This list is a compilation of some of the books I hope to read during my two years of service!
Sing, Unburied Sing – Jesmyn Word
Disaster Capitalism – Antony Loewenstein
Born to Run – Christopher McDougall
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Mahatma Gandhi – The Story of My Experiences with Truth
The Runner’s Guide to the Meaning of Life – Abby Burfoot
Why Does He Do That – Lundy Bancroft
Cage of Bones – Tania Carver
Sharp Objects – Gillian Flynn
What She Left Behind – Ellen Wiseman
The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros
The Child – Fiona Barton
A Stranger in the House – Shari Lapina
A Casual Vacancy – J.K. Rowling
1984 – George Orwell
Are You Sleeping – Kathleen Barber
Seed to Harvest – Octavia Butler
I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street – Matt Taibi
Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Power – Naomi Alderman
Difficult Women – Roxanne Gay
An Unkindness of Ghosts – Rivers Solomon
The Burning Girl – Claire Messud
Wonder Valley – Ivy Pochoda
Smile – Roddy Doyle
Conversations with Friends – Sally Rooney
The Art of Asking – Amanda Palmer
The Woman Next Door – Yewande Omotoso
A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles
Five Days at Memorial – Sheri Fink
Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
Wild – Cheryl Strayed
Love Does – Bob Goff
When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
The Happiness Project – Gretchen Rubin
What I Know for Sure – Oprah Winfrey
Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo – Amy Schumer
Lean In – Sheryl Sandberg
A Line in the Sand – James Barr
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Trial – Franz Kafka
The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng
Aristotle and Dante Explore the Secrets of the Universe – Benjamin Alire Saenz
Commonwealth – Ann Patchett
The Magicians – Lev Grossman
To all the Boys I’ve Loved Before – Jenny Han
Out of This Furnace – Thomas Bell
White Oleander – Janet Fitch
The Snow Child – Eowyn Ivey
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
19 Minutes – Jodi Picoult
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
P.S. I love you – Cecilia Ahern
Flawed – Cecilia Ahern
Brave Enough – Cheryl Strayed
Let Your Mind Run – Deena Kastor
Catching Hell in the City of Angels – Joao Helion Costa Vargas
There’s a Woman in the Body – Emily Martin
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert M. Pirsig
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck – Mark Manson
Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down – Anne Fadiman
A Man Called Ove – Frederik Backman
The Art of Racing in the Rain – Garth Stein
The Rules Do Not Apply – Ariel Levy
Brain on Fire – Susannah Cahalan
Everything I never Told You – Celeste Ng
My Life on the Road – Gloria Steinem
Half of the Sky – Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Who Thought This Was A Good Idea – Alyssa Mastramonaco
Chasing Chaos – Jessica Alexander
Year of Yes – Shonda Rimes
Furiously Happy – Jenny Lawson
The Hating Game – Sally Thorne
The Chaos Walking trilogy – Patrick Ness
Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
Danielle in Comoros 