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1 - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel A Van der Kolk · Viking
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A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with... |
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2 - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
TIMOTHY SNYDER · Tim Duggan Books
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#1 New York Times Bestseller
The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans... |
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3 - Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Malcolm Gladwell · Little, Brown and Company
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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong.
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville... |
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4 - The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Lucy Adlington · Harper Paperbacks
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A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau... |
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7 - The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War
John "Chick" Donohue · William Morrow
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"Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced with sorrow, but never dull. You will laugh and cry, but you will not be sorry that you read this rollicking story." - Malachy McCourtSoon to be a major motion picture written and directed by Peter Farrelly, who won two Academy... |
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8 - Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Stephanie Land · Hachette Books
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Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich.
"My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter."
While the gap between... |
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9 - Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah · Spiegel & Grau
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Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents' indiscretion,... |
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10 - The Last Days of John Lennon
James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company
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By the end of 1980, the Beatles had been broken up for a decade -- a decade John Lennon had spent in search of his true identity: singer, songwriter, activist, burn out. "It's the perfect time to be coming back," he declared. Except that Lennon was a marked man. As early as the Beatles'... |
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11 - The Best of Me
David Sedaris · Little, Brown and Company
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For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence.... |
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12 - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · Harper
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From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution - a #1 international bestseller - that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred... |
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13 - Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman; Amazon.com · Farrar
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In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional;... |
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14 - Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson · Spiegel & Grau
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A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice - from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice... |
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15 - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot · Broadway Books
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells - taken without her knowledge in 1951 - became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more. Henrietta's... |
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