I am so excited to share some book recommendations! Reading is one of my greatest sources of happiness. I read all kinds of books but my favorite genres are classics and historical fiction. I tend to enjoy books with descriptive prose and well-developed characters and I am usually alternating between two books at the same time – one physical book and one audiobook.
Currently reading:
Books: East of Eden by John Steinbeck, Get Untamed (The Journal) by Glennon Doyle
Audiobook: Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown
*See below for a monthly breakdown of the books I’ve read this year.
Recommended books (in no particular order):
Non-Fiction Books to Learn From and Inspire Positive Change:
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
- The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
- Presence by Amy Cuddy
- Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff, Ph. D.
- The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
- Mindset by Carol Dweck, Ph. D.
- Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab
- Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
- Know My Name by Chanel Miller
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz
- You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero
- The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
- Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
- Good Morning, Monster by Catherine Gildiner
- Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou
- Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness
- They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
- All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
- The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton
- The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
- Educated by Tara Westover
- A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout
- Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- Between the World and Me by Trevor Noah
- Maus and Maus II by Art Spiegelman
- The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
- I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
- Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Night by Elie Wiesel
Fiction
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Josseini
- Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
- The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
- Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stewart
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Deacon King Kong by James McBride
- Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
- The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Jayne Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
- The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
- Peony in Love by Lisa See
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
- Pride and Predjudice by Jane Austen
- The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
- Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
- Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
- We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
- What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
- The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
- The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards
- Americanah by Chimimanda Ngozi Adiche
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
- Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Odyssey by Homer (I love Greek mythology!)
I’m sure there are plenty I’m forgetting!
I love spending time in bookstores and libraries. I encourage you to buy your books locally or check them out from your library whenever possible!
2022 Books Read:
JANUARY
Physical Books:
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang
Audiobooks:
- Will by Will Smith
- The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Henna Artist, #2) by Alka Joshi