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Yeah, I do read for pleasure. Call me boring (ironically people I know well won’t tell you that), but I’m a very, very curious person. (Have I mentioned very?)

Here’s a list of books I finished in chronologically descending order.

2013

• Ruminations on Twentysomething Life – Aaron Karo

2012

• The Space Between Trees – Katie Williams
• Sophie’s World – Jostie Gaarder
• Outliers: The Story of Success – Malcolm Gladwell
• The Undomestic Goddess – Sophie Kinsella
• I’ve Got Your Number – Sophie Kinsella
• The Wedding Girl – Madeleine Wickham
• Fifty Shades of Grey, Book 1 – E. L. James
• Fifty Shades Darker, Book 2 – E. L. James
• Fifty Shades Freed, Book 3 – E. L. James
• The Power of Simple Prayer: How To Talk With God About Everything – Joyce Meyer
• The Confident Woman: Start Today Living Boldly Without Fear - Joyce Meyer

2011

• Reality, Knowledge, and Value: A Basic Introduction to Philosophy – Jerome A. Schaffer
• Ego and Archetype – Edward Edinger
• Growth Psychology: Models of the Healthy Personality – Duane P. Schultz
• The Dhammapada – translated by Irving Babbitt
• Secrets of a Former Fat Girl – Lisa Delaney
• The Study of Human Nature: A Reader – readings selected by Leslie Stevenson
• The Female Brain – Louann Brizendine
• Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About it – Gary Taubes
• The Stuff of Thought – Steven Pinker
• Handbook of Integrative Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, and Behavioral Medicine: Perspectives, Practices, and Research – edited by Roland A. Carlstedt
• The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade Study – Howard S. Friedman & Leslie R. Martin
• Who Am I? The 16 Basic Desires that Motivate Our Actions and Define Our Personalities – Steven Reiss
• Hormones and Brain Plasticity (Oxford Series in Behavioral Neuroendocrinology) – Luis Miguel Garcia-Segura
• Physiology: A Manual for Students and Practitioners – Theodore Charles Guenther and Augustus Ernest Guenther
• An Introduction to Nutrition and Metabolism (3rd Edition) – David A. Bender
• Basic Medical Endocrinology (4th Edition) – H. Maurice Goodman
• Welcome to Your Brain – Sandra aamodt & Sam Wang
• Reading in the Brain - Stanislas Dehaene
• A Reader on Reading – Alberto Manguel
• Physiology – Sir Michael Foster, edited by Professors Huxley, Roscoe, and Balfour Stewart
• Anatomy: A Manual for Students and Practitioners – Fred John Brockway
• Survival of the Prettiest – Nancy L. Etcoff
• On the Soul – Aristotle, translated by J. A. Smith
• Flourish – Martin Seligman
• Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success – Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxwell, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler
• Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dwan of the Virtual Revolution – Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Baileson
• Well-Being: The Foundations of Hedonic Psychology – edited by Daniel Kahneman, Ed Diener, and Norbert Schwarz
• All That is Bitter and Sweet: A Memoir – Ashley Judd with Maryanne Vollers
• Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia – Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn
• Handbook of Self-Regulation – Monique Boekaerts, Paul R Pintrich and Moshe Zeidner
• The Art of Loving – Erich Fromm
• Psychology – William James
• The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law – Deborah L. Rhode
• Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain - Antonio R. Damasio
• What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today’s Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty – John Brockman
• George’s Marvellous Medicine - Roald Dahl
• Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert A. Heinlein
• Can You Keep a Secret? – Sophie Kinsella
• State of Fear - Michael Crichton
• Remember Me? – Sophie Kinsella
• Good In Bed – Jennifer Weiner
• Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux – translated by John Clarke
• Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
• The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown
• Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Power of Human Strength – Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney
• Brida – Paulo Coelho
• A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - Xiaolu Guo

Books I’ve read previously

FICTION

• Angels & Demons – Dan Brown
• The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
• All-American Girl – Meg Cabot
• The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
• Eleven Minutes: A Novel – Paulo Coelho
• Brida – Paulo Coelho
• Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
• Matilda - Roald Dahl
• Jemima J – Jane Green
• Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Adventures of Harold and the Purple Crayon – Crockett Johnson
• Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window – Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
• Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World – Haruki Murakami
• Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
• Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
• South of the Border, West of the Sun – Haruki Murakami
• The Three Questions – Jon J. Muth
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix – J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J. K. Rowling
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard: A Wizarding Classic from the World of Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling
• The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
• Prep – Curtis Sittenfeld
• The Teenage Textbook, or, The Melting of the Ice Cream Girl - Adrian Tan
• The Teenage Workbook, or, The Passing of an April Shower - Adrian Tan

NONFICTION

• Conversations with God for Teens – Neale Donald Walsch
• Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything – Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto - Michael Pollan
• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Runner’s World The Runner’s Body: How the Latest Exercise Science Can Help You Run Stronger, Longer, and Faster - Ross Tucker, Jonathan Dugas, and Matt Fitzgerald
• Bart Simpson’s Guide to Life: A Wee Handbook for the Perplexed – Matt Groening
• The Secret History of the World: As Laid Down by the Secret Societies – Mark Booth
• Why We Run: A Natural History - Bernd Heinrich

I’ll update the list of other titles in my home library real soon! (a lot)

♥

Muchaluva,
Stace.