I love to read! Memoirs especially, as you’ll see. Here are some books that have stayed with me, or which left their mark at the time of reading.
** = super-favorites & rereads.
Spiritual/Healing
“Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing” by Caroline Myss
** “Belonging” by Toko-pa Turner
“The Book of Ceremony: Shamanic Wisdom for Invoking the Sacred in Everyday Life” by Sandra Ingerman
“The Dark Side of the Light Chasers” by Debbie Ford
“The Gift of Change” by Marianne Williamson
“The Light Between Us: Stories from Heaven, Lessons for the Living” by Laura Lynne Jackson
** “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of ‘A Course in Miracles'” by Marianne Williamson
“Making Magic: Weaving Together the Everyday and the Extraordinary” by Brianna Saussy
“My Grandfather’s Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging” by Rachel Naomi Remen
“A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose” by Eckhart Tolle
“The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire” by Deepak Chopra
“Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World” by Perdita Finn
“Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind Body Medicine” by Deepak Chopra
** “Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics” by Mirabai Starr
Earth
“Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants” by Robin Wall Kimmerer
“The Curious Nature Guide” by Clare Walker Leslie
“Erosion: Essays of Undoing” by Terry Tempest Williams
“The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America” by Timothy Egan
Author: Starhawk
Plants
“The China Study” by T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II
“In Defense of Food” by Michael Pollan
“The Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollan
“Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food” by Megan Kimble
Graphic Memoirs
“Little Fish: A Memoir from a Different Kind of Year” by Ramsey Beyer
“Year One” by Ramsey Beyer
Memoir
“The Art of Asking” by Amanda Palmer
“Becoming” by Michelle Obama
“Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage into Motherhood” by Molly Caro May
“Comedy Sex God” by Pete Holmes
“Crazy Brave” by Joy Harjo
“The Dance of the Dissident Daughter” by Sue Monk Kidd
“Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic” by Martha Beck
“The Folded Clock: A Diary” by Heidi Julavits
“Formation: A Woman’s Memoir of Stepping Out of Line” by Ryan Leigh Dostie
“The Great Failure: A Bartender, A Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth” by Natalie Goldberg
“Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter” by Nina MacLaughlin
“I Miss You When I Blink: Essays” by Mary Laura Philpott
“If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir” by Ilana Kurshan
“Just Kids” by Patti Smith
** “The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness” by Sarah Ramey
“Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter’s School” by Courtney E. Martin
“Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith” by Martha Beck
“Love Warrior” by Glennon Doyle Melton
“The Map of Enough: One Woman’s Search for Place” by Molly Caro May
“Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed” by Lori Gottlieb
Medicine Woman series by Lynn V. Andrews
“More Myself: A Journey” by Alicia Keys
“My Life in France” by Julia Child
“The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad” by Mike Birbiglia
** “Ongoingness: The End of a Diary” by Sarah Manguso
“Open Book” by Jessica Simpson
** “Priestdaddy” by Patricia Lockwood
“Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place” by Terry Tempest Williams
** “Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here” by Angela Palm
“See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love” by Valarie Kaur
“Small Fry: A Memoir” by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
“Three Women” by Lisa Taddeo
“Untamed” by Glennon Doyle
“Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time” by Andrew Forsthoefel
“We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life” by Laura McKowen
“Widening Circles: A Memoir” by Joanna Macy
“The Yellow Envelope: One Gift, Three Rules, and a Life-Changing Journey Around the World” by Kim Dinan
Add’l Non-fiction
“Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture” by Shannon Hayes
“The Gifts of Imperfection” by Brené Brown
“If Women Rose Rooted: The Power of the Celtic Woman” by Sharon Blackie
“Many Lives, Many Masters” by Brian L. Weiss
“P|andemic: Fear Is the Virus, Truth Is the Cure” by Mikki Willis
“Tiny Beautiful Things” by Cheryl Strayed
“Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Animals” by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Writing
“Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear” by Elizabeth Gilbert
“On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft” by Stephen King
“Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft” by Natalie Goldberg
“Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life” by Natalie Goldberg
“Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within” by Natalie Goldberg
“Writing Wild: Forming a Creative Partnership with Nature” by Tina Welling
Fiction
“A Prayer for Owen Meany” by John Irving
“Banana Rose” by Natalie Goldberg
“The Book of Ruth” by Jane Hamilton
“The Dictionary of Lost Words” by Pip Williams
“If I Tell You the Truth” by Jasmin Kaur
**”The Fifth Sacred Thing” by Starhawk
“The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig
“The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern
“Tell the Wolves I’m Home” by Carol Rifka Brunt
“Silver Sparrow” by Tayari Jones
“There There” by Tommy Orange
“The Signature of All Things” by Elizabeth Gilbert
“When Women Were Dragons” by Kelly Barnhill
Children’s/Young Adult
“The Book of Boy” by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
“Chasing Redbird” by Sharon Creech
Guardians of Time trilogy by Marianne Curley
“Old Magic” by Marianne Curley
“Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh” by Robert C. O’Brien
“The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster
“Walk Two Moons” by Sharon Creech
Poetry
“The Trees The Trees” by Heather Christle
Poet: Mary Oliver
The Year in Books
At the end of each year I share my favorite 10 books or so, with a quick summary/review of each.
>> Past Years in Books: 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 } 2022 | 2024
Have a book recommendation for me? I’d love to hear it!