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1. Tiny Buddha by Lori Deschene
2. Then Again by Diane Keaton
3. Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life by Samhita Mukhopadhyay
4. Integrative Nutrition by Joshua Rosenthal
5. Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
6. Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat
7. The Essential Yoga Sutra: Ancient Wisdom for Your Yoga by Michael Roach and Christie McNally, Based on Work by Patanjali
8. The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
9. The Power of Less by Leo Babauta
10. Yoga Mala by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
11. The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice by TKV Desikachar
12. The Bhagavad Gita translated by Eknath Easwaran
13. Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan
14. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
15. Crazy Sexy Diet by Kris Carr
16. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
17. The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
18. How Yoga Works by Geshe Michael Roach & Christie McNally
19. Home by Toni Morrison
20. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
21. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
22. You Are A Writer by Jeff Goins
23. What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast by Laura Vanderkam
24. The 100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
by Chris Guillebeau25. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
26. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
27. The Four Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris
28. This I Know: Notes on Unraveling the Heart by Susannah Conway
29. The Fire Starter Sessions by Danielle LaPorte
30. You Can Buy Happiness (And It's Cheap) by Tammy Strobel
31. Smalltopia by Tammy Strobel
32. NW: A Novel by Zadie Smith
33. In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
by Alice Walker 34. Yoga Games for Children
35. Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness by Jessica Valenti
36. This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
37. Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping by Judith Levine
38. Happier at Home: Kiss more, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and my Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life by Gretchen Rubin
39. The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling by Stephen Cope
40. Betrayal by Harold Pinter (rereading)
41. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
42. Do The Work by Steven Pressfield
43. Closer by Patrick Marber (rereading)
44. Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield
2011
1. An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
2. Everything in its Path by Kai Erikson
3. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
4. Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism by Derrick Bell
5. I Am an Emotional Creature by Eve Ensler
6. Sanctuary by Paul Monette
7. The Most Human Human by Brian Christian
8. Bossypants by Tina Fey
9. Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss & Love by Matthew Logelin
10. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
11. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
12. The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt
13. Here and Now by Stephen Dunn
14. The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves by Siri Hustvedt
15. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
16. The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
17. If You Have to Cry, Go Outside and Other Things Your Mother Never Told You by Kelly Cutrone with Meredith Bryan
18. Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy
19. Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
20. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
21. Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl
22. The 12 Secrets of Highly Successful Women: A Portable Life Coach for Creative Women by Gail McMeekin
23. Tranquilista: Mastering the Art of Enlightened Work and Mindful Play by Kimberly Wilson
24. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
25. Room by Emma Donoghue
26. The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW
27. Seriously...I'm Kidding! by Ellen DeGeneres
28. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
29. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
30. The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark by Sera Beak
31. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
32. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
33. The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson *audiobook, listened to over the summer*
34. The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seeker's Guide to Extraordinary Living by Stephen Cope
35. Yoga Bitch: One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment by Suzanne Morrison
36. Simplify by Joshua Becker
2010
1. Romeo and Juliet (rereading with students) by William Shakespeare
2. Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons (rereading with students) by Ann Rinaldi
3. This Must Be The Place by Anna Winger
4. King Lear by William Shakespeare
5. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
6. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
7. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
8. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
9. The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
10. No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July
11. Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter
12. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
13. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
14. And Now You Can Go by Vendela Vida
15. Because I Have Loved and Hidden It by Elise Moser
16. The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
17. Ruined by Lynn Nottage
18. The Meeting by Jeff Stetson (rereading for work)
19. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
20. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
21. My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.
22. The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
23. Overcoming Speechlessness by Alice Walker
24. The Enchantment of Lily Dahl by Siri Hustvedt
25. Tinkers by Paul Harding
26. The Lonely Hearts Club by Raul Nunez
27. Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan
28. Walks with Men by Ann Beattie
29. The secret lives of people in love by Simon Van Booy
30. Little Bee by Chris Cleave
31. It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me by Ariel Leve
32. From Slavery to Freedom (mostly)
33. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki
34. One Day by David Nicholls
35. Racism: A Short History by George M. Fredrickson
36. The Racial Contract by Charles W. Mills
37. Don't Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor
38. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
39. The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors by Michele Young-Stone
2009
1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
2. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
3. The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand
4. The Doctor's Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
5. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
6. Iola Leroy; or, Shadows Uplifted by Frances E. W. Harper
7. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
8. East Lynne by Ellen Wood
9. Gallia by Ménie Muriel Dowie
10. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
11. Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
12. The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
13. Hetty Dorval by Ethel Wilson
14. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
15. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
16. Olive by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
17. The Sorrows of Satan by Marie Corelli
18. The Blank Wall by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
19. The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt
20. What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
21. Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
22. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
23. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
24. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
25. There Are No Shortcuts by Rafe Esquith
26. Work Hard. Be Nice. How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America by Jay Mathews
27. Another Day in the Frontal Lobe by Katrina S. Firlik
28. No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning by Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom
29. The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty
30. Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Elizabeth Noble
31. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
32. The Truth About Love by Josephine Hart
33. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
34. The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and others
35. Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America by Paul Tough
36. Push by Sapphire
37. The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
38. Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
39. The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
40. Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
