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?
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