List of books to read
- The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis
- The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Five-Carat Soul by James McBride
- Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations by Brian Hayes
- Longitude by Dava Sobel
- Third Stage of Life by Daisaku Ikeda
- Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
- The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston
- The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
- Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens
- Giving Up The Ghost by Hilary Mantel
- All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
- Boyhood by Coetzee
- Travels With Lizbeth by Lars Eighner