Braiding Sweetgrass vs The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

I also loved Braiding Sweetgrass and really want to read the author's other two books, Gathering Moss and The Serviceberry, but haven't been able to yet.

Braiding Sweetgrass is a spectacular book that weaves Native American stories and botany together so beautifully. It felt like a journey to me and changed me fundamentally by the end.

Braiding sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

If you want to have that experience with the natural world we live in today, I’d recommend Braiding Sweetgrass. A very different take on your questions about “what am I meant to do in this life” but I think everyone should read it.

For a really thorough and comprehensive analysis of our modern disconnect from the natural world, I strongly reccomend Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass.

It was surprisingly a page turner. I read it after I'd been burned out on reading after grad school, and it was nice to read something that was not a slog.

Some of my favorite non-fiction books: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

*The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks* is another one that teaches you a lot while also being very human and unsettling in the right way.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks! Fantastic writing, thought-provoking story, and reads like a novel at times (in a good way)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot