Staff Reading List

Reading is important.  It can sharpen your mind, increase your vocabulary, lower your stress, decrease depression, improve your memory, boost your sleep and can be a peaceful way to induce a relaxing state of mind, to name just a few benefits.

We started compiling a list of favorite books that medical staff members have recommended to us, in case you wish to start a good book but are scratching your head as to what to read next.  Check out the titles below:

• Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
• Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series of mystery novels by Louise Penny
• Circles in the Forest by Dalene Matthee
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas 
• Harry Potter series of fantasy novels by J. K. Rowling
• The Kingsbridge series novels by Ken Follet
• Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
• Napoleon’s Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny Le Couteur, Jay Burreson
• Origin by Dan Brown
• Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
• The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

 

“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs.  Books break the shackles of time.  A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.” –Carl Sagan