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Tell (or show!) us what you’re currently reading or the best book you read this summer. Send us your recommendation and we’ll add it to our reading list.
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September 4, 2020
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Angelina Cho
“Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal” by Mary Roach
Brown Community Reading List
“Mornings in Jenin” by Susan Abulhawa
“A Long Petal of the Sea” by Isabel Allende
“Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes Paperback” by Tamim Ansary
“The Testaments” by Margaret Atwood
“If Beale Street Could Talk” by James Baldwin
“The Elegance of the Hedgehog” by Muriel Barbery
“Six of Crows” by Leigh Bardugo
“I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness” by Austin Channing Brown
“Exhalation” by Ted Chiang
“The Adventures of Gerard” by Arthur Conan Doyle
“The Undocumented Americans” by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
“Wave” by Sonali Deraniyagala
“Ubik” by Philip K. Dick
“Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance” by Angela Duckworth
“This Is How You Lose the Time War” by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
“The Wretched of the Earth” by Frantz Fanon
“Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success” by Adam Grant
“Black Like Me” by John Howard Griffin
“Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari
“Dead Until Dark” by Charlaine Harris
“Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations” by Brian Hayes
“Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning” by Cathy Park Hong
“The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government” by David K. Johnson
“When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi
“Milk and Honey” by Rupi Kaur
“The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements” by Sam Kean
“Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants” by Robin Wall Kimmerer
“Writers & Lovers” by Lily King
“How To Be An Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi
“Sex and Vanity” by Kevin Kwan
“Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and the Struggle for Saudia Arabia” by Robert Lacey
“These Truths: A History of the United States” by Jill Lepore
“Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America” by Beth Macy
“Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA” by Brenda Maddox
“Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel
“Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths” by Helen Morales
“You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters” by Kate Murphy
“Dreams From My Father” by Barack Obama
“The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath
“The Overstory” by Richard Powers
“Daisy Jones and the Six” by Taylor Jenkins Reid
“Tenth of December: Stories” by George Saunders
“The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland” by Nan Shepherd
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot
“The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone” by Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach
“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith
“The Brown Reader: 50 Writers Remember College Hill,” edited by Judy Sternlight
“Uncle Tom's Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy
“Educated: A Memoir” by Tara Westover
“I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban” by Malala Yousafzai
“A People's History of the United States” by Howard Zinn