Herein lies my never-ending to be read, organized by genre. For books I’m reading now and reviews, check out this post.
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Art & Creativity
- How to Create Encaustic Art
- Picture This: How Pictures Work
- Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas
- Art is a Way of Knowing
- Creative Pep Talk
- Art as Experience
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being
- It was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God
- Graphic Design Rules
- Art & Faith: A Theology of Making
- Skip to the Fun Parts: Cartoons & Complaints about the Creative Process
- The Cult of Creativity
- The Art of War
- Rembrandt is in the Wind
- Ninth Street Women
- Design as Art
- I Paint what I Want to See
- The Pursuit of Art
- Making & Breaking the Grid
- Inside the Creative studio
- My Creative Space: How to Design your Home to Stimulate Ideas & Spark Innovation
- How Design Makes us Think
- Design is Storytelling
- Creative Confidence
- Things are What You Make of Them: Life Advice for Creatives
- Art inc.
- Making a Life
- Love your Creative Space
- Creative Doing
- The Path of Least Resistance for Artists
- Why Fonts Matter
- A Million Little Ways
- Sketching from the Imagination
- Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist
- The Art Spirit
- Real Artists Don’t Starve
- The Materials and Methods of Sculpture
- The New Color Mixing Companion
- Arts & Numbers
- How to be an Artist Without Losing your Mind, your Shirt, or your Creative Compass
- Living and Sustaining a Creative Life
- Art-Write
- Art before Breakfast
- The Design of Everyday Things
- Art/Work
- You are an Artist
- The Rock that is Higher: Story as Truth
- No More Secondhand Art
- The Elements of Drawing
- Pedagogical Sketchbook
- Grid Systems
- Art is the Highest Form of Hope and other Quotes by Artists
- Show Your Work
- How to be an Artist
- Palette Perfect
- The Artist’s Way
- The Designer’s Dictionary of Color
- Beautiful oops
- The Meaning in the Making
- A Christian Critique of Art & Literature
Self-Help
- 9 Things You Simply Must Do to Succeed in Love & Life
- Thank You for Being Late
- The Confidence Code
- Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
- How to Be Here
- The Art of Thinking Clearly
- Think Again
- The 5AM Club (KU)
- Bohm
- The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
- Amusing Ourselves to Death
- Get Your Life Back
- Every Tool’s a Hammer
- A Year of Living Kindly
- To Shake the Sleeping Self
- Finish
- Choose Hope
- Creating a Charmed Life
- Attitude Reconstruction
- How Full is Your Bucket
- Today Matters
- Deep Work
- The Next Right Thing
- Insight
- Unoffendable
- You are Here
Parenting & Marriage
- Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles that can radically change your family
- Some Thoughts About Relationships
- The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read
- The Whole-Brain Child
- Home Learning Year by Year
- For the Family’s Sake
- The Hidden Art of Homemaking
- What Makes Love Last
- 1000 Hours Outside
- The Mastery of Love
- The War Against Boys
- Hunt, Gather, Parent
- Parenting with Love & Logic
- To Have and To Hold
- Instead of Education
- The Anatomy of Peace
- Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work
- Getting the Love You Want (KU)
- The Attachment Effect
- How Children Fail
- The Montessori Toddler
- The Meaning of Marriage
- Us
- Boundless Parenting: Tools, Tactics and Habits of Great Parents
- Loving our Kids on Purpose
Home & Travel
- America’s Best Day Hikes
- The Hands-On Home
- Theology of Home: Finding the Eternal in Everyday
- The Life-giving Home
- Elements of Style
- Jungalow: Decorate Wild
- Made for Living
- The Elements of a Home
- Feels Like Home
- Minimalista
- Down to Earth: Laid-back Interiors for Modern Living
- The Grace-Filled Homestead
- The Backyard Homesteader
- Mini Farming: Self Sufficiency on a 1/4 Acre
- Gaia’s Garden
- Moon USA National Parks: The Complete Guide to all 63 Parks
- 100 Hikes of a Lifetime
- The Living Soil Handbook
- The Homesteader’s Herbal Companion
- The Doable Off-Grid Homestead
- The Curious Nature Guide
- The God of the Garden
- The House that Cleans Itself
- Beautifully Organized
- How to Keep House while Drowning
Novels
I have a strong preference for fantasy & sci-fi, and I’ve split these genres from all other novels for organization’s sake.
Fantasy & Sci-fi
- We Hunt the Flame (series)
- Desolation (series) KU
- Compound 26 (series)
- Psycho Shifters (series) KU
- The Poppy War (series)
- Mortal Coil (series)
- A Thousand Pieces of You (series)
- The Midnight Library
- The Starless Sea
- Scepter & Crown (series) KU
- Once Upon a Broken Heart
- Trial of the Sun Queen (series) KU
- Three Dark Crowns (series)
- The Court of Miracles (series)
- Onyx & Ivory (series)
- Cruel Beauty
- A Kingdom of Stars & Shadows
- Married By Treachery (series) KU
- Frost Blood (series)
- Songs from the Deep
- Fairy Tale Romance Series (series) KU
- Rhapsodic (series)
- Throne of Glass (series)
- Storm & Fury (series)
- The Beautiful (series)
- Arc of a Scythe (series)
- Carve the Mark (series)
- The Queen’s Rising (series)
- Everless (series)
- Dark Matter
- Fourth Wing
- Circe
- Blood of the Ancients (series) KU
- Traitor’s Kiss (series)
- The Glass Spare (series)
- These Violent Delights (series)
- Daughter of the Pirate King (series) KU
- The Wrath & the Dawn (series)
- Sea of Ruin
- A Ruin of Roses (series) KU
- Underworld Gods (series) KU
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
All Others
- The Kiss Quotient
- The Fountainhead
- American Gods
- Same Kind of Different as Me
- Killing November (series)
- Alex, Approximately
- The Unhoneymooners
- The Authenticity Project
- Never Fall for your Fiancée
- Mr. Rochester
- The Soulmate Equation
- The Bride Test
- Twice Shy
- The Marriage Game (series)
- The Maltese Falcon
- Gift from the Sea
- Accidentally Engaged
- Tweet Cute KU
- An Assassin’s Guide to Love & Treason
- Firefly Lane (series)
- Love & Other Words
- The Forgetting KU
- The Betrayals
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
- The Secret History
- A Room of One’s Own
- The Silent Patient
- Remarkably Bright Creatures
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Anxious People
- The Peacock & the Sparrow
- The Collector’s Apprentice
- Tokyo Ever After
- The Maid of Fairbourne Hall
- The Lady and the Mountain Man (KU)
- The Express Bride
- The Simple Wild
- Not Even Bones
- The Flat-share
- Just My Type
Business & Finance
- Read to Lead
- Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
- The Richest Man in Babylon
- The Compound Effect
- Never Split the Difference
- Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad
- The Psychology of Money
- Think & Grow Rich
- Daily Rituals: Women at Work
- Tax-Free Wealth
- How to Talk to Anyone
- Duct Tape Marketing
- How to be a Founder
- Rework
- How You Say It
- The Lean Startup
- Everyone is an “Influencer”
- The Dip
- The Conversion Code
- The Brand Gap
- Ultralearning
- Art for Money
- The Irresistible Offer
- Good to Great
- The 4-hour Workweek
- Mastery
- Built to Last
- Linchpin
- The Millionaire Next Door
- The Unfair Advantage
- A Happy Pocket full of Money
- Zero to One
- Making it in the Art World
- Starting Your Career as an Artist
- Sell Like Crazy
- Blue Ocean Strategy
- Building a Storybrand (KU)
- The Practice
- Indistractable
- Hyperfocus
- Branding Pays
- Rework
- The One Minute Millionaire
Health
- Think & Eat Yourself Smart
- Thinner, Leaner, Stronger
- The Neurogenesis Diet & Lifestyle
- The Align Method
- Why We Get Sick
- Light: Medicine of the Future
- Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food that isn’t Food
- How to Heal Your Metabolism
- Sicker, Fatter, Poorer
- We are Our Brains
- The Immunity Fix
- Science of Yoga
- The Mind-Gut Connection
- The Fifth Vital Sign
- How your Mind can Heal Your Body
- Beat Autoimmune
- Cured
- Movement Matters
- Radical Medicine
- The Plant Paradox
- Boundless
Mental Health & Psychology
- The Body Keeps the Score
- What My Bones Know
- On Becoming a Person
- The Anatomy of Violence
- Nurturing Resilience
- A Molecule Away from Madness
- How to Read People Like a Book
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
- We are the Luckiest
- When Anger Hurts
- The Wounded Heart
- Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess
- The Psychobiotic Revolutions
- Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
- The Chemistry of Calm
- The Nocturnal Brain
- Modern Man in Search of a Soul
- How to Do the Work (KU)
- A Way of Being
- Negotiating the non-negotiable
- Dopamine Nation
Christian Living
Science/History
- Entangled Life
- Why Fish Don’t Exist
- The Radium Girls
- Prisoners of Geography
- What if?
- Spineless
- American Chinatown
- Gotham: A History of NYC to 1898
- The Island at the Center of the World
- 97 Orchard
- The Art Thief
- How Data Happened
- The Hidden Life of Trees
- The Trouble with Being Born
- The Book of the Moon
- The H Factor of Personality
- Chaos
- Der, Die, Das: The Secrets of German Gender
- Why Quantum Physicists Do Not Fail (KU)
- Nausea
- Being Mortal (KU)
- Incognito
- Fantastic Fungi (KU)
- Acid Test
- LSD: My Problem Child
- Psychedelic Medicine
- Patterns in Nature
- Biohazard
- Salt fat acid heat
- Our Culture, What’s Left of It
- The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
- An Anthropologist on Mars
- In Order to Live
- If Bodies Could Talk
- Visual Intelligence
- The Intellectual Devotional
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- A Mind for Numbers
- Mycelium Running
- The Book of Eels
- Superbugs
- Mississippi Mud
- Bitten
- The Rise of Statistical Thinking
- How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
- Marriage, A History
- The Anthropocene Reviewed
- Consider the Fork
- Phosphorescence
- The Moment of Tenderness
- Civilization & Its Discontents
- Pills, powder and Smoke
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- Tuesdays with Morrie
- Enemy of all Mankind
- Confessions of an English opium eater
- Debt
- Weapons of Mass Instruction
- When Breath Becomes Air
- Midnight in Chernobyl
- The Gulag Archipelago
- The Urge: Our History of Addiction
- Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
Miscellaneous
- What are People For?
- The Secret History of Mermaids
- How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
- Born to Wonder
- The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System
- Better Small Talk
- The 99% Invisible City
- The Epicurean
- All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
- On the Genealogy of Morals
- Seneca On the Shortness of Life
- My Grandfather’s Blessings
- What Every Body is Saying
- The Things they Carried
- The Penguin Book of Mermaids
- Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community
- Overcoming Dyslexia
- The Gift of Dyslexia