Book Recommendations

An ever-evolving list of books that have inspired me.


Non-Fiction

Jenny Odell, “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy”

Oliver Burkeman “How to Do Nothing”

Heather McGee “The Sum of Us”

Leslie Jamison, “The Recovering”

Michelle Zauner, “Crying in H Mart”

Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” and “The Year of Magical Thinking”

Patti Smith, “Just Kids”

Jen Sincero, “You Are a Bad Ass” and “You Are a Bad Ass at Making Money”

Amanda Eyre Ward and Jardine Libaire, “The Sober Lush”

Annie Grace, “This Naked Mind”

Rachel Rodgers, “We Should All Be Millionaires”

Eric Holthaus, “The Future Earth”

Fiction

Zadie Smith, “NW”

Jenny Offill, “Dept. of Speculation”

Jennifer Egan, “A Visit from the Goon Squad”

Claire Vaye Watkins, “Battleborn,” and “Gold, Fame, Citrus”

Elizabeth Gilbert, “Eat Pray Love”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “Americanah”

Michael Ondaatje, “Coming Through Slaughter”

Jonathan Franzen, “Freedom”

Jeffrey Eugenides, “The Marriage Plot”