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To kick off the New Year, our team has compiled our favorite books from 2022!
Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages and Becoming Stepfamily Smart by Gary Chapman & Ron L. Deal
This book explores the unique challenges of blended families and how to use practical skills and collaboration to build an empowering path forward that fosters thriving relationships.
Babel: Or, The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang
Kuang uses the magicians at school trope to take on the industrial revolution and colonialism. But it’s also sharply funny and a fast read.
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang
This book is a collection of nonfiction essays exploring the contradictions and complexities of living with chronic illnesses.
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
The author embarks on a journey across the country, tallying what we lose when we buy into a zero-sum paradigm – the idea that progress for some of us must come at the expense of others.
The Night Watchmen by Louise Erdrich
This book is a fictional story based on the life of the author’s grandfather who fought against Native dispossession in North Dakota.
Caste: The Origin of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
In this book, Wilkerson gives a real and revealing in-depth account of the country's structure as an unrecognized caste system.
Becoming Abolitionists by Derecka Pernell
In this memoir, Purnell recounts her own path towards abolitionism; she argues that police are doing exactly what they were created to do and, in response, dares us to imagine new systems that address the root causes of violence, rather than perpetuate it.
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