Books I Love

Books > people. Just sayin.

If I had to pick one book that has been the most influential to me in the last four years, it would be The Art of Non-Conformity by Chris Guillebeau. Start there.

A close second is The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by  Mark Manson.


 Meaningful Work

• The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change, Adam Bruan
• Born For This: How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do, Chris Guillebeau
• #Girlboss, Sophia Amoruso

Personal Finance

• Your Money or Your Life, Vicki Robin
• You Are a Badass At Making Money, Jen Sincero
• Meet the Frugalwoods: Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living, Elizabeth Willard Thames
• The Year of Less, Cait Flanders
• The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life, JL Collins
• The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir: Dee Williams
• The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life, Lynne Twist

Healing

• This Is Me Letting You Go, Heidi Priebe
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed
• 10%  Happier: How I Tamed the Voice In My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help that Actually Works, Dan Harris
• Born to Love, Cursed to Feel, Samantha King
• Nejma, Nayyirah Waheed
• Wild Embers, Nikita Gill

Nursing/Medicine

• I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse; edited by Lee Gutkind
• Green Parrots: A War Surgeon's Diary, Gino Strada
• Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse, Janice Hudson
• A Final Arc of Sky: A Memoir of Critical Care, Jennifer Caulkin
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters In The End, Atul Gawande
• Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid, Jessica Alexander
• Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder

Society

• Cast Away: True Stories of Survival from Europe's Refugee Crisis, Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of Family and Culture in Crisis, JD Vance
• All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation, Rebecca Traister
• The New Middle East: The World After the Arab Spring, Paul Danahar
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson
• Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant, José Ángel N
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, Michael Lewis
• It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living, Dan Savage