Reading is my happy place.

Books are one of my big loves. Moving from the Gold Coast to Melbourne I bought t-shirts, vans, remnants of a share-house pantry, and two boxes of books. I thoroughly enjoy documenting what I’ve read for future thought and reflection. 📔

  • 2021

    All Our Shimmering Skies - Trent Dalton

    Nicely Said: Writing for the web with style - Nicole Fenton, Kate Kiefer Lee

    Bird by Bird: Instructions on writing and life - Anne Lamott

    On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

    Dare To Lead - Brene Brown

    Phosphoresce: On awe and wonder - Julia Baird

    Reckoning: A Memoir - Madga Szubanski

    Insight - Tasha Eurich

    Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi

    The Spark In The Machine: Science of Acupuncture - Daniel Keown

    No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood

    Courage Calls To Courage Everywhere - Jeanette Winterson

    Talking To Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell

    Birthday Girl - Haruki Murakami

    Figuring - Maria Popova

    Cultivating Content Design - Beth Dunn

    Where The Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens

    Spoon-fed: Everything We’ve Been Told About Food Is Wrong - Tim Spector

    Because Internet: Understanding The New Rules Of Language - Gretchen McCulloch

    Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman

    Beyond Beautiful - Anuschka Rees

    Otherminds: Origins of consciousness - Peter Godfrey-Smith

    Caste - Isabel Wilkerson

    Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray - Anite Heiss

  • Dark Emu - Bruce Pascoe

    Outwitting the Devil - Napoleon Hill

    Writing User Stories - Jeff Patton

    Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides

    Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

    Cherry Beach - Laura McPhee Brown

    The Wave In The Mind - Ursula K. Le Guin

    An Anthropologist On Mars - Oliver Sacks

    The Coconut Children - Vivian Pham

    Say What You Mean - An approach to Non-Violent Communication - Oren J Sofer

    No Country Women - Zoya Patel

    Three Women - Lisa Taddeo

    So You Want To Talk About Race? - Ijeoma Oluo

    Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh

    Untamed - Glennon Doyle

    Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan

    The Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf  - Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney

    The Female Persuasion - Meg Wolitzer

    Essays In Love - Alain De Botton

    Into Thin Air - John Krakauer

    How to make sense of any mess - Abby Convert

    Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood

    How to do nothing - Jenny Odell

    The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

    The Outsider - Albert Camus

    Come - Rita Therese

    The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

    The Brain That Changes Itself - Norman Doidge

    Why Is God Laughing? - Deepak Chopra

    Writing Is Designing - Scott Kubie

    Kokomo - Victoria Hannan

    I’ll Be Gone In The Dark - Michelle McNamara

  • A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara

    Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think - Hans Rosling

    Content Marketing - Joe Pulizzi

    Men Explain Things To Me - Rebecca Solnit

    Dear Madame President - Jennifer Palmieri

    The Course Of Love - Alain de Botton

    Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain

    By Sea and Stars - Trent Dalton

    Normal People - Sally Rooney

    On The Shortness Of Life - Seneca

    Boy Swallows Universe - Trent Dalton

    Deep Work - Cal Newport

    On The Move - Oliver Sacks

    Conversations With Friends - Sally Rooney

    We Are All Stardust: Leading Scientists on their work, and the mysteries of our existence- Stephen Klein

    The Power Of Now - Eckhart Tolle

    The Ten Faces Of Innovation - David & Tom Kelly

    Searching For Stars On An Island on Maine - Alan Lightman

    Love, Illuminated - Daniel John

    The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai

    To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

    The Getting Of Garlic - John Newton

    Microcopy: The Complete Guide - Kinneret Yifrah

  • 1984 - George Orwell

    Milk & Honey - Rupi Kaur

    Who thought this was a good idea? - Alyssa Mastromonaco

    Sophie’s World - Jostein Gardner

    Family Law - Benjamin Law

    The Magic Of Reality - Richard Dawkins

    Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner

    Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Carol S Dweck

    Get Remarkably Organised - Lorraine Murphy

    Truly Madly Guilty - Liane Morality

    Am I There Yet? The Loop-de-Loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood - Mari Andrews

    Red Notice - Bill Browder

    Eggshell Skull - Brie Lee

    Thinking Fast And Slow - Daniel Kahneman

    The Rivers Of Consciousness - Oliver Sacks

    12 Rules For Life - Jordan Peterson

    Destroy The Joint - Jane Caro

    Adult Fantasy - Briohny Doyle

  • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo

    Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg

    Yes Please - Amy Poehler

    Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

    Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn

    Hit Makers - Derek Thompson

    Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable - Seth Godin

    The Barefoot Investor - Scott Pape

    The Little Book Of Hygge - Meik Wiking

    Thrive - Ariana Huffington

    Big Magic - Elizabeth Gilbert

    Remarkability - Lorraine Murphy

    Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple’s Success - Ken Segall

    Girl Boss - Sophia Amoruso

    Girl On The Train - Paula Hawkins

    Outliers: The Story Of Success - Malcolm Gladwell