Book Recommendations
Memoirs
Educated – Tara Westover
Born To Run – Bruce Springsteen
Wild – Cheryl Strayed
Untamed – Gennon Doyle
I’m Glad My Mom Died – Jennette McCurdy
Raised by Wolves, Possibly Monsters (I couldn’t resist)
Culture & Race
James – Percival Everett
The Parable of the Sower – Octavia E. Butler
I Am Not Your Negro – James Baldwin
A Girl Called Rumi – Ari Honarvar
Yellowface – R. F. Kuang
To Kill A Mockingbird & Go Set A Watchman – Harper Lee
Art & Spirituality
Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu (Jane English Translation)
The Tao of Sex, Health and Longevity – Daniel P. Reid
The Tao of Pooh & The Te of Piglet – Benjamin Hoff
Peace is Every Step – Tich Nhat Hanh
The Essential Rumi – (Coleman Barks Translation)
Aleph & Veronika Decides To Die – Paolo Coelho
Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach
The Artist’s Way – Julia Cameron
Love & Relationships
The Time Traveler‘s Wife & Bizarre Romance – Audrey Neffenegger
State of Wonder & Tom Lake – Ann Patchett
Isola – Allega Goodma
The Husbands – Holly Gramazio
On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan
Atmosphere & The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Giver of Stars – JoJo Moyes
The Wedding People & Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance – Alison Espach
The Three Lives of Cate Kay – Kate Fagan
Intermezzo & Normal People – Sally Rooney
Mating in Captivity – Esther Perel (Non-Fiction)
Literature & Fiction
Our Missing Hearts & Everything I Never Told You – Celeste Ng
Where the Crawdadds Sing – Delia Owens
The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
Wish You Were Here & Lone Wolf – Jodi Picoult
Heartwood – Amity Gaige
Gone Girl & Dark Places – Gillian Flynn
The Outsider & The Stand – Stephen King
Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
The Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Guest List – Lucy Foley
The Girls & The Guest – Emma Cline
The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins
A Man Called Ove – Frederick Backman
The Sanatorium – Sarah Pearse
What Alice Forgot – Liana Moriarty
Disobedience – Jane Hamilton
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold