• In Cities of Coin and Spice, by Catherynne M. Valente*
• Rising Strong, by Brene Brown, PhD, LMSW
• Your Soul is a River, by Nakita Gill
• The Signature of All Things, by Elizabeth Gilbert
• What We Talk About When We Talk About God, by Rob Bell
• Radiance, by Catherynne M. Valente
• Sex God, by Rob Bell
• The Refrigerator Monologues, by Catherynne M. Valente
• Symptoms of Being Human, by Jeff Garvin
• Palimpsest, by Catherynne M. Valente
• A Grief Observed, by C. S. Lewis
• A Step From Falling, by Cammie McGovern(this was terrible, don't read it)
• Regarding the Pain of Others, by Susan Sontag
• Writing as a Way of Healing, by Louise DeSalvo
• Here I Am, by Johnathan Safran Foer
• Snow & Rose, by Emily Winfield Martin

(* means re-read)