Volunteer Top Picks

Check out these favorite books WLC volunteers have enjoyed during the past few months.

Daring to Drive by Manal Al-Sharif

Fascism by Madeleine Albright

Any Book by James Baldwin

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

The Butcher’s Wife by Louise Erdrich

The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng

Tana French mysteries

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

Homegoing by Yaa Gyas

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi

The Collective by Don Lee

Donna Leon mysteries

Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman

Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Becoming by Michelle Obama

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Robert Parker books

Bel Canto and The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

Louise Penny mysteries

Honeydew by Edith Perlman

Inheritance by Dani Shapiro

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Educated by Tara Westover

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin