17 Books Your Colleagues Are Reading

October 3, 2016

"Everyday experiences made sacramental through magical language, depth of feeling, and wells of knowledge"–one of your peers used this description for a book he found inspiring. Can you think of more?

To view the slides in PDF format, click here.Â

17 Books Your Colleagues Are Reading. "Everyday experiences made sacramental through magical language, depth of feeling, and wells of knowledge"âone of your peers used this description for a book he found inspiring. Can you think of more? [Links to books are in the captions].

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
by Richard H. Thaler

Hillbilly Elegy. A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by J.D. Vance

The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
by Matthew Crawford

Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine
by, Andrew Scull

Ulysses
by James Joyce

Marijuana: The Unbiased Truth about the World's Most Popular Weed
by Kevin Hill, MD

The Cormoran Strike series
by JK Rowling writing as Robert Cavanaugh

An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America
by Nick Bunker

Aesop's Fables
Translated by George Fyler Townsend

Social Control of Sex Offenders
by D. Richard Laws

Heart Sounds: 12 Catholic Doctors
by Janice Steinhagen and John Howland, MD

Burnout: How to Beat the High Cost of Success
by Dr. Herbert J. Freudenberger

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
by Peter Heather

The Cunning Man
by Robertson Davies

The Gene: An Intimate History
by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Beyond the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo

The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age
by Bob Wachter