Book Recommendations for Work Breaks

 

A good book is an instant escape. It will take you to a different place, another time, inside the mind of another person.  We recommend you access these great books via your local public library’s digital services (most have audio book and eBook options for popular titles) and/or your local independent bookstore.

 

Nonfiction:

• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

• Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt

• Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight

• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

• New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby

• Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir by Kwame Onwuachi, Joshua David Stein

• Only Child: Writers on the Singular Joys and Solitary Sorrows of Growing Up Solo by Deborah Siegel (Editor), Daphne Uviller (Editor)

• Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America by Adam Cohen

• Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz by Eva Mozes Kor

• The Breakaway: The Inside Story of the Wirtz Family Business and the Chicago Blackhawks by Bryan Smith

• The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America by Nikesh Shukla (Editor), Chimene Suleyman (Editor)

• The Nation City: Why Mayors Are Now Running the World by Rahm Emanuel

• The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida, KA Yoshida (Translated by), David Mitchell (Translated by)

• The Seamstress by Sara Tuval Bernstein

• The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson

• The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President by Jill Wine-Banks

• Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber by Susan Fowler

 

Fiction:

• A Piece of the World: A Novel by Christina Baker Kline

• A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father by Augusten Burroughs

• Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

• Less: A Novel by Andrew Sean Greer

• My Dark Vanessa A Novel by Kate Elizabeth Russell

• Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

• The Forgetting Time: A Novel by Sharon Guskin

• The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek: A Novel by Rhett McLaughlin, Link Neal

• The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead

• The Silent Wife: A Novel by A. S. A. Harrison

• The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

• The Voter File by David Pepper

• The Water Dancer: A Novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center

• Those People by Louise Candlish

• Untamed by Glennon Doyle

• You Are Not Alone: A Novel by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

• You: A Novel & Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes

 

 

Looking for more recommendations? Check out your local library’s librarian picks section and your local independent book store’s staff picks.

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