Recommended Reads, 51st in a Quarterly Series

 

Books I've read lately that I would recommend:

Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World (MacPhail). Are we more allergic than before, and if so why and what can we do about it?

LeBron (Benedict). Though LeBron has been in the limelight since he was a teen, this book is so well written that it feels like a raw and compelling insider's window into a remarkable life.

Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation (McGrath). Coming of age in this decade, I had fun reading how trends from those days still carry influence to the present.

Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery (Rutkow). We have come a long way in medicine in general, but perhaps there has been no radical a change than in the surgical field.

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution (Bohannon). I really appreciated this woman-centric take on why we humans are the way we are now.

Bicycle Diaries (Byrne). I found personal resonance with these bike-level musings of cities around the world.