Books I’ve Read
Reading- one of my favorite and comforting activities. Here is my list since I started keeping track.
The picture below was taken at the Planet Word Museum in Washington D.C.- an amazing place.
2026 (in progress!)
The Artist’s Way: A spiritual path to Higher Creativity- Julia Cameron (Currently Reading)
The Daily Artist’s Way- 366 meditations for creative living- Julia Cameron (Currently Reading)
The House of Mirth- Edith Wharton
Meditations For Mortals: Four weeks to embrace your limitations- Oliver Burkeman
The Soul Of America- The battle for our better angels- Jon Meacham
West With Giraffes- Lynda Rutledge
Love The Teen Your Have: A practical guide for transforming conflict into connection- Ann-Louise Lockhart
The Pocket Guide To Pigeon Watching- Rosemary Mosco
Upstream- Mary Oliver
Mrs. Dalloway- Virginia Woolf
Tiny Experiments- Anne-Laure LeCunff
A Psalm For The Wild-Built- Becky Chambers
Tiny Shifts- Elisha Goldstein
*This is when I went through one week of reading deprivation from The Artist’s Way- I created this reading page during this time because it was as close as I could get to books!
2025
Four Thousand Weeks: Time management for mortals - Oliver Burkeman
Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving beyond creative hurdles- Beth Pickens
Meditations for Mortals: Four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts- Oliver Burkeman
The Safekeep- Yael van der Wouden
White Teeth- Zadie Smith
Burn It Down: Women writing about anger- Lily Dancyger (Editor)
Pigeons: The fascinating saga of the world’s most revered and reviled bird- Andrew D. Blechman
Bird by Bird- Anne Lamott
If You Can’t Take The Heat: Tales of food, feminism, and fury- Geraldine DeRuiter
The Bonesetter’s Daughter- Amy Tan
Lessons in Chemstry- Bonnie Garmus
North Woods- Daniel Mason
Craft: Stories I wrote for the Devil- Ananda Lima
What My Bones Know: A memoir of healing from complex trauma- Stephanie Foo
Same As It Ever Was- Claire Lombardo
Body Work: The radical power of personal narrative- Melissa Febos
Writing on the Intuitive Side of the Brain- Lauren Sapala
I Came All This Way To Meet You: Writing myself home- Jami Attenberg
Deacon King Kong- James McBride
Under The Whispering Door- TJ Klune
The Secret Lives Of Church Ladies- Deesha Philyaw
The Giver- Lois Lowry
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay- Michael Chabon
Coaching Psychololgy Manual- Margaret Moore
1000 Words: A writer’s guide to staying creative, focused, and productive all year round- Jami Attenberg
Subdivison- J. Robert Lennon
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America- Laila Lalami
Organize Your Emotions, Optimize Your Life- Margaret Moore
Children Of Blood And Bone- Tomi Adeyemi
The In-Betweens: A lyrical memoir- Davon Loeb
Daring Greatly: How the courage to be vulnerable transforms the way we live, love, parent, and lead- Brene Brown
The Eyes & The Impossible- Dave Eggers
The Dry Season: A memoir of pleasure in a year without sex- Melissa Febos
Consider This: Moments in my writing life after which everything was different- Chuck Palahniuk
Your Attention Is Sacred Except On Social Media- Ameila Hruby
2024
A Raisin In The Sun- Lorraine Hansberry
Cloud Cuckoo Land- Anthony Doerr
Americanah- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Vanishing Half- Brit Bennett
Erasure- Percival Everett
Wonder- R.J. Palacio
The Song of Achilles- Madeline Miller
Sober Vibes: A guide to thriving in your first three months without alcohol- Courtney Andersen
How To Raise A Healthy Gamer: End power struggles, break bad screen habits, and transform your relationship with your kids- Alok Kanojia
Burnout: The secret to unlocking the stress cycle- Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski
Yellowface- R.F. Kuang
Raising Kids With Big, Baffling Behaviors- Robyn Gobbel
The Inheritance Games- Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Firefly Lane- Kristin Hannah
The Writing Life- Annie Dillard
The Color of Water: A Black man’s tribute to his white mother- James McBride
The Ministry of Time- Kaliane Bradley
Fat Talk: Parenting in the age of diet culture- Virginia Sole-Smith
Lucky Boy- Shanthi Sekaran
Homecoming: Overcome fear and trauma to reclaim your whole, authentic self- Thema Bryant-Davis
All Fours- Miranda July
The School For Good Mothers- Jessamine Chan
You Could Make This Place Beautiful- Maggie Smith
The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
The Lightening Thief (Percy Jackson)- Rick Riordan
If The Buddha Got Stuck: A handbook for change on a spiritual path- Charlotte Kasl
The Near Witch- Victoria E Schwab
A People’s History of the United States: 1492-present- Howard Zinn
The Missing- Ben Tanzer
A Reason To See You Again- Jami Attenberg
The House in the Cerulean Sea- T.J. Klune
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage murders and the birth of the FBI- David Grann
Ready Player One- Ernest Cline
Kids Thrive At Every Size: How to nourish your big, small, or in-between child for a lifetime of happiness- Jill Castle
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store- James McBride
Scratched: A memoir of perfectionism- Elizabeth Tallent
2023
The Snow Child- Eowyn Ivey
How to Keep House While Drowning- KC Davis
This Is What It Sounds Like: What the music you love says about you- Susan Rogers
True Biz- Sara Novic
Remarkably Bright Creatures- Shelby Van Pelt
Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison
Save Me a Seat- Sarah Weeks
Beautiful Country- Qian Julie Wang
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to heal from distant, rejecting, or self-involved parents- Lindsay C. Gibson
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in uncertain times- Michelle Obama
All American Boys- Jason Reynolds
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo- Taylor Jenkins Reid
Real Self-Care: A transformative program for redefining wellness- Pooja Lakshmin
The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising connected, capable, and compassionate adolescents- Lisa Damour
In the Country- Mia Alvar
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow- Gabrielle Zevin
It Ends With Us- Colleen Hoover
I’ll Be Gone In The Dark: One woman’s obsessive search for the Golden State Killer- Michelle McNamara
All The Light We Cannot See- Anthony Doerr
The Drama of the Gifted Child- Alice Miller
There There- Tommy Orange
Anxiously Attached: Becoming more secure in life and love- Jessica Baum
Small Worlds- Caleb Azumah Nelson
The Librarianist- Patrick deWitt
How To Do The Work- Nicole LePera
Anxious People- Fredrik Backman
Middle School Matters- Phyllis L. Fagell
Joyful: The surprising power of ordinary things to create extraordinary happiness- Ingrid Fetell-Lee
The Midnight Library- Matt Haig
True Colors- Kristin Hannah
All-Night Pharmacy- Ruth Madievsky
The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, mind, body in the healing of trauma- Bessel van der Kolk
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?- Mindy Kaling
Sharp Objects- Gillian Flynn
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A guide to reclaiming yourself- Nedra Glover Tawwab
All Boys Aren’t Blue- George M. Johnson
2022
Clementine: The life of Mrs. Winston Churchill- Sonia Purnell
The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness- Michelle Alexander
Evicted: Poverty and profit in the American city- Matthew Desmond
Britt-Marie Was Here- Fredrik Backman
One Crazy Summer- Rita Williams-Garcia
American Dirt- Jeanine Cummins
The Pleasure Trap: Mastering thehidden force that undermines health and happiness- Douglas A. Lisle, Alan Goldhamer
Broken Horses- Brandi Carlisle
The Leader’s Guide to Unconscious Bias: How to reframe bias, cultivate connection, and create high-performing teams- Pamela Fuller
Under the Banner of Heaven: A story of violent faith- Jon Krakauer
The 5 Love Languages: The secret to love that lasts- Gary Chapman
Firekeeper’s Daughter- Angeline Boulley
Cracked Foundation- Ta’She’Ana Banks
Foreverland: On the divine tedium of marriage- Heather Havrilesky
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the mind of an American family- Robert Kolker
Hood Feminism: Notes from the women that a movement forgot- Mikki Kendall
My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry- Fredrik Backman
Wicked: The life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West- Gregory Maguire
Rebecca- Daphne du Maurier
The Art of Gathering: How we meet and why it matters- Priya Parker
The Great Alone- Kristin Hannah
2021
If Beale Street Could Talk- James Baldwin
Homegoing- Yaa Gyasi
Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and and mistakes from an accidental activist- Franchesca Ramsey
Transcendent Kingdom- Yaa Gyasi
The Explosive Child: A new approach for understanding and parenting easily frustrated, chronically inflexible children - Ross W. Greene
As Brave As You- Jason Reynolds
White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about race- Robin DiAngelo
The Untethered Soul: The journey beyond yourself- Michael A. Singer
How To Be An Antiracist- Ibram X. Kendi
The One and Only Ivan- Katherine Applegate
The Prettiest Star- Carter Sickels
World of Wonders: In praise of fireflies, whale sharks, and other astonishments- Aimee Nezhukumatathil