1,000 Books in 10 Years

Between 2017 and 2027, I have had a goal to read 1,000 books and this is the descending in order, live list of how that is going.

The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest that Will Bring Purpose to Your Life by Chris Guillebeau

  1. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert

  2. What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell

  3. Milk and honey by Rupi Kaur

  4. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

  5. Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks

  6. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margret Atwood

  7. Looking for Alaska by John Green

  8. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

  9. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

  10. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain

  11. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

  12. The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur

  13. A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor by John Berger

  14. A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy by Annie G. Roger’s

  15. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albon

  16. The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison

  17. Depression & Other Magic Tricks by Sabrina Bernaim

  18. Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes

  19. In a Sun Burned Country by Bill Bryson

  20. Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh

  21. Still Alice by Lisa Genova

  22. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram

  23. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  24. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

  25. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

  26. Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver

  27. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

  28. History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund

  29. What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain’s Camino de Santiago by Jane Christmas

  30. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson

  31. Saving Talk Therapy: How Health Insurers, Big Pharma, and Slanted Science are Ruining Good Mental Health Care by Enrico Gnaulati

  32. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by John Tiffany, Jack Throne, J.K. Rowling

  33. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

  34. Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Watters

  35. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey

  36. How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran

  37. Rising Strong: The Reckoning, The Rumble, The Revolution by Brené Brown

  38. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kayden

  39. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

  40. The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

  41. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown

  42. The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris by John Baxter

  43. On Living by Kerry Egan

  44. Into Thing Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by John Krakauer

  45. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  46. Wild Embers: Poems of rebellion, fire and beauty by Nikkita Gill

  47. How to Be Irish: Uncovering the Curiosities of Irish Behaviour by David Slattery

  48. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

  49. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

  50. Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It: Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling Memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert

  51. Live Through This: On Creativity and Self Destruction by Sabrina Chapadjiev

  52. The Family Crucible by Augustus Y. Naper

  53. All Our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Towards Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride by Jamal Yogis

  54. No Matter the Wreckage: Poems by Sarah Kay

  55. Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom by John O’Donohue

  56. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig

  57. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

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

  59. The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich

  60. In Conclusion, Don’t Worry About It by Lauren Graham

  61. Horoscopes for the Dead by Billy Collin’s

  62. On Love by Alain de Botton

  63. The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison

  64. Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

  65. All About Love by bell hooks

  66. Cities I’ve Never Lived In by Sara Majka

  67. To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings by John O’Donohue

  68. Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed

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

  70. Dare to Lead: Brave Work, Tough Conversations, Whole Hearts by Brené Brown

  71. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

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

  73. 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

  74. 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

  75. The Thing Around Your Neck by Chumamanda Ngozi Adichie

  76. A Girl is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride

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

  78. Letters to a Young Therapist by Mary Piper

  79. This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live by Melody Warnick

  80. In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

  81. What I was Doing While You Were Breastfeeding by Kristin Newman

  82. The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search from the True Self by Alice Miller

  83. The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy by Arabella Kurtz, J.M. Coetzee

  84. The Bell and the Blackbird by David Whyte

  85. salt. by Nayyirah Waheed

  86. The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman

  87. Love Her Wild by Atticus

  88. Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Browdy

  89. Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners by Naomi Shihab Nye

  90. Not My White Savior: A Memoir in Poems by Julayne Lee

  91. What If This Were Enough? by Heather Havrilesky

  92. The Body Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook by Bruce D. Perry and Maria Szalavitz

  93. The Unsayable: The Hidden Language of Trauma by Annie G. Rogers

  94. We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman

  95. Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life by Cleo Wade

  96. The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

  97. Wrestling with Our Inner Angel by Nancy Kehoe

  98. Their Eyes Were Watching Gods by Zara Neale Hurston

  99. Mating in Capacity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence by Esther Perel

  100. An Ecology of Elsewhere: Poems by Sandra Meek

  101. Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past by Peter A. Levine

  102. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

  103. Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi

  104. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

  105. Dibs in Search of Self: The Renowned, Deeply Moving Story of an Emotionally Lost Child Who Found His Way Back by Virginia M. Axline

  106. Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World By John O’Donohue

  107. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

  108. Helium by Rudy Francisco

  109. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

  110. The Overstory by Richard Powers

  111. Lands of Love and Ruins by Oddný Eir

  112. The Body Never Lives: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting by Alice Miller

  113. The Honey Farm by Harriet Alisa Lye

  114. Pilgrims by Elizabeth Gilbert

  115. Awayland by Ramona Ausubel

  116. Inner Witch: A Modern Guide to the Ancient Craft by Gabriela Herstik

  117. City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

  118. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams

  119. I Love My Love by Reyna Biddy

  120. Happiness, Like Water by Chinelo Okparanta

  121. Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast Universe by Ella Frances Sanders

  122. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

  123. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: American’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy DeGruy

  124. The Interpersonal Neurobiology of Play: Brain-Building Interventions for Emotional Well-being by Theresa A. Kestly

  125. Dog Songs: Thirty-Five Dog Songs and One Essay by Mary Oliver

  126. Wild Gratitude by Edward Hirsch

  127. Advanced Play Therapy: Essential Conditions, Knowledge and Skills for Child Practice with Dee Ray

  128. Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward by Gemma Hartley

  129. The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit

  130. Pooh and the Psychologists by John Tyerman Williams

  131. The Whole Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind by Tina Payne Bryson, Daniel J. Siegel

  132. A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit

  133. Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen

  134. Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer by Maya Angelou

  135. Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen

  136. The Art of the Wasted Day by Patricia Hampl

  137. Spiritual Exercises by Mark Yakich

  138. Library of Small Catastrophes by Alison C. Rollins

  139. The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

  140. Alice’s Adventures Underground by Lewis Carroll

  141. Untamed by Glennon Doyle

  142. Minimally Effective by J. Arthur Weber

  143. We’re Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True by Gabrielle Union

  144. The Au Pair by Emma Rous

  145. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz

  146. Queenie by Candice Carey-Williams

  147. Naturally Tan by Tan France

  148. Sweet Better by Stephanie Danler

  149. Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger by Soraya Chemaly

  150. Circe by Madeline Miller

  151. The Ash Family by Molly Dektar

  152. Trauma Stewardship: an Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky

  153. American Street by Ibi Zoboi

  154. Life of the Party: Poems by Olivia Gatwood

  155. There There by Tommy Orange

  156. Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

  157. The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

  158. Rising Strong as a Spiritual Practice by Brené Brown

  159. Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love by Nina Renata Aron

  160. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  161. Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power to Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive by Marc Brackett

  162. More Myself: A Journey by Alicia Keys

  163. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

  164. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

  165. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez

  166. I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

  167. On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard by Jennifer Pastiloff

  168. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

  169. Normal People by Sally Rooney

  170. On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope by DeRay Mckesson

  171. On Becoming a Person by Carl R. Rogers

  172. How to Breathe: 25 Simple Practices for Calm, Joy, and Resilience by Ashley Neese

  173. The Tradition by Jericho Brown

  174. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

  175. Beloved by Toni Morrison

  176. Know My Name by Chanel Miller

  177. Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson

  178. Like a Bird by Fariha Róisín

  179. The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit

  180. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks

  181. Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

  182. Grimm’s Fairy Tales by the Grimm Brothers

  183. A Gentlemen in Moscow by Amor Towles

  184. The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde By Audre Lorde

  185. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

  186. Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

  187. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  188. Private Means by Cree Leavour

  189. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

  190. My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

  191. How to Not Get Shot: And Other Advice from White People by D. L. Hughley, Doug Moe

  192. Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami

  193. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

  194. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

  195. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May

  196. Writers & Lovers by Lily King

  197. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

  198. Conjure Women by Afia Atakora

  199. I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry by Halsey

  200. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

  201. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott

  202. Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

  203. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

  204. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

  205. The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez

  206. Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Amelia Nagosaki, Emily Nagoski

  207. The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma

  208. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

  209. The Removed by Brandon Hobson

  210. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

  211. This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith

  212. Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms by Maya Schenwar, Victoria Law

  213. In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

  214. Meet Me in Bombay by Jenny Ashcroft

  215. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

  216. The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.

  217. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo

  218. Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu

  219. Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual by Luvvie Ajàdi Jones

  220. The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna

  221. Internement by Samara Ahmed

  222. Eartheater by Dolores Reyes

  223. Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

  224. The Push by Ashley Audrain

  225. When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole

  226. Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley

  227. Quiet in Her Bones by Nalini Singh

  228. When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain

  229. Red Island House by Andrea Lee

  230. The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

  231. The House in the Cerulean Sea by TK Klune

  232. You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat

  233. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

  234. Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

  235. The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec

  236. Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy by Rachel Ricketts

  237. Double Blind by Edward St. Aubyn

  238. The Stationery Shop by Marian Kamali

  239. Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia

  240. Land of Big Numbers: Stories by Te-Ping Chen

  241. Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir by Rebecca Carroll

  242. The Rock Easters: Stories by Brenda Peynado

  243. The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

  244. A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

  245. The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

  246. With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

  247. Ace of Spaces by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

  248. Burnt Sugar by Agni Doshi

  249. The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornell Villavicencio

  250. Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold by Bolu Babalola

  251. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

  252. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

  253. The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infiedlity by Esther Perel

  254. The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri

  255. Endless Night by Agatha Christie

  256. Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Sadawi

  257. Care Work: Dreaming of Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

  258. The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

  259. The New Me by Halle Butler

  260. The Mothers by Brit Bennet

  261. Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig

  262. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

  263. If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

  264. White Tears/ Brown Scares: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

  265. The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling

  266. Peaces by Helen Oyeymi

  267. What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry, Oprah Winfrey

  268. One Day in December by Josie Silver

  269. People of Abandoned Character by Clare Whitfield

  270. Lot by Bryan Washington

  271. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

  272. This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

  273. The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson

  274. Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir by Dolly Alderton

  275. Sankofa by Chibundo Onuzo

  276. I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins

  277. The One Hundred Years of Lenin and Margot by Marianna Cronin

  278. Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King

  279. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

  280. Wahala by Nikki May

  281. The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read [and Your Children Will Be Glad You Did] by Philippa Perry

  282. After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made by Ben Rhodes

  283. The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

  284. A Therapist’s Garden by Erik Keller

  285. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

  286. The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs

  287. Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochiti Gonzalez

  288. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

  289. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Lanugage of Human Experience by Brené Brown

  290. Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung

  291. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks

  292. What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez

  293. Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan

  294. Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson

  295. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

  296. Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi

  297. Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

  298. Bluets by Maggie Nelson

  299. Stay and Fight by Madeline Ffitch

  300. 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

  301. Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

  302. Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades

  303. Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies by Renee Linklater

  304. The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice by Staci Haines

  305. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

  306. Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

  307. Popisho by Leone Ross

  308. The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun

  309. Vagabonds! By Eloghosa Osunde

  310. Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman

  311. When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

  312. We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health - Stories and Research Challenging the Biomedical Model by L.D. Green and Kelechi Ubozoh

  313. Vladimir by Julia May Jonas

  314. The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh

  315. We Live in Water by Jess Walter

  316. Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern

  317. The Tobacco Wives by Adele Myers

  318. Angel & Hannah by Ishle Park

  319. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

  320. Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

  321. Book Lovers by Emily Henry

  322. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

  323. Intimations by Zadie Smith

  324. We Do This ‘til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba

  325. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby

  326. The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World by Laura Imani Messina

  327. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

  328. The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

  329. How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong

  330. Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney

  331. All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep: Hope - and Hard Pills to Swallow - About Fighting for Black Lives by Andre Henry

  332. Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

  333. Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

  334. Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola

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

  336. White Magic by Elissa Washuta

  337. Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

  338. Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

  339. The Merciless Ones by Namina Forna

  340. Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

  341. Go Hex Yourself by Jessica Clare

  342. Body Work by Melissa Febos

  343. Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

  344. Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper

  345. The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling

  346. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

  347. Autumn by Ali Smith

  348. Ravenfall by Kalyn Josephson

  349. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire

  350. Supper Club by Lara Williams

  351. Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

  352. The Symmetry of Fish by Su Cho

  353. Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories by Omolola Ijeaoma Ogunyemi

  354. Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour

  355. Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson

  356. Delphi by Clare Pollard

  357. The Trauma of Everyday Life by Mark Epstein

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

  359. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

  360. Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood by Frederick Joseph

  361. Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

  362. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

  363. Golden Ax by Rio Cortez

  364. Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi

  365. Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez

  366. The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li

  367. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

  368. Heart of the Sun Warrior by Sue Lynn Tan

  369. Idol, Burning by Rin Usami

  370. Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcie Narvaez

  371. Decolonizing Wellness by Dalia Kinsey

  372. Poūkahangatus by Tayi Tibble

  373. Beartown by Fredrik Backman

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

  375. Real Life by Brandon Taylor

  376. Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney

  377. Post-Trauma by Chantal V. Johnson

  378. Meaty by Samantha Irby

  379. Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

  380. Thrust by Lidia Yuknavitch

  381. The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

  382. In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante

  383. Homie: Poems by Danez Smith

  384. XOXO by Axie Oh

  385. Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart M. Brown Jr.

  386. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

  387. A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin

  388. Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

  389. I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee

  390. Devotion by Patti Smith

  391. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz

  392. Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma by Galit Atlas

  393. Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition by Monroe Bergdorf

  394. Girls That Never Die by Sofia Elhillo

  395. The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

  396. Babel by R.F. Kuang

  397. Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice by Judith Bulter

  398. Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey

  399. Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

  400. Sorry, Bro by Taleen Voskuni

  401. Thank You for Listening by Julia Whelan

  402. Windows to Our Children by Violet Oaklander

  403. Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manasala

  404. Avalon by Nell Zink

  405. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté

  406. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga

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

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

  409. Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan

  410. Two Wrongs Make a Right by Chloe Liese

  411. Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory by Deb Dana

  412. Severance by Ling Ma

  413. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

  414. Liquid Sunset by Savon Bartley

  415. Stern Men by Elizabeth Gilbert

  416. A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan

  417. The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel

  418. Beach Read by Emily Henry

  419. Always Only You by Chloe Liese

  420. Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall

  421. A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining by Rachel E. Cargle

  422. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

  423. People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice: Stories by Al Omae

  424. Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan

  425. That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming

  426. Weyward by Emilia Hart

  427. Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen

  428. Nonmonogamy and Neurodiversity: A More Than Two Essentials Guide by Alyssa Gonzalez

  429. What the Hex by Jessica Clare

  430. Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen

  431. My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

  432. Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

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

  434. Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress

  435. Witch a Gonna Do? by Avery Flynn

  436. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

  437. Radical Intimacy by Sophie K. Rosa

  438. The Mountain is You by Brianna Wiest

  439. That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted A Love Potion At a Werewolf by Kimberly Lemming

  440. From Bad to Cursed by Lana Harper

  441. Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

  442. The Ghosts of Rose Hill by R.M. Romero

  443. A Witch’s Guide to Fake Dating a Demon by Sarah Hawley

  444. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull

  445. The Davenports by Krystal Marquis

  446. They Were Her Property: White Women As Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

  447. Meet Me Under the Mistletoe by Jenny Bayliss

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

  449. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

  450. Assembly by Natasha Brown

  451. The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman

  452. Y/N by Esther Yi

  453. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

  454. Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison

  455. We Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBridge

  456. No Place Like Home by Linh S. Nguyẽn

  457. Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey

  458. A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home by Frances Mayes

  459. Us Against You by Fredrik Backman

  460. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

  461. Mistlefoe: A Mead Realm Tale by Kimberly Lemming

  462. Love in Winter Wonderland by Abiola Bello

  463. Thirst by Varsha Bajaj

  464. I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel

  465. Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

  466. Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

  467. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

  468. Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

  469. The Glutton by A.K. Blakemore

  470. Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice by Jennifer Mullen

  471. The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin

  472. Chrysalis by Anuja Varghese

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

  474. Walden by Henry David Theoreu

  475. The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

  476. A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter

  477. What If You & Me by Roni Loren

  478. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

  479. Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

  480. Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems by Melanie Luisa Marte

  481. Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li

  482. Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci

  483. Better Hate than Never by Chloe Liese

  484. Tales from the Café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

  485. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

  486. The Deadly Intersections of COVID-19: Race, States, Inequalities, and the Global Society by Sunera Thobani

  487. Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval

  488. The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest

  489. Conflict Resolutions for Holy Beings: Poem by Joy Harjo

  490. An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten

  491. Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan

  492. Evil Eye by Etaf Rum

  493. Mickey Chambers Shakes It Up by Charish Reid

  494. Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times by Carla bergman and Mick Montgomery

  495. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing

  496. For You & No One Else by Roni Loren

  497. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

  498. Toward Psychologies of Liberation by Mary Watkins and Helene Shulman

  499. This Exquisite Loneliness: What Loners, Outcasts, and the Misunderstood Can Teach Us About Creativity by Richard Deming

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

  501. Annie of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

  502. Nevada by Imogen Bonnie

  503. Tiny Traumas: When You Don’t Know What’s Wrong, but Nothing Feels Quite Right by Meg Arroll

  504. Collective Trauma, Collective Healing: Promoting Community Resilience in the Aftermath of Disaster

  505. Yes & I Love You by Roni Loren

  506. The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez

  507. The Eternal Ones by Namina Forna

  508. The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power by Katherine Morgan Schafler

  509. Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

  510. Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman

  511. Erosion: Essays of Undoing by Terry Tempest Williams

  512. Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

  513. Some of It Was Real by Nan Fischer

  514. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D.G. Kelley

  515. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi

  516. The Name-Bearer by Natalia Hernadez

  517. Mass Trauma: Impact and Recovery Issues by Kathryn Gow

  518. The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue

  519. Only and Forever by Chloe Liese

  520. Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

  521. The Guest by Emma Cline

  522. Pomegranate by Helen Elaine Lee

  523. Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez

  524. You Dreams of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue

  525. From the Ashes of History: Collective Trauma and the Making of International Politics By Adam B. Lerner

  526. The Roommate Risk by Talia Hibbert

  527. Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruhr Benjamin

  528. If Only You by Chloe Liese

  529. Want Me: A Sex Writer’s Journey Into the Heart of Desire by Tracy Clark-Flory

  530. Olive by Emma Gannon

  531. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

  532. A Sentimental Education by Hannah McGregor

  533. Happy Place by Emily Henry

  534. You’re the Only One I’ve Told: The Stories Behind Abortion by Meera Shah

  535. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams

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

  537. Mood Swings by Frankie Barnet

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

  539. In Charm’s Way by Lana Harper

  540. A Rogue of One’s Own by Evie Dunmore

  541. Her Husband: Hughes and Plath - A Marriage by Diane Middlebrook

  542. The Witches of Moonshyne Manor by Bianca Marais

  543. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad

  544. A Perfect Vintage by Chelsea Fagan

  545. A Demon’s Guide to Wooing a Witch by Sarah Hawley

  546. Bloodline by Jenn Alexander

  547. Back in a Spell by Lana Harper

  548. Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

  549. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

  550. Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens

  551. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

  552. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

  553. The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke

  554. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

  555. A Holly Jolly Ever After by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone

  556. Martyr! by Karen Akbar

  557. In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain by Tom Vitale

  558. The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss

  559. The Extinction of Irena Ray by Jennifer Croft

  560. The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett

  561. Little Big Bully by Heid E. Erdrich

  562. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Rey

  563. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

  564. Me (Moth) by Amber McBride

  565. The Winners by Fredrik Backman

  566. God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

  567. The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism by Kyla Schuller

  568. Tales of the Celestial Kingdom by Sue Lynn Tan

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

  570. Only When It’s Us by Chloe Liese

  571. Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky

  572. Landscapes by Christine Lai

  573. How to Go Mad Without Losing your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity by La Marr Jurelle Bruce

  574. Agatha Christa: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley

  575. There’s Always this Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

  576. The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp

  577. Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

  578. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez

  579. Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

  580. The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  581. By the Book by Jasmine Guillory

  582. Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

  583. Craft in the Real Work: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses

  584. Once Smitten, Twice Shy by Chloe Liese

  585. Over the Influence by Joanna “JoJo” Levesque

  586. The House of My Mother: A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom by Shari Franke

  587. Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino

  588. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

  589. How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir by Shayla Lawson

  590. No One is Self-Made: Build Your Village to Flourish in Business and Life by Lakeysha Hallmon

  591. The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better by Will Storr

  592. The Daydreams by Laura Hankin

  593. Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope by Amanda Nguyen

  594. Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi

  595. Mixed Signals by B.K. Borison

  596. Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan

  597. A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity Nguyen

  598. Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser

  599. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See by Bianca Bosker

  600. The Rich People Have Gone Away by Regina Porter

  601. Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson

  602. Iveliz Explains It All by Andrea Beatriz Arango

  603. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America by Audrey Clare Farley

  604. Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

  605. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom

  606. The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang

  607. Under Loch and Key by Lana Ferguson

  608. All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson

  609. Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi

  610. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us by Rachel Aviv

  611. Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas

  612. A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin

  613. The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall

  614. The Capital of Dreams by Heather O’Neill

  615. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa

  616. You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy

  617. I’ll Have What He’s Having by Adie Khorram

  618. Rosarita by Anita Desai

  619. Best Served Hot by Amanda Elliot

  620. There is a Rio Grande in Heaven by Ruben Reyes Jr.

  621. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

  622. Creative Question by Questlove

  623. Master of Me by Keke Palmer

  624. Audre and Bash Are Just Friends by Tia Williams

  625. A Different Kind of Power by Jacinda Ardern

  626. Abundance by Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

  627. Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life by Maggie Smith

  628. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

  629. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

  630. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman

  631. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI by Karen Hao

  632. The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

  633. Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything by Alyson Stoner

  634. Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore

  635. Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes

  636. The Folklore of Forever by Sarah Hoyle

  637. The Book of Alchemy by Suleika Jaouad

  638. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

  639. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

  640. The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore

  641. The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily Bender, Alex Hanna

  642. The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston

  643. Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

  644. Best Hex Ever by Nadia El-Fassi

  645. Katabasis by R.F. Kuang

  646. Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer

  647. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and What it Matters by Tom Nichols

  648. You, Again by Kate Goldbeck

  649. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C. Schwartz

  650. A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

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