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

  • Abundance by Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

  • 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

  • Agatha Christa: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley

  • 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

  • Always Only You by Chloe Liese

  • Among Friends by Hal Ebbott

  • Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom by John

  • 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

  • An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten

  • 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 Lanugage of Human Experience by Brené Brown

  • Audre and Bash Are Just Friends by Tia Williams

  • Autumn by Ali Smith

  • Avalon by Nell Zink

  • 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 Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor by John Berger

  • 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 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 Witch’s Guide to Fake Dating a Demon by Sarah Hawley

  • A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

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

  • Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun Harrison

  • Beowulf by Beowulf

  • Best Hex Ever by Nadia El-Fassi

  • Best Served Hot by Amanda Elliot

  • Better Hate than Never by Chloe Liese

  • 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

  • Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma by Mariel Buqué

  • 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

  • By the Book by Jasmine Guillory

C

  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

  • Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

  • Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

  • Chrysalis by Anuja Varghese

  • Cities I’ve Never Lived In by Sara Majka

  • Collective Trauma, Collective Healing: Promoting Community Resilience in the Aftermath of Disaster by Jack Saul

  • Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney

  • Conflict Resolutions for Holy Beings: Poem by Joy Harjo

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Devotion by Patti Smith

  • Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi

  • Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

E

  • Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

  • Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You by Ali Abdaal

  • Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

  • For You & No One Else by Roni Loren

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

  • Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness by Mark Epstein

  • Golden Ax by Rio Cortez

  • Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

H

  • 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

  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

  • Heart of the Sun Warrior by Sue Lynn Tan

  • 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

  • Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

  • Homie: Poems by Danez Smith

  • Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola

  • Horoscopes for the Dead by Billy Collin’s

  • Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

  • How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits by Anne Berest

  • 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 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

  • 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 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

  • Intimations by Zadie Smith

  • Into the Wild by Jon 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 Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

  • 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

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

L

  • 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

  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel

  • Little Big Bully by Heid E. Erdrich

  • Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi

  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

  • Liquid Sunset by Savon Bartley

  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

  • Looking for Alaska by John Green

  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding

  • Love in Winter Wonderland by Abiola Bello

  • Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison

M

  • 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

  • Me (Moth) by Amber McBride

  • Meaty by Samantha Irby

  • Meet Me Under the Mistletoe by Jenny Bayliss

  • Mickey Chambers Shakes It Up by Charis’s Reid

  • Milk and honey by Rupi Kaur

  • 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

  • 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

N

  • National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home by Anya von Bremzen

  • Nevada by Imogen Bonnie

  • 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

O

  • Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochiti Gonzalez

  • Olive by Emma Gannon

  • On Love by Alain de Botton

  • 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 Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kensey

  • 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

P

  • 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

  • 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

  • Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

  • 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

  • Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky

  • Popish by Leone Ross

  • Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li

  • Post-Trauma by Chantal V. Johnson

  • Poūkahangatus by Tayi Tibble

  • Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

  • Pretties by Scott Westerfeld

Q

R

  • Radical Intimacy by Sophie K. Rosa

  • Ravenfall by Kalyn Josephson

  • Real Life by Brandon Taylor

  • Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

  • 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

  • Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

  • Rosarita by Anita Desai

  • Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore

S

  • Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan

  • Saving Five: A Memior of Hope by Amanda Nguyen

  • Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything by Alyson Stoner

  • Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

  • Severance by Ling Ma

  • 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

  • Some of It Was Real by Nan Fischer

  • Sorry, Bro by Taleen Voskuni

  • Specials by Scott Westerfeld

  • 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

  • Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory by Elizabeth Rosner

T

  • 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 Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

  • 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 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 Thief by Markus Zusak

  • The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston

  • 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 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 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 Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Nadine Burke Harris

  • The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

  • The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison

  • The Emperor and the Endless Palace By Justinian Huang

  • The Eternal Ones by Namina Forna

  • The Extinction of Irena Ray by Jennifer Croft

  • The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

  • The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

  • 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 Ghosts of Rose Hill by R.M. Romero

  • 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 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 House of My Mother: A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom by Shari Franke

  • 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 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 Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

  • 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 Odyssey by Homer

  • The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America’s Dilemma by Alex Kotlowitz

  • 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 Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice by Staci Haines

  • The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore

  • The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue

  • The Rich People Have Gone Away by Regina Porter

  • The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

  • 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 Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

  • The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer

  • The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

  • The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich

  • The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Lanuage in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram

  • The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur

  • The Symmetry of Fish by Su Cho

  • The Thing Around Your Neck by Chumamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • The Tobacco Wives by Adele Myers

  • 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 Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sanguine Mandanna

  • The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Willer

  • The Winners by Fredrik Backman

  • 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

  • Theory & Practice by Michelle de

  • 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’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 Exquisite Loneliness: What Loners, Outcasts, and the Misunderstood Can Teach Us About Creativity by Richard Deming

  • 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 Recovery by Judith Herman

  • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

  • Thrust by Lidia Yuknavitch

  • Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

  • Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom

  • 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

  • Uplake: Restless Essays of Coming and Going by Ana Maria Spagna

  • 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

W

  • Wade in the Water: Poems by Tracy K. Smith

  • Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine

  • Walden by Henry David Theoreu

  • 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 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’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 I was Doing While You Were Breastfeeding by Kristin Newman

  • 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

  • When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

  • Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

  • White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology by Tukufu Zuberi and Eduardo Bonilla-Silvia

  • White Magic by Elissa Washuta

  • Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind by Fariha

  • Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

  • Windows to Our Children by Violet Oaklander

  • Witcha Gonna Do? By Avery Flynn

  • Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

  • Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Langauge by Amanda Montell

  • Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey

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 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

NUMBERS

  • 1984 by George Orwell

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