Your 2021 Book Recommendations
A few weeks back I asked you all what books were on your nightstand, and you all did not fail to deliver! Here is a roundup of your recommendations!
The Broken Heart of America
A non fiction book detailing the violent racial history of the city of St. Louis.
stamped from the beginning
A 2016 non-fiction book about race in the United States.
deacon king kong
A lively and compassionate story about a shooting in the projects of South Brooklyn.
Educated
A non-fiction memoir about the authors experience overcoming obstacles to go to college and the ways education expanded her horizons.
Think like a Monk
A personal development book on how to overcome negative thoughts and habits, and access the calm and purpose that lie within all of us.
On Earth We’re briefly gorgeous
This epistolary novel is a coming-of-age story, about a young Vietnamese American writer whose fractured family was torn by their experiences during the Vietnam War.
the indigo girl
A historical fiction of dangerous and hidden friendships, ambition, betrayal, and sacrifice.
braiding sweetgrass
A nonfiction book that explores the connection between living things and human efforts to cultivate a more sustainable world.
hamnet
This fiction novel imagines the emotional, domestic, and artistic repercussions after the loss of Shakespeare and his wife’s only son, 11-year-old Hamnet.
the golem
This novel centers on the life of Athanasius Pernath, a jeweler and art restorer in Prague.