• ▢ alan gordon - the way out
• ▢ alex ross - the rest is noise
• ▢ allie brosh - hyperbole & a half
• ▢ allie brosh - solutions & other problems
• ▢ andrew solomon - the noonday demon
• ▢ angela davis - freedom is a constant struggle
• ▢ angela duckworth - grit
• ▢ anne fadiman - ex libris
• ▢ anthony bourdain - a cook's tour
• ▢ aparna nancherla - unreliable narrator
• ▢ arielle schwartz - the complex ptsd workbook
• ▢ banksy - banging your head against a brick wall
• ▢ ben lerner - the hatred of poetry
• ▢ bertrand russell - in praise of idleness
• ▢ bill keaggy - milk eggs vodka
• ▢ brianna wiest - essays to change the way you think*
• ▢ brianna wiest - the mountain is you
• ▢ brittney cooper - eloquent rage
• ▢ bruce perry - what happened to you?
• ▢ cal newport - digital minimalism
• ▢ carl rogers - on becoming a person
• ▢ carol dweck - mindset
• ▢ caroline criado perez - invisible women
• ▢ cathy park hong - minor feelings
• ▢ cecelia watson - semicolon
• ▢ charles d'ambrosio - loitering*
• ▢ charles montgomery - happy city
• ▢ chelsea hodson - tonight i'm someone else
• ▢ chimamanda ngozi adichie - a feminist manifesto*
• ▢ chip heath - made to stick
• ▢ chuck klosterman - the nineties
• ▢ claudia rankine - citizen
• ▢ cliff kuang - user friendly
• ▢ colin ellard - places of the heart*
• ▢ damon krukowski - ways of hearing
• ▢ dan ariely - predictably irrational
• ▢ dan ariely - the honest truth about dishonesty
• ▢ dan ariely - the upside of irrationality
• ▢ daniel todd gilbert - stumbling on happiness
• ▢ darius foroux - think straight: change yr thoughts*
• ▢ david byrne - how music works
• ▢ david eagleman - incognito
• ▢ david foster wallace - quack this way
• ▢ david graeber - bullshit jobs
• ▢ david graeber - the utopia of rules
• ▢ david lieberman - mindreader*
• ▢ david mamet - writing in restaurants
• ▢ david rakoff - fraud: essays
• ▢ david rakoff - half empty*
• ▢ david sedaris - barrel fever
• ▢ david sedaris - theft by finding
• ▢ durga chew-bose - too much & not in the mood
• ▢ edward de bono - the use of lateral thinking*
• ▢ elaine aron - the highly sensitive person*
• ▢ emily anthes - the great indoors
• ▢ esme weijun wang - the collected schizophrenias
• ▢ ethan kross - chatter: the voice in our head
• ▢ fran lebowitz - the fran lebowitz reader
• ▢ gabor mate - scattered minds*
• ▢ gabor mate - when the body says no*
• ▢ gary gulman - misfit
• ▢ gary janetti - start without me
• ▢ george orwell - books v. cigarettes
• ▢ george orwell - why i write
• ▢ george saunders - congratulations, by the way
• ▢ george saunders - the braindead megaphone
• ▢ greg mckeown - essentialism
• ▢ hanif abdurraqib - they can't kill us til they kill us
• ▢ hannah fry - human in the age of algorithms
• ▢ hillary mcbride - the wisdom of your body
• ▢ italo calvino - 6 memos for the next millennium
• ▢ jackson mackenzie - whole again
• ▢ jan gehl - life between buildings*
• ▢ jane alison - meander, spiral, explode
• ▢ janina fisher - healing fragmented selves of trauma
• ▢ jarrett walker - human transit*
• ▢ jeff chang - can't stop won't stop
• ▢ jeff speck - walkable city*
• ▢ jennie allen - get out of your head
• ▢ jenny lawson - furiously happy
• ▢ jenny odell - how to do nothing
• ▢ jenny slate - marcel the shell with shoes on*
• ▢ jesse anderson - extra focus
• ▢ jhumpa lahiri - the clothing of books*
• ▢ joan didion - let me tell you what i mean
• ▢ joan didion - slouching towards bethlehem
• ▢ joan didion - the white album
• ▢ joan didion - we tell ourselves stories... to live
• ▢ john berger - ways of seeing
• ▢ john gottman - the relationship cure*
• ▢ john petrocelli - life-changing science of detecting bs*
• ▢ jon ronson - the psychopath test
• ▢ jonah berger - magic words*
• ▢ jonathan franzen - how to be alone
• ▢ jonathan franzen - the discomfort zone
• ▢ jonice webb - running on empty
• ▢ jonny sun - goodbye, again
• ▢ jordan kisner - thin places: essays
• ▢ joshua foer - moonwalking with einstein
• ▢ kassia st clair - the secret lives of color
• ▢ kate murphy - you're not listening
• ▢ katharine harmon - you are here: personal geographies
• ▢ katherine schafler - perfectionist guide to losing control*
• ▢ kiese laymon - how to slowly kill yrself & others
• ▢ laura bates - men who hate women
• ▢ lauren hough - leaving isn't the hardest thing
• ▢ legs mcneil - please kill me
• ▢ leslie jamison - make it scream, make it burn
• ▢ leslie jamison - the empathy exams
• ▢ maeve higgens - tell everyone on this train i love them
• ▢ maggie nelson - the argonauts
• ▢ maggie smith - you could make this place beautiful
• ▢ marie kondo - joy at work*
• ▢ marina keegan - the opposite of loneliness
• ▢ mark miodownik - stuff matters
• ▢ marshall rosenberg - nonviolent communication*
• ▢ maureen seaberg - the synesthesia experience
• ▢ maya angelou - letter to my daughter
• ▢ meghan daum - the unspeakable
• ▢ melissa broder - so sad today
• ▢ melissa febos - girlhood
• ▢ melody beattie - codependent no more
• ▢ michelle mays - the betrayal bind*
• ▢ mihaly csikszentmihalyi - flow
• ▢ mikki kendall - hood feminism
• ▢ nassim nicholas taleb - antifragile
• ▢ nate sloan - switched on pop
• ▢ neil gaiman - art matters
• ▢ neil gaiman - the view from the cheap seats
• ▢ neil postman - amusing ourselves to death
• ▢ nir eyal - hooked
• ▢ oliver burkeman - four thousand weeks*
• ▢ oliver saks - the man who mistook his wife for a hat
• ▢ olivia laing - funny weather
• ▢ olivia laing - the lonely city
• ▢ patrick syme - werner's nomenclature of colours
• ▢ priya parker - the art of gathering*
• ▢ richard schwartz - no bad parts*
• ▢ rick rubin - the creative act
• ▢ rob sheffield - turn around bright eyes
• ▢ roman mars - the 99% invisible city
• ▢ ross gay - the book of delights
• ▢ roxanne gay - hunger
• ▢ roxanne gay - not that bad
• ▢ samantha irby - meaty
• ▢ samantha irby - quietly hostile
• ▢ sandra cisneros - a house of my own*
• ▢ shahida arabi - power*
• ▢ shahida arabi - the highly sensitive person*
• ▢ shaunti feldhahn - for women: inner lives of men
• ▢ sheila liming - hanging out
• ▢ slavoj zizek - absolute recoil
• ▢ stefan fatsis - wordfreak
• ▢ stephanie foo - what my bones know*
• ▢ stephen d. levitt - superfreakonomics
• ▢ steve almond - candyfreak
• ▢ steven johnson - mind wide open
• ▢ susan sontag - regarding the pain of others
• ▢ tao lin - shoplifting from american apparel*
• ▢ terese marie mailhot - heart berries
• ▢ tressie mcmillan cottom - thick
• ▢ umberto eco - travels in hyperreality
• ▢ will gompertz - where you are
• ▢ zadie smith - intimations

(completed)

• ☑ alain de botton - the architecture of happiness
• ☑ augusten burroughs - running with scissors
• ☑ bessel van der kolk - the body keeps the score
• ☑ bill bryson - the body: a guide for occupants
• ☑ brianna wiest - when you're rdy...how you heal
• ☑ charles bukowski - screams from the balcony
• ☑ charles duhigg - the power of habit
• ☑ chuck klosterman - but what if we're wrong?
• ☑ chuck klosterman - eating the dinosaur
• ☑ chuck klosterman - sex, drugs, and cocoa puffs
• ☑ d.t. max - every love story is a ghost story
• ☑ dan kennedy - the new psycho-cybernetics
• ☑ dana morningstar - out of the fog
• ☑ daniel goleman - emotional intelligence
• ☑ daniel kahneman - thinking fast & slow
• ☑ daniel levitin - this is your brain on music
• ☑ david foster wallace - a supposedly fun thing...
• ☑ david foster wallace - both flesh & not
• ☑ david foster wallace - consider the lobster
• ☑ david foster wallace - this is water
• ☑ david foster wallace & mark costello - signifying rappers
• ☑ ella frances sanders - lost in translation
• ☑ eric schlosser - fast food nation
• ☑ ethan waters - globalization of the american psyche
• ☑ fumio sasaki - the new japanese minimalism
• ☑ gretchen mcculloch - because internet
• ☑ gretchen rubin - the happiness project
• ☑ henry david thoreau - walden & civil disobedience
• ☑ james clear - atomic habits
• ☑ jen 8 lee - the fortune cookie chronicles
• ☑ jenny slate - little weirds
• ☑ jia tolentino - trick mirror
• ☑ joan didion - the year of magical thinking
• ☑ joe dominguez - your money or your life
• ☑ john elder robison - look me in the eye
• ☑ john medina - brain rules
• ☑ john moe - the hilarious world of depression
• ☑ k. ravikant - love yrself like yr life depends on it
• ☑ kay redfield jamison - an unquiet mind
• ☑ kay redfield jamison - touched with fire
• ☑ keri smith - the wander society
• ☑ lindsay gibson - adult children of emotionally immature parents
• ☑ lundy bancroft - why does he do that?
• ☑ malcolm gladwell - blink
• ☑ malcolm gladwell - david & goliath
• ☑ malcolm gladwell - outliers
• ☑ malcolm gladwell - the tipping point
• ☑ marie kondo - life-changing magic of tidying up
• ☑ marya hornbacher - madness
• ☑ marya hornbacher - wasted
• ☑ michael azerrad - our band could be your life
• ☑ michelle zauner - crying in h-mart
• ☑ nagisa tatsumi - the art of discarding
• ☑ olivia fox cabane - the charisma myth
• ☑ pete walker - complex ptsd
• ☑ ramani durvasula - should i stay or should i go?
• ☑ samantha irby - wow, no thank you
• ☑ steven levitt - freakonomics
• ☑ susan cain - quiet: the power of introverts
• ☑ susan cain - the power of introverts
• ☑ susannah cahalan - brain on fire
• ☑ tao lin - trip: psychedelics, alienation & change
• ☑ tracy kidder - mountains beyond mountains
• ☑ virginia woolf - a room of one's own
• ☑ william higginson - the haiku handbook
• ☑ william strunk jr - the elements of style