Top Eight Books from Senegal

Note: I was evacuated from Senegal about one month ago due to the coronavirus pandemic. I plan on making a few more blog posts in the coming months.

Now that I am back from Senegal, many of you have asked me for a list of my favorite books that I read while overseas. I was planning to have a "Top 10" list, but my time got cut short, so it is a "Top 8" list instead. I enjoyed the majority of books that I read in Senegal, so naturally I would recommend most of them. These eight books, however, stood out above all the rest. If you have continued to read my blog thus far, please take my advice and pick up one of these eight books (feel free to send me an email to recommend one of the eight specifically for you). I know you all have some extra time to read right now.

Without further ado, here are my favorite books (in no particular order) that I read in Senegal:

Fiction:
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Non-Fiction:
Factfulness by Hans Rosling
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Eat & Run by Scott Jurek
Doing Good Better by William MacAskill

I thought about adding a few Honorable Mentions to the above list, but there were too many books that I wanted to name. Picking my next ten favorite books from Senegal might be tougher than choosing these eight--it was obvious while reading that these were going to be my favorites. When you read one of these books, please send me an email and let me know what you think! If anyone has read all eight of the above, I would be happy to send you some more suggestions.


Here are the links to my reviews of the above eight books from previous blog posts:

Fiction:
The Grapes of Wrath (https://travelswithtavish.blogspot.com/2019/04/books-march-update.html)
The Underground Railroad (https://travelswithtavish.blogspot.com/2019/01/books-i-have-read.html)
The Color Purple (https://travelswithtavish.blogspot.com/2020/03/books-march-2020-update.html)

Non-Fiction:
Factfulness (https://travelswithtavish.blogspot.com/2019/05/books-may-update.html)
Sapiens (https://travelswithtavish.blogspot.com/2020/02/books-january-2020-update-part-1.html)
Being Mortal (https://travelswithtavish.blogspot.com/2019/10/books-october-update-part-1.html)
Eat & Run (https://travelswithtavish.blogspot.com/2019/08/books-july-update.html)
Doing Good Better: (https://travelswithtavish.blogspot.com/2020/03/books-march-2020-update.html)

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