Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu by Laurence Bergreen

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949 by Kevin Peraino

The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley by Eric Weiner

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo