sheteststhewater

2023

• One for the Money, Janet Evanovich
• Deep Play, Diane Ackerman
• Anxious People, Fredrik Backman
• We are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler
• A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux
• Interpreter of Maladies, Jumpha Lahiri
• Why I Wake Early, Mary Oliver
• Britt-Marie was Here, Fredrik Backman
• Perma Red, Debra Magpie Earling
• The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls
• Good Power, Ginny Rometti
• Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness, Productivity, Gloria Mark
• Gathering Moss, Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Moloka’i,Alan Brennert
• First Person Singular, Haruki Murakami
• The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese
• Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
• The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka
• The Swimmers, Julie Otsuka
• The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, Daniel Ladinsky
• Go Find, Sue Purvis

2022

• Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel, Anthony Doerr
• Mink River, Brian Doyle
• Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
• Healing Mantras: Sound Affirmations for Personal Power, Creativity, Healing – Thomas Ashley-Farrand
• Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less, Alex Soojung-Kim
• Three Simple Lines: A Writer’s Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku, Natalie Goldberg
• Matrix, Lauren Groff
• The Electricity of Every Living Things: A Woman’s Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home, Katherine May
• The Tie That Binds, Kent Haruf
• The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffery Steingarten
• Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen
• The Beet Queen, Louise Erdrich
• Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
• The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
• The Great Circle, Maggie Shiipstead

2021, an incomplete list

• Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Wintering, Katherine May
• Olive, Emma Gannon
• The Nine Lives of Rose Neapolitan, Donna Freitas
• The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion, Meghan Daum
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk M.D
• The Overstory: A Novel, Richard Powers
• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering American on the Appalachian Trail, Bill Bryson
• Empire Falls, Richard Russo

2020, an incomplete list:

• The Diamond in Your Pocket, Gangagi
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Haruki Murakami
• Circe, Madeline Miller
• Wild Seed (Patternist 1), Octavia Butler
• Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler
• The Painter, Peter Heller
• Exit West, Mohsin Hamid
• The Only Woman in the Room, Marie Benedict
• I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes within us and a Grander View of Life, Ed Yong (audio)
• 100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
• The Lost Vintage, Ann Mah
• Before We Were Yours, Lisa Wingate
• The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd

2019:

• Before We Were Yours, Lisa Wingate
• Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design by Jacobsen, Max Silverstein…
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
• Beloved, Toni Morrison
• The Hate you Give, Angie Thomas
• A Land Remembered, Patrick D. Smith
• Calypso, David Sedaris
• The Friend: A Novel, Sigrid Nunez
• The Art of Gathering: How We Meet & Why it Matters, Priya Parker
• A Bridge: Exploring the Connections between a Course in Miracles and a Course of Love
• Educated: A Memoir, Tara Westover
• The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd
• Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, & Jazz Chickens, Eddie Izzard
• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Anthony Bourdain
• It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are & How to End the Cycle, Mark Wolynn
• The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz
• Becoming, Michelle Obama
• Rules for a Night, Ethan Hawke
• Brave Enough, Cheryl Strayed
• The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win your Creative Battles, Steven Pressfield
• A Beautiful Constraint, Adam Moran & Mark Barden
• The Coaching Habit, Michael Bungay Stainer
• Business Model Generation, Alexander Osterwalkder & Yvest Pigneur
• *The Art of Possibility, Zander & Zander
• *Steal Like an Artist
• Footprints on the Moon, Seth Godin
• Linchpin, Seth Godin

2018 Read:

Asterisk (*) = 2nd time reading it. I stopped using these abbreviations in 2019, but where noted these indicate my background interest & motivation: W = work-related, P = personal. Sometimes books fly off the shelf into my hands or enter by recommendation of a friend or book club.

P, Flow: Living at the Peak of Your Abilities, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
P, On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes, Alexandra Horowitz
P, Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World, Timothy Ferris

W, It Doesn’t Have to be Crazy at Work, Jason Fried and David Hansson
P, Less, Andrew Sean Greer
P, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, Tom Rachman
P, The Round House, Louise Erdrich
P, Tales of Prison Life, Sri Aurobindo
P, The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo
W, 15 Secrets People Know about Time Management, Kevin Kruse
W, Work Simply: Embracing the Power of Your Personal Productivity Style, Carson Tate
W, The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it for Life, Twyla Tharp
P, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood,Trevor Noah
P, Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
P, The Known World: A Novel, Edward P. Jones
P, The Rules of Magic: Alice Hoffman
P, The Keeper of Lost Things: A Novel, Ruth Hogan
P, The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead

2017 Read:
W, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life, Mark Manson
W, The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Michael Watkins
W, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Greg McKeon
W, The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy, John Gordon
W, Customer Success: How Innovative Companies are Reducing Churn and Growing Recurring Revenues, Nick Mehta, Dan Steinman, Lincoln Murphy
W, The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Product and Rapid Customer Feedback, Dan Olsen
W, Show your Work, Austin Kleon
W, We Should All be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
W, The Obstacle is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph, Ryan Holiday

P, Upstream, Mary Oliver
P, A Cannon, A Heart, Now This, Michael Mark
P, A Man Called Ove, Frederik Backman
P, Black Dogs: A Novel, Ian McEwan
P, Becoming Odyssa, Jennifer Pharr Davis
P, Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long Distance Swimmer, Lynne Cox
P, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
P, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Daniel James Brown
P, Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
P, H is For Hawk, Helen Macdonald
P, How to Cook a Wolf, M.F.K. Fisher
P, How to be a Woman, Caitlin Moran
P, Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit
P, The Elusive Obvious, Moshe Feldenkrais
P, Living Color: Painting, Writing, and the Bones of Seeing, Natalie Goldberg
P, How it all Began: A Novel: Penelope Lively
P, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace, John O’Donohue
P, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings, John O’Donohue
P, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom, John O’Donohue