Garrett Snedeker, Anchoring Truths Co-Founder & JWI Deputy Director
Bad Therapy, by Abigail Shrier
Shrier’s powerful follow-up book to her 2020 bestseller Irreversible Damage details how children, adolescents, and young adults are all too often guinea pigs for unproven psychiatric practices as well as pharmacological drugs. With gripping original reporting and deft writing, Shrier has given us one of the most important reads of the past year.
Daniel Osborne, JWI Programs Manager
The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, by JRR Tolkien
With young children and less time on my hands, I find myself returning to old favorites. The Fellowship of the Ring provides a sense of coming home to me. While an adventure to be read, the book offers itself as something of a meditation upon friendship, food, song, and wonder. Tolkien’s tale touches upon some of those deeper things that make being human most valuable and the importance of the common heroism of everyday people who struggle to carry on even when it is most difficult.
Molly Black, JWI Engagement Associate
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family, by Thomas Mann
As Nietzsche had it, “Every good book that is written against life is still an enticement to live;” Buddenbrooks, first published in 1901, is just such a novel. Describing in rich detail the quotidian events and eventual decline of a well-to-do German merchant family, Mann offers, in an almost mythic fashion, an anthropological exposition of the tension between nature and necessity, power and authority, rights and obligations. Written when he was only 26, the book lacks none of the literary hubris necessary to bring about a trenchant style that makes each of the 700 some odd pages gripping. I recommend the “Everman’s Library” edition.
Catherine Hickam, JWI Summer – Winter 24 Intern
James Wilson’s Lectures on Law
Parker Briggs, JWI Winter 24 Intern
Georg Philipp Telemann’s Collection of Flute Quartets by Reinhard Goebel & Musica Antiqua Köln
