Not including the cookbooks I have flipped through but never read cover to cover. I have only ever read one cookbook from beginning to end and that is Claudia Flemming’s The Last Course: The Desserts of Gramercy Tavern. I am working through Modernist Bread when I visit a friend’s house, but this seems more like a lifelong embodiment.
2020
- Sacred Agriculture, by Dennis Klocek
- In Search of the Perfect Loaf, by Samuel Fromartz
- The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant
- Not in His Image, by John Lamb Lash
- When Women were Birds, by Terry Tempest Williams
- Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man, by Krishna Gopi
- The Last Chinese Chef: A Novel, by Nicole Mones
- A Tale for the Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki
- Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda
- Decoded, by Jay-Z
- For All the Tea in China, by Sarah Rose
- Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Homescale Permaculture, by Toby Hemenway
- Healing with Whole Foods, by Paul Pitchford
- MTrain, by Patti Smith
- The Mind of Mahamudra: Advice from the Kagyu Masters
- Natural Way of Farming, by Masanobu Fukoka
- Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China, by Fuchsia Dunlop
- Should Trees have Standing, by Christopher Stone
- The Way of Initiation, by Rudolph Steiner
- Women’s Power to Heal: Through Inner Medicine, by Maya Tiwari
2019
- In Love with the World, by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
- The World is Sound: Nada Brahma, by Joachim-Ernst Berendt
- A Short History of Progress, by Ronald Wright
- Emergent Strategy, by Adrienne Marie Brown
- Buddha & Love, by Lama Ole Nydahl
- Why Buddhism is True, by Robert Wright
- Sexualidades Amazónicas, by Luisa Elvira Belanude
- The Crazy Man, by Pamela Porter
- The Art Of Creative Thinking, by Rod Judkins
- The Social Contract, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Women Who Run With the Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D
- Spy of the First Person, by Sam Shepard
- The Rothko Chapel: Writings on Art and the Threshold of the Divine, by Dominique de Menil
- How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, by Alexander Chee
- Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee
- Steal Like an Artist, by Austin Kleon
- Big Magic, by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Killing Commendatore, by Haruki Murakami
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Bessel van der Kolk, MD
- The Enlightened Sex Manual, by David Deida
- The Jazz of Physics, by Stephon Alexander
- The Chronology of Water, by Lidia Yuknavitch
- Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone
- Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
- Under a Watchful Eye: Self, Power, and Intimacy in Amazonia, by Harry Walker
2018
- Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing, by Caroline Myss
- Flawless: Understanding Faults in Wine, by Jamie Goode
- A Man called Ove, by Fredrik Backman
- Love Letter to the Earth, by Thich Nhat Hanh
- The Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollan
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig
- The Call of Sedona, by Ilchi Lee
- The Solar Body, by Ilchi Lee
- The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
- Frequency, by Penney Peirce
- Born A Crime, by Trevor Noah
- Madness, Rack, and Honey, by Mary Ruefle
- Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life, by Dr. Claudi Welch, MSOM
- On Balance, edited by Charlotte Shane
- Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts, by Leonard Koren
- The Unsettling of America, by Wendell Berry
- Inheritance from Mother, by Minae Mixumura
- Moshi Moshi, by Banana Yoshimoto
- Bread: A Global History, by William Rubel
- Preserving the Japanese Way, by Nancy Singleton Hachisu
- Conversations with Artists, by Selden Rodman
- Agnes Varta between Film, Photography, and Art, by Rebecca DeRoo
- The Secret Lives of Color, by Kassia St. Clair
- Siddhartha’s Brain, by James Kingsland
2017
- Bhagavad Gita, by Eknath Easwaran
- Do Not Say We Have Nothing, by Madeliene Thien
- Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama
- Memory Wall, by Anthony Doerr
- The Vegetarian, by Han Kang
- Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus, by Charles Mingus
- I Love My Love, by Reyna Biddy
- Thank You for Being Late, by Thomas Friedman
- Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse
- Escapism, by Candice Lee
- The Creative Habit, by Twyla Twarp
- The Chaos of Longing, by K.Y. Robinson
- Creative Confidence, by Tom Kelley and David Kelley
- Little Red Book of Selling, by Jeffrey Gitomer
- Nonviolent Communication, by Marshall B. Rosenberg PhD
- Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rahkine
- Yoga for a World Out of Balance, by Michael Stone
- Ayurveda: The Science of Self-Healing, by Dr. Vasant Lad
- Altruism, by Matthieu Richard
- The Upanishads, by Eknath Easwaran
- Teaching my mother how to give birth, by Warsan Shire
- Tribes, by Seth Godin
- Mere Anarchy, by Woody Allen
- The Road Home: A Contemporary Exploration of the Buddhist Path, by Ethan Nichtern
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer
- When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi
- Rebirth, by Kamal Ravikant
- The Book of Joy, by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, with Douglas Carlton Abrams
2016
- Just my Type, by Simon Garfield
- A Little Life, by Hanya Yanaghara
- The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability, by William McDonough
- Kitchen, by Banana Yoshimoto
- A Tale for the Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki
- The Third Plate, by Dan Barber
- Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships, by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha
- Fully Present, by Susan L. Smalley, PhD and Diana Winston
- The Language of Trust by Michael Maslandky with Scott West, Gary DeMoss, and David Saylor
- The Consolations of Philosophy, by Alain de Botton
- Microtrends, by Mark J. Penn with E. Kinney Zalesne
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, by Raymond Carver
- Zero to One, by Peter Thiel
- A Million Little Pieces, by James Frey
2015:
- Norwegian Wood, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
- The Lover’s Dictionary, by David Levithan
- Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy, by Jacqueline Kennedy and Michael Beschloss
- Predictably Irrational, by Dan Ariely
- Seriously…I’m Kidding, by Ellen DeGeneres
- Go the Fuck to Sleep, by Adam Mansbach
- My Korean Deli, by Ben Ryder Howe
- Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles
- Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson
- Talking to Humans, by Giff Constable
- Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
- Moonwalking with Einstein, by Joshua Foer
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman
- Wall St. Wars, by Richard E. Farley
- Listening is an Act of Love, by Dave Isay
- A Year Without Pants, by Scott Berkum
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo
- Interaction of Color, by Josef Albers
2014:
- A Life Without Limits, by Chrissie Wellington
- 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, by Haruki Murakami
- Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
- Willpower, by Roy F. Baumeister
- Breadcrumbs, by Anne Ursu and Erin Mcguire
- Blood, Bones & Butter, by Gabrielle Hamilton
- The Hunger Games Trilogy, by Suzanne Collins
- Born to Run, Christopher McDougall
- Bossypants, by Tina Fey
- Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, by Mindy Kaling
- Lies that Chelsea Handler Told Me, by Friends and Other Victims, Chelsea’s Family, and Chelsea Handler
- Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
- Startup Life, by Brad Feld and Amy Batchelor
- Fifty Shades of Grey, by E. L. James
