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March 9, 2022

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

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