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2025 Favorite Books Read

The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life – Janice Kaplan
I Still Dream About You – Fannie Flagg
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals – Oliver Burkeman
Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy – Joanna Macy
Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul – Stuart Brown
I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You – Miranda Hart
We Will Be Jaguars – Nemonte Nenquimo
Somebody I Used To Know – Wendy Mitchell
The Names – Florence Kanpp
Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion – Pema Chödrön
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life – Twyla Tharp
The Whole Town’s Talking – Fannie Flagg
Raising Hare: A Memoir – Chloe Dalton
Standing in the Rainbow – Fannie Flagg
Welcome To The World, Baby Girl – Fanny Flagg
Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life – Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend – Patricia McConnell
Lovely One: A Memoir – Kejanji Jackson Brown
Happiness is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old – John Leland
The Let Them Theory – Mel Robbins
When the World Fell Silent – Donna Alward
You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life – Eleanor Roosevelt
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism – Rachael Maddow
Uncovering Happiness – Elisha Goldstein
Something Lost, Something Gained – Hillary Rodham Clinton
Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven – Fannie Flagg
Caleb’s Crossing – Geraldine Brooks
Memorial Days – Geraldine Brooks
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource– Chris Hayes
Dopamine Nation – Anna Lembke
The Shoemaker’s Wife – Adriana Trigiani
Gentle: Rest More, Stress Less, and Live the Life You Actually Want – Courtney Carver
The Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague – Geraldine Brooks
The Myth of Normal – Gabor Maté
Birding to Change the World: A Memoir – Trish O’Kane
The Way of Integrity – Martha Beck
We All Live Here – JoJo Moyes
This Tender Land – William Kent Kreuger
Think Like a Monk – Jay Shetty
Becoming a Gardener – Catie Marron
Winter Garden – Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale – Kristin Hannah
Tell Me Everything – Elizabeth Strout
Scientist: E.O. Wilson – Richard Rhodes
Mad Honey – Jodi Picoult
Jacqueline in Paris – Ann Mah
Stella Bain – Anita Shreve
Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food – Jan Chozen Bays
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI – Yuval Noah Harari
The Art and Science of Connection: Why Social Health is the Missing Key to Living Longer, Healthier and Happier – Kasley Killam
The Empahy Effect – Helen Riess

2024 Favorite Books Read

Brooklyn – Colm Toibin
The Insomnia Answer – Paul Glovinsky
The Creative Act: A Way of Being – by Rick Rubin
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us – Susan Magsamen
The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul – Connie Zweig
When Perfect Isn’t Good Enough: Strategies for Coping with Perfectionism – Martin Antony
The Birth of Pleasure – Carol Gilligan
Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential–and Endangered – Bruce Perry
Leadership in Turbulent Times – Doris Kearns Goodwin
No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters – Ursula Le Guin
The Grace in Aging: Awaken as You Grow Older – Kathleen Dowling Singh
Horse – Geraldine Brooks
The Women – Kristin Hannah
Orphan Train – Christina Baker Kline
The Authenticity Project – Clare Pooley
Wish You Were Here – Jodi Picoult
The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir – Jennifer Ryan
Tom Lake – Ann Patchett
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life – Dacher Keltner
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art – James Nestor
The Scent Keeper – Erica Bauermeister