Books & Audio
On one of my birthdays, I vowed to read a book a month, every month, for the rest of my life. So far so good.
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2022–2026
- 📖The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1), T.J. Klune
- Kristin HannahThe WomenThe Nightingale
- Throne of Glass series, Sarah J. Maas#1Throne of Glass#2Crown of Midnight#0.1-0.5The Assassin's Blade#3Heir of Fire#4Queen of Shadows#5Empire of Storms+#6Tower of Dawn(read in tandem)#7Kingdom of Ash
- 📖Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
- Hierarchy series, James Islington#1The Will of the Many#2The Strength of the Few
- 📖Main Street Millionaire: How to Make Extraordinary Wealth Buying Ordinary Businesses, Codie Sanchez
- Kate QuinnThe HuntressThe Phoenix CrownThe Rose Code: A NovelSignal MoonThe Alice NetworkThe Astral LibraryThe Briar ClubThe Diamond EyeThe Serpent and the Pearl (The Borgias, #1)
- Evie WoodsThe Lost BookshopThe Story Collector
- Marie BenedictThe Personal LibrarianCarnegie's Maid
- Katharine McGeeA Queen's Game (A Queen's Duet, #1)
- Laura Lynne JacksonThe Light Between Us: Stories From Heaven, Lessons for the LivingSigns: The Secret Language of the Universe
- Brené BrownAtlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human ExperienceDare to Lead
- Max LucadoAnxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic WorldPocket Prayers: 40 Simple Prayers That Bring Peace and RestHe Did This Just For You
- 📖The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Charlie Mackesy
- 📖Dream Count, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- 📖The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective, Andy Andrews
- 📖Dear Love, Sarah Bahbah
- 📖I Hope You Remember: Poems on Loving, Longing, and Living, Josie Balka
- 📖Banksy You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat, Banksy
- 📖May Cause Miracles: A 40-Day Guidebook of Subtle Shifts for Radical Change and Unlimited Happiness, Gabrielle Bernstein
- 📖A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett
- 📖Product-Led Growth: How to Build a Product That Sells Itself, Wes Bush
- 📖The Secret (The Secret, #1), Rhonda Byrne
- 📖Light is the New Black: A Guide to Answering Your Soul's Callings and Working Your Light, Rebecca Campbell
- 📖Chicken Soup for the Sister's Soul: Inspirational Stories About Sisters and Their Changing Relationships, Jack Canfield
- 📖Necessary Noise: Stories About Our Families as They Really Are, Michael Cart
- 📖Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
- 📖Mint to Be (A Cup o' Jo Novel, Scratch & Sniff Cover Edition), Katie Cicatelli-Kuc
- 📖Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear
- The Hunger Games series, Suzanne Collins#0The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes#1The Hunger Games#2Catching FireSunrise on the Reaping
- 📖The Western Guide to Feng Shui: Room by Room, Terah Kathryn Collins
- 📖The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change, Stephen R. Covey
- 📖Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game, Walker Deibel
- 📖Strength Training Anatomy, 3rd Edition, Frédéric Delavier
- Sarah DessenJust ListenLock and KeyThe Truth About Forever
- 📖The Effortless Experience: Conquering the New Battleground for Customer Loyalty, Matthew Dixon
- 📖All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
- 📖Untamed, Glennon Doyle
- 📖Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, Angela Duckworth
- 📖Duh! The Stupid History Of The Human Race, Bob Fenster
- 📖The Funny Thing About Forgiveness: What every leader needs to know about improv, culture, and the world's least favorite f word, Andrea Flack-Wetherald
- 📖Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
- 📖The Way of Mary: Following Her Footsteps Toward God, Mary Ford-Grabowsky
- 📖Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
- Malcolm GladwellOutliers: The Story of SuccessTalking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't KnowWhat the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
- Adam M. GrantOriginals: How Non-Conformists Move the WorldThink Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
- 📖The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
- 📖The 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene
- 📖The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1), Matt Haig
- 📖New Happy: Getting Happiness Right in a World That's Got It Wrong, Stephanie Harrison
- 📖The Shadow of Perseus, Claire Heywood
- 📖The Official Boy Scout Handbook, William Hillcourt
- 📖The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living, Ryan Holiday
- 📖A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
- 📖Watching You, Lisa Jewell
- 📖100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century, Ladies' Home Journal
- 📖Put Happiness to Work: 7 Strategies to Elevate Engagement for Optimal Performance, Eric Karpinski
- 📖The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know, Katty Kay
- 📖Queenie, Michael Korda
- 📖The Leadership Challenge, James M. Kouzes
- 📖A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet), Madeleine L'Engle
- 📖How to Be a Capitalist Without Any Capital: The Four Rules You Must Break To Get Rich, Nathan Latka
- 📖Crazy English, Richard Lederer
- 📖Grief Is Love: Living with Loss, Marisa Renee Lee
- 📖Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. Levitt
- 📖Girl Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Success, Sanity, and Happiness for the Female Entrepreneur, Cara Alwill Leyba
- 📖The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life, Mark Manson
- 📖Never Lie, Freida McFadden
- 📖Falling Boy, Alison McGhee
- 📖For She Who Leads: Practical Wisdom From A Woman Who Serves, Holly McIlwain
- 📖Red, White & Royal Blue (Red, White & Royal Blue, #1), Casey McQuiston
- Madeline MillerGalateaThe Song of Achilles
- 📖Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen, Donald Miller
- 📖Long Bright River, Liz Moore
- 📖Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, Tunde Oyeneyin
- Sarah PennerThe London Séance SocietyThe Lost Apothecary
- 📖What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing, Bruce D. Perry
- Jodi PicoultMy Sister's KeeperThe Tenth Circle
- 📖A Journey through Philosophy in 101 Anecdotes, Nicholas Rescher
- Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling#1Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone#2Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets#3Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban#4Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire#5Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix#6Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince#7Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- 📖The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin
- Simon SinekLeaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don'tStart with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
- 📖Elephant Run, Roland Smith
- 📖Humans of New York: Stories, Brandon Stanton
- 📖The Women's Spirituality Book, Diane Stein
- 📖The Help, Kathryn Stockett
- 📖A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, Eckhart Tolle
- 📖Bush Falls, Jonathan Tropper
- 📖The PEER Revolution: Group Coaching that Ignites the Power of People, Christy Uffelman
- 📖Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet, Meggan Watterson
- Little House series, Laura Ingalls Wilder#1Little House in the Big Woods#2Farmer Boy#3Little House on the Prairie#4On the Banks of Plum Creek#5By the Shores of Silver Lake#6The Long Winter#7Little Town on the Prairie#8These Happy Golden Years#9The First Four Years
- 📖The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X
- 📖The Last Letter, Rebecca Yarros
- 📖The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
2021
- 📖Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family, Rajendra S. Sisodia & Bob Chapman
- 📖Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence, Alexandra Katehakis & Tom Bliss
- 📖Make the Most of You: 170 Ways to be the Best You Can, Patrick Lindsay
- 📖The Gifts Of Imperfection: Let Go Of Who You Think You're Supposed To Be And Embrace Who You Are, Brené Brown
- 📖Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, Brené Brown
- 🎧Playing Big: Practical Wisdom For Women Who Want To Speak Up, Create, And Lead, Tara Mohr
2020
- 📖Permission to Screw Up: How I Learned to Lead by Doing (Almost) Everything Wrong, Kristen Hadeed
- 📖Delivering Happiness, Tony Hsieh
- 📖Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan
- 📖The Astonishing Power Of Emotions, Esther & Jerry Hicks
- 📖I Love My Love, Reyna Biddy
- 📖The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo
- 📖the namesake, jhumpa lahiri
- 📖Attached., Amir Levine & Rachel S. F. Heller
- 📖Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy, Sheryl Sandberg
- 📖On Grief and Dying: Understanding the Soul's Journey, Diane Stein
- 📖A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Selected from the World's Sacred Texts, Leo Tolstoy & Peter Sekirin
- 📖What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays, Damon Young
- 📖For One More Day, Mitch Albom
- 📖Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick, Wendy Wood
2019
- 📖Circe, Madeline Miller
- 🎧The Magician's Nephew, C. S. Lewis
- 📖The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis
- 📖The Horse and His Boy, C. S. Lewis
- 📖Prince Caspian, C. S. Lewis
- 📖The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C. S. Lewis
- 📖The Silver Chair, C. S. Lewis
- 📖The Last Battle, C. S. Lewis
- 🎧Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook, Anthony Bourdain
- 📖Anthony Bourdain Remembered, CNN
- 🎧Hurricanes, Rick Ross
- 📖Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert
- 📖Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation, Neel Doshi & Lindsay McGregor
- 📖First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently, Marcus Buckingham
- 📖Buying Styles: Simple Lessons in Selling the Way Your Customers Buys, Michael Wilkinson
- 📖The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design, IDEO.org
- 📖Innovating for People Handbook of Human-Centered Design Methods, LUMA Institute
- 📖The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, Steven Pressfield
- 📖The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, Patrick Lencioni
- 📖Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes, Jessica Pan
- 📖100 Things to Do in Pittsburgh Before You Die, Rossilynne Culgan
- 🎧Rising Strong as a Spiritual Practice, Brene Brown
- 🎧Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It, Chris Voss
- 📖The Art of Walking: A Field Guide, David Evans
- 📖Conversations with God, Book 2: Living in the World with Honesty, Courage, and Love, Neale Donald Walsch
- 🎧The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, Eric Ries
- 📖Crossover: How Artists Build Careers across Commercial, Nonprofit and Community Work
- 🎧The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), Andy Warhol
- 🎧Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- 📖Tao Te Ching: A New English Version, Lao Tzu and Stephen Mitchell
- 📖Healing the Shame that Binds You, John Bradshaw
- 📖All Women Are Healers : A Comprehensive Guide to Natural Healing, Diane Stein
- 📖The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book), Don Miguel Ruiz
- 🎧Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
- 📖Mettle, Lilliana Dee
- 🎧The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts, Gary Chapman
- 📖The Business of the 21st Century, Robert T. Kiyosaki
- 📖All Women Are Psychics, Diane Stein
- 📖The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts, Gary Chapman
- 🎧You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life, Jen Sincero
- 🎧The Power of Awareness, Neville Goddard
- 🎧Thinking For A Change, John C. Maxwell
- 🎧Lagom: Not Too Little, Not Too Much: The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life, Niki Brantmark
- 🎧10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works, Dan Harris
- 📖The Gift of Fear : Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence, Gavin De Becker
- 🎧The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store, Cait Flanders
- 🎧Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Irin Carmon
- 🎧An American Marriage, Tayari Jones
- 🎧How Google Works, Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg
- 📖How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, Michael Pollan
- 🎧The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism, Olivia Fox Cabane
- 🎧Living Buddha, Living Christ: 20th Anniversary Edition, Thich Nhat Hanh
- 📖The Art of Letting Go, Thought Catalogue
- 🎧The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz
- 📖How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
- 🎧Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life, Gary John Bishop
- 🎧Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential-and Endangered, Bruce D. Perry & Maia Szalavitz
- 🎧The Art of Communicating, Thich Nhat Hanh
- 📖Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder, Reshma Saujani
- 🎧Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be, Rachel Hollis
- 📖Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, Phil Knight
- 📖Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion, Gary Vaynerchuk
- 🎧Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit
- 🎧Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America, Jeff Ryan
- 🎧An Object of Beauty: A Novel, Steve Martin
- 📖ReWork, Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
- 🎧The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups, Daniel Coyle
- 📖Everything I needed To Know I learned In Hell: Some Thoughts on Turning Darkness Into Light, or How To Escape The Mess You've Made, Dan Balestrero
- 📖Do What Feels Good, Hannah Bronfman
- 📖The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Time, Allen Gannett
- 📖I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays, Sloane Crosley
- 🎧The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Eckhart Tolle
- 🎧How You Can Talk With God (Self-Realization Fellowship), Paramahansa Yogananda
- 📖The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book), Don Miquel Ruiz
- 📖Astrology 101: Decoding Your Energetic Signature, Alanna Kaivalya
2018
- 🎧Becoming, Michelle Obama
- 📖This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See, Seth Godin
- 📖Christmas Stories: Heartwarming Classics of Angels, a Manger, and the Birth of Hope, Max Lucado
- 🎧12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Jordan B. Peterson
- 📖Woman Code, Alisa Vitti
- 📖Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, Kim Scott
- 📖The Masterpiece, Francine Rivers
- 📖Principles: Life and Work, Ray Dalio
- 📖Everything You Need You Have: How to Be at Home in Your Self, Gerad Kite
- 📖Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex, Aubrey Marcus
- 📖Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn
- 📖Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success, John C. Maxwell
- 📖The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic #1), Amanda Lovelace
- 📖Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition, Richard Bach
- 📖What The Buddha Taught, Walpola Rahula
- 📖How To Meditate Using Chakras, Mantras and Breath, Dennis K. Chernin
- 📖Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur
- 📖The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy, Sharon Bertsche Mcgrayne
- 📖The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence, Dr. Robert Anthony
- 📖Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance, Tony Dungy
- 📖The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
- 📖Who Says You Can't? You Do, Daniel Chidiac
- 📖Hug Your Customers: The Proven Way to Personalize Sales and Achieve Astounding Results, Jack Mitchell
- 📖The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It, Michael E. Gerber
- 📖The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, Gretchen Rubin
- 📖American Gods, Neil Gaiman
- 📖Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert
- 📖Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time), Claude M. Steele
Favorites
These are some of my favorite books, of all genres, in no particular order.
- The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now, Meg Jay
- David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, Malcolm Gladwell
- Life Lessons, Christian Conte
- Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want, Alex Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
- The 4-Hour Workweek, Timothy Ferriss
- Stargirl (Stargirl Series), Jerry Spinelli
- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Judy Blume
Have a book recommendation? Send it my way.