Crowds and Power Elias Canetti (learned about it on Rosie’s blog)
Against the Grain by James C. Scott (learned about it on Rosie’s blog)
The Lever of Riches (learned about it on Rosie’s blog)
Don’t Make Me thing (learned about it on Rosie’s blog)
The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care, by Anne Boyer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The Organic Growth Playbook by Bernard J. Jaworski
How To Keep Your Cool by Seneca
Antifragile: Things that Gain From Disorder
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (recommended by friend Claire S)
Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World by Scott Harrison
PURE by Rose Cartwright
The Secret of Our Success by Joseph Henrich
Gratitude by Oliver Sacks (recommended by new peer Stefano da Fre)
Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian in Community by Dietrich Boenhoeffer
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener
Janesville: An American Story by Amy Goldstein
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters In The End by Atul Gawande
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller by Ron Chernow
The Cottagers: A Novel by Marshall N. Klimasewiski
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body by Steven Mithen (Cited by Oliver Sacks)
(read part of it) The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Two Versions: V.1: The Sorrows of Young Werther V.2: The Sorrows of Young Werther
All short stories by Kurt Vonnegut. I want to know his sharp wit.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (recommended by friend Whitney Chen) – couple chapters in, but paused atm
Small Fry: A Memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Boys in the Boat: 9 Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Visual Intelligence by Amy Herman (recommended by friend Hilary Hamlet)
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari (recommended by father)
LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media by P.W. Singer (recommended by friend Christopher Hume)
The Feeling of What Happens by Antonio Damasio
The Great Believers by Rebecca Mekkai
Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchel, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel (found on IG stories of @ronaldroz)
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society by Nicholas A. Christakis (recommended by Bill gates)
Honeybee Democracy by Thomas D. Seeley (enjoyed by Carina’s boyfriend, Neil)
Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World by Paul Stamets
How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets
Altered States of Consciousness Edited by Charles T. Tart
Heretics by G.K. Chesterton
The Thing by G.K. Chesterton
Recommended by Margaret:
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Peony in Love – Lisa See
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The Japanese Lover – Isabel Allende
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The Little Paris Bookshop – Nina George
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Naomi – Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
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Marry Me – John Updike