It has been a while since we have published reading recommendations on the blog. Since end of the year lists are popular, here’s a list of some of what I (Molly) read in 2018. They are in no particular order and reflect my very eclectic reading habits!
- Citizen by Claudia Rankine
- The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward Baptist
- White Jesus
- Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
- American Nations, A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures in America by Colin Woodard
- Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships by Karen Keen
- Walking the Bridgeless Canyon by Kathy Baldock
- The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van der Kolk
- Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
- Rising Strong by Brene Brown
- The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
- How Can I Forgive You? The Courage to Forgive, The Freedom Not To by Janis Abrams Spring
- Why Won’t You Apologize? by Harriet Lerner
- I Hear You by Donny Ebenstein
- Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them), A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying by Sallie Tisdale
- Let’s Talk About Death Over Dinner by Michael Hebb
- The Great Divorce, The Problem of Pain, Mere Christianity all by C. S. Lewis
- The Shepherd’s Life, Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape by James Rebanks
- The Doodle Revolution, Unlocking the Power To Think Differently by Sunni Brown
- The Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall
- The Emperor of Maladies, A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee