Reading and listening to books brings me so much joy. I love having my perspective broadened as I learn about other people’s lives. Here is a list of books that I have loved reading, or my friends have recommended to me:
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Forty Autumns by Nina Willner
David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
Mrs. Mike by Benedict Freeman
A town like Alice by Neil Shute
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanthi
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Creating Magi by Lee Cockerell
The ONE Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
Mindset by Carol Dweck
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
Til We have Faces by C S Lewis
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
From Sea to Shining Sea by James Alexander Thom
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back From the Brink by Anthony McCarten
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
All the Light We Cannit See by Anthony Doerr
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Startup by John Carreyou
My Story by Elizabeth Smart
Wonder by R J Palacio
The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak by Richard Preston
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
Heartless by Marissa Meyer
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Bachman
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
The Girl With Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee
Mrs Mike by Benedict Freeman
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Hot Monogamy by Patricia Love
Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
Recursion by Blake Crouch
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
The Wish List by Eoin Colfer
Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
The Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest For Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Tamar Adler
The Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloots
The American Plague by Molly Caldwell Crosby
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult