What we're reading at TED-Ed... (Patreon)

To mark the end of the year, the whole TED-Ed team got together to do a book exchange. The rules were that you had to have read the book, it had to be meaningful to you, and ideally the book would be of interest to its recipient. What a wonderful reading list emerged from this delightful exchange. It was so full of hits that we wanted to share it with you. 

So here's what we've been reading this week at TED-Ed -- a portrait of a team in paperback:

The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead

Mortal Engines, Stanislaw Lem

Unfathomable City: a New Orleans Atlas, Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami 

The Rebel, Albert Camus

Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Forty Stories, Donald Barthelme

Grunt, Mary Roach

Sunday Sketching, Christoph Niemann

Awakenings, Oliver Sacks

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, Timothy Egan

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke

Hip Hop Family Tree, Fantagraphics Books

The Power, Naomi Alderman

Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

The Bicycle Diaries, David Byrne 

5 by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 

BONUS: We had a very special (very little) guest join our book exchange, and he received Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.

There you have it, folks! From the writers, coordinators, editors, directors, animators, producers and program leaders at TED-Ed to you: Happy New Year and happy reading!

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P.S. What are you reading?