Recommended Reads, 52nd in a Quarterly Series

 

Books I've read lately that I would recommend:

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (McBride). Exquisitely written, a searing look into the author's sense of childhood and identity.

God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican (Posner). Love this kind of investigative exploration into an entity that is widely known but there's so much juicy stuff below the surface.

Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (Alighieri). Deservedly one of the great books in all of Western literature.

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Desmond). I learned much from this firsthand account of what it is like to teeter on the brink of eviction.

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (DuVal). Helpful to gain a more nuanced understanding of the Native struggle on this continent.

Covenant of Water (Verghese). A beautiful multi-generational story of love and loss.