In December, noting that President-Elect Trump has said he doesn't read much, Back of Beyond Books, Moab, Utah, asked customers to suggest titles that the store could include in a presidential library. About 75 titles were nominated, and the store narrowed them down to a dozen, which are being shipped to Trump Tower in New York City next week. The box will include the following titles:
Ignorance: How It Drives Science by Stuart Firestein
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
A Great Aridness by William deBuys
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Marking the Sparrow's Fall: The Making of the American West by Wallace Stegner
Mad Farmer Poems by Wendell Berry
Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Future of the Earth by Craig Childs
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene by Roy Scranton
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Islam and the Future of Tolerance by Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz