Your Summer Reading List
Summer Reading List
I love reading, and I love sharing what I’ve read with others. I am in a book club at work, and we have read some amazing books over the past couple of years. I would like to share them with you here.
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Cerebral, heart-felt, and just real. This book follows van der Kolk’s decades of research into how trauma and life experience shape our nervous system, our brain, and our further life experience. With gut-wrenching stories of extreme trauma, this book is a must read for every human.
This book has more than 75,000 reviews on Amazon!!!
As a white male, this book helped me better understand the Black experience in America. I am definitely a better person for it, and I better understand the historical and present challenges that are baked-into and faced by African Americans on a daily basis in America.
3. 50 Self-Help Classics by Tom Butler-Bowden
Without a doubt, this book changed my life. Well actually, I should rephrase that; this book helped me change my life.
Do you get it? After reading this book, I realized that I am in control of my life. I was inspired to take ownership of my life and my career especially. I read this book amidst a career change to IT, and I am now and Engineer in the IT industry.
This book summarizes and succinctly expresses the main idea and messages of 50 of the most transformative books of all time.
In this way, this book is a golden resource for anyone looking to grow and change themselves and thus, their lives.
I was lucky enough to be part of a book club lead by a woman of color. For Black History Month, we had the option to choose from a number of books, and I chose this one. I am glad I did!
While it reads very much like a textbook with straightforward facts, figures, and timelines, it tells the story of Blacks in America, and the countless policies to limit and discriminate against them over the past 300-400 hundred years.
This book very much opened my eyes to the experience of African Americans in America, in the past and present.
Personal Favorite: ‘Edge of Here’ by Kelechi Okafor
Thought provoking with social commentary on the experience of people of color. Technological utopia or dystopia?
This was by far my favorite book. Okafor does an amazing job of capturing the zeitgeist of our time and imagining ways it could play out. I give it a 10.
Reading these books these books this summer will help you learn and grow so you can head into the fall a renewed person.