Books I Love
A living list of books I return to for tending gardens, steadying the mind, and widening the world.
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Gardening
(notes from the dirt)
- George Weigel: Month By Month Gardening Mid Atlantic
- Martha Stewart: Martha Stewart’s Gardening Handbook
Mindfulness
(quiet things for loud days)
- Elizabeth Ashman Riley: Rage Prayers
Literature
(lantern & lore)
- Herman Melville:Moby Dick
- Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
- Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden
- James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans
- Charlottes Brontë: Jane Eyre
- Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol
- Gustavo Flaubert: Madame Bovary
- Charles Dickens:Great Expectations
Fiction
(whispers between worlds)
- Gregory Maguire:Wicked
- Andy Weir: The Martian
- Andy Weir: Project Hail Mary
- Bonnie Garmus: Lessons in Chemistry
- George RR Martin: Game of Thrones
Non Fiction
(field notes for the soul)
- Jared Diamond: Guns, Germs, And Steel
- Jeff Olson: The Slight Edge
- Pam Grout: E Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality
- David Perlmutter:Grain Brain
- James Clear: Atomic Habits
- Naomi Orestes, Erik M. Conway:Merchants of Doubt
- Robert Lustig: Metabolical
- Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow
- Andy Andrews:The Butterfly Effect
- Michael Singer:Living Untethered
- Matthew Walker: Why We Sleep
- Ron Chernow: Alexander Hamilton
- Hans Rosling:Factfulness
- John Meacham: Thomas Jefferson, The Art of Power
- Bessel Van der Kolkata, MD: The Body keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
- Malcolm Gladwell: Talking to Strangers
- Marie Kondo:The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Memoirs
(petal & thorn reads)
- Matthew McConaughey: Greenlights
- Viola Davis:Finding Me
- Tara Westover: Educated
- Adam Makos:A Higher Call
- Adam Savage: Every Tool’s a Hammer
Travel
(maps made of memories)