Books, Books, Books '21

Ok. I’m pretending to panic! I go through books like water and I usually have 4 or 5 hopeful recommendations in my queue… and I’m down to 1 for next week (Tinderbox by James Andrew Miller).

So I earnestly need your help.

In exchange for that gift (the recommendation— not the book-- please), below you’ll find the gems I loved this year.

Book reviews– even short ones– tend to ruin the experience for me so I’ve added a one word review to each (in parenthesis).

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Manifesto for a Moral Revolution by Jacqueline Novogratz (Inspiring)

The Emperor of all Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Ambitious)

Mine! By Michael A Heller and James Salzman (Unexpected)

Scale by Geoffrey West (Re-readable)

Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild (Instructive)

Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows (Useful)

Educated by Tara Westover (Unreal)

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I didn’t include the usual link to easy digital purchases as a way of encouraging you to (safely) visit your local bookstore. There’s really nothing in the world quite like the smell of a new book.

Enjoy this last, hopefully restful week before 2022!