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