Dory's Book ListI love a good book. And I love a good book list. My friend Dory is a unicorn when it comes to reading...I am pretty sure she looks at the book on the shelf and has somehow read it without even cracking it open and can give you a deep and intelligent thesis about it. And her superpowers extend across many genres. Every year her friends eagerly await her list of favorite books even more than NPR’s recommended reading list. Dory is one of us: a life-long mission-driven leader. Here is her list of favorite 2018 books (mostly out in paperback now) and her 2019 sneak peak top 5 favorites shared just with you!
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Top books of 2018:
1) A Place for Us - Fatima Farheed Mirza
2) Everything Here is Beautiful - Mira T. Lee
3) Circe - Madeline Miller
4) Educated - Tara Westover
5) Tess of the Road - Rachel Hartman (first of a series)
6) Becoming - Michelle Obama
7) The Great Believers- Rebeca Makkai
8) There There - Tommy Orange
9) She Would Be King - Wayetu Moore
10) To Kill a Kingdom - Alexandra Christo
11) This Miseducation of Cameron Post - Emily M. Danforth
12) Little - Edward Carey
13) The Poet X - Elizabeth Acevedo
14) Darius the Great is Not Okay - Adib Khorram
15) Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Transgender Equality - Sarah McBride
16) Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik
17) Dread Nation - Justina Ireland (first of a series)
18) America is Not the Heart - Elaine Castillo
19) The Map of Salt and Stars - Zeyn Joukhadar
20) All the Names They Used for God - Anjali Sachdeva
21) Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyemi
22) The Girl in the Tower - Katherine Arden (second of a series)
23) Iron Gold - Pierce Brown (fourth of a series)
24) Disoriental - Négar Djavadi
25) Song of a Captive Bird - Jasmin Darznik
26) Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi
27) When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir - Patrisse Khan-Cullors
28) Florida - Lauren Groff
29) Leah On the Offbeat - Leah Albertalli (second of a series)
30) Call Me By Your Name - André Aciman
31) Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II - Liza Mundy
32) Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body - Roxane Gay
33) Akata Witch - Nnedi Okorafor (first of a series)
34) Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Alison Bechdel
Top 5 (so far) of 2019:
1) A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II - Sonia Purnell
2) The Murmur of Bees - Sofía Segovia
3) The Old Drift - Namwali Serpell
4) The Dutch House - Ann Patchett
5) On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
1) A Place for Us - Fatima Farheed Mirza
2) Everything Here is Beautiful - Mira T. Lee
3) Circe - Madeline Miller
4) Educated - Tara Westover
5) Tess of the Road - Rachel Hartman (first of a series)
6) Becoming - Michelle Obama
7) The Great Believers- Rebeca Makkai
8) There There - Tommy Orange
9) She Would Be King - Wayetu Moore
10) To Kill a Kingdom - Alexandra Christo
11) This Miseducation of Cameron Post - Emily M. Danforth
12) Little - Edward Carey
13) The Poet X - Elizabeth Acevedo
14) Darius the Great is Not Okay - Adib Khorram
15) Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Transgender Equality - Sarah McBride
16) Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik
17) Dread Nation - Justina Ireland (first of a series)
18) America is Not the Heart - Elaine Castillo
19) The Map of Salt and Stars - Zeyn Joukhadar
20) All the Names They Used for God - Anjali Sachdeva
21) Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyemi
22) The Girl in the Tower - Katherine Arden (second of a series)
23) Iron Gold - Pierce Brown (fourth of a series)
24) Disoriental - Négar Djavadi
25) Song of a Captive Bird - Jasmin Darznik
26) Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi
27) When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir - Patrisse Khan-Cullors
28) Florida - Lauren Groff
29) Leah On the Offbeat - Leah Albertalli (second of a series)
30) Call Me By Your Name - André Aciman
31) Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II - Liza Mundy
32) Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body - Roxane Gay
33) Akata Witch - Nnedi Okorafor (first of a series)
34) Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Alison Bechdel
Top 5 (so far) of 2019:
1) A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II - Sonia Purnell
2) The Murmur of Bees - Sofía Segovia
3) The Old Drift - Namwali Serpell
4) The Dutch House - Ann Patchett
5) On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong