{"id":21250,"date":"2022-12-15T19:57:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T00:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=21250"},"modified":"2022-12-16T15:48:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T20:48:13","slug":"books-i-need-to-read-before-turning-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/12\/15\/books-i-need-to-read-before-turning-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Books I need to read before turning 30?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AW121522-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AW121522-3.jpg\" alt=\"Books I need to read before turning 30?\" class=\"wp-image-21241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AW121522-3.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AW121522-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AW121522-3-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Books I need to read before turning 30?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BC Libraries staff very quickly produced an eclectic list of 31 titles. I recommend also browsing the Holiday Special Staff Picks: <a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/staff-picks\/holiday2022\">library.bc.edu\/staff-picks\/holiday2022<\/a>.<br><em>48 Laws of Power<\/em> by Robert Greene<br><em>A Gentleman in Moscow<\/em> by Amor Towles<br><em>A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future<\/em> by Sir David Attenborough <br><em>A Separate Peace<\/em> by John Knowles <br><em>American Gods<\/em> by Neil Gaiman<br><em>Bad Feminist <\/em>by Roxane Gay<br><em>Between the World and Me<\/em> by Ta-Nehisi Coates <br><em>Dune<\/em> by Frank Herbert <br><em>East of Eden<\/em> by John Steinbeck <br><em>Factfulness: Ten Reasons We&#8217;re Wrong About the World&#8211;and Why Things are Better Than You Think<\/em> by Hans Rosling &amp; Anna Rosling R\u00f6nnlund <br><em>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes <\/em>by Anita Loos Good <br><em>Omens<\/em> by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett &lt;<br><em>Guns, Germs, and Steel<\/em> by Jared Diamond<br><em>Happy All the Time<\/em> by Laurie Colwin <br><em>Kindred<\/em> by Octavia Butler <br><em>Meditations<\/em> by Marcus Aurelius <br><em>Middlemarch<\/em> by George Eliot <br><em>Middlesex<\/em> by Jeffrey Eugenides <br><em>Moral Man and Immoral Society<\/em> by Reinhold Niebuhr <br><em>On Earth We&#8217;re Briefly Gorgeous<\/em> by Ocean Vuong <br><em>Persuasion<\/em> by Jane Austen<br><em>Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money&#8211;That the Poor and Middle Class do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki<\/em><br><em>Round House<\/em> by Louise Erdrich <br><em>The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian<\/em> by Sherman Alexie <br><em>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao<\/em> by Junot D\u00edaz <br><em>The Feminine Mystique<\/em> by Betty Frieden <br><em>The Left Hand of Darkness<\/em> by Ursula K. Le Guin <br><em>The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven<\/em> by Sherman Alexie <br><em>The Phantom Tollbooth<\/em> by Norton Juster <br><em>The Underground Railroad<\/em> by Colson Whitehead <br><em>Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence<\/em> by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BC Libraries staff very quickly produced an eclectic list of 31 titles. I recommend also browsing the Holiday Special Staff Picks: library.bc.edu\/staff-picks\/holiday2022.48 Laws of Power by Robert GreeneA Gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesA Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by Sir David Attenborough A Separate Peace by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/12\/15\/books-i-need-to-read-before-turning-30\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Books I need to read before turning 30?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21250"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21261,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21250\/revisions\/21261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}