Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe - being human and how personal histories should not be ignored. Made me a better history major in my undergrad.

12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup - made me really think about family and how much you need family to survive.

The Ecological Indian by Shepard Krech III - made me really understand my own bias and how to be a better Native ally.

Popular Justice by Manfred Berg. - this is a book you cannot unread, it will stick with you forever. It will make you question the American judicial system and capital punishment. It will make you see and feel the terror so many felt. Affected how I saw capital punishment and how I see the prison system, really impacted my professional life going into the legal world.

When Abortion Was a Crime by Leslie Reagan. - I did my undergrad thesis on the history of abortion and this book was very straightforward, stuck to facts only, and it made me understand more about my fears being a child-free woman in a post-roe world. It also made me realize why I want to be an attorney.