Books I Recommend
Here's a shortlist of some of the best books I've read, updated September 2022. Let's connect and check each other's shelves, here's my GoodReads profile!
Animals
How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain by Gregory Berns
Autobiography, Memoir, Personal Essays
All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jouad
Educated by Tara Westover
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Memoirs of A Student In Manila by Jose Rizal
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
The Diary of a Young Girl by Ann Frank
The Girl with Seven Names by Heonseo Lee
The Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
Creativity, Writing, Art
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
Bird by Bird by Ann Lamott
On Writing by Stephen King
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work, and Keep Going - all by Austin Kleon
Successful Self-Publishing by Joanna Penn
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
Writing Down The Bones by Natalie Goldberg
How To Market A Book by Ricardo Fayet
Family, Parenthood
The Conscious Parent and The Awakened Family by Shefali Tsabary
History
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Health
How Not To Die by Michael Greger
The China Study by T. Colin Campbell
The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone
Why We Sleep by Matt Walker
Leadership
Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us by Seth Godin
Minimalism
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
Goodbye Things by Fumio Sasaki
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Mari Kondo
Science, Medical, Mind
Admissions: Life As A Brain Surgeon by Henry Marsh
The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine
Relationships
Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
Mating In Captivity by Esther Perel
The State of Affairs by Esther Perel
The Art of Communicating by Thich Nhat Hahn
The Course of Love: A Novel by Alain de Botton
The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
Self
Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brene Brown
Graceful by Seth Godin (you can read it for free!!) *new link*
Lying by Sam Harris
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Principles by Ray Dalio
The One Thing by Gary Keller
The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck by Mark Manson
Art of Living by Epictetus and Sharon Lebell
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
Finding Your Own North Star by Martha Beck
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
What Happened To You? by Dr. Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb * new *
Self-Development, Learning, Mastery
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Deep Work by Cal Newport
Grit by Angela Duckworth
How We Learn And Why It Happens by Benedict Cary
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Tim Ferriss
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
Fiction
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Everyday by David Levithan
Love In The Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The Little Prince by Saint John Exupery
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Spirit
The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer *new*
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle *new*
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle *new*
Loving What Is by Byron Katie *new*
Poetry
Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters by Morgan Harper Nichols
All Along You were Blooming by Morgan Harper Nichols *new*
Honeybee by Trista Mateer
I Am More Than a Daydream by Jennae Cecelia
B by Sarah Kay *new*
Love Poems by Pablo Neruda *new*
The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time by Leslie Pockell *new*
Yoga
One Simple Thing by Eddie Stern
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Sri Swami Satchidananda
Yoga Mala by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois