Reading List

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

– Joseph Brodsky

In addition to all of the amazing communal work I do at Agahozo-Shalom, I have also had the opportunity to grow and develop individually. Living in an environment with very few modern distractions, I utilize much of my downtime for personal reading. My reading list is featured here and will be updated regularly. If you want to know what I think about when I am not working (or even when I am), you've come to the right page.

1) We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, by Philip Gourevitch

2) Tuesdays with Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson, by Mitch Albom

3) Animal Farm, by George Orwell

4) People of the Book: A Novel, by Geraldine Brooks

5) The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green

6) A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway

7) God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism, by Abraham Joshua Heschel

8) Rwanda, Inc.: How a Devastated Nation Became an Economic Model for the Developing World, by Patricia Crisafulli and Andrea Redmond

9) The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, by John M. Barry

10) The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich, by Timothy Ferriss

11) The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak

12) Selected Short Stories of Shalom Aleichem

13) The Thirteen Petalled Rose: A Discourse on the Essence of Jewish Existence and Belief, by Adin Steinsaltz

14) The Forgotten, by Elie Wiesel

15) On Dreams, by Sigmund Freud

16) The Cardinal of the Kremlin, by Tom Clancy

17) Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, by Reza Aslan

18) God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, by Christopher Hitchens

19) My Rebbe, by Adin Steinsaltz

20) A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare

21) Angels & Demons, by Dan Brown

22) Strength to Love, by Martin Luther King Jr.

23) Letters to a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke