# Seeking book selections for January **URL:** \ **Category:** Commons\ **Tags:** books, newsletter\ **Created:** [January 8, 2026, 8:46pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/seeking-book-selections-for-january/7554 "2026-01-08T20:46:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![skyepratt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@skyepratt](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/skyepratt)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 8:46pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/seeking-book-selections-for-january/7554/1 "2026-01-08T20:46:09Z")
Hi everyone! Happy New Year! I’m putting together our January “What We Are Reading” list and am looking for book recommendations from the community. What book are you reading right now, or what’s one you’d recommend starting the year with? Please share the title and author, and we’ll feature community picks in this month’s upcoming newsletters 😄 ---
**Author:** ![paul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@paul](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/paul)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 9:04pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/seeking-book-selections-for-january/7554/2 "2026-01-08T21:04:51Z")
I’m currently reading Chrystin Onderserma’s [Dignity Not Debt: An Abolitionist Approach to Economic Justice](https://www.ucpress.edu/books/dignity-not-debt/hardcover). I really appreciate how she turns what is typically a policy-wonk / high academic conversation into everyday stories and accessible language. That said, it’s still a little dry, and I haven’t finished it quickly. Or maybe it’s just that I’m not as good at reading hard copy books as I used to be. ---
**Author:** ![skyepratt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@skyepratt](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/skyepratt)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 9:25pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/seeking-book-selections-for-january/7554/3 "2026-01-08T21:25:06Z")
Thanks, Paul, we will check it out! ---
**Author:** ![Eli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@Eli](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/Eli)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2026, 5:05pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/seeking-book-selections-for-january/7554/4 "2026-01-09T17:05:12Z")
I’m reading: **Braiding Sweetgrass** - heartwarming and thoughtful look at botany through indigenous lens of reciprocity. Beautifully written, at times a warm grandmotherly hug, at times a heartbreaking reminder of what has been lost through settler-colonialism. **Who Would You Be Without Your Story?** - conversations with Byron Katie. (Self-help) If this is your first Byron Katie read- I recommend **Loving What Is** as an introduction. **Africa Risen-** a collection of African and African Diaspora sci fi and speculative fiction short stories. **Estamos Aqui-** a bilingual collection of migrant farm worker poetry- quick read. **When the light of the world was subdued, Our songs came through- edited by Joy Harjo** - A collection of Native American Poetry- often bilingual- spanning over 200 years. Huge, powerful collection. **You Suck, Christopher Moore-** If you’ve read any Christopher Moore, it’s more of the same- irreverent, weirdly horny, cringe-y comedy novels. Now with vampires! (Not as good as **Sacre Bleu, Fluke** or **Lamb)** ---
**Author:** ![d\_hansen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/infiniteconversations/user_avatar/www.infiniteconversations.com/d_hansen/32/8102_2.png) [@d\_hansen](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/d_hansen)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 9:25pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/seeking-book-selections-for-january/7554/5 "2026-01-12T21:25:22Z")
I’m currently reading Anne Carson’s _Eros the Bittersweet_, which is a really fascinating look at particular formulations of the idea of _eros_ in ancient Greece, focusing on the way it converges experiences of pleasure and pain or ecstasy and agony. ---
**Author:** ![skyepratt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@skyepratt](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/skyepratt)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 9:32pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/seeking-book-selections-for-january/7554/6 "2026-01-13T21:32:38Z")
Great suggestions, thank you! ---
**Author:** ![halapenyoharry](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/infiniteconversations/user_avatar/www.infiniteconversations.com/halapenyoharry/32/7806_2.png) [@halapenyoharry](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/halapenyoharry)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 9:48pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/seeking-book-selections-for-january/7554/7 "2026-01-13T21:48:39Z")
I’m reading ‘Decolonize Humxnity’ principle editor Kathryn Touré and I finished frantz fanon’s ‘black skin white masks’ ---
**Author:** ![care\_save](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/infiniteconversations/user_avatar/www.infiniteconversations.com/care_save/32/809_2.png) [@care\_save](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/care_save)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2026, 2:38am UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/seeking-book-selections-for-january/7554/8 "2026-01-14T02:38:44Z")
I’m finishing up Reinventing Organizations, which I’m reading to support Cosmos’ organizing work I’m going to pick up The Patterning Instinct again, particularly for its future-casting sections… this book has been foundational in developing my fractal praxis theory. ---
**Author:** ![skyepratt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@skyepratt](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/skyepratt)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2026, 10:12pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/seeking-book-selections-for-january/7554/9 "2026-01-22T22:12:36Z")
**The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande** A friend recommended this with the line, “Checklists save lives.” As a lifelong type-A, she had me at “checklist.” **The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See** A longtime travel addict, I first became curious about Korea’s Jeju Island while playing my favorite “game” - exploring Google Maps. When I learned the story centers on the island’s famed women divers, I downloaded it to my Kindle right away. I’m excited to “dive in” this month 😄 ---
**Author:** ![Neuroticdog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/infiniteconversations/user_avatar/www.infiniteconversations.com/neuroticdog/32/7239_2.png) [@Neuroticdog](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/Neuroticdog)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 9:57pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/seeking-book-selections-for-january/7554/10 "2026-01-23T21:57:55Z")
Sonic Art; An Introduction to Electroacoustic Composition by Adrian Moore [https://www.routledge.com/Sonic-Art-An-Introduction-to-Electroacoustic-Music-Composition/Moore/p/book/9781138925038](https://www.routledge.com/Sonic-Art-An-Introduction-to-Electroacoustic-Music-Composition/Moore/p/book/9781138925038) This plays into my current quest to learn about sound design and the organization of sounds into a coherent musical whole. Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M Banks [https://www.amazon.com/Hydrogen-Sonata-Culture-Iain-Banks/dp/0316212377](https://www.amazon.com/Hydrogen-Sonata-Culture-Iain-Banks/dp/0316212377?tag=cosmos0a4-20) Banks last novel in his “Culture” series, published just before his death. The Culture, which is a post scarcity alien civilization in the far future acts as a perfect analog to what we are experiencing today, socially and politically. Doing this on Audible Moby Dick by Herman Melville [https://www.amazon.com/Moby-Dick-Herman-Melville-audiobook/dp/B00014WS3W/ref=sr\_1\_2?crid=2C2DFBEA7CBE0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.YYK2Fpa56PkfZdYyhumjspJKnZdSuvfCfx5Mm7cCQEMZVTqT9\_oGAiIw9y3mlRLnjewM5FmMcPRrf1E8g\_ZegouhQhsI8CTR6hVDprJE8oTICZIppvycTC9p5Q4HvLR2uZR00x46V0dzbZdYcfVDJbM9SUUFBCemVj5wMcRGV0eqZO\_16iV5AZCHoRLKSz7RgLcC6h80bYo3IvJeKsM\_9iyE4ZaTPe-GuGVUNMQSu4s.mNJXuhruhUCMpfxWxNAGmv2z921j4RCxvO76VsWVDGM&dib\_tag=se&keywords=moby+dick+heald&qid=1769205250&s=books&sprefix=moby+dick+heald%2Cstripbooks%2C119&sr=1-2](https://www.amazon.com/Moby-Dick-Herman-Melville-audiobook/dp/B00014WS3W/ref=sr_1_2?tag=cosmos0a4-20) Speaks for itself. This will be my third attempt at completing this “great American novel”. Maybe three’s a charm. Also listening on Audible ---
**Author:** ![ellenkdance](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/infiniteconversations/user_avatar/www.infiniteconversations.com/ellenkdance/32/8061_2.png) [@ellenkdance](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/ellenkdance)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 6:17pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/seeking-book-selections-for-january/7554/11 "2026-01-24T18:17:18Z")
I am reading :Aroma Yoga by Tracy Griffiths and TRUE HUMAN- reimagining ourselves at the end of our world by Samantha Sweetwater