What Sydney Read
In late 2025, I came across the story and life of Dan Pezler. In a notebook, he recorded every book he read starting in 1962, amassing over 3,000 reads. The public library where he checked out the majority of his reads spotlighted his life and passing on social media, sharing that his family put together a website to go through his reading list. It was a beautiful gift for the family and the library to share (you can find his website here) and brought me back to one of my favorite things to think about: how personal reading is.
I’ve always returned to how unique our reading journeys are as individuals; how incredibly unlikely it is that the words and stories that shaped me would match up exactly with anyone else. Below you’ll find the archive of my reads across my life, to the best of my ability.
(Books within a series are kept in book order within their alphabetization of the series title)
A
A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity Nguyen
A Demon’s Guide to Wooing a Witch by Sarah Hawley
A Different Kind of Power by Jacinda Ardern
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor by John Berger
A Gentlemen in Moscow by Amor Towles
A Girl is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
A Holly Jolly Ever After by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
A Perfect Vintage by Chelsea Fagan
A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home by Frances Mayes
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining by Rachel E. Cargle
A Rogue of One’s Own by Evie Dunmore
A Sentimental Education by Hannah McGregor
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The End by Lemony Snicket
A Shining Affliction: A story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy by Annie G. Roger’s
A Therapist’s Garden by Erik Keller
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
A Witch’s Guide to Fake Dating a Demon by Sarah Hawley
A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
Abundance by Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen
Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
Advanced Play Therapy: Essential Conditions, Knowledge and Skills for Child Practice by Dee Ray
After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made by Ben Rhodes
Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu
Agatha Christa: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
Alice’s Adventures Underground by Lewis Carroll
All About Love by bell hooks
All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
All Our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Towards Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride by Jamal Yogis
All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep: Hope - and Hard Pills to Swallow - About Fighting for Black Lives by Andre Henry
All the Women in My Brain: And Other Concerns by Betty Gilpin
Always Only You by Chloe Liese
American Street by Ibi Zoboi
Among Friends by Hal Ebbott
Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom by John O’Donohue
An Ecology of Elsewhere: Poems by Sandra Meek
An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory by Deb Dana
Angel & Hannah by Ishle Yi Park
Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Are You Made at Me? by Meg Johnson
Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manasala
Assembly by Natasha Brown
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brené Brown
Audre and Bash Are Just Friends by Tia Williams
Autumn by Ali Smith
Avalon by Nell Zink
Awayland by Ramona Ausubel
B
Babel by R.F. Kuang
Back in a Spell by Lana Harper
Beach Read by Emily Henry
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun Harrison
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Beowulf by Beowulf
Best Hex Ever by Nadia El-Fassi
Best Served Hot by Amanda Elliot
Better Hate than Never by Chloe Liese
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Had by Warsaw Shire
Bloodline by Jenn Alexander
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Body Work by Melissa Febos
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma by Mariel Buqué
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens
Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades
Burnt Sugar by Agni Doshi
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Amelia Nagosaki, Emily Nagoski
By the Book by Jasmine Guillory
C
Care Work: Dreaming of Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer by Maya Angelou
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood
Chrysalis by Anuja Varghese
Circe by Madeline Miller
Cities I’ve Never Lived In by Sara Majka
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Collective Trauma, Collective Healing: Promoting Community Resilience in the Aftermath of Disaster by Jack Saul
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami
Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney
Conflict Resolutions for Holy Beings: Poem by Joy Harjo
Conjure Women by Afia Atakora
Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Craft in the Real Work: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Watters
Creative Question by Questlove
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull
D
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Dare to Lead: Brave Work, Tough Conversations, Whole Hearts by Brené Brown
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown
Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life by Maggie Smith
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice by Jennifer Mullen
Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies by Renee Linklater
Decolonizing Wellness by Dalia Kinsey
Delphi by Clare Pollard
Depression & Other Magic Tricks by Sabrina Bernaim
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey
Devotion by Patti Smith
Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi
Dibs in Search of Self: The Renowned, Deeply Moving Story of an Emotionally Lost Child Who Found His Way Back by Virginia M. Axline
Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy by Rachel Ricketts
Dog Songs: Thirty-Five Dog Songs and One Essay by Mary Oliver
Double Blind by Edward St. Aubyn
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Eartheater by Dolores Reyes
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It: Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling Memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert by various authors
Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast Universe by Ella Frances Sanders
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma by Gality Atlas
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI by Karen Hao
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
Endless Night by Agatha Christie
Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams
Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela
Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir by Dolly Alderton
Evil Eye by Etaf Rum
Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney
Extras by Scott Westerfeld
F
Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom
Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward by Gemma Hartley
Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You by Ali Abdaal
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King
For You & No One Else by Roni Loren
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Sadawi
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D.G. Kelley
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
From the Ashes of History: Collective Trauma and the Making of International Politics by Adam B. Lerner
From Bad to Cursed by Lana Harper
G
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See by Bianca Bosker
Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kayden
Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America by Audrey Clare Farley
Girls That Never Die by Sofia
Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
Go Hex Yourself by Jessica Clare
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness by Mark Epstein
Golden Ax by Rio Cortez
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love by Nina Renata Aron
Good Spirits by B.K. Borison
Grimm’s Fairy Tales by the Grimm Brothers
H
Happiness, Like Water by Chinelo Okparanta
Happy Place by Emily Henry
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by John Tiffany, Jack Throne, J.K. Rowling
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Heart of the Sun Warrior by Sue Lynn Tan
Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life by Cleo Wade
Helium by Rudy Francisco
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Her Husband: Hughes and Plath - A Marriage by Diane Middlebrook
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson
Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in American by R. Eric Thomas
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
Homie: Poems by Danez Smith
Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
Horoscopes for the Dead by Billy Collin’s
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
How to Be Irish: Uncovering the Curiosities of Irish Behaviour by David Slattery
How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits by Anne Berest
How to Breathe: 25 Simple Practices for Calm, Joy, and Resilience by Ashley Neese
How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
How to Go Mad Without Losing your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity by La Marr Jurelle Bruce
How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir by Shayla Lawson
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz
How to Not Get Shot: And Other Advice from White People by D. L. Hughley, Doug Moe
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanims, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh
I
Idol, Burning by Rin Usami
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
If Only You by Chloe Liese
If We Were Villians by M.L. Rio
Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruhr Benjamin
Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan
I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
In a Sun Burned Country by Bill Bryson
In Charm’s Way by Lana Harper
In Conclusion, Don’t Worry About It by Lauren Graham
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante
In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain by Tom Vitale
Inner Witch: A Modern Guide to the Ancient Craft by Gabriela Herstik
Internement by Samara Ahmed
Intimations by Zadie Smith
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by John Krakauer
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Iveliz Explains It All by Andrea Beatriz Arango
I’ll Have What He’s Having by Adie
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
I Love My Love by Reyna Biddy
I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins
I Thought It was Just Me (But It Isn’t): Making the Journey from “What Will People Think” to “I Am Enough” by Brené Brown
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee
I Who Have Never KNown Men by Jacqueline Harpman
I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry by Halsey
J
Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Nodel in Interlocking Stories by Omolola Ijeaoma Ogunyemi
Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times by Carla bergman and Mick Montgomery
K
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
L
Land of Big Numbers: Stories by Te-Ping Chen
Lands of Love and Ruins by Oddný Eir
Landscapes by Christine Lai
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Therapist by Mary Piper
Library of Small Catastrophes by Alison C. Rollins
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Life of the Party: Poems by Olivia Gatwood
Like a Bird by Fariha Róisín
Little Big Bully by Heid E. Erdrich
Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Liquid Sunset by Savon Bartley
Live Through This: On Creativity and Self Distruction by Sabrina Chapadjiev
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Lot by Bryan Washington
Love Her Wild by Atticus
Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold by Bolu Babalola
Love in Winter Wonderland by Abiola Bello
Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison
l8r, g8r (Internet Girls #3) by Lauren Myracle
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl
Mango and Peppercorns: A Memoir of Food, an Unlikely Family, and the American Dream by Tung Nguyen, Katherine Manning, and Lyn Nguyen with Elisa Ung
Martyr! by Karen Akbar
Mass Trauma: Impact and Recovery Issues by Kathryn Gow
Master of Me by Keke Palmer
Mating in Capacity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence by Esther Perel
Me (Moth) by Amber McBride
Meaty by Samantha Irby
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
Meet Me in Bombay by Jenny Ashcroft
Meet Me Under the Mistletoe by Jenny Bayliss
Mickey Chambers Shakes It Up by Charis’s Reid
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Milk and honey by Rupi Kaur
Minimally Effective by J. Arthur Weber
Mistlefoe: A Mead Realm Tale by Kimberly Lemming
Mixed Signals by B.K. Borison
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire
Mood Swings by Frankie Barnet
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
More Myself: A Journey by Alicia Keys
Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
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National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home by Anya von Bremzen
Naturally Tan by Tan France
Nevada by Imogen Bonnie
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C. Schwartz
No Matter the Wreckage: Poems by Sarah Kay
No One is Self-Made: Build Your Village to Flourish in Business and Life by Lakeysha Hallmon
No Place Like Home by Linh S. Nguyẽn
Nonmonogamy and Neurodiversity: A More Than Two Essentials Guide by Alyssa Gonzalez
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen
Not My White Savior: A Memoir in Poems by Julayne Lee
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen
Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig
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Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochiti Gonzalez
Olive by Emma Gannon
On Becoming a Person by Carl R. Rogers
On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard by Jennifer Pastiloff
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
On Living by Kerry Egan
On Love by Alain de Botton
On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope by DeRay Mckesson
Once Smitten, Twice Shy by Chloe Liese
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
One Day in December by Josie Silver
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kensey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
Only and Forever by Chloe Liese
Only When It’s Us by Chloe Liese
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Over the Influence by Joanna “JoJo” Levesque
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Paper Towns by John Green
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Paradise Rot by Jenny
Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood by Frederick Joseph
Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen
Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper
Peaces by Helen Oyeymi
People of Abandoned Character by Clare Whitfield
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice: Stories by Al Omae
Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan
Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power to Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive by Marc Brackett
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Pilgrims by Elizabeth Gilbert
Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems by Melanie Luisa Marte
Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart M. Brown Jr.
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern
Pomegranate by Helen Elaine Lee
Pooh and the Psychologists by John Tyerman Williams
Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky
Popish by Leone Ross
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
Post-Trauma by Chantal V. Johnson
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: American’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy DeGruy
Poūkahangatus by Tayi Tibble
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms by Maya Schenwar, Victoria Law
Private Means by Cree Leavour
Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual by Luvvie Ajàdi Jones
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Queenie by Candice Carey-Williams
Quiet in Her Bones by Nalini Singh
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Radical Intimacy by Sophie K. Rosa
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger by Soraya Chemaly
Ravenfall by Kalyn Josephson
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Red Island House by Andrea Lee
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Rejections by Tony Tulathimutte
Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey
Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcie Narvaez
Rising Strong as a Spiritual Practice by Brené Brown
Rising Strong: The Reckoning, The Rumble, The Revolution by Brené Brown
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Rosarita by Anita Desai
Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore
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Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan
Sankofa by Chibundo Onuzo
salt. by Nayyirah Waheed
Saving Five: A Memior of Hope by Amanda Nguyen
Saving Talk Therapy: How Health Insurers, Big Pharma, and Slanted Science are Ruining Good Mental Health Care by Enrico Gnaulati
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland By Patrick Radden Keefe
Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything by Alyson Stoner
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
Severance by Ling Ma
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress
Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz
Some of It Was Real by Nan Fischer
Sorry, Bro by Taleen Voskuni
Specials by Scott Westerfeld
Spiritual Exercises by Mark Yakich
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Stay and Fight by Madeline Ffitch
Stern Men by Elizabeth Gilbert
Still Alice by Lise Genova
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us by Rachel Aviv
Supper Club by Lara Williams
Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir by Rebecca Carroll
Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory by Elizabeth Rosner
Sweet Bitter by Stephanie Danler
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Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
Tales from the Café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Tales of the Celestial Kingdom by Sue Lynn Tan
Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
Thank You for Listening by Julia Whelan
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming
That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted A Love Potion At a Wereworlf by Kimberly Lemming
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily Bender, Alex Hanna
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Art of the Wasted Day by Patricia Hampl
The Ash Family by Molly Dektar
The Au Pair by Emma Rous
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
The Bell and the Blackbird by David Whyte
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting by Alice Miller
The Book of Alchemy by Suleika Jaouad
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read [and Your Children Will Be Glad You Did] by Philippa Perry
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook by Bruce D. Perry and Maria Szalavitz
The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Capital of Dreams by Heather O’Neill
The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez
The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman
The Christmas Tree Fram by Laurie Gilmore
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde By Audre Lorde
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
The Davenports by Krystal Marquis
The Daydreams by Laura Hankin
The Deadly Intersections of COVID-19: Race, States, Inequalities, and the Global Society by Sunera Thobani
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and What it Matters by Tom Nichols
The Death of Vivek Oji Akwaeke Emezi
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Nadine Burke Harris
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search from the True Self by Alice Miller
The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
The Emperor and the Endless Palace By Justinian Huang
The Eternal Ones by Namina Forna
The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling
The Extinction of Irena Ray by Jennifer Croft
The Family Crucible by Augustus Y. Naper
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albon
The Folklore of Forever by Sarah Hoyle
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz
The Ghosts of Rose Hill by R.M. Romero
The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Glutton by A.K. Blakemore
The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy by Arabella Kurtz, J.M. Coetzee
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Guest by Emma Cline
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margret Atwood
The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest that Will Bring Purpose to Your Life by Chris Guillebeau
The Honey Farm by Harriet Alisa Lye
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TK Klune
The House of My Mother: A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom by Shari Franke
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
The Interpersonal Neurobiology of Play: Brain-Building Interventions for Emotional Well-being by Theresa A. Kestly
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling
The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
The Merciless Ones by Namina Forna
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris by John Baxter
The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
The Mothers by Brit Bennet
The Mountain is You by Brianna Wiest
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté
The Name-Bearer by Natalia Hernadez
The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest
The New Me by Halle Butler
The Odyssey by Homer
The One Hundred Years of Lenin and Margot by Marianna Cronin
The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America’s Dilemma by Alex Kotlowitz
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power by Katherine Morgan Schafler
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World by Laura Imani Messina
The Picture of Doran Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Pirate’s Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd by Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos
The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice by Staci Haines
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore
The Push by Ashley Audrain
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue
The Removed by Brandon Hobson
The Rich People Have Gone Away by Regina Porter
The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
The Rock Eaters: Stories by Brenda Peynado
The Roommate Risk by Talia Hibbert
The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell. Them Better by Will Storr
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story by Pagan Kennedy
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Lanuage in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram
The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel
The Stationery Shop by Marian Kamali
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
The Symmetry of Fish by Su Cho
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chumamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation By Anna Malaika Tubbs
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
The Tobacco Wives by Adele Myers
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
The Trauma of Everyday Life by Mark Epstein
The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism by Kyla Schuller
The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss
The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornell Villavicencio
The Unsayable: The Hidden Language of Trauma by Annie G. Rogers
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sanguine Mandanna
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Wedding Witch by Erin Sterling
The Whole Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind by Tina Payne Bryson, Daniel J. Siegel
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Willer
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
The Winners by Fredrik Backman
The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
The Witches of Moonshyne Manor by Bianca Marais
The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Their Eyes Were Watching Gods by Zara Neale Hurston
Theory & Practice by Michelle de Krester
There is No Good Card for This: What to Say and Do When Life is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love by Kelsey Crowe, Emily McDowell
There is a Rio Grande in Heaven by Ruben Reyes Jr.
There There by Tommy Orange
There’s Always this Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
They Were Her Property: White Women As Slave Owners in the American South By Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
Thirst by Varsha Bajaj
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith
This Exquisite Loneliness: What Loners, Outcasts, and the Misunderstood Can Teach Us About Creativity by Richard Deming
This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live by Melody Warnick
Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
Tiny Traumas: When You Don’t Know What’s Wrong, but Nothing Feels Quite Right by Meg Arroll
To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings by John O’Donohue
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Toward Psychologies of Liberation by Mary Watkins and Helene Shulman
Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition by Monroe Bergdorf
Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past by Peter A. Levine
Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman
Trauma Stewardship: an Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
Thrust by Lidia Yuknavitch
Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice by Judith Lewis Herman
ttyl (Internet Girls #1) by Lauren Myracle
ttfn (Internet Girls #2) by Lauren Myracle
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Two Wrongs Make a Right by Chloe Liese
U
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Under Loch and Key by Lana Ferguson
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Uplake: Restless Essays of Coming and Going by Ana Maria Spagna
Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
V
Vagabonds! By Eloghosa Osunde
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Rey
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners by Naomi Shihab Nye
W
Wade in the Water: Poems by Tracy K. Smith
Wahala by Nikki May
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine
Walden by Henry David Theoreu
Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World By John O’Donohue
Want Me: A Sex Writer’s Journey Into the Heart of Desire by Tracy Clark-Flory
Weyward by Emilia Hart
We Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBride
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman
We Live in Water by Jess Walter
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby
We Do This ‘til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
We’re Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True by Gabrielle Union
We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health - Stories and Research Challenging the Biomedical Model by L.D. Green and Kelechi Ubozoh
What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry, Oprah Winfrey
What I was Doing While You Were Breeding by Kristin Newman
What If This Were Enough? By Heather Havrilesky
What If You & Me by Roni Loren
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
What the Hex by Jessica Clare
What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain’s Camino de Santiago by Jane Christmas
When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole
When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain
When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams
Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology by Tukufu Zuberi and Eduardo Bonilla-Silvia
White Magic by Elissa Washuta
White Tears/ Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind by Fariha
Wild Gratitude by Edward Hirsch
Wild Embers: Poems of rebellion, fir and beauty by Nikkita Gill
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
Windows to Our Children by Violet Oaklander
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
Witcha Gonna Do? by Avery Flynn
Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Browdy
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Langauge by Amanda Montell
Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey
Wrestling with Our Inner Angel by Nancy Kehoe
Writers & Lovers by Lily King
X
XOXO by Axie Oh
Y
Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
Yes & I Love You by Roni Loren
Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
You, Again by Kate Goldbeck
You Dreams of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue
You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy
You’re the Only One I’ve Told: The Stories Behind Abortion by Meera Shah
Y/N by Esther Yi
Z
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
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1984 by George Orwell