The Books I Read in 2019
A complete list of what I read over the course of 2019
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