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:
- How Change Happens: Why Some Social Movements Succeed While Others Don’t by Leslie Crutchfield (2018)
- American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity by Ann Gleig (2019)
- Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber (2019)
- How to Be an Anti-racist by Ibram Kendi (2019)
- How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky (2019)
- In Love with the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2019)
- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker (2018)
- The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells (2019)
- The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World by Charles Mann (2018)
- The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli (2018)
Bonus: Although my reading habits currently trend heavily toward non-fiction, I did also love There There by Tommy Orange.
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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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