If you aren't familiar with LeVar Burton Reads, you're missing out whether or not you were a child, like me, who grew up with Reading Rainbow. I'd mentioned this show on The Level more than once, and listeners were interested in knowing which are my favorite stories And so here we are -- and here's that list.
- "1000-Year-Old Ghosts" by Laura Chow Reeve
- "The Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu
- "My Dear You" by Rachel Khong
- "A Fable with Slips of White Paper Spilling from the Pockets" by Kevin Brockmeier
- LIVE! in Seattle: "Black Betty" by Nisi Shawl
- "Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience TM" by Rebecca Roanhorse
- LIVE! in Boston: "Mono No Aware" by Ken Liu
- "Pockets" by Amal El-Mohtar
- "Room for Rent" by Richie Narvaez
- "Cricket" by Kenneth Yu
- "Silver Door Diner" by Bishop Garrison
- "The Regression Test" by Wole Talabi
- "An Equal Share of the Bone" by Karen Osborne
- "Getaway" by Nicole Kornher-Stace
- "Vaccine Season" by Hannu Rajaniemi
- "The Bank of Burkina Faso" by Ekaterina Sedia
- "Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot" by Robert Olen Butler
- "Milagroso" by Isabel Yap
- "The Angel of Khan El-Khalili" by P. Djèlí Clark
- "The Usual Santas" by Mick Herron
- "Open House on Haunted Hill" by John Wiswell