Arlene's Book List
Hello!
These are the books that I've been reading.
Updated July 2024
2024
Climate Optimism | Zahra Biabani
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World | Cal Newport
Bringing Down the Duke | Evie Dunmore
2023
Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change | Timothy A. Pychyl
Race After Technology | Ruha Benjamin
As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow | Zoulfa Katoul
Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates
Stay True | Hua Hsu
Border & Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism | Harsha Walia
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr | Crystal Smith Paul
uncut funk | bell hooks, stuart hall
What My Bones Know | Stephanie Foo
The Heat Will Kill You First | Jeff Goodell
The Family Chao | Lan Samantha Chang
Yellowface | RF Kuang
Sea Change | Gina Chung
Butts: a Backstory | Heather Radke
Deep as the Skye, Red as the Sea | Rita Chang-Eppig
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow | Gabrielle Zevin
Severence | Ling Ma
Babel | RF Kaung
Dyscalculia | Camonghne Felix
We Have Always Been Here | Samra Habib
Superfan | Jen Sookfong Lee
Against White Feminism | Rafia Zakaria
Caste | Isabel Wilkerson
Disorientation | Elaine Hsieh Chou
What Is Written on the Tongue | Anne Lazurko
2022
Last Story of Mina Lee | Nancy Jooyoun Kim
Four Hundred Souls | Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain
Two Trees Make a Forest | Jessica J. Lee
Book Lovers | Emily Henry
Letters to My Grandchildren | David Suzuki
Bittersweet | Susan Cain
Fresh Banana Leaves | Jessica Hernandes, Ph.D
Mediocre | Ijeoma Oluo
The Hill We Climb | Amanda Gorman
This Changes Everything | Naomi Klein
Beautiful Country | Qian Julie Wang
Generation Dread | Britt Wray
Fresh Off the Boat | Eddie Huang
The Weather Detective | Peter Wohlleben
Know My Name | Chanel Miller
The Influential Mind | Tali Sharot
The Future We Choose | Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac
This Light Between Us | Andrew Fukuda
Women Who Run With the Wolves | Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD
Mating in Captivity | Esther Perel
We, the Survivors | Tash Aw
Read This to Get Smarter: About Race, Class, Gender, Disability & More | Blair Imani
You Can't Be Serious | Kal Penn
2021
The Wake Up | Michelle MiJung Kim
There and Back | Jimmy Chin
Finding the Mother Tree | Suzanne Simard
The Better Half | Dr. Sharon Moalem, MD, PhD
The Reason You Walk | Wab Kinew
The Heartbeat of Trees | Peter Wohlleben
Unsettling Canada | Arther Manuel, Ronald M. Derrickson
Dial a for Aunties | Jesse Q. Sutanto
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act | Bob Joseph
Free Food for Millionaires | Min Jin Lee
Dear Girls | Ali Wong
Crying in H Mart | Michelle Zauner
Gathering Moss | Robin Wall Kimmerer
Interior Chinatown | Charles Yu
Indigenous Writes: a Guide to First Nations, Métis, & Inuit Issues in Canada | Chelsea Vowel
2020 and earlier
They Said This Would Be Fun | Eternity Martis
So You Want to Talk about Race | Ijeoma Oluo
Minor Feelings | Cathy Park Hong
Written in My Own Heart's Blood | Diana Gabaldon
The Skin We're In | Desmond Cole
Hidden Life of Trees | Peter Wohlleben
How to be an Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi
Born a Crime | Trevor Noah
Still Me | JoJo Moyes
One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez
Norse Mythology | Neil Gaiman
Understory | Inga Simpson
Braiding Sweetgrass | Robin Wall Kimmerer
Our Story: Aboriginal Voices on Canada's Past | Tantoo Cardinal
When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi
The Patient Will See You Now | Eric Topal
Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman
The Brain that Changes Itself | Norman Doidge
Libby App
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