Summer Reading List 2024
BC Brain Wellness Program Staff and PAC recommendations for a summer of interesting reads!
Staff
Megan
Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent
Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father told her to do, to put him out with the rubbish when he died.
Cynthia
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself.
Long Island by Colm Toibin
A spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love , the story of Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn.
Elaine
The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s longest scientific study of Happiness by Robert Waldinger and Mark Schultz
What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? According to the directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest scientific study of happiness ever conducted, the answer to these questions may be closer than you realize.
Bonnie
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
It follows Nathaniel ("Thaniel") Steepleton who works in the Home Office in London after he mysteriously receives a pocket watch that ends up saving his life.
PAC Members
Catherine
Breath: the new science of a lost art by James Nestor
Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.
The Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet--One Bite at a Time by Dr. Mark Hyman
Pairing the latest developments in nutritional and environmental science with an unflinching look at the dark realities of the global food system and the policies that make it possible, Food Fix is a hard-hitting manifesto that will change the way you think about -- and eat -- food forever, and will provide solutions for citizens, businesses, and policy makers to create a healthier world, society, and planet.
Elle
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Orchestrated by a mysterious Irish philosopher, the past and the present collide when the characters come together and discover the unexpected path to life-
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
Jess arrives in Paris to find Ben missing. All she has is a voice message from that night, his wallet, keys at the apartment and a vespa sitting in the garage.
Callie
The Women by Kristin Hannah
A novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism, The Women is a richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era.
Before we were yours by Lisa Wingate
Based on one of America’s most notorious real-life scandals—in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country—Lisa Wingate’s riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong.
