The following are the top ten best books I’ve read since this time last year–in alphabetical order by the author’s last name because agonizing over a precise order would take all the fun out of remembering these books:
- Facund Alvaredo, et al, World Inequality Report
- Martin Ford, Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future Ford
- Jim Holt, When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
- Yascha Mounk, The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
- Samuel Moyn, Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World
- Richard Prum, The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us
- Bruce Schneier, Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
- Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees: The Illustrated Edition
- Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
- Reginald Ray, The Awakening Body: Somatic Meditation for Discovering Our Deepest Life
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The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg is a certified spiritual director, a D.Min. graduate of San Francisco Theological Seminary, and the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Frederick, Maryland. Follow him on Facebook (facebook.com/carlgregg) and Twitter (@carlgregg).
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