All the books I haven’t read (yet)
Here’s a list of all the books on my bookshelf that I haven’t read (yet):
In no particular order…
Food Politics, by Marion Nestle
When the Body Says No, by Gabor Maté
Yoga & Ayurveda, by David Frawley
Salt, Sugar, Fat, by Michael Moss
Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson
Outliers, by Malcom Gladwell
Wherever You Go, There You Are, by Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Shock Doctrine, by Naomi Klein
Notebook, by Tom Cox
Disobedience, by Jane Hamilton
Unsavory Truth, by Marion Nestle
Doughnut Economics, by Kate Raworth
Tomatoland, by Barry Estabrook
Thicker than Water, by Erica Cirino
Barons, by Austin Frerick
The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle
A Fuller View, by L. Steven Sieden
No Bad Parts, by Richard Schwartz, PhD
Better, by Nicole Caldwell
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell
Worthy, by Nancy Levin
Why We Sleep, by Matthew Walker, PhD
Tom Brown’s guide to HEALING THE EARTH, by Tom Brown, Jr., with Randy Walker, Jr.
My Best Stories, by Alice Munro
Illusions, by Richard Bach
Riding the Bus with My Sister, by Rachel Simon
Entangled Life, by Merlin Sheldrake
Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
End Times Fascism, by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
Fluent Forever, by Gabriel Wyner
The Surrender Experiment, by Michael A. Singer
Now Write!, edited by Sherry Ellis
A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold
The New Sustainability Advantage, by Bob Willard
Nineteen Steps, by Millie Bobby Brown
The Hundred-Foot Journey, by Richard C. Morais
Educated, by Tara Westover
The Serviceberry, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Letters to a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke
Navigating the Polycrisis, by Michael J. Albert
Breaking Together, by Jem Bendell
Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens
No goals!
I don’t have any objective with this list. No ambitious “I’m gonna read all these books by the end of 2026!” goal. Nope! I’m just cataloguing all the books that I’ve been carrying around with me for the last decade (in some cases-like Tomatoland, Silent Spring, and A Fuller View-multiple decades, egads!).
Several of these titles I bought new, and they remain uncracked or partially cracked (Unsavory Truth, Barons, Thicker Than Water, Notebook, Bird by Bird, End Times Fascism). Some are borrowed (Disobedience, Illusions, The Surrender Experiment, My Best Stories, Entangled Life, Nineteen Steps, No Bad Parts – friends, I promise I will give them back!). The rest are thrift-store finds that I’ve collected because they’ve been on my TBR list for forever!
Sure, I would like to read some of these over the coming months. We’re heading into autumn here on the mountain, and I am so ready to get cozy! But I’m not establishing any firm goals* or making this A Project, because every time I do, I end up not achieving it. I just wanna read**!
Are any of these titles on your list? If so, do you want to read together?
Let’s do it, Bird by Bird! đź“š
*I’ve even stopped tracking page counts in my Fable app. Now, I just add books to my “finished” shelf.
**Two things that have helped me read more, even if I’m not reading the books listed here: logging off from and deleting Instagram/Facebook from my phone; and borrowing from my local library. I’ve even gotten into reading borrowed books on my phone (hooray for Libby!), which is not great for my thumbs or eyes, but until I get a Kindle, it keeps my brain reading…
