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Some different categories!
General Recommendation: I think ALL THE TIME about Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic.
Professional: My work as a teacher was shaped in part by The Dyslexic Advantage.
Body/Health: My understanding of my experiences and the experiences of other women was really illuminated by Come As You Are (which anyone who is a woman OR romantically interested in women should absolutely read).
Culture/Justice: I'm still mulling over the ideas from James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, because I see the heart of his ideas as expanding beyond race and into gender/sexuality/ethnicity/etc.
Mental: My day-to-day life has been wonderfully impacted by The Bullet Journal Method and Atomic Habits.
And one last weird side-note: years ago (2014) I read The Empathy Exams, and one of the essays covered this fringe group of people who were convinced they had weird diseases or bugs in their bodies. And they were obsessed with dosing themselves with Ivermectin, which I was familiar with because we used it to deworm our horses. Imagine my shock (and alarm and irritation and dismay) when during the COVID outbreak people were treating themselves with Ivermectin! The mentally-ill, out-there solution was suddenly very trendy among certain groups! Utterly bizarre! I think about this all the time: how this gross, weird idea suddenly 10 years later was something being touted by people with millions of listeners/fans.
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