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Breaking Bread — bell hooks and Cornell West
The Montessori Method — Maria Montessori
Great Planning Disasters — Peter Hall
2024
The Best:
Kingdom of Characters — Jin Tsu
The Rest:
Chronicle of a Bookshop — Anuj Bahri & Aanchal Malhotra
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle — Angela Y. Davis
Kitchen Confidential — Anthony Bourdain
Indelible City — Louisa Lim
The Bluest Eye — Toni Morrisson
2023
The Best:
Cometbus #59: Post Mortem — Aaron Cometbus
The Will To Change — bell hooks
The Rest:
Punished by Rewards — Alfie Kohn
Habibi — Craig Thompson (Graphic Novel)
The Periodic Table — Primo Levi
The Body Keeps The Score — Bessel Van Der Kolk
2022
The Best:
Brown Girl, Brownstones — Paule Marshall
Destiny Disrupted — Tamim Ansary
The Rest:
The Monk of Mokha — Dave Eggers
Who Rules the World — Noam Chomsky
Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky
On Grand Strategy — John Lewis Gaddis
An Area of Darkness — V.S.Naipaul
Whereabouts — Jhumpa Lahiri
The Discovery of India — Jawaharlal Nehru
A Mercy — Toni Morrison
Pachinko — Min Jin Lee
A Woman Is No Man — Etaf Rum
2021
The Best:
Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy – Book 1) — Amitav Ghosh
House of the Spirits — Isabel Allende
The Rest:
Interior Chinatown — Charles Yu
River of Smoke (Ibis Trilogy – Book 2) — Amitav Ghosh
The Nickel Boys — Colson Whitehead
Flood of Fire (Ibis Trilogy – Book 3) — Amitav Ghosh
The Unwomanly Face of War — Svetlana Alexievich
The Listening Leader — Shane Safir
Sister Outsider — Audre Lorde
2020
The Best:
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter — Carson McCullers
Secondhand Time — Svetlana Alexievich
Manifesto for a Moral Revolution — Jacqueline Novogratz
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous — Ocean Vuong
How We Get Free — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The Best We Could Do — Thi Bui (Graphic Novel)
Caste: The Origins of our Discontents — Isabel Wilkerson
The Rest:
Paradise — Toni Morrison
Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro
The Reluctant Fundamentalist — Moshin Hamad
Breasts and Eggs — Mieko Kawakami
Becoming — Michelle Obama
The Hundred Years War on Palestine — Rashid Khalidi
Without You There Is No Us — Suki Kim
The Japanese Lover — Isabel Allende
Parable of the Sower — Octavia E. Butler
Annihilation of Caste — B. R. Ambedkar (Essay/Speech)
Gathering Moss — Robin Wall Kimmerer
2019
The Best:
Silent Spring — Rachel Carson
Americanah — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Teaching to Transgress — bell hooks
Homegoing — Yaa Gyasi
Unaccustomed Earth — Jhumpa Lahiri
Beloved — Toni Morrison
The Rest:
The Mahabharata — translated by Carole Satyamurthi (Heavily Abridged)
Bad Behaviour — Mary Gatskill
The Lost Generation — Nidhi Dugar Kundalia
The God of Small Things — Arundhati Roy
Anathem — Neal Stephenson
An American Marriage — Tayari Jones
The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin
There There — Tommy Orange
My Life As A Watermelon — Rachel Warren
Radical Hope — compiled by Carolina De Roberts
2018
The Best:
Mindstorms — Seymour Papert
A Little Life — Hanya Yanagihara
The Sellout — Paul Beatty
Sing Unburied, Sing — Jesmyn Ward
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings — Maya Angelou
Tinkers — Paul Harding
The Rest:
Man’s Search For Meaning — Viktor Frankl
Exit West — Moshin Hamid
The Life of the Ant — Maurice Materlinck
Welcome to the Monkey House — Kurt Vonnegut
The Emperor of All Maladies — Siddhartha Mukherjee
Petals of Blood — Ngogi Wa Thiong’o
When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalamithi
Almost Dead/Croc Attack — Assaf Gavron (re-read)
The Giver — Lois Lowry (re-read)
Dune — Frank Herbert (re-read)
2017
The Best:
The Dark Forest (Three Body Problem – Book 2) — Cixin Liu
Invisible Cities — Italo Calvino
Slaughterhouse Five — Kurt Vonnegut
Star Maker — Olaf Stapledon
The Rest:
The Sun Also Rises — Ernest Hemingway
Timequake — Kurt Vonnegut
Jailbird — Kurt Vonnegut
Death’s End (Three Body Problem – Book 3) — Cixin Liu
Three Body Problem — Cixin Liu
Cat’s Cradle — Kurt Vonnegut
Ready Player One — Ernest Cline
Why I Write — George Orwell
India – A Wounded Civilization — V.S. Naipaul
Wonderful Short Stories:
Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka
The Last Question — Isaac Asimov
The Paper Menagerie — Ken Liu