Reading List

My first love has always been books. I was an English major, started my career in book publishing, and have an MFA in creative writing. My perspective is built on a lifetime of reading.

My current recommendations:

Health & wellness

• The Body Keeps Score - Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

• Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine - Uché Blackstock MD

• The Anxious Generation - Jonathan Haidt

• Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us - Anna Malaika Tubbs 

Fiction & memoir

• This Motherless Land - Nikki May

• Writers & Lovers + Heart the Lover - Lily King

• Spectacular Things - Beck Dorey-Stein

• Blue Sisters - Coco Mellers

Personal favorites

• The Book of Light - Lucille Clifton

• East of Eden - John Steinbeck

• Red at the Bone - Jacqueline Woodson

• Know My Name - Chanel Miller

• You Are Not a Stranger Here - Adam Haslett

• They’re Going to Love You - Meg Howrey

• Educated - Tara Westover