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SolitoBook

by Javier Zamora

Who uses, recommends or left Solito, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Caitlin Dickerson
Caitlin Dickerson is a journalist at The Atlantic.
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I [snorts] also want to recommend Solito by Javier Zamora going in the complete different direction. If you want to learn more about immigration in this moment, but you don't want to read about policy, you don't want to read anything wonky. You just want to read an incredibly beautiful story that helps you understand what it's like to come to the United States to cross borders in general. What does it mean to be an immigrant?

Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Minneapolis Reveals Where Trump's Deportation Agenda Is Going” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-caitlin-dickerson.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.

2026-01-23·youtube.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

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