books
Woolf, Virginia - A Room of One's Own
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly - The Evolving Self
Oliver, Mary - Devotions
Anderson, Gillian - Want
Butcher, Jim - Furies of Calderon
Welty, Eudora - The Optimist's Daughter
London, Jack - The Sea Wolf
McGinnis, Mindy - Be Not Far from Me
Durst, Sarah Beth - The Warbler
Auel, Jean - The Valley of Horses
Woods, Evie - The Story Collector
Penny, Louise - The Nature of the Beast
Martin, Charles - The Mountain Between Us
French, Tana - In the Woods
Bujold, Lois - The Curse of Chalion
Bujold, Lois - The Warrior's Apprentice
Ling, Zhang - A Single Swallow
Cross, Katie - Miss Mabel's School for Girls
Didion, Joan - Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Bible, Christian
various - Arabian Wisdom
Bujold, Lois - Shards of Honor
Penny, Louise - A Trick of the Light
Penny, Louise - The Long Way Home
Burkeman, Oliver - Four Thousand Weeks
Butler, Octavia - Seed to Harvest
Penny, Louise - The Beautiful Mystery
Penny, Louise - How the Light Gets In
Penny, Louise - A Rule Against Murder
Rilke, Rainer Maria - Letters To A Young Poet
I’ve read this book probably… 5 or 6 times now. Beauty, grace, acceptance, wisdom, life, also poetry. It’s a canon book for me
January 1, 2025
Flewelling, Lynn - Luck in the Shadows
Lowell, Nathan - Ravenwood
Matthews, Jason - Red Sparrow
Danler, Stephanie - Sweetbitter
Hoffman, Eva - Lost in Translation
Brooks, Terry - The Sword of Shannara
El-Mohtar, Amal and Gladstone, Max - This Is How You Lose the Time War
Zamora, Javier - Solito
Tevis, Walter - The Queen's Gambit
Walls, Jeannette - Half Broke Horses
Doto, Bob - A System for Writing
Hannah, Kristin - The Things We Do for Love
Davidson, Andy - The Boatman's Daughter
McCullough, College - Morgan's Run
Greene, Robert - The Laws of Human Nature
Chandrasekera, Vajra - The Saint of Bright Doors
Hollis, James - A Life of Meaning
Robinson, Marilynne - Housekeeping
Black - Book of Night
Wells, Martha - Emilie and the Hollow World
Zevin, Gabrielle - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Kingfisher, T. - The Seventh Bride
Kirstein, Rosemary - The Outskirter's Secret
Yu, Charles - How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe Enhanced Edition
Schwartz, Richard C. - No Bad Parts
Mandel, Emily St. John - Station Eleven
Kirstein, Rosemary - The Lost Steersman
Tan, Sue Lynn - Daughter of the Moon Goddess
Kirstein, Rosemary - The Steerswoman
Kingfisher, T. - Nettle & Bone
Miéville, China - Railsea
Le Guin, Ursula K. - The Lathe of Heaven
Bujold, Lois - Beguilement
Bujold, Lois - Legacy
Yarros, Rebecca - Fourth Wing
Yuknavitch, Lidia - The Book of Joan
Bujold, Lois - Paladin of Souls
Bujold, Lois - The Hallowed Hunt
Indridason, Arnaldur - Jar City
Sloan, Robin - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Le Guin, Ursula K. - The Tombs of Atuan
Le Guin, Ursula K. - The Farthest Shore
Ross, Rebecca - A River Enchanted
Le Guin, Ursula K. - A Wizard of Earthsea
Doctorow, Cory - The Internet Con
Frankfurt, Harry G. - On Bullshit
Hamad, Ruby - White Tears, Brown Scars
Kingsolver, Barbara - Flight Behavior
Kingsolver, Barbara - Demon Copperhead
Ellis, Albert - How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable
Graeber, David - Debt
The Parrot and the Igloo
Schopfer, Lindsay - Lost Under Two Moons
Meissner, Susan - The Nature of Fragile Things
Davis, Barbara - The Last of the Moon Girls
Erikson, Steven - Gardens of the Moon
Hoffman, Alice - The World That We Knew
Michaelides, Alex - The Silent Patient
Holmberg, Charlie N. - Keeper of Enchanted Rooms
Hayes, Terry - I Am Pilgrim
O'Malley, Daniel - The Rook
Whitten, Hannah - For the Wolf
See, Lisa - Lady Tan's Circle of Women
Hannah, Kristin - The Great Alone
Zevin, Gabrielle - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Haushofer, Marlen - The Wall
Devlin, Bliss - A Kiss of Salt and Sea
Faber, Mazlish - How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk
Notes
hooks, bell - All About Love
Young, Daniella - Uncultured
Glass, Jenna - The Women's War
Fogg, B. J. - Tiny Habits
Miller, Lulu - Why Fish Don't Exist
Marrs, John - The One
[[../../GARDEN/_attachments/Marrs, John - The One/2025-07-20-1005-img-Marrs, John - The One.jpeg]] IN A WORLD…. where DNA testing reveals your one
August 8, 2023
Okorafor, Nnedi - Binti
McFadden, Freida - The Locked Door
Moss, Sarah - Ghost Wall
Clark, Julie - The Last Flight
Douglas, Penelope - Credence
Klune, T.J. - The House in the Cerulean Sea
Shannon, Samantha - The Priory of the Orange Tree
Gottfried, M.D. - Women Food And Hormones
Some good stuff. Nice breakdown of studies and detailed explanations. The “plan” itself is kind of whatever
May 1, 2023
Ishikawa, Masaji - A River in Darkness
Wyndham, John - The Midwich Cuckoos
Smith, Dodie - I Capture the Castle
Asimov, Isaac - The Caves of Steel
Anderson, Poul - The Boat of a Million Years
Hoover, Colleen - Verity
Zinsser, Dr. Nate - The Confident Mind
Barker, Emily - The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic
Corey, James S. A. - Leviathan Wakes
Hobb, Robin - The Farseer Trilogy
Ali, Nujood - I Am Nujood
Fung, Jason - The Obesity Code
Clavell, James - Shogun
Harris, Joanne - Five Quarters of the Orange
Wohlleben, Petere - The Hidden Life of Trees
Walls, Jeannette - The Glass Castle
Pratchett, Terry - The Colour of Magic
Sivers, Derek - How to Live
Schwab, V. E. - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Clarke, Arthur C. - Childhood's End
Dethmer, Jim - The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
Simmons, Dan - Hyperion
Kaysen, Susanna - Girl Interrupted
Stewart, Mary - The Crystal Cave
The Space Between Worlds
Tchaikovsky, Adrian - The Expert System's Brother
Fforde, Jasper - The Eyre Affair
Liu, Cixin - The Three-Body Problem
Pullman, Philip - The Book of Dust series
Carson, Rae - Any Sign of Life
Novik, Naomi - Uprooted
Feist, Raymond E. - Magician Apprentice
Gay, Ross - The Book of Delights
Sivers, Derek - Anything You Want
Parker-Chan, Shelley - She Who Became the Sun
Hearn, Lian - Across the Nightingale Floor
Mayler, Ray - The Mountain in the Sea
Vo, Nghi - The Empress of Salt and Fortune
Bradford, Barbara - A Woman of Substance
Dodds, Annie - A Widow's Walk Off-Grid to Self-Reliance
Aurelius, Marcus - Meditations
Turton, Stuart - The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
West, Geoffrey - Scale
Wendig, Chuck - Blightborn
Woolf, Virginia - The Voyage Out
Buck, Pearl S. - Imperial Woman
brown, adrienne maree - Emergent Strategy
Wheeler, Jeff - The Druid
White, Loreth Anne - The Maid's Diary
Tesh, Emily - Silver in the Wood
DeMille, Nelson - Plum Island
Niffenegger, Audrey - The Time Traveler's Wife
Bukowski, Charles - Factotum
Tremblay, Paul - The Cabin at the Edge of the World
Kingsolver, Barbara - The Bean Trees
Finnamore, Suzanne - Split
Arden, Katherine - The Bear and the Nightingale
Doctorow, E. L. - Welcome to Hard Times
Estés, Clarissa Pinkola - Women Who Run with the Wolves
Tan, Amy - The Bonesetter's Daughter
Wood, Charlotte - The Natural Way of Things
Bukowski, Charles - Ham on Rye
Forward, Susan - When Your Lover Is a Liar
Ann, Jewel E. - The Naked Fisherman
Ann, Jewel E. - The Lost Fisherman
Viscott, David - Emotional Resilience
Barlow, Don - Gaslighting & Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Niven, Larry - Ringworld
Jong, Erica - Fear of Flying
Rand, Ayn - The Fountainhead
Rice, Anne - The Witching Hour
Bregman, Peter - 18 Minutes
Sagan, Carl - Contact
Krishnamurti, Jiddu - Total Freedom
Banks, Iain - Consider Phlebas
Andrews, William - Daughters of the Dragon
Creevy, Patrick - Division
Abe, Kobo - The Woman in the Dunes
Terkel, Studs - Working
Frank, Pat - Alas, Babylon
Greene, Robert - Mastery
Campbell, Joseph - Myths to Live By
Beagle, Peter - The Last Unicorn
Ballantyne, Craig - The Perfect Day Formula
Yancey, Rick - The 5th Wave
Stendhal - The Red and the Black
Willingham, Stacy - A Flicker in the Dark
Cline, Ernest - Ready Player One
Wolfe, Gene - Shadow & Claw
Abhedananda, Swami - Five Lectures on Reincarnation
Dick, Philip K. - The Man in the High Castle
Brown, Brené - Dare to Lead
Cameron, Julia - The Right to Write
Pearce, Joseph Chilton - The Crack in the Cosmic Egg
Cardone, Grant - Be Obsessed or Be Average
Watts, Alan - The Wisdom of Insecurity
Carse, James P. - Finite and Infinite Games
Pirsig, Robert M. - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Cloud, Henry - The Power of the Other
Gall, John - Systemantics
Levy, Mark - Accidental Genius
Nouwen, Henri - The Inner Voice of Love
Bukowski, Charles - Essential Bukowski - Poetry
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas - Antifragile
Brooks, Roger - Build the Best You
Bate, Nicholas - You, Only Better
Andrews, Steve - Executing Execution
Smitherd, Luke - In the Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You
Ferrini, Paul - Love Without Conditions
Stephenson, Neal - Quicksilver
Ferriss, Tim - Tribe of Mentors
Spurrier, Jo - Winter Be My Shield
Bishop, Gary John - Stop Doing that Shit
Dawson, Maddie - Matchmaking for Beginners
Dass, Ram - Grist for the Mill
Byrne, Hugh G. - The Here-and-Now Habit
Chakraborty, S. A. - The City of Brass
Rhone, Patrick - Enough
Swanson, Cynthia - The Bookseller
Truant, Johnny B. - You Are Dying, and Your World Is a Lie
Hardy, Benjamin - Slipstream Time Hacking
Ferriss, Tim - Tools of Titans
Weed, Susun - New Menopausal Years - The Wise Woman Way
Huntsman, Jon - Winners Never Cheat
Tuhovsky, Ian - Mindfulness
Sunzi - The Art of War
Allen, David - Getting Things Done
Bennett, Arnold - Mental Efficiency and Other Hints to Men and Women
DiSilverio, Laura - Incubation
Travers, P. L. - Mary Poppins
Glei, Jocelyn - Maximize Your Potential
Wendig, Chuck - The Harvest
Altucher, James - Choose Yourself
Smith, Dean Wesley - Heinlein's Rules
Slater, Niall - The Second Death of Daedalus Mole
Altucher, James - Reinvent Yourself
McKeown, Greg - Essentialism
Campbell, Helen - The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking
Caddy, Florence - Household Organization
Sienkiewicz, Henry - Without Dogma
Caunt, John - How to Organize Yourself
Willink, Jocko - Discipline Equals Freedom
Ferriss, Tim - The Four Hour Workweek
Valentinus, Basilius - Of Natural and Supernatural Things
Drummond, Henry - Natural Law in the Spiritual World
Crouch, Chris - Being Productive
Carpenter, Edward - Pagan and Christian Creeds
Weor, Samael Aun - Introduction to Gnosis
Paine, Thomas - Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4
Underhill, Evelyn - Practical Mysticism a Little Book for Normal People
Trine, Ralph Waldo - The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit
Waddington, Tad - Lasting Contribution
Duchess - How I Write My Novels
Simsion, Graeme - The Rosie Project
Wallace, Kelly - No-Sweat Home Schooling
Swedenborg, Emanuel - Spiritual Life and the Word of God
Epictetus - The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Vanderkam, Laura - 168 Hours
Smiles, Samuel - Self Help; With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance
Seneca, Annaeus Lucius - On Benefits
Smith, Adam - The Wealth of Nations
Stephenson, Neal - The Diamond Age