How often do you read? How instrumental is reading in your personal development?
Have you noticed the types of conversations you have with people who read regularly are different than with people who don't?
Not saying they're better or worse. Or that every conversation between avid readers is only about books, or even references books. They're just different.
I've read sixty books so far this year. Always learning, absorbing, changing, thinking, evolving, understanding, connecting, growing.
Here are fifteen of my favorites, in no specific order. Enjoy.
1. How To Be an Antiracist – Ibram Kendi
2. Reggae Routes: The Story of Jamaican Music – Kevin O’Brien Chang and Wayne Chen
3. Becoming – Michelle Obama
4. Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas – Rebecca Solnit
5. Banker to the Poor – Yunus Muhammad
6. Stamped From the Beginning – Ibram Kendi
7. The Death and Life of Malcolm X – Peter Goldman
8. Black Macho and The Myth of the Superwoman – Michelle Wallace
9. Inside Scientology: The Story of America’s Secret Religion – Janet Reitman
10. Flyboy in the Buttermilk – Greg Tate
11. Native Son – Richard Wright
12. Kasher in the Rye – Moshe Kasher
13. We Should All Be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
14. Faggots – Larry Kramer
15. Shadows of Your Black Memory – Donato Ndongo