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Maleni Palacios

What I'm Reading

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​2025

  1. Currently Reading: ​​Freedom | Angela Merkel

  2. The Next Day | Melinda French Gates

  3. Lovely One | Kentanji Brown Jackson

  4. Trillion Dollar Coach |  Alan Eagle, Eric Schmidt, and Jonathan Rosenberg​

  5. Latinoland: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority | Marie Arana

  6. Will you die with me? | Flores Forbes

​2024

  1. ​​Hunger | Roxane Gay

  2. Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed Americas Working Men and Women | Batya Ungar-Sargon

  3. The Soul of a Woman | Isabel Allende

  4. Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America | Paola Ramos

  5. The Swans of Harlem | Karen Valby

  6. The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin

  7. The Body in the Library | Agatha Christie

  8. Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph | Sheila Johnson

  9. The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart | Alicia Garza

  10. Until I am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America | Keisha N. Blain

  11. Third Reality: Crafting a 21st Century Latino Agenda | Ernesto Nieto

​2023​

  1. A Man of Two Faces | by Viet Thanh Nguyen

  2. The Japanese Lover | by Isabel Allende

  3. King: A Life | by Jonathan Eig

  4. The Committed | by Viet Thanh Nguyen

  5. The Creative Act: A Way of Being | by Rick Rubin

  6. Trust | by Hernan Diaz

  7. The Namesake | by Jhumpa Lahiri

  8. The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival | by Bozoma Saint John

  9. Build the Damn Thing: How to Start a Successful Business If You're Not a Rich White Guy | by Kathryn Finney

  10. The Sympathizer | by Viet Thanh Nguyen

  11. Unaccustomed Earth | by Jhumpa Lahiri

  12. America's Role in the World Economy | by Alvin H. Hansen

  13. Never Let Me Go | by Kazuo Ishiguro

  14. The Living Thoughts of Thomas Jefferson | by John Dewey

  15. The Worldly Philosophers | by Robert Heilbroner

  16. The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy | by Anand Giridharadas

  17. India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking | by Anand Giridharadas

  18. Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters | by Nancy Pelosi

  19. The First, the Few, the Only: How Women of Color Can Redefine Power in Corporate America | by Deepa Purushothaman

  20. My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future | by Indra Nooyi

  21. Thick: And Other Essays | by Tressie McMillan Cottom

2022

  1. The Light We Carry | by Michelle Obama

  2. Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family | by Condoleezza Rice

  3. How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World | by Dambisa Moyo 

  4. Daughter of Fortune | by Isabel Allende 

  5. The Remains of the Day | by Kazuo Ishiguro

  6. My (Underground) American Dream: My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive | Julissa Arce

  7. If You Ask Me: Essential Advice | by Eleanor Roosevelt

  8. The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War | by Nicholas Mulder

  9. Reclaiming Wellness: Ancient Wisdom for Your Healthy, Happy, and Beautiful Life | by Jovanka Ciares

  10. Prisoners of Geography | by Tim Marshall

  11. The Chancellor | by Kati Marton

  12. Heavy: An American Memoir |  by Kiese Laymon

2021

  1. The Sun Also Rises | by Ernest Hemingway

  2. Pachinko | by Min Jin Lee

  3. The Promised Land | by Barack Obama

  4. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning | by Cathy Park Hong

  5. All You Can Ever Know | by Nicole Chung

  6. Edge of Chaos | by Dambisa Moyo

2020

  1. Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For | by Susan Rice

  2. No One Tells You This: A Memoir | by Glynnis MacNicol 

  3. Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan | by Michael Booth

  4. Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less | by Tiffany Dufu

  5. When Asia Was the World | by Stewart Gordon

  6. In Praise of Shadows | by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki

  7. Economic Dignity | by Gene Sterling 

  8. The Great Depression: A Diary | by Ben Roth

  9. Decolonizing Wealth | by Edgar Villanueva

  10. Thick: And Other Essays | by Tressie McMillan Cottom

  11. Young Stalin | by Simon Sebag Montefiore

  12. The Age of Turbulence | by Alan Greenspan

  13. Tim Cook | by Leander Kahney 

  14. My Beloved World | by Sonia Sotomayor

  15. In Defense of Open Society | by George Soros

  16. The Likeability Trap | by Alicia Menedez

  17. The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir | by Samantha Power

  18.  The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table | by Minda Harts

2019

  1. Fashion Climbing: A Memoir | by Bill Cunningham

  2. The Rosie Result | by Graeme Simison

  3. Memoirs of a Geisha | by Arthur G.

  4. Leadership in Turbulent Times | by Doris Kearns Goodwin

  5. Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change | by Beth Comstock

  6. Steve Jobs | by Walter Isaacson

  7. Singing for Freedom | byAni Chöying Drolma

  8. Blue Bamboo: Tales of Fantasy and Romance | by Dazai Osamu

  9. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance | by Barack Obama

  10. Moshi Moshi | by Banana Yoshimoto

  11. The Fifth Column | by Ernest Hemingway

  12. One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment | by Mei Fong

  13. Becoming | by Michelle Obama

  14. So Much I want to Tell You: Letters to My Little Sister | by Anna Akana

  15. The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World | by Jacqueline Novogratz

2018

  1. The Lean Startup | by Eric Ries

  2. How the West was Lost | by Dambisa Moyo

  3. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck | by Mark Manson

  4. Principles | by Ray Dalio

  5. Dead Aid | by Dambisa Moyo

  6. Man's Search for Meaning | by Viktor Frankl

  7. By the Pricking of My Thumb | by Agatha Christie

  8. Postern of Fate | by Agatha Christie

  9. Rework | by David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried

  10. N or M | by Agatha Christie

  11. The Secret Adversary | by Agatha Christie

  12. The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever NeedBook | by Daniel H. Pink

  13. Animal Farm | by George Orwell

  14. La Maestria del Amor | by Don Miguel Ruiz

  15. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" | by Zora Neale Hurston

  16. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass

  17. Anya's Ghost | by Vera Brosgol

2017
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2016
  1. Love and Gelta | Welch
  2. A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety | Jimmy Carter
  3. Guigemar | Marie de France
  4. Bisclavret | Marie de France
  5. Homeric Hymn to Demeter | Homer
  6. Taken at the Floor | Agatha Christie
  7. Ego is the Enemy | Ryan Holiday
  8. To Have and Have Not | Ernest Hemingway
  9. Girl Boss | Sophia Amorouso
  10. We Got Issues | Rha Godess and J Love Calderon
  11. The House on Mango Street | Sandra Cisneros
  12. Third Girl | Agatha Christie
  13. The Science of Success | Charles Koch
  14. Sapians | Yuval Noah Harari
  15. Good Profit | Charles Koch
  16. The Rosie Effect | Graeme Simsion
  17. Debt | David Graeber
  18. Rich Dar Poor Dad | Roberto Kiyosaki
  19. The Magic of Thinking Big | Dr. David J. Schwartz
  20. The Crucible | Arthur Miller
  21. The 50th Law | 50 Cent and Robert Greene
  22. Tribes | Seth Godin
  23. Kitchen | Banana Yoshimoto
  24. The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde
  25. Linchpin | Seth Godin
  26. The Four Hour Work Week | Timothy Ferriss
     
2015
  1. Hard Choices | Hillary Clinton
  2. A Moveable Feast | Ernest Hemingway
  3. Blink | Malcolm Gladwell
  4. The Woman I Wanted to Be | Diane Von Furstenburg
  5. Madame Secretary | Madeline Albright
  6. The Complete Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi
  7. Thousand Cranes | Yasunari Kawabata
  8. Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Robert Pirsig
  9. A Hero of Our Time | Mikhail Lermontov
2014
  1. Just One Night | Gayle Forman
  2. Just One Year | Gayle Forman
  3. The Brilliant Disaster | Jim Rasenberger
  4. In Cold Bold | Truman Capote
  5. The Awakening | Kate Chopin
  6. I'll Give You the Sun | Jandy Nelson
  7. Paper Towns | John Green
  8. In the Shadows of Blackbirds | Cat Winters
  9. As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner
  10. A Long Walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandela
  11. The List | Siobhan Vivian
  12. The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald
  13. Just One Day | Gayle Forman
  14. Who Could it Be at This Hour | Lemony Snicket
  15. Looking for Alaska | John Green
  16. Out of Nowhere | Maria Padian
  17. Eleanor and Park | Rainbow Rowell
  18. Partners in Crime | Agatha Christie 
  19. Native Son | Richard Wright
  20. The Color of Water | James McBride
  21. The Tipping Point | Malcolm Gladwell 
  22. The Fault in Our Stars | John Green
  23. In the Time of the Butterflies | Julia Alvarez
  24. Antigone | Sophocles
  25. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time | Mark Haddon
  26. Something Maybe | Elizabeth Scott
  27. This Lullaby | Sarah Dessen
  28. The Raven Boys | Maggie Stiefvater
  29. Ashfall | Mike Mullin
2013
  1. OCD Love Story | Corey Ann Haydu
  2. The Truth About Forever | Sarah Dessen
  3. Night | Elie Wiesel
  4. Leverage | Joshua C. Cohen
  5. Girlfriend Material | Melissa Kantor
  6. Never Fall Down | Patricia McCormick
  7. Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip | Jordan Sonnenblick
  8. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother | Amy Chua
  9. Angela's Ashes | Frank McCourt
  10. All I Need | Susane Colasanti
  11. Any Small Goodness | Tony Johnston
  12. The Paris Wife | Paula Mclain
  13. Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe
  14. The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank
  15. Sophie's World | Jostein Gaarder
  16. The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments | George Johnson
  17. The FitzOsbornes at War | Michelle Cooper
  18. Beauty Shop for Rent | Laura Bowers
  19. Mad Love by Suzanne Selfors
  20. A Little Friendly Advice | Siobhan Vivian
  21. For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway
  22. Like Water for Chocolate | Laura Esquivel
  23. Mokingjay | Suzanne Collins
  24. Catching Fire | Suzanne Collins 

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