2023 Book List

¡Ándale, Prieta!: A Love Letter to My Family
Yasmin Ramirez

A Coffin for Dimitrios
Eric Ambler

A Technique for Producing Ideas
James Webb Young

A Thirsty Land: The Fight for Water in Texas
Seamus McGraw

Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction
David Sheff

Blindness
José Saramago

Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Daniel James Brown

Breaking Bad News: 12 Essential Crisis Communication Tools
Jeff Hahn

Chaser: Unlocking the Genius of the Dog Who Knows a Thousand Words
Hilary Hinzmann and John W. Pilley Jr.

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
George Saunders

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
Alice Wong

Factfulness
Hans Rosling

Feminist Killjoy: A Handbook
Sara Ahmed

Fight: How Gen Z is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Save America
John Della Volpe

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Suzanne Simard

Fun Home
Alison Bechdel

Funeral Diva
Pamela Sneed

Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee

Grit: The Power of Perseverance and Passion
Angela Duckworth

Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the and the Social Deter
Donald A. Barr

How Music Works
David Byrne

Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Dr. Jordan Peterson

Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro

Marbles
Ellen Forney

On Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed

Our Iceberg is Melting
John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson

Robinson Crusoe and Cast Away
Daniel Defoe

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari

Strong Towns
Charles L Marhon Jr.

Symposium
Plato

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain

The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping’s China
Kevin Rudd

The Bear
Andrew Krivak

The Collectors of Lost Souls
Warwick Anderson

The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand

The Geography of Genius: Lessons from the World’s Most Creative Places
Eric Weiner

The Gifts of Imperfection
Brené Brown

The Hero Code
Admiral William McRaven

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
Richard Preston

The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune

The Language of God
Francis S. Collins

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Michelle Obama

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver Sacks

The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins

THE NIGHT MY MOTHER MET BRUCE LEE: Observations On Not Fitting In
Paisley Rekdal

The Silence of the Girls
Pat Barker

The Talent Code
Daniel Coyle

Think Again
Adam Grant

This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
David Foster Wallace

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin

Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom

We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Mariame Kaba

White Noise
Don DeLillo

Wonderhell: Why Success Doesn’t Feel Like It Should . . . and What to Do About It
Laura Gassner Otting