My seven book summer reading list

Since we'll be spending a slower summer this year, staying closer to home, I'm looking forward to digging into my reading list. We're considering getting a hammock to complete the experience but the front porch fits the bill pretty well too.

When my Graves disease was active I struggled to read. I had no focus. I would read and re-read, and re-read, often getting so frustrated that I would just give up. I resorted to reading directions and recipes out loud just to get through them. Pretty sure the first year I was diagnosed I didn't read an entire book. Since going into remission late last year one of my priorities has been getting back into a good reading habit.

For my friends in the Southern Hemisphere any of these would make for suitable winter reading as well, simple exchange comfy chair by a fire for the hammock.

Here's my list as it stands.  Are there any books you would suggest I add?

1. Growing Gills: How to find your focus when you're drowning in your daily life  by Jessica Abel

2. Pondering Privilege : Toward a deeper understanding of whiteness, race and faith by Jody Wiley Fernando

3. The Locust Effect: Why the end of poverty requires the end of violence by Gary A. Haugen

4. The Knowledge Illusion, Why we never think alone Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach

5. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell

6. Big Magic:Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert

7. The Homing Instinct, Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration by Bernd Heinrich