nonfiction
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly - The Evolving Self
Woolf, Virginia - A Room of One's Own
Anderson, Gillian - Want
Didion, Joan - Slouching Towards Bethlehem
various - Arabian Wisdom
Burkeman, Oliver - Four Thousand Weeks
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
Danler, Stephanie - Sweetbitter
Hoffman, Eva - Lost in Translation
Zamora, Javier - Solito
Walls, Jeannette - Half Broke Horses
Doto, Bob - A System for Writing
Greene, Robert - The Laws of Human Nature
Hollis, James - A Life of Meaning
Schwartz, Richard C. - No Bad Parts
Doctorow, Cory - The Internet Con
Frankfurt, Harry G. - On Bullshit
Hamad, Ruby - White Tears, Brown Scars
Ellis, Albert - How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable
Graeber, David - Debt
The Parrot and the Igloo
Hannah, Kristin - The Great Alone
Notes
hooks, bell - All About Love
Young, Daniella - Uncultured
Fogg, B. J. - Tiny Habits
Miller, Lulu - Why Fish Don't Exist
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
Zinsser, Dr. Nate - The Confident Mind
Ali, Nujood - I Am Nujood
Fung, Jason - The Obesity Code
Wohlleben, Petere - The Hidden Life of Trees
Walls, Jeannette - The Glass Castle
Sivers, Derek - How to Live
Dethmer, Jim - The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
Gay, Ross - The Book of Delights
Sivers, Derek - Anything You Want
Dodds, Annie - A Widow's Walk Off-Grid to Self-Reliance
Aurelius, Marcus - Meditations
West, Geoffrey - Scale
brown, adrienne maree - Emergent Strategy
Finnamore, Suzanne - Split
Estés, Clarissa Pinkola - Women Who Run with the Wolves
Forward, Susan - When Your Lover Is a Liar
Viscott, David - Emotional Resilience
Barlow, Don - Gaslighting & Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Bregman, Peter - 18 Minutes
Krishnamurti, Jiddu - Total Freedom
Terkel, Studs - Working
Greene, Robert - Mastery
Campbell, Joseph - Myths to Live By
Ballantyne, Craig - The Perfect Day Formula
Abhedananda, Swami - Five Lectures on Reincarnation
Babcock - Gender Differences in the Babcock, Recalde, Vesterlund - Gender Differences in the Allocation of Low-Promotability Tasks
Published in American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 2017 A low-promotability task is one that benefits the organization but is given
February 23, 2020
Cameron, Julia - The Right to Write
Brown, Brené - Dare to Lead
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
Nouwen, Henri - The Inner Voice of Love
Cloud, Henry - The Power of the Other
Gall, John - Systemantics
Levy, Mark - Accidental Genius
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas - Antifragile
Brooks, Roger - Build the Best You
Andrews, Steve - Executing Execution
Bate, Nicholas - You, Only Better
Ferrini, Paul - Love Without Conditions
Ferriss, Tim - Tribe of Mentors
Bishop, Gary John - Stop Doing that Shit
Dass, Ram - Grist for the Mill
Byrne, Hugh G. - The Here-and-Now Habit
Rhone, Patrick - Enough
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
Glei, Jocelyn - Maximize Your Potential
Altucher, James - Choose Yourself
Smith, Dean Wesley - Heinlein's Rules
Altucher, James - Reinvent Yourself
McKeown, Greg - Essentialism
Campbell, Helen - The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking
Caddy, Florence - Household Organization
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
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