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Personal Reading List

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2022

My favorite books of the year are emphasized.

  1. Heavy, Kiese Laymon
  2. 5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life: Identifying and Dealing with Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Other High-Conflict Personalities, Bill Eddy
  3. The Star Thrower, Loren Eiseley
  4. Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro, Allison K. Williams
  5. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction, Patricia Highsmith
  6. The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need, Blake Snyder
  7. The Reading List, Sara Nisha Adams
  8. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, David Grann
  9. The Guncle, Steven Rowley
  10. Loneliness and Love, Clark Moustakas
  11. Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
  12. Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court’s Ruling, Linda Greenhouse & Reva B. Siegel
  13. Demons, Fyodor Dostoevsky
  14. The Judge’s List, John Grisham
  15. Talk Like Ted, Carmine Gallo
  16. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
  17. High School, Sara Quin, Tegan Quin
  18. What Dreams May Come, Richard Matheson
  19. A Fatal Grace, Louise Penny
  20. Still Life, Louise Penny
  21. Running Blind, Lee Child
  22. State of Terror, Louise Penny, Hillary Rodham Clinton
  23. The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
  24. Killing Floor, Lee Child
  25. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
  26. The Small Big, Robert B. Cialdini, Noah J. Goldstein
  27. The Final Empire, Brandon
  28. Lilac Girls, Martha Hall Kelly
  29. Triple, Ken Follett
  30. The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates
  31. I Must Betray You, Rita Sepetys
  32. The Red and the Black, Stendhal
  33. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J. K. Rowling
  34. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. K. Rowling
  35. The Last Time I Saw You, Liv Constantine
  36. The Trespasser, Tana French
  37. The Searcher, Tana French
  38. Stiff, Mary Roach
  39. Cibola Burn, James S. A. Corey
  40. Abaddon’s Gate, James S. A. Corey
  41. The Light of Days, Judy Batalion
  42. Faithful Place, Tana French
  43. Broken Harbor, Tana French
  44. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Mark Manson
  45. Patricia Highsmith, Patricia Highsmith
  46. The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman
  47. Station Eleven, Emily St. John
  48. Caliban’s War, James S. A. Corey
  49. Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey
  50. The Paper Place, Miranda Cowley Heller

2021

  1. Criss Cross, James Patterson
  2. Rabbits, Terry Miles & Christine Lakin
  3. The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe, Steven Novella
  4. Behind Closed Doors, B. A. Paris
  5. Raven Black, Ann Cleeves
  6. Sixteen Horses, Greg Buchanan
  7. Waking Up, Sam Harris
  8. The Dilemma, B. A. Paris
  9. Ready Player One, Ernest Cline & Wil Wheaton
  10. Ready Player Two, Ernest Cline & Wil Wheaton
  11. The Push, Ashley Audrain & Marin Ireland
  12. Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro & Sura Siu
  13. The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
  14. Cure, Robin Cook
  15. Marker, Robin Cook
  16. Contagion, Robin Cook & Arthur Addison
  17. The First Family, Michael Palmer & Daniel Palmer
  18. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
  19. Fall of Giants, Ken Follett & John Lee
  20. Winter of the World, Ken Follett
  21. The Evening and the Morning, Ken Follett & John Lee
  22. American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins
  23. The Stand, Stephen King & Grover Gardner
  24. The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich
  25. Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff
  26. The Dutch House, Ann Patchett
  27. Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell
  28. Dune, Frank Herbert **
  29. Eyes of Prey, John Sandford
  30. Winter Prey, John Sandford
  31. Easy Prey, John Sandford
  32. Chosen Prey, John Sandford
  33. Mortal Prey, John Sandford
  34. Naked Prey, John Sandford
  35. Celine, Peter Heller & Kimberly Farr
  36. The Painter, Peter Heller & Mark Deakins
  37. Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo
  38. Gray Mountain, John Grisham

2020

  1. The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt
  2. Before We Were Yours, Lisa Wingate
  3. Journal of a Solitude,May Sarton
  4. Girl, Wash Your Face, Rachel Hollis
  5. All You Can Ever Know, Nicole Chung
  6. One Second After, William R. Forstchen
  7. One Year After, William R. Forstchen
  8. A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal, Jen Waite
  9. What Alice Forgot, Liane Moriarty
  10. Stepmonster, Wednesday Martin **
  11. A Three Dog Life, Abigail Thomas
  12. Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory, Maureen Murdock
  13. Daemon, Daniel Suarez
  14. The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
  15. Firestarter, Stephen King
  16. A Virtuous Woman, Kaye Gibbons
  17. Henry Miller on Writing, Henry Miller
  18. People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil, M. Scott Peck
  19. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway
  20. Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche, Robert A. Johnson
  21. Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, Anne Lamott
  22. The Collected Stories, Eudora Welty
  23. The Green Mile, Stephen King
  24. White Man’s Grave, Richard Dooling
  25. Coming Home to Myself, Marion Woodman
  26. Dancing in the Flames, Marion Woodman
  27. A Walker in the City, Alfred Kazin
  28. Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank
  29. The Middle of Everywhere, Mary Pipher
  30. The Shelter of Each Other, Mary Pipher
  31. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
  32. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
  33. The Complete Poems, Anne Sexton
  34. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X **
  35. Strength to Love, Martin Luther King, Jr.
  36. Final Gifts, Maggie Callanan
  37. Poster Child: A Memoir, Emily Rapp
  38. Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life, James Hollis
  39. Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith, Barbara Brown Taylor
  40. How to Do the Work, Nicole LePera
  41. The Therapist, B. A. Paris
  42. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders
  43. Tenth of December, George Saunders
  44. Not a Happy Family, Shari Lapena & Ellen Archer
  45. On Writing, Stephen King ***
  46. Writing Great Fiction, James Hynes
  47. Bloodless, Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston
  48. Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott **
  49. The President’s Daughter, Bill Clinton & James Patterson

2019

  1. Forward from Here: Leaving Middle Age, and Other Unexpected Adventures, Reeve Lindbergh
  2. Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham
  3. Torn from My Heart: The True Story of a Mother’s Desperate Search for Her Stolen Children, Heymans
  4. Rites and Symbols of Initiation, Mircea Eliade
  5. Atonement, Ian McEwan
  6. American Nations, Colin Woodward
  7. Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie
  8. Women Rowing North, Mary Pipher
  9. Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport & Will Damron
  10. Never Eat Alone, Keith Ferrazzi & Richard Harries
  11. White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo & Michael Eric Dyson
  12. Find Your Why, Simon Sinek & David Mead
  13. Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg *
  14. Inheritance, Dani Shapiro
  15. Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
  16. Uprooted, Naomi Novik & Julia Emelin
  17. The Final Day, William R. Forstchen
  18. Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
  19. The Outsider, Stephen King
  20. The Rules Do Not Apply, Ariel Levy
  21. Becoming, Michelle Obama
  22. How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan
  23. Night, Elie Wiesel
  24. The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman *
  25. The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman *
  26. The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman
  27. Inner Gold: Understanding Psychological Projection, Robert A. Johnson
  28. The Road Less Traveled, M. Scott Peck *
  29. The Mother Dance: How Children Change Your Life, Harriet Lerner
  30. My Childhood, Maxim Gorky
  31. The Woman Destroyed, Simone de Beauvoir
  32. A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, Gregory Clark

2018

  1. The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, Dalai Lama XIV
  2. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, Michael Lewis
  3. A Column of Fire, Ken Follett
  4. The Rules Do Not Apply, Ariel Levy
  5. Educated, Tara Westover
  6. The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah
  7. Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved, Kate Bowler
  8. Find Your Why: A Practical Guide to Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team, Simon Sinek
  9. The Final Day, William R. Forstchen
  10. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, Angela Duckworth
  11. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, Cal Newport
  12. All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
  13. The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait, Blake Bailey
  14. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving
  15. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,George R. R. Martin
  16. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  17. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari
  18. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
  19. Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
  20. About Grace, Anthony Doerr
  21. Wild, Cheryl Strayed
  22. Debt of Honor, Tom Clancy
  23. The Cardinal of the Kremlin, Tom Clancy
  24. The Problem of Suffering: A Father’s Thoughts, Gregory Schulz
  25. The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
  26. A Map of the World, Jane Hamilton
  27. Forward the Foundation, Isaac Asimov
  28. Salem’s Lot, Stephen King
  29. Silas Marner, George Eliot
  30. Plant Dreaming Deep, May Sarton
  31. The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls
  32. The Lost Daughters of China, Karin Evans
  33. Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession, Anne Rice
  34. The Glass Bead Game, Hermann Hesse
  35. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte **
  36. Tsar, Ted Bell
  37. The Lost Tools of Learning, Dorothy L. Sayers
  38. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
  39. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
  40. Candide, Voltaire
  41. Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
  42. Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir, Neely Tucker
  43. Richard III, William Shakespeare

2016-2017

  1. A Clear and Present Danger: Narcissism in the Era of Donald Trump, Leonard Cruz
  2. Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, Viet Thanh Nguyen
  3. The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
  4. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, Nancy Isenberg
  5. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, J. D. Vance
  6. LaRose, Louise Erdrich
  7. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide, Carol Anderson
  8. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond
  9. Lab Girl, Hope Jahren
  10. The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
  11. The Complete Court of Memory, James McConkey
  12. On the Salem Witch Trials: The Wonders of the Invisible World, Cotton Mather
  13. Keats: Poems, John Keats
  14. Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit
  15. Circle of Friends, Maeve Binchy
  16. Dracula, Bram Stoker *
  17. Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann *
  18. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett ***
  19. Joan of Arc, Mark Twain
  20. The Light Princess, George MacDonald *
  21. The Princess and the Goblin, George MacDonald *
  22. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley **
  23. Sula, Toni Morrison *
  24. Blindness, Jose Saramago
  25. Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction, David Sheff
  26. The Blessing Way, Tony Hillerman
  27. Rabbit is Rich, John Updike
  28. Pensees, Blaise Pascal *
  29. Leaving My Father’s House: A Journey to Conscious Femininity, Marion Woodman
  30. Ender’s Shadow, Orson Scott Card
  31. Shadow of the Hegemon, Orson Scott Card
  32. Shadow Puppets, Orson Scott Card
  33. Shadow of the Giant, Orson Scott Card
  34. Shadows in Flight, Orson Scott Card
  35. The Last Shadow, Orson Scott Card
  36. Tell Me Everything You Don’t Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life, Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
  37. The Last Kingdom,  Bernard Cornwell

2014-2015

  1. I Thought We’d Never Speak Again: The Road from Estrangement to Reconciliation, Laura Davis
  2. The Ramayana: A Modern Translation, Valmiki
  3. The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis *
  4. Milton: Poems, John Milton
  5. Individuation and Narcissism: The Psychology of Self in Jung and Kohut, Mario Jacoby
  6. The Bounty Trilogy, Charles Bernard Nordhoff *
  7. Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, John Freeman
  8. Calypso, David Sedaris
  9. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Steven Pinker
  10. Fascism: A Warning, Madeleine Albright
  11. Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No, Henry Cloud
  12. Music: An Appreciation, Roger Kamien
  13. The Principles of Psychology: Volume 2, William James
  14. Did You Ever Have a Family, Bill Clegg
  15. Out of the Woods: A Memoir of Wayfinding, Lynn Darling
  16. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Greg McKeown
  17. Letters to My Daughter, Maya Angelou
  18. Cultural Orphans in America, Diana Loercher Pazicky
  19. Emma, Jane Austen **
  20. 1776, David McCullough
  21. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
  22. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky **
  23. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky **
  24. Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society’s Unwanted, Thomas Szasz
  25. The Power of Less, Leo Babauta
  26. The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank  **
  27. How to Influence Children, Charles E. Schaefer
  28. Dune, Frank Herbert **
  29. The Lore of the Unicorn, Odell Shepard
  30. Coming to Age: The Croning Years, Jane R. Pretat
  31. The Stranger, Albert Camus
  32. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
  33. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
  34. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
  35. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
  36. Five Red Herrings, Dorothy L. Sayers
  37. Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
  38. Misery, Stephen King
  39. The Book of Ruth, Jane Hamilton
  40. Jack and Jill, James Patterson
  41. The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling, James Hillman
  42. Methuselah’s Children, Robert A. Heinlein
  43. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
  44. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
  45. The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
  46. Psycho, Robert Bloch
  47. Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
  48. The Color Purple, Alice Walker

2013

  1. Independent People, Halldor Laxness
  2. The Grief Club: The Secret to Getting Through All Kinds of Change, Melody Beattie
  3. The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Mahatma Gandhi
  4. Stepmonster, Wednesday Martin
  5. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, Patrick Lencioni
  6. The Prosperous Heart: Creating a Life of “Enough,” Julia Cameron
  7. Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, Gregory Boyle
  8. The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, Julia Cameron
  9. Beyond Personality: The Christian Idea of God, C. S. Lewis
  10. Analytical Psychology, Carl Jung *
  11. Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
  12. Byron: Poems, Lord Byron
  13. Salem’s Lot, Stephen King
  14. Nightfall and Other Stories, Isaac Asimov
  15. Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists, Joshua Fields Millburn
  16. Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson *
  17. The Old English Version of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Part 1, Bede
  18. The Reformation, Part 1, Will and Ariel Durant
  19. Our Oriental Heritage, Part 1, Will and Ariel Durant
  20. The Silent Wife, A. S. A. Harrison
  21. Troilus and Criseyde, Geoffrey Chaucer
  22. Saturday Night Widows, Becky Aikman
  23. Three Case Histories, Sigmund Freud
  24. Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience, Laurence Gonzales
  25. Nighttime is My Time, Mary Higgins Clark
  26. A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver **
  27. Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  28. Me Before You, Jojo Moyes
  29. The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
  30. The Golden Bough, James George Frazer

2012

  1. No Death, No Fear, Thich Nhat Hanh
  2. Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life, Hayes
  3. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
  4. Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
  5. Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
  6. Half in Love, Linda Gray Sexton
  7. The Memory Palace, Mira Bartok
  8. History of a Suicide, Jill Bialosky
  9. One Buddha is Not Enough, Thich Nhat Hanh
  10. Partita: A Psychological Mystery, M. Hermann
  11. Crossing the Unknown Sea, David Whyte
  12. How to Talk to a Widower, N. Tropper
  13. This Boy’s Life, Tobias Wolff
  14. The Glass Castle, J. Walsh
  15. The Reality Dysfunction, Peter F. Hamilton
  16. Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt *
  17. Wastelands, John Joseph Adams
  18. Ethics & Analysis, Luigi Zoja
  19. A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle
  20. Learning to Breathe, Priscilla Warner
  21. Starmaker, Jim Halsey
  22. Clark Howard’s Living Large in Lean Times, Howard & Meltzer
  23. Leaving Home, David P. Celani
  24. Widow, Lynn Cain *
  25. The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr
  26. Night Falls Fast, Kay Redfield Jamison
  27. A Severe Mercy, Sheldon Vanauken *
  28. This Boy’s Life, Tobias Wolff
  29. Somewhere Towards the End, Athill
  30. Blue Nights, Joan Didion *
  31. Learning to Breathe, Warner
  32. Alchemical Psychology, James Hillman
  33. Old Friend from Far Away, Natalie Goldberg *
  34. Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg
  35. If You Want to Write, Brenda Ueland **
  36. One Year to a Writing Life, Susan Tiberghien
  37. In a Perfect World, Laura Kasischke
  38. Feathered, Laura Kasischke
  39. Looking for Gold, Susan Tiberghien
  40. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See
  41. Unrealiable Truth: On Memoir and Memory, Maureen Murdock

2011

  1. Smart Women Finish Rich, D. Rich
  2. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing, Bogle
  3. All the Pretty Horses, McCarthy
  4. Nothing was the Same, Kay Redfield Jamison
  5. Gift from the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh ***
  6. Every Day Matters, Mary Jane Hurley Brandt
  7. The Soul in Grief, Robert Roman
  8. Fearless Confessions, Sue William Silverman
  9. In Her Wake, N. Rappaport
  10. Being a Widow, Lynn Caine
  11. When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Harold Kushner
  12. The Suicide Index, Joan Wickersham
  13. Personal Mythology, Feinstein & Krippner
  14. What Color is Your Parachute? Bolles
  15. Let’s Take the Long Way Home, Caldwell
  16. The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s Education, Craig M. Mullaney
  17. Here All Dwell Free: Stories to Heal the Wounded Feminine, Nelson
  18. Mythos I & II (DVD), Joseph Campbell
  19. Sukhavati (DVD), Joseph Campbell
  20. Cancer as a Turning Point, Lawrence LeShan **
  21. Letters from Annapolis: Midshipmen Write Home, A. M. Drew
  22. Origins: 14 Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution, Tyson & Goldsmith
  23. The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking
  24. Death by Black Hole, Neil DeGrasse Tyson
  25. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Richard P. Feynman
  26. A Briefer History of Time, Stephen Hawking
  27. City and Soul, James Hillman
  28. Alchemical Psychology, James Hillman
  29. Archetypal Psychology, James Hillman
  30. Great Books, David Denby
  31. An Unfinished Marriage, Anderson
  32. I Thought it was Just Me, Brown
  33. A Grief Observed, C. S. Lewis *
  34. A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin *
  35. A Widow’s Story, Joyce Carol Oates
  36. The Long Goodbye, Meghan O’Rourke
  37. The Mythic Path, Feinstein & Krippner
  38. The Gifts of Imperfection, Brene Brown
  39. The Black Sun, Stanton Marlan
  40. The Grief Recovery Handbook, James & Friedman
  41. The Courage to Grieve, Tatelbaum
  42. Being a Widow, Lynn Caine
  43. Widow to Widow, G. Davis Ginsburg
  44. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion *
  45. The Qur’an Translation, A. Y. Ali, Trans. *
  46. “Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology,” J. Tooby
  47. “Concerning Rebirth,” C. G. Jung
  48. Ascent of Mount Carmel, John of the Cross
  49. Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot
  50. Spiritual Body, Celestial Earth, H. Corbin
  51. Mundus Imaginalis, or the Imaginary and the Imaginal, H. Corbin
  52. The World Turned Inside Out, Tom Cheetham
  53. The Right to Write, Julia Cameron
  54. You Must Revise Your Life, William Stafford*
  55. Tracking the Gods: The Place of Myth in Modern Life, James Hollis
  56. Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places, James Hollis *
  57. The Conference of the Birds, Attar
  58. Dream Analysis: Notes on the Seminar Given 1928-1930, C. G. Jung
  59. Aion, C. G. Jung
  60. The Writing Life, Annie Dillard**
  61. “The Therapeutic Language of Alchemical Language,” J. Hillman
  62. “Psychology and Alchemy,” C. G. Jung
  63. On Writing, Stephen King**
  64. “Alchemical Catechism,” Paracelsus
  65. Alchemy, Marie-Louise von Franz
  66. On Writing Well, William Zinsser *
  67. Don’t Bite Your Tongue, Palgrave

2010

  1. A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines
  2. No More Words: A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh
  3. Blue Heaven, C. J. Box
  4. Vol. 7 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, Carl Jung
  5. Inner Work, Robert A. Johnson*
  6. The Force of Character and the Lasting Life, James Hillman
  7. The Adolescent Psyche: Jungian and Winnicottian Perspectives, Richard Frankel
  8. Healing Trauma: Attachment, Trauma, the Brain, and the Mind, Fosha, Shapiro, Schore, et. al.
  9. Civilization and its Discontents, Sigmund Freud*
  10. The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud*
  11. Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Sigmund Freud
  12. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Sigmund Freud
  13. Three Case Histories, Sigmund Freud
  14. Between Heaven and Earth, Robert A. Johnson
  15. Attachment from Infancy to Adulthood: The Major Longitudinal Studies, Grossmann et al.
  16. The Invisible Church, McGehee
  17. Psychotherapy, von Franz
  18. The Feminine in Fairy Tales, von Franz
  19. Projection and Re-Collection, von Franz*
  20. Animus and Anima in Fairy Tales, von Franz
  21. The Undiscovered Self, C. G. Jung
  22. Encounters with the Soul, Barbara Hannah
  23. Dreams, A Portal to the Source, Whitmont & Perera
  24. Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology, von Franz
  25. The Origins and History of Consciousness, Neumann *
  26. Loving the Self-Absorbed, Brown
  27. Imagination as Space of Freedom: Dialogue Between the Ego and the Unconscious, Verena Kast
  28. Jung on Active Imagination, Carl Jung
  29. Complexes: Diagnosis and Therapy in Analytical Psychology, Dieckmann & Matthews
  30. Complex: Path of Transformation from Archetype to Ego, Erel Shalit
  31. A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman, Joan Anderson
  32. The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists: Coping with the One-Way Relationship, Eleanor Payson

2009

  1. Vol. 9i of the Collected works of C. G. Jung: The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious
  2. On This Journey We Call Our Life: Living the Questions, James Hollis
  3. Creating a Life: Finding Your Individual Path, James Hollis
  4. Vol. 5 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Symbols of Transformation
  5. My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
  6. When Friendship Hurts, Jan Yager
  7. The Drama of the Gifted Child, Alice Miller
  8. Utopia, Thomas More *
  9. Heaven, Peter Kreeft
  10. The Witching Hour, Anne Rice
  11. Runaway, Alice Monroe
  12. Blindness, Jose Saramago
  13. The Prince, Machiavelli *
  14. Jung’s Map of the Soul, Murray Stein
  15. Selected Writings, Meister Eckhart
  16. Love, Guilt and Reparation, Melanie Klein & Joan Riviera *
  17. Vol. 4 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Freud and Psychoanalysis
  18. Soul Retrieval, Sandra Ingerman*
  19. Motivation and Personality, Abraham Maslow *
  20. The Imitation of Christ, Thomas a Kempis*
  21. Vol. 3 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung: The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease
  22. Vol. 2 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Experimental Researches
  23. Vol. 1 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychiatric Studies
  24. Three Case Histories, Freud

2008

  1. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
  2. Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self, Sandra Ingerman
  3. False Impression, Jeffrey Archer
  4. The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri *
  5. Suicide and the Soul, James Hillman
  6. The Passion of the Western Mind, Richard Tarnas
  7. Saint Thomas Aquinas, G. K. Chesterton
  8. The Art of Writing (DVD), Richard Tarnas
  9. The Art, Practice, and Philosophy of Psychotherapy (DVD), James Hillman
  10. Is There No Place on Earth for Me? Susan Sheehan
  11. Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
  12. Reading Like a Writer, Francine Prose
  13. A Matter of Honor, William Hammond
  14. God: A Biography, Jack Miles
  15. Holy the Firm, Annie Dillard
  16. Annals of the Former World, John McPhee
  17. An American Childhood, Annie Dillard
  18. The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, Saul Friedlander
  19. Gulag: A History, Anne Applebaum
  20. Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard
  21. And Their Children After Them, Dale Maharidge & Michael WIlliamson
  22. The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker
  23. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
  24. The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
  25. Honeymoon, James Patterson
  26. Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
  27. The Testament, John Grisham
  28. Building the Bonds of Attachment, Daniel Hughes
  29. Winning, Jack Welch
  30. We, Robert A. Johnson
  31. Tristan and Isolde, Joseph Bedier *
  32. Facilitating Developmental Attachment, Daniel A. Hughes
  33. A New Earth, Eckard Tolle
  34. Secrets of God, Hildegard von Bingen
  35. Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works
  36. The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
  37. Why Mars and Venus Collide, John Gray

2007

  1. The First Created Man, St. Symeon the New Theologian
  2. The Koran *
  3. Misdiagnosis, James T. Webb, M.D., et al.
  4. Seeing the Crab, Christina Middlebrook
  5. Who Dies? An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying, Steve Levine
  6. Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places, James Hollis
  7. Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Bede
  8. The Woman Who Waited, Andre Makine
  9. Why Good People Do Bad Things, James Hollis, Ph.D.
  10. Embracing Persephone, Virginia Beane Rutter
  11. Under Saturn’s Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men, James Hollis
  12. Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other, James Hollis
  13. Projection and Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology, Marie-Louise von Franz
  14. Jungian Psychology Unplugged, Daryl Sharp
  15. The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Mid-Life, James Hollis
  16. Confidence, Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  17. The Confessions, St. Augustine *
  18. The Measure of a Man, Sidney Poitier
  19. Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller
  20. A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
  21. Earth Abides, George R. Stewart*
  22. Owning Your Own Shadow, Robert A. Johnson
  23. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling
  24. Smart Women Finish Rich, David Bach
  25. Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank *
  26. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
  27. The Odyssey, Homer
  28. The Oresteia, Dramas, Aeschylus
  29. The Histories, Herodotus
  30. Antigone, Sophocles
  31. Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, The Trojan Women, Electra, Euripedes
  32. History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
  33. The Frogs, Lysistrata, Aristophanes
  34. The One Who Knows God, Clement of Alexandria
  35. The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz
  36. Dark Assassin, Anne Perry
  37. Going Home, Thich Nhat Hanh
  38. The Apostolic Fathers, Michael W. Holmes
  39. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
  40. A Simple Path, Mother Teresa
  41. Martin Luther’s Basic Theological Writings, Timothy Lull, Ed.
  42. Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, K. Kavanaugh, Trans.
  43. The Passion of Perpetua, Marie-Louise von Franz
  44. Dracula, Bram Stoker
  45. The Secrets of God, Hildegard von Bingen
  46. The Rule of Benedict, Joan Chittister
  47. A Revelation of Divine Love, Julian of Norwich
  48. Lilith, Siegmund Hurwitz
  49. Jung on Christianity, Muray Stein, Ed. *
  50. Writing to Change the World, Mary Pipher
  51. Anger, Thich Nhat Hanh
  52. The Path to Love, Deepak Chopra
  53. Horary Astrology Rediscovered, Olivia Barclay
*Re-read the book this year