
WHAT I'M READING
THE TEETERING STACK ON MY BEDSIDE TABLE:
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
I’m Happy Just to be Here by Janelle Hannchett
Let’s Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
Motherland by Elissa Altman
My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me by Jason B. Rosenthal
The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie
The Escape Artist by Helen Fremont
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
CONSUMED IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS:
American Harvest by Marie Matsuki Mockett
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Maid by Stephanie Land
Native Guard by Natasha Trethaway
Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Stray by Stephanie Dansler
The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Honey Bus by Meredith May
The Poet “X” by Elizabeth Azevedo
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
FAVORITE BOOKS and AUTHORS
GODDESSES AND GODS OF MEMOIR:
Alexandra Fuller (Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight)
Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird)
Augusten Burroughs (Running With Scissors)
Caroline Knapp (Drinking: A Love Story)
David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day)
Dorothy Allison (Bastard out of Carolina)
Gerald Durrell (My Family and Other Animals)
Jeanette Walls (the Glass Castle)
FAVORITE MEMOIRS OF ALL TIME:
A Thousand Naked Strangers by Kevin Hazzard
Bettyville by George Hodgman
Breaking Night by Liz Murray
Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich
Educated by Tara Westover
Gone Feral by Novella Carpenter
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
Population 485 by Michael Perry
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty
True Notebooks by Mark Salzman
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
FAVORITE NON-FICTION:
An Omnivore’s Dilemna by Michael Pollan
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Coleman
Epitaph for a Peach by David Masumoto
In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate
Quiet by Susan Cain
Shop Class as Soul Craft by Matthew Crawford
The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons
The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything by James Martin, S.J.
