books I haven't stopped thinking about, books that coaxed me out of the fog, and helped my burnout
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last updated November, 2025
The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
Alice Wong
Sky Full of Elephants
Cebo Campbell
The Library Book
Susan Orlean
Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
Richard Ovenden
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
Ashley Shew
A Fig For All The Devils
C.S. Fritz
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Anna Lembke
The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
Ross Gay
When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
Kevin F. Adler
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
Leymah Gbowee
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Amanda Montell
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Stephanie Foo
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk
The Land in Our Bones
Layla K. Feghali
Birding Under the Influence: Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery
Dorian Anderson
Birdgirl: Looking to the Skies in Search of a Better Future
Mya-Rose Craig
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Rebecca Solnit
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
A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman
Yellowface
R.F. Kuang
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