Reading List (2018-2019)

I often get asked what I’m reading, and it’s one of my favorite things to talk about. Here’s my reading list from 2018-2019 complete with links and authors. I don’t finish books that I wouldn’t recommend, for the most part, so consider this a rec list as well! Happy reading. Let me know what your favorites are…

2019

1. The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts

2. Those Who Knew: A Novel by Idra Novey

3. The Essential Enneagram by David Daniels & Virginia Price

4. Shameless: A Sexual Reformation by Nadia Bolz-Weber

5. Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business by Paul Jarvis

6. Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women by Sarah Bargiela

7. Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe by Richard Rohr

8. Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon 

9. This: Becoming Free by Michael Gungor (Vishnu Dass)

10. MaddAddam: A Novel by Margaret Atwood

11. Millenneagram: The Enneagram Guide for Discovering Your Truest, Baddest Self by Hannah Paasch

12. The Heart Goes Last: A Novel by Margaret Atwood

13. The Handmaid’s Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood

14. The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah

15. You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity by Jamie Lee Finch

16. The Runaway Species: how human creativity remakes the world by Anthony Brandt and David Eagleman

17. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino 

18. The Testaments: The Sequel to the Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

19. Twisted: The Story of Larry Nassar and the Women Who Took Him Down by Mary Pilon, Carla Correa 

20. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

21. The Parable of the Sower: A Novel by Octavia Butler

22. The Parable of the Talents: A Novel (Sequel to the Parable of the Sower) by Octavia Butler

23. The Farm: A Novel by Joanne Ramos

24. Station Eleven: A Novel by Emily St. John Mandel

25. Unsheltered: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver

26. Against Creativity by Oli Mould

2018

1. End of the Perfect Ten: The Making and Breaking of Gymnastic’s Top Score by Dvora Meyers

2. God: A Human History by Reza Aslan

3. The Path Between Us: An Enneagram Journey to Healthy Relationships by Suzanne Stabile

4. Being Boss by Kathleen Shannon & Emily Thompson

5. Unbelievable: Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today by John Shelby Spong

6. Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening by Diana Butler Bass

7. My Best Self: Using the Enneagram to Free the Soul by Hurley & Dobson

8. The Science of Creativity (TIME Magazine)

9. The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream by Courtney E. Martin

10. Oryx & Crake: A Novel by Margaret Atwood

11. The Year of the Flood: A Novel by Margaret Atwood

12. A Religion of One’s Own: A Guide to Creating a Personal Spirituality in a Secular World by Thomas Moore

13. Good & Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister

14. Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life by Cleo Wade

15. Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. by Brene Brown

16. The Power: A Novel by Naomi Alderman

Want more? Click here for 2017’s list.