2022

🎧 Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World, Max Lucado

🎧 Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience, Brené Brown

📖 Pocket Prayers: 40 Simple Prayers That Bring Peace and Rest, Max Lucado & Andrea Lucado

📖 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Charlie Mackesy

📖 The Rose Code: A Novel, Katie Quinn

2021

📖 Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family, Rajendra S. Sisodia & Bob Chapman

🎧 Unexpected: Leave Fear Behind, Move Forward in Faith, Embrace the Adventure, Christine Caine

📖 Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence, Alexandra Katehakis & Tom Bliss

📖 Make the Most of You: 170 Ways to be the Best You Can, Patrick Lindsay

📖 The Gifts Of Imperfection: Let Go Of Who You Think You're Supposed To Be And Embrace Who You Are, Brené Brown

📖 Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, Brené Brown

🎧 Playing Big: Practical Wisdom For Women Who Want To Speak Up, Create, And Lead, Tara Mohr

2020

📖 Permission to Screw Up: How I Learned to Lead by Doing (Almost) Everything Wrong, Kristen Hadeed

📖 Delivering Happiness, Tony Hsieh

📖 Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan

📖 The Astonishing Power Of Emotions, Esther & Jerry Hicks

📖 I Love My Love, Reyna Biddy

📖 The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo

📖 the namesake, jhumpa lahiri

📖 Attached., Amir Levine & Rachel S. F. Heller

📖 Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy, Sheryl Sandberg

📖 On Grief and Dying: Understanding the Soul's Journey, Diane Stein

📖 A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Selected from the World's Sacred Texts, Leo Tolstoy & Peter Sekirin

📖 What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays, Damon Young

📖 For One More Day, Mitch Albom

📖 Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick, Wendy Wood

2019

📖 Circe, Madeline Miller

🎧 The Magician's Nephew, C. S. Lewis

🎧 Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook, Anthony Bourdain

📖 Anthony Bourdain Remembered, CNN

🎧 Hurricanes, Rick Ross

📖 Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert

📖 Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation, Neel Doshi & Lindsay McGregor

📖 First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently, Marcus Buckingham

📖 Buying Styles: Simple Lessons in Selling the Way Your Customers Buys, Michael Wilkinson

📖 The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design, IDEO.org

📖 Innovating for People Handbook of Human-Centered Design Methods, LUMA Institute

📖 The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, Steven Pressfield

📖 The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, Patrick Lencioni

📖 Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes, Jessica Pan

📖 100 Things to Do in Pittsburgh Before You Die, Rossilynne Culgan

🎧 Rising Strong as a Spiritual Practice, Brene Brown

🎧 Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It, Chris Voss

📖 The Art of Walking: A Field Guide, David Evans

📖 Conversations with God, Book 2: Living in the World with Honesty, Courage, and Love, Neale Donald Walsch

🎧 The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, Eric Ries

📖 Crossover: How Artists Build Careers across Commercial, Nonprofit and Community Work

🎧 The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), Andy Warhol

🎧 Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

📖 Tao Te Ching: A New English Version, Lao Tzu and Stephen Mitchell

📖 Healing the Shame that Binds You, John Bradshaw

🎧 NIV: (19) Proverbs

📖 All Women Are Healers : A Comprehensive Guide to Natural Healing, Diane Stein

📖 The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book), Don Miguel Ruiz

🎧 Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

📖 Mettle, Lilliana Dee

🎧 The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts, Gary Chapman

📖 The Business of the 21st Century, Robert T. Kiyosaki

📖 All Women Are Psychics, Diane Stein

📖 The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts, Gary Chapman

🎧 You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life, Jen Sincero

🎧 The Power of Awareness, Neville Goddard

🎧 Thinking For A Change, John C. Maxwell

🎧 Lagom: Not Too Little, Not Too Much: The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life, Niki Brantmark

🎧 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works, Dan Harris

📖 The Gift of Fear : Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence, Gavin De Becker 

🎧 The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store, Cait Flanders

🎧 Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Irin Carmon

🎧 An American Marriage, Tayari Jones

🎧 How Google Works, Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg 

📖 How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, Michael Pollan

🎧 The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism, Olivia Fox Cabane

🎧 Living Buddha, Living Christ: 20th Anniversary Edition, Thich Nhat Hanh

📖 The Art of Letting Go, Thought Catalogue

🎧 The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz

📖 How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie

🎧 Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life, Gary John Bishop

🎧 Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential-and Endangered, Bruce D. Perry & Maia Szalavitz

🎧 The Art of Communicating, Thich Nhat Hanh

📖 Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder by Reshma Saujani, Founder of Girls Who Code

🎧 Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be, Rachel Hollis

📖 Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, Phil Knight

📖 Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion, Gary Vaynerchuk

🎧 Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit

🎧 Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America, Jeff Ryan

🎧 An Object of Beauty: A Novel, Steve Martin

📖 ReWork, Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

🎧 The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups, Daniel Coyle

📖 Everything I needed To Know I learned In Hell: Some Thoughts on Turning Darkness Into Light, or How To Escape The Mess You've Made, Dan Balestrero

📖 Do What Feels Good, Hannah Bronfman

📖 The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Time, Allen Gannett

📖 I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays, Sloane Crosley

🎧 The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Eckhart Tolle

🎧 How You Can Talk With God (Self-Realization Fellowship), Paramahansa Yogananda

📖 The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book), Don Miquel Ruiz

📖 Astrology 101: Decoding Your Energetic Signature, Alanna Kaivalya Ph. D.

2018

🎧 Becoming, Michelle Obama

📖 This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See, Seth Godin

📖 Christmas Stories: Heartwarming Classics of Angels, a Manger, and the Birth of Hope, Max Lucado

🎧 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Jordan B. Peterson

📖 Woman Code, Alisa Vitti

📖 Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, Kim Scott

📖 The Masterpiece, Francine Rivers

📖 Principles: Life and Work, Ray Dalio

📖 Everything You Need You Have: How to Be at Home in Your Self, Gerad Kite

📖 Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex, Aubrey Marcus

📖 Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn

📖 Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success, John C. Maxwell

📖 The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic #1), Amanda Lovelace

📖 Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition, Richard Bach

📖 What The Buddha Taught, Walpola Rahula

📖 How To Meditate Using Chakras, Mantras and Breath, Dennis K. Chernin

📖 Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur

📖 The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy, Sharon Bertsche Mcgrayne

📖 The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence, Dr. Robert Anthony

📖 Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance, Tony Dungy

📖 The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas

📖 Who Says You Can't? You Do, Daniel Chidiac

📖 Hug Your Customers: The Proven Way to Personalize Sales and Achieve Astounding Results, Jack Mitchell

📖 The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It, Michael E. Gerber

📖 The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, Gretchen Rubin

📖 American Gods, Neil Gaiman

📖 Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert

📖 Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time), Claude M. Steele

Favorites

These are some of my favorite books, of all genres, in no particular order.

The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now, Dr. Meg Jay

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, Malcolm Gladwell

Life Lessons, Christian Conte, Ph. D.

Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want, Alex Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur

The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

The 4-Hour Workweek, Timothy Ferriss

Stargirl (Stargirl Series), Jerry Spinelli

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Judy Blume

If you have any book recommendations to share, let me know. I'm @ToriMeglio on Twitter.