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2022: ★★★★★ Emergent Strategy, adrienne maree brownLetter From a Region in My Mind, James Baldwin | Matrix, Lauren Groff | Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel | Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan | Trust, Hernan Diaz | Warmth, Daniel Sherrell | We Are Not Free, Traci Chee ★★★★ Appalachian Elegy, bell hooks | Chasing Utopia, Nikki Giovanni | The End of Burnout, Jonathan Malesic | The Galleons, Rick Barot | Inspired: Understanding Creativity, Matt Richtel | Listen Like You Mean It, Ximena Vengoechea | Our Band Could Be Your Life, Michael Azerrad. | Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler | Radical Candor, Kim Scott | The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Deesha Philyaw | Severance, Ling Ma | Squeeze Me, Carl Hiaasen | Strength to Love, Martin Luther King, Jr. | The Swimmers, Julie Otsuka ★★★ The Art of Eric Carle, Eric Carle | Atomic Habits, James Clear | Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, Emily & Amelia Nagoski. | Caleb’s Crossing, Geraldine Brooks | Golden Girl, Elin Hilderbrand | Help Thanks Wow, Anne Lamott | I’d Rather Be Reading, Anne Bogel | Operating Instructions, Anne Lamott | Traction, Gino Wickman. | The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett | When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill | The Widest Net, Pamela Slim ★★ Apples Never Fall, Liane Moriarity | The Female Persuasion, Meg Wolitzer
2021: ★★★★★ Bartleby the Scrivener & Benito Cereno, Herman Melville | The Book of Joy, Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Carlton Abrams | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson | Felicity, Mary Oliver | Letters to a Young Poet, Ranier Marie Rilke | Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris | Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia | My Monticello, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson | No One Is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood | See No Stranger, A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love, Valarie Kaur | Thick: And Other Essays, Tressie McMillan Cottom | We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | What It Is, Lynda Barry | Wholehearted Faith, Rachel Held Evans | Wintering, Katherine May ★★★★ Against White Feminism, Rafia Zakaria | Boom Town, Sam Anderson | The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and the Horse, Charlie Mackesy | Brag Better, Meredith Fineman | The Chosen, Chaim Potek | The Color of Magic, Terry Pratchett | Dusk, Night, Dawn, Anne Lamott | Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman | Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art, Stephen Nachmanovitch | Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, Diana Gabaldon | How Music Works, David Byrne | It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work, Jason Fried | Libertie: A Novel, Kaitlyn Greenidge | Make Your Art No Matter What, Beth Pickens | Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong | Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within | Rules of Civility, Amor Towles | Steal Like an Artist + Show Your Work + Keep Going, Austin Kleon | A Thousand Ships, Natalie Haynes | Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi | Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino | Vesper Flights, Helen MacDonald | Who Is Maud Dixon?, Alexandra Andrews | A World Without Email, Cal Newport ★★★ | The Back of the Napkin, Dan Roam | The Book of Longings, Sue Monk Kidd | Bring on the Blessings, Beverly Jenkins | A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas | Dearly, Margaret Atwood | Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport | The Hummingbird’s Gift, Sy Montgomery | The Lost Apothecary, Sarah Penner | Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit | Mrs. March, Virginia Feito | No Cure for Being Human, Kate Bowler | The Power of Ritual, Casper Ter Kuile | The Practice: Shipping Creative Work, Seth Godin | Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit, Ashley Mears ★★ Billy Summers, Stephen King