Recommendations
Habit-changers:
Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers by Robert Sapolsky
Mindset by Carol Dweck
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables by Joshua McFadden
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
Books that knocked embedded assumptions loose:
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from the Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family by Anne-Marie Slaughter
How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America by Priya Fielding-Singh
Books that made me see the world differently:
What’s Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life by Lise Eliot
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Nadine Burke Harris
What Is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin
The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream by Courtney E. Martin
Books that made me float in a sea of emotions:
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Pachinko by Lee Min-jin
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis
The Broken Earth Series by N.K. Jemisin
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
The Underground Railroad by Colton Whitehead
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
Books that made me open my wallet immediately to donate:
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero