What’s Charles Thomas Reading?

May 11, 2021

Amount Charles saves by borrowing this list from Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

How much do YOU save?

Charles Thomas is a Library trustee and lifelong Library user. He’s the Charlotte Program Director for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and a tireless advocate for the city he’s loved his whole life. We asked Charles to share his reading list:

My favorite books of all time about life’s journey, discovering one’s purpose or magic and connecting to happiness:

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
A Spell for Chameleon (and the Xanth series) by Piers Anthony

Current books I recommend to advance racial equity in Charlotte and to build a more beautiful world:

How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Sorting Out the New South City by Tom Hanchett
Color and Character by Pam Grundy
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein

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Giving Tuesday 2022

As the caboose of the weekend following Thanksgiving (starting with the infamous Black Friday, then Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday) Giving Tuesday is an opportunity to focus on and celebrate the places and people who strengthen and support our community. Obviously, here at the Library Foundation, we want to shine a spotlight on our libraries and library staff.

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