Week 3: (November 16-20) – Rennie is asking you to Be The Expert/Ask the Expert/Become the Expert: Three ways to join in this week! You can either share 3 or more books on a single topic that you have read and can recommend (be the expert), you can put the call out for good nonfiction on a specific topic that you have been dying to read (ask the expert), or you can create your own list of books on a topic that you’d like to read (become the expert).
I'm certainly no expert here, but I am eager to share anything that might move us a little farther down this path. Here's my list.
Books that Might Help Us Get Along with Each Other a Little Better
Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy by Stephen L. Carter
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Material World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel
The Common Good by Robert B. Reich
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam
I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening) by Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers
And the Pursuit of Happiness by Maira Kalman
Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse by Timothy P. Carney
Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt by Arthur C. Brooks
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel
Hi there Debbie, great selection and I like your point of view. Books that will help us get along with each other a bit better. I especially like the title "I think you're wrong, but I'm listening"!
ReplyDeleteI believe we might all also get along more if we all know each other's stories. A bit like walking in someone else's shoes. I've written a post about where Elza comes from and the new blog. You are welcome to have a read!
Elza Reads
Hope you are still enjoying your holidays!
You are right. We all do better when we know each other's stories.
DeleteI really need to get Robert Reich's book. That's been on my list for awhile!
ReplyDeleteYou do.
DeleteThanks for this list! In the past few years, I’ve been trying really hard to listen to people who are different from me. A lot of the people in my real life aren’t interested in listening to me, though.
ReplyDeleteAj @ Read All The Things!
You are right. We have to do the good thing even when it is not reciprocated.
DeleteAn interesting and no doubt useful list to promote understanding, but honestly, I am sick of being told I need to "understand" certain people. Actually, I think I understand them pretty well and how about they spend a little time trying to understand me? (Is my frustration showing yet?)
ReplyDeleteI always think about the words of Michelle Obama: "When they go low, we go high. And that's ain't always easy."
DeleteGreat topic/theme for your books. I have Justice sitting on my TBR shelf thanks to you and Bonnie, but still haven't read it. Of course, I have about 60 books on that shelf. Ugh.
ReplyDeleteYou should put it in line at #1.
ReplyDeleteI don't read books anymore ! I have read so many during my whole life starting at 10 that now I enjoy reading blog posts ! That's very interesting too, of course not all but from some I have learned a lot.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you can learn a lot from these, too.
DeleteA worthy course that we should all consider a little bit more. Interesting choices.
ReplyDeleteIt is a worthy course.
DeleteThis is a good list - a great list. I was going to do a BLM one but I feel there are so many I might miss out, so I'm going with Rewilding!
ReplyDeleteI like the topic of rewilding.
DeleteWhat a great theme to promote! Thanks for your recommendations
ReplyDeleteI'd love to hear other recommendations.
DeleteI've seen How to Be an Antiracist on several blogs and it caught my attention. This is a great list. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteIt's an essential book.
DeleteSuch a very important topic right now. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteSuch a very important topic right now. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteOur country needs this so much, I think.
DeleteGreat idea for a topic! I'm doing NaNoWriMo this year for the first time so once again I'm not taking part in Nonfiction November. Every time it comes around I regret my lack of blogging mojo. This year I have a legitimate excuse!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with NaNoWriMo!
DeleteDefinitely important list these days. Thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteI wish more could be done.
DeleteI've had Bowling Alone on my list for awhile and I just finished up How to Be an Antiracist. I've heard of a couple of those. We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations that Matter by Celeste Hedlee is one I've heard about as well in regards to learning to speak with one another! I'm adding these to my list. Great set of books!
ReplyDeleteYes, that's a good one.
DeleteI'm not sure I can add much to this list or conversation right now, but Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman might fit this topic...although I see by the comments on my post (that I just double checked) you are already across this book anyway :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm very interested in reading his other book, Utopia for Realists.
DeleteLove your selection! I especially like how varied it is by topic and yet share the same theme/goal of helping us connect.
ReplyDeleteVery interested in The Common Good by R. Reich.
ReplyDeleteI remember him in Clinton's administration, Sec of Labor.
I love his style, his thinking...and will put this on my TBR !I'll have to read it in december before "my project" begins. I read I.X. Kendi's book so only
Stephen Carter - Civility ...goed on my TBR 2021
What a good idea for a topic. We all certainly need to learn to be more tolerant.
ReplyDeleteI really liked this theme! Like Athira, I liked that they all had something in common but came it from different angles
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