1. Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance, Harper
2. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, by Michael Lewis, Norton – Debut
3. Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah, Spiegel & Grau
4. Thank You for Being Late, by Thomas L. Friedman, FSG
5. Born to Run, by Bruce Springsteen, S&S
6. The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben, Greystone Books
7. Atlas Obscura, by Joshua Foer, et al., Workman
8. Killing the Rising Sun, by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard, Holt
9. Our Revolution, by Bernie Sanders, Thomas Dunne Books
10. Settle for More, by Megyn Kelly, Harper
11. Upstream, by Mary Oliver, Penguin Press
12. The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History, by Chris Smith, Grand Central
13. Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau
14. The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, by The Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Avery – Debut
15. Cooking for Jeffrey, by Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter
On the Rise:
22. All the Gallant Men: An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor, by Donald Stratton, Ken Gire, Morrow
This remarkable memoir by USS Arizona survivor Donald Stratton, one of the battleship's five living heroes, delivers an eyewitness account of Pearl Harbor and his unforgettable return to the fight.
Mark Sappenfield
Dear Reader,
About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:
“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”
If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.
But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.
The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.
We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”
If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to CSMonitor.com.
