say book ratings.įor my purposes-and for the purposes of this blog-a book rating is a number or other grade assigned to a book based on a pre-determined scale or system. She is currently an Associate Professor in the MFA program at Rutgers-Newark University.A few weeks ago, I posted a reel about book ratings, more specifically, how I don’t use them and how my husband does. Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. Silver Sparrow was named a #1 Indie Next Pick by booksellers in 2011, and the NEA added it to its Big Read Library of classics in 2016. A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, she has also been a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, Lifetime Achievement Award in Fine Arts from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, United States Artist Fellowship, NEA Fellowship and Radcliffe Institute Bunting Fellowship.

Her writing has appeared in Tin House, The Believer, The New York Times, and Callaloo. Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, University of Iowa, and Arizona State Univers Tayari Jones is the author of the novels Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, Silver Sparrow, and An American Marriage (Algonquin Books, February 2018). Tayari Jones is the author of the novels Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling, Silver Sparrow, and An American Marriage (Algonquin Books, February 2018).

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