Reading Recommendations

Reading is a valuable way to interact with the world and encounter new ideas. It’s a form of exploration and it’s very important for me. Here is a list, in no particular order, of my favorite books which I recommend for everyone. I will update it as I find more great reads.

However, I truly believe that reading is only useful when we do it out of curiosity and passion. There’s no point in forcing ourselves to read something that we aren’t interested in, simply because we believe we ‘should’. So, I offer this list only in the spirit of bringing to your attention books that you may like or find fascinating. Enjoy!

• The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, David Wallace-Wells

• In Search of Duende, Frederico Garcia Lorca

• Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

• The Need for Roots, Simone Weil

• M Train, Patti Smith

• The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

• Night, Elie Wiesel

• Art as Therapy, Alain de Botton and John Armstrong

• Their Eyes were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

• Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines, Alexis Pauline Gumbs + China Martens + Mai’a Williams (editors)

• Henry and June, Anais Nin

• Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear…and Why, Sady Doyle

• Economics, Ha-Joon Chang

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire

• Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist, Paul Kingsnorth

• The Metamorphosis and Other Stores, Franz Kafka

• Walden: Or, Life in the Woods and Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau

• Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates

• The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Amitav Ghosh

• Evicted, Matthew Desmond

• Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home, Toko-pa Turner

• In an Unspoken Voice, Peter A. Levine

• I was Told to Come Alone, Souad Mekhennet

• The Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry

• Savage Inequalities, Jonathan Kozol

• Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer

• Mansfield Park, Jane Austen

• Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, Alexis Shotwell

• A Big Important Art Book (Now with Women): Profiles of Unstoppable Female Artists — and Projects to Help You Become One, Danielle Krysa

• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, adrienne maree brown

• Anything by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes (particularly her audiobooks)

• The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II, by Svetlana Alexievich

• Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

• The World Peace Diet, Will Tuttle

Do you have any recommendations for me? Is there a book that you’d like me to review? Let me know!

Thanks for stopping by!

xo