Last winter I challenged myself (and you) to read outside of our echo chambers. To build empathy by reading from and about people who are different than us on many levels. Now, in follow up to my most recent post, and on a day that celebrates a man in our history who suffered from a lack of empathy towards those who were different (to put it very mildly), I came up with this list of 5 books I've read this year that I think are incredibly examples of the power of fiction to express empathy and create more empathetic readers.