The Opportunity Book Club offered 65 recommendations over six years that showcased international authors, characters residing in the countries where Opportunity operates, or themes centered around global poverty and development. The Club is no longer active, but you can still peruse these great selections below!
2023 Books
January: 5 Books We Loved in 2022
February: Solito by Javier Zamora
March: Honor by Thrity Umrigar
April: Small Country by Gaël Faye
May: The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
June: We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World by Malala Yousafzai
July: Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
2022 Books
January: The Memory of an Elephant by Alex Lasker
February: Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu
April: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
May: Think Again by Adam Grant
June: Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds by Mondiant Dogon
July: Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate
August: Out of Thin Air: Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia by Michael Crawley
September: Hum If You Don’t Know the Words by Bianca Marais
October: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
November: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
December: The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War by Gioconda Belli
2021 Books
January: A Burning by Megha Majumdar
February: Range by David Epstein
March: A Girl is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
April: Left to Tell by Immaculée Ilibagiza
May: Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
June: How I Learned to Understand the World by Hans Rosling
July: His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
August: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Varghese
September: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
October: The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business by Erin Meyer
November: How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
December: UnPoverty by Mark Lutz
2020 Books
January: Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
February: The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
March: Looking Up by Michele Sullivan
April: The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
May: Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
June: The Hundred Wells of Salaga by Ayesha Harruna Attah
July: In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
August: The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
September: City of Thorns by Ben Rawlence
October: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
November: Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
December: The Dragons, The Giant, The Women by Wayétu Moore
2019 Books
January: Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao
February: Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
March: A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
April: The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya
May: The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
June: King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
July: Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
August: A State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee
September: The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
October: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
November: Think Like a Freak by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
December: Monstress by Lysley Tenorio
2018 Books
March: Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
April: We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
May: China in 10 Words by Yu Hua
June: Factfulness by Hans Rosling
July: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
August: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
September: Bigger Than Me by Ward Brehm
October: Charity Detox by Robert Lupton
November: Indonesia, Etc. by Elizabeth Pisani