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• Behind the Beautiful Forevers – Katherine Boo – 2012 (poverty, inequality, Mumbai, slums, caste, resilience, family, social justice, non-fiction)
• Being Peace – Thich Nhat Hanh – 1987 (mindfulness, meditation, ethics, personal and social transformation)
• The Body Is Not an Apology – Sonya Renee Taylor – 2018 (radical self-love, body empowerment, social justice, shame, intersectionality, anti-racism, white supremacy, trans rights, healing)
• Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer – 2013 (ecology, Indigenous knowledge, nature, reciprocity, environmental ethics, love of earth, storytelling)
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thornton Wilder – 1927 (love, obsession, isolation, divine intervention, human connection, short stories)
• Circe – Madeline Miller – 2018 (modern interpretation of Greek mythology, transformation, power, isolation, love)
• Crazy Brave: A Memoir – Joy Harjo – 2012 (Native American identity, trauma & recovery, artists, creativity, family, cultural roots, poetry)
• The Doctor and the Saint – Arundhati Roy – 2017 (caste, race, social justice, Ambedkar, Gandhi, Indian politics, heroes)
• Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantánamo – Mansoor Adayfi – 2021 (Guantánamo, torture, imprisonment, U.S. empire & imperialism, survival, resilience, human rights, memoir)
• The Emperor of Gladness – Ocean Vuong – 2025 (multigenerational friendships, chosen family, survival, suicide, blue-collar work, LGBTQ+ narratives, opioid epidemic, American midwest)
• Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri – 1999 (short stories, diaspora, cultural displacement, family, assimilation, Indian-American experience)
• In Other Words – Jhumpa Lahiri – 2016 (language, self-expression, memoir, Italian, commitment, creativity, writing)
• Martyr! – Kaveh Akbar – 2024 (grief, identity, art, mental health, Iranian-American experience, queerness, substance abuse and recovery, existential reflection)
• The Message – Ta-Nehisi Coates – 2025 (race, Zionism, Palestine, politics, African-American experience, social critique, justice & injustice, U.S. imperialism, personal reflection, narrative & nonfiction)
• The Moon and Other Fruits – Frederick Livingston – 2023 (poetry collection, nature, rhythms, growth, place & emotion, Earthly cycles, travel, farming)
• No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies – Julian Aguon – 2022 (essays, memoir, Guam, U.S. imperialism, resistance, resilience, Indigenous rights, justice, peoples of the Pacific)
• The Next American Revolution – Grace Lee Boggs – 2011 (social change, activism, community, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, climate change, Obama era, grassroots movements)
• Nine Lives – William Dalrymple – 2009 (diversity, India, biography, history, spirituality, cultural encounters, modernism, short stories, nonfiction narrative)
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong – 2019 (trauma, love, race, family, Vietnamese-American experience, coming-of-age, memory, queerness, poetry)
• The One-Straw Revolution – Masanobu Fukuoka – 1975 (natural farming, sustainability, Zen philosophy, simplicity, ecology, agricultural revolution)
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• Rifqa – Mohammed El-Kurd – 2021 (poetry collection, the Palestinian struggle, resistance, occupation, family, love, settler-colonialism, Zionism & violence, hope, injustice)
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• What It Takes to Heal – Prentis Hemphill – 2024 (embodiment, meditation, compassion, anti-racism, BLM, feminism, systems change, advocacy, activism, social movements)
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