Every year I gather together the best books I read that year to recommend and remember those that impacted my life or my paradigm somehow. Here are this year's, with links to the review I wrote of each. Best: * Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer * Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire * Where There is No Doctor (yes, cover to cover) Honorable Mentions: * Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis * The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker * Silent Terror: A Journey into Contemporary African Slavery by Samuel Cotton * A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o * Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese * The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver * The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński * The Grand Canyon of the Colorado and Stickeen by John Muir * The Pure Heart of Yoga: Ten Essential Steps for Personal Transformation by Robert J. Butera * Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope by Beatriz Manz * Lonely Planet West Africa (helll yes) Yours? Read more...
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