Book Recommendations

All writers are bibliophiles.

I’ve always loved books. They are a reliable and valued escape from awful realities. For years, I have lost myself in other worlds. But it is only in the last three years that I have read much beyond my preferred genre of Fantasy. I now find that I want to recommend and share ALL the books I love with anyone I talk to. There are so many good ones.

Trauma Healing | Fiction | Nonfiction | Fantasy | On Writing

Trauma Healing

  • What is a Girl Worth?

    by Rachel Denhollander

  • The Body Keeps the Score

    by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M. D.

  • The Wounded Heart

    by Dan Allender

  • the princess saves herself in this one

    by Amanda Lovelace

  • Mindsight

    by Dan Siegel

  • When Food is Love

    by Geneen Roth

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Fiction

  • The Paper Palace

    by Miranda Cowley Heller

  • A Tale of Two Cities

    By Charles Dickens

  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

    By Mark Haddon

  • The Last Letter from Your Lover

    By Jojo Moyes

  • Never Let Me Go

    By Kazuo Ishiguro

Nonfiction

  • Lament for a Son

    by Nicholas Wolterstorff

  • The Black Friend

    by Frederick Joseph

  • The Art of Gathering

    by Priya Parker

  • Surprised by Joy

    by C. S. Lewis

  • No Drama Discipline: the whole-brain way to calm the chaos and nurture your child's developing mind

    by Daniel J. Siegel

  • How to Be an Antiracist

    by Ibram X. Kendi

  • A Promised Land

    by Barak Obama

  • Surprised by Oxford

    by Carolyn Weber

  • Jesus and John Wayne

    by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

  • Reading While Black

    By Esau McCaulley

  • The God of the Garden

    By Andrew Peterson

  • Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You've Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended

    By Sheila Gregoire

Fantasy

  • The Wheel of Time

    by Robert Jordan

    (Yes, there are 14 books. Yes, they are absolutely worth the time investment. The first one is The Eye of the World. Read it and let me know your thoughts)

  • The Lord of the Rings

    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  • The Stormlight Archives

    by Brandon Sanderson

    (It is projected to be a 10-book epic. He has published the first four. The first title is The Way of Kings)

  • Stardust

    by Neil Gaiman

  • The Mistborn Trilogy

    by Brandon Sanderson

    (The first book is The Final Empire)

  • Left-handed Booksellers of London

    by Garth Nix

On Writing

  • On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

    by Stephen King

  • Adorning the Dark

    by Andrew Peterson

  • Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life

    by Anne Lamott

  • First You Write a Sentence

    By Joe Moran