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. 📔
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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