14 Books We Love

We have some voracious readers on the team, so much so that we've started a book club channel in Slack to nerd out about our favorite books and brag about our reading goals.

I asked the channel to share a few favorite books that they've read in the last year (or so). Here they are!

Rachel, Support Director

"To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer." - Room

• Room by Emma Donoghue

• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock

• Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein

Michael, Design

"The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost. Their father was a sand diver, one of the elite few who could travel deep beneath the desert floor and bring up the relics and scraps that keep their people alive. But their father is gone. And the world he left behind might be next." - Sand

• Sand by Hugh Howey

• Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle

• Dune by Frank Herbert

Joey, Support

"At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting–he’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It’s ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous. It wants the truth." - A Monster Calls

• A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

• Rachel Rising (comic) by Terry Moore

• Cabinet of Curiosities by Guillermo Del Toro

Eric, Design Director

"Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran’s benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC’s elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there’s a job he’s supposed to do—a job Flynne didn’t know he had. Beta-testing part of a new game, he tells her. The job seems to be simple: work a perimeter around the image of a tower building. Little buglike things turn up. He’s supposed to get in their way, edge them back. That’s all there is to it. He’s offering Flynne a good price to take over for him. What she sees, though, isn’t what Burton told her to expect. It might be a game, but it might also be murder." - The Peripheral

• The Peripheral by William Gibson

• The Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov

Andy, Community

"A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma." - A Little Life

• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Man v. Nature by Diane Cook

One of the groups most anticipated books for this year was Geoff Manaugh's recently released A Burgler's Guide to the City. Have any suggestions for what else we should be adding to our reading list? Let us know.