Personal Reading List
My personal reading list is below.
2014-2017
Updated reading lists can be found at my author page on Goodreads.
2013
- Independent People, Halldor Laxness
- The Grief Club: The Secret to Getting Through All Kinds of Change, Melody Beattie
- The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Mahatma Gandhi
- Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience, Laurence Gonzales
- Stepmonster: A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do, Wednesday Martin
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, Patrick Lencioni
- The Prosperous Heart: Creating a Life of “Enough,” Julia Cameron
- Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, Gregory Boyle
- The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, Julia Cameron
2012
- No Death, No Fear, Thich Nhat Hanh
- Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life, Hayes
- The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
- Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins
- Half in Love, Linda Gray Sexton
- The Memory Palace, Mira Bartok
- History of a Suicide, Jill Bialosky
- One Buddha is Not Enough, Thich Nhat Hanh
- Partita: A Psychological Mystery, M. Hermann
- Crossing the Unknown Sea, David Whyte
- How to Talk to a Widower, N. Tropper
- This Boy’s Life, Tobias Wolff
- The Liars’ Club, M. Karr
- The Glass Castle, J. Walsh
- The Reality Dysfunction, Peter F. Hamilton
- Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt*
- The Memory Palace, Mira Bartok
- Wastelands, John Joseph Adams
- Ethics & Analysis, Luigi Zoja
- A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle
- Learning to Breathe, Priscilla Warner
- Starmaker, Jim Halsey
- Clark Howard’s Living Large in Lean Times, Howard & Meltzer
- Leaving Home, David P. Celani
- Widow, Lynn Cain
- The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr
- Night Falls Fast, Kay Redfield Jamison
- A Severe Mercy, Sheldon Vanauken
- This Boy’s Life, Tobias Wolff
- Somewhere Towards the End, Athill
- Poster Child, Rapp
- Blue Nights, Joan Didion
- Learning to Breathe, Warner
- A Year in Provence, Mayle
- Alchemical Psychology, James Hillman
- Old Friend from Far Away, Natalie Goldberg
- Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg
- If You Want to Write, Brenda Ueland*
- One Year to a Writing Life, Susan Tiberghien
- In a Perfect World, Laura Kasischke
- Feathered, Laura Kasischke
- Looking for Gold, Susan Tiberghien
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See
- Unrealiable Truth: On Memoir and Memory, Maureen Murdock
2011
- Smart Women Finish Rich, D. Rich
- The Little Book of Common Sense Investing, Bogle
- All the Pretty Horses, McCarthy
- Nothing was the Same, Kay Redfield Jamison
- Night Falls Fast, Kay Redfield Jamison
- A Severe Mercy, Sheldon VanAuken
- Gift from the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- The Long Goodbye, Meghan O’Rourke
- Every Day Matters, Mary Jane Hurley Brandt
- The Soul in Grief, Robert Roman
- Fearless Confessions, Sue William Silverman
- In Her Wake, N. Rappaport
- Being a Widow, Lynn Caine
- When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Harold Kushner
- The Suicide Index, Joan Wickersham
- Personal Mythology, Feinstein & Krippner
- What Color is Your Parachute? Bolles
- Let’s Take the Long Way Home, Caldwell
- The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s Education, Craig M. Mullaney
- Here All Dwell Free: Stories to Heal the Wounded Feminine, Nelson
- Mythos I & II (DVD), Joseph Campbell
- Sukhavati (DVD), Joseph Campbell
- Cancer as a Turning Point, Lawrence LeShan
- Letters from Annapolis: Midshipmen Write Home, A. M. Drew
- Origins: 14 Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution, Tyson & Goldsmith
- The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking
- Death by Black Hole, Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Richard P. Feynman
- A Briefer History of Time, Stephen Hawking
- City and Soul, James Hillman
- Alchemical Psychology, James Hillman
- Archetypal Psychology, James Hillman
- Great Books, David Denby
- A Severe Mercy, Shelden Vanauken
- An Unfinished Marriage, Anderson
- I Thought it was Just Me, Brown
- A Grief Observed, C. S. Lewis
- A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
- A Widow’s Story, Joyce Carol Oates
- The Long Goodbye, Meghan O’Rourke
- The Mythic Path, Feinstein & Krippner
- The Soul in Grief, Robert Romanyshyn
- The Gifts of Imperfection, Brene Brown
- The Black Sun, Stanton Marlan
- The Grief Recovery Handbook, James & Friedman
- The Courage to Grieve, Tatelbaum
- Being a Widow, Lynn Caine
- Widow to Widow, G. Davis Ginsburg
- The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
- The Qur’an Translation, A. Y. Ali, Trans.
- “Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology,” J. Tooby
- “Concerning Rebirth,” C. G. Jung
- Ascent of Mount Carmel, John of the Cross
- Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot
- Spiritual Body, Celestial Earth, H. Corbin
- Mundus Imaginalis, or the Imaginary and the Imaginal, H. Corbin
- The World Turned Inside Out, Tom Cheetham
- The Right to Write, Julia Cameron
- You Must Revise Your Life, William Stafford
- Tracking the Gods: The Place of Myth in Modern Life, James Hollis
- Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places, James Hollis
- The Conference of the Birds, Attar
- Dream Analysis: Notes on the Seminar Given 1928-1930, C. G. Jung
- Aion, C. G. Jung
- The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
- “The Therapeutic Language of Alchemical Language,” J. Hillman
- “Psychology and Alchemy,” C. G. Jung
- On Writing, Stephen King
- Henry Miller on Writing, Henry Miller
- “Alchemical Catechism,” Paracelsus
- Alchemy, Marie-Louise von Franz
- On Writing Well, William Zinsser
- Don’t Bite Your Tongue, Palgrave
2010
- A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines
- No More Words: A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh
- Blue Heaven, C. J. Box
- Vol. 7 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
- Inner Work, Robert A. Johnson
- The Force of Character and the Lasting Life, James Hillman
- The Adolescent Psyche: Jungian and Winnicottian Perspectives, Richard Frankel
- Healing Trauma: Attachment, Trauma, the Brain, and the Mind, Fosha, Shapiro, Schore, et. al.
- Civilization and its Discontents, Freud
- The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud
- Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Freud
- Three Case Histories, Freud
- Between Heaven and Earth, Johnson
- Attachment from Infancy to Adulthood: The Major Longitudinal Studies, Grossmann et al.
- The Invisible Church, McGehee
- Psychotherapy, von Franz
- The Feminine in Fairy Tales, von Franz
- Projection and Re-Collection, von Franz
- Animus and Anima in Fairy Tales, von Franz
- The Undiscovered Self, C. G. Jung
- Encounters with the Soul, Barbara Hannah
- Dreams, A Portal to the Source, Whitmont & Perera
- Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology, von Franz
- The Origins and History of Consciousness, Neumann
- Loving the Self-Absorbed, Brown
- Imagination as Space of Freedom: Dialogue Between the Ego and the Unconscious, Verena Kast
- Jung on Active Imagination, Jung
- Complexes: Diagnosis and Therapy in Analytical Psychology, Dieckmann & Matthews
- Complex: Path of Transformation from Archetype to Ego, Erel Shalit
- A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman, Joan Anderson
- The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists: Coping with the One-Way Relationship in Work, Love, and Family, Eleanor Payson
2009
- Vol. 9i of the Collected works of C. G. Jung: The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious
- On This Journey We Call Our Life: Living the Questions, James Hollis
- Creating a Life: Finding Your Individual Path, James Hollis
- Vol. 5 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Symbols of Transformation
- My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
- When Friendship Hurts, Jan Yager
- The Drama of the Gifted Child, Alice Miller
- Utopia, Thomas More
- Heaven, Peter Kreeft
- The Witching Hour, Anne Rice
- Runaway, Alice Monroe
- Blindness, Jose Saramago
- The Prince, Machiavelli.
- Jung’s Map of the Soul, Murray Stein
- Selected Writings, Meister Eckhart
- Love, Guilt and Reparation, Melanie Klein & Joan Riviera
- Vol. 4 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Freud and Psychoanalysis
- Soul Retrieval, Sandra Ingerman
- Motivation and Personality, Abraham Maslow
- The Imitation of Christ, Thomas a Kempis
- Vol. 3 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung: The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease
- Vol. 2 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Experimental Researches
- Vol. 1 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychiatric Studies
- Three Case Histories, Freud
2008
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The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
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Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self, Sandra Ingerman
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False Impression, Jeffrey Archer
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Blindness, José Saramago
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The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
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Suicide and the Soul, James Hillman
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The Passion of the Western Mind, Richard Tarnas
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Saint Thomas Aquinas, G. K. Chesterton
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The Art of Writing (DVD), Richard Tarnas
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The Art, Practice, and Philosophy of Psychotherapy (DVD), James Hillman
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Is There No Place on Earth for Me? Susan Sheehan
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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
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Henry Miller on Writing, Henry Miller
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Reading Like a Writer, Francine Prose
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A Matter of Honor, William Hammond
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God: A Biography, Jack Miles
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Holy the Firm, Annie Dillard
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Annals of the Former World, John McPhee
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An American Childhood, Annie Dillard
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The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, Saul Friedlander
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Gulag: A History, Anne Applebaum
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Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard
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And Their Children After Them, Dale Maharidge & Michael WIlliamson
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The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker
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Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
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The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
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The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
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Honeymoon, James Patterson
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Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
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The Testament, John Grisham
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Building the Bonds of Attachment, Daniel Hughes
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Winning, Jack Welch
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We, Robert A. Johnson
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Tristan and Isolde, JosephBedier
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Beautiful Boy, Daniel Stern
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Facilitating Developmental Attachment, Daniel A. Hughes
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A New Earth, Eckard Tolle
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Secrets of God, Hildegard von Bingen
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Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works
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Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
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The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
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Why Mars and Venus Collide, John Gray
2007
- The First Created Man, St. Symeon the New Theologian
- The Koran
- Misdiagnosis, James T. Webb, M.D., et al.
- Seeing the Crab, Christina Middlebrook
- Who Dies? An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying, Steve Levine
- Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places, James Hollis
- Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Bede
- The Woman Who Waited, Andre Makine
- Why Good People Do Bad Things, James Hollis, Ph.D.
- Embracing Persephone, Virginia Beane Rutter
- Under Saturn’s Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men, James Hollis
- Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other, James Hollis
- Projection and Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology, Marie-Louise von Franz
- Jungian Psychology Unplugged, Daryl Sharp
- The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Mid-Life, James Hollis
- Confidence, Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- The Confessions, St. Augustine*
- The Measure of a Man, Sidney Poitier
- Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller
- A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
- Earth Abides, George R. Stewart
- Owning Your Own Shadow, Robert A. Johnson
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling
- Smart Women Finish Rich, David Bach
- Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank*
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
- Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
- The Odyssey, Homer
- The Oresteia, Dramas, Aeschylus
- The Histories, Herodotus
- Antigone, Sophocles
- On Writing, Stephen King*
- Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, The Trojan Women, Electra, Euripedes
- History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
- The Frogs, Lysistrata, Aristophanes
- The One Who Knows God, Clement of Alexandria
- The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz
- The Drama of the Gifted Child, Alice Miller*
- Atonement, Ian McEwan
- Dark Assassin, Anne Perry
- Going Home, Thich Nhat Hanh
- The Apostolic Fathers, Michael W. Holmes
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
- A Simple Path, Mother Teresa
- Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
- Martin Luther’s Basic Theological Writings, Timothy Lull, Ed.
- Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, K. Kavanaugh, Trans.
- The Passion of Perpetua, Marie-Louise von Franz
- Dracula, Bram Stoker
- The Secrets of God, Hildegard von Bingen
- The Rule of Benedict, Joan Chittister
- A Revelation of Divine Love, Julian of Norwich
- Lilith, Siegmund Hurwitz
- Freedom from Fibromyalgia, Nancy Selfridge, M.D.
- Jung on Christianity, Muray Stein, Ed.*
- Writing to Change the World, Mary Pipher
- Anger, Thich Nhat Hanh
- The Path to Love, Deepak Chopra
- Horary Astrology Rediscovered, Olivia Barclay