Where the original title was not English and to date there is no English translation available, I give the original language title followed by an approximate English translation in parentheses. Where a title exists in English (either original or translation), I simply give that English title and author name. Translator's note: Sayaka Murata read all the books referenced below in Japanese. Murata has been named a Freeman's "Future of New Writing" author and a Vogue Japan Woman of the Year. Sayaka Murata is the author of many books, including Convenience Store Woman, winner of the Akutagawa Prize, and, most recently available in English, Earthlings (Grove Press, October 6, 2020).
Kerry McHugh, blogger at Entomology of a Bookworm
As we stare down the uncertainty of a new year in this strange time, I invite you to do the same. Before I start that work, however, I will take time to rest on these shortest days of the year and embrace that I am-and we all are-more than what we can produce in a given day. To that end, my first planned book for the new year is You Belong (HarperOne, $27.99), in which meditation expert Sebene Selassie explores how our sense of belonging and connection shapes the world we live in. These books about the culture of work (and rest) have me thinking in news ways about how I relate to my own daily work in the nonprofit sector, how I show up and how in turn I encourage others to show up. When I picked up Wintering (Riverhead, $24) last month, I encountered yet again these themes of work and rest and burnout, woven into Katherine May's story of her own forced rest and what it taught her about the nature of her work. In Worked Over (Basic Books, $28), sociologist Jamie McCallum draws important connections between this culture of burnout and constant work with persistent inequalities in American society. This concept of burnout is the crux of Anne Helen Peterson's Can't Even (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26), which expands on her viral Buzzfeed article. We must rest, she argues, or we burn out. In Do Nothing (Harmony, $25), Celeste Headlee invites readers to reconsider the role of rest in work, all while placing our modern understanding of work in its historical context. The one that changed my relationship with work more than any other, though, was not about doing more, but about doing less. In the spirit of accomplishing more each day-more work, more chores, more errands, more self-care-I've read countless books on time management.
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