General Recommendations
- – The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California by Mark Arax
- – High and Dry: Meeting the Challenges of the World’s Growing Dependence on Groundwater by Rosemarie Alley and William Alley
- – Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
From Our Staff & Board
Ashley Boren, Executive Director:
- – These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
- – The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Peter Kareiva:
- – Turbulence by David Szalay
- – The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits
- – Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
- – Lab Rats: Tech Gurus, Junk Science, and Management Fads – My Quest to Make Work Less Miserable by Dan Lyons
- – There There by Tommy Orange
- – Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America’s Fifty-Year Fall – and Those Fighting to Reverse It by Steven Brill
Chris Buchbinder:
- – Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell
Miles Reiter:
- – Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Havari
Dan Dooley, Board Chairman:
- – The Browns of California by Miriam Pawel