AIDR's summer reading list 2024
The AIDR team have compiled a reading list for the 2024-25 summer season to enhance their knowledge, while providing an opportunity to unwind after a busy year.
AIDR warmly invites you to explore the selection of titles on the reading list and wishes everyone an enjoyable holiday season.
A title that you recommend to others
- Margaret -
Compassion in Disaster Management (2025), Mark Crosweller
‘It describes the world as I want it to be.’ - John -
Disasters By Choice, Ilan Kelman - Ella -
The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak - Isabel -
Gawimarra gathering, Jeanine Leane
‘Beautiful, confronting, vivid writing.’ - Ange -
The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow
‘A revolutionary upending and retelling of the western historical narrative.’ - Katelyn -
GAR Special Report 2024 | UNDRR
Handbook on the use of risk knowledge for multi-hazard early warning systems 2024 | UNDRR
A title you are hoping to read over summer
- Margaret -
Talking to my Country (2017), Stan Grant - John -
Wave, Sonali Deraniyagala.
‘She lost her whole family in the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami.’
Doom, Niall Ferguson
‘Looking at the complexity of politics of disaster.’ - Ella -
There Are Rivers in the Sky, Elif Shafak
Following characters in 1840 London, 2014 Turkey and 2018 London, ‘entwines these outsiders with a single drop of water, a drop which remanifests across the centuries. Both a source of life and harbinger of death, rivers—the Tigris and the Thames—transcend history, transcend fate: Water remembers. It is humans who forget.’ - Isabel -
The Relationship is the Project - a guide to working with communitiesedited, Jade Lillie and Kate Larsen with Cara Kirkwood and Jax Brown - Ange -
Any Human Power, Manda Scott, author and host of the Accidental Gods podcast
‘Weaves old wild myths and her own shamanic practices into an intergenerational story about finding hope and transformation.’ - Katelyn -
When God was a Rabbit, Sarah Winman
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry, Jon Ronson | Goodreads
‘[The Psychopath test] was published 15 years ago and is renowned for raising our collective consciousness of the elevation of psychopaths in our organisations, and acceptance of psychopathic attributes in our organisational cultures.’
One for relaxation/self-care:
- John -
The City and Its Uncertain Walls, Murakami
1964, Michael Buxton - Isabel -
Only the astronauts, Ceridwen Dovey - Ange -
Zaitoun: Recipes and stories from the Palestine Kitchen, Yasmin Khan
‘Recipes to test on friends and family this summer, presented with stories of the Palestinian people, history, culture and traditions.’