Team Book Club

THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE

Bessel van der Kolk

How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery.

ALL ABOUT LOVE

bell hooks

The deceased feminist icon explores the causes of a polarized society and the meaning of love.

BORN A CRIME

Trevor Noah

The comedian recounts growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa.

BRAIDING SWEETGRASS

Robin Wall Kimmerer

A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation espouses having an understanding and appreciation of plants and animals.

THE GLASS CASTLE

Jeannette Walls

The author recalls how she and her siblings were constantly moved from one bleak place to another.

SALT

Mark Kurlansky

The author of “The Food of a Younger Land” describes several ways in which a valuable substance has impacted civilization.

EDUCATED

Tara Westover

The daughter of survivalists, who is kept out of school, educates herself enough to leave home for university.

50 TRUE STORIES THAT WILL SCARE YOU TO DEATH

Sebastian Krahl

A true-crime storyteller shares a collection of scary and gruesome tales.

THE ANTHROPOCENE REVIEWED

John Green

A collection of personal essays that review different facets of the human-centered planet.

THE RACE TO THE FUTURE

Kassia St

The story of the Peking-to-Paris Motor Challenge, which took place near the beginning of the 20th Century.

A MARRIAGE AT SEA

Sophie Elmhirst

In 1972, an incident with a breaching whale turns a couple’s dream of sailing on a boat into a monthslong struggle for survival on a raft.

JUST MERCY

Bryan Stevenson

A civil rights lawyer and MacArthur grant recipient’s memoir of his decades of work to free innocent people condemned to death.

THINKING, FAST AND SLOW

Daniel Kahneman

OUTLIERS

Malcolm Gladwell

Unexpected factors that explain why some people succeed, such as upbringing, timing and 10,000 hours of deliberate practice.

SIGNS

Laura Lynne Jackson

A medium details potential ways the deceased may speak to us through everyday events.