Book Recommendations

Note – books are not listed in order of importance or preference.

General with positive thoughts, wisdom, stories, inspiration & biographies:

  • “The Women” Kristen Hannah and all of her books

  • “Evergreen” Belva Plain

  • “Tuesdays with Morrie” M. Albom

  • “To Kill a Mocking Bird” Harper Lee

  • “1984” George Orwell

  • “The Catcher in the Rye” J.D. Salinger

  • “The Hunger Games” Suzanne Collins

  • “The Handmaids Tale” Margaret Atwood

  • “Lord of the Flies” William Golding

  • “Where the Wild Things Are” Maurice Sendak

  • “Of Mice and Men” John Steinbeck

  • “The Great Gatsby” F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • “The Diary of Anne Frank” Anne Frank

  • “I know why the changed bird sings” Maya Angelou

  • “Midnight in the garden of good and evil” John Berendt

  • “A Farewell to Arms” Ernest Hemingway

  • “Lord of the Rings” J.R.R. Tolkien

  • “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” Mark Twain

  • All Judy Blume books

  • “Noodle and the No Bones Day” Jonathan Graziano

  • All books by Jennifer Weiner

  • “Little Women” Louisa May Alcott

  • “The Journey Home” Radhanath Swami -Read many times over! Amazing true story

  • “Rebel Buddha- on the road to freedom” – Dzogchen Ponlop

  • “What makes you not a buddhist” – Dzongsar Khyentse

  • “Hand Wash Cold”-  Karen Maezen Miller

  • “A New Earth” – Eckhart Tolle  #tolle

  • “Becoming” Michelle Obama

  • “I am Malala” Malala Yousafzai

  • “The Great Work of Your Life”– Stephen Cope

  • “Yoga and the Quest for the True Self”  – Stephen Cope

  • “A Life Worth Breathing”  – Max Strom  #maxstrom

  • “Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart” - James Doty, MD

  • “Salt Water Buddha: A surfers quest to find Zen on the Sea” - Jaimal Yogis

  • “May I be happy: A Memoir of love, yoga and chaning my mind” Cyndi Lee #CyndiLee

  • “The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West” by Michelle Goldberg

  • “Misadventures of a Garden State Yogi” – Brian Leaf

  • “The Book of Joy” Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu

  • “The Buddha Walks into a bar” – Lodro Rinzler

  • “Learning to Breathe” – Priscilla Warner

  • “Learning to Breathe” – Alison Wright

  • “My Year With Eleanor” – Noelle Hancock

  • “Art of Racing in the Rain” – Garth Stein

  • “The Happiness Project” – Gretchen Rubin

  • “Estranged” – Jessica Berger Gross

  • “Enlightened – Jessica Berger Gross

  • “The Buddha Walks into The Office” – Lordo Rinzler

Category: Mental wellness, Health & Eating Disorder books:

  • “What my bones know” Stephanie Foo (Story about her complex trauma and therapy)

  • “What Happened to You? Conversations on trauma, resilience and healing” Bruce Perry, MD, PHD & Oprah Winfrey

  • “Running in Silence” Rachel Steil - 2nd edition - her story about driving for perfection and the eating disorder that fed it.

  • “The Highly Sensitive Person: How to thrive when the world overwhelms you” Elaine N. Aron, PHD

  • “Maybe you should talk to someone” Lori Gottlieb

  • “Group: How one therapist and a circle of strangers saved my life” - Christine Tate (True story of a woman with ED and her group)

  • “The body is not an apology: the power of radical self-love” Sonya Renee Taylor

  • “8 Keys to recovery from an eating disorder” Carolyn Costin and Gwen Schubert Grabb

  • “Hunger - a memoir of my body” Roxane Gay

  • “Starving for Survival” Jason Wood

  • “The deepest well - healing the long term effects of childhood adversity” Nadine Burke Harris, MD

  • “Burnout: The secret to unlocking the stress cycle” Emily Nagoskin, PHD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA

  • Carotid and Vertebral Artery Dissection - A guide for Survivors and their loved ones - Jodi A Dodds, MD *****Book that really helped explain the symptoms and stroke that Paige had in 2013****

Category: LEARNING, Yoga & Meditation Books:

  • “The Yamas & Niyamas” - Deborah Adele

  • “Religious Therapeutics” - Gregory Fields

  • “The Psychology of Meditation” Michael West

  • “Yoga for Cancer” - Tari Prinster

  • “Adaptive Yoga” Mindy Eisenberg

  • “Accessible Yoga” Jivana Heyman

  • “Intelligent Yoga” – Peter Blackaby – recently updated not avail yet in US – must order it directly from Peter but easy to do so.  He may even sign it!  #peterblackaby

  • “The Complete Guide to Yin Yoga” Bernie Clark #bernieclark

  • “Deep Listening” – Jullian Pransky #jullianpransky

  • “The Here and Now – Habit” Hugh G. Byrne, PHD #hughbyrne

  • “Hatha Yoga Pradipika” – Muktibodhananda Swami

  • “Yoga and the Quest for the True Self” – Stephen Cope #stephencope

  • “Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma” - Gail Parker

  • “Yoga & Ayurveda” – David Frawley

  • “Kripalu Yoga” Richard Faulds

  • “Pilgrim of Love: The Life and Teachings of Swami Kripalu” – Atma Jo Ann Levitt

  • “True Refuge” – Tara Brach  #tarabrach

  • “Yoga Yajnavalkya” – Translated by A.G. Mohan #agmohan

  • “Mindfulness Yoga” Frank Jude Boccio

  • “The 8 Human Talents” –  Gurmukh  #gurmukh

  • “The Heart of Yoga – Dev a personal Practice” by T.K.V.  Desikachar  #desikachar

  • “The Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali”  – many versions but esp fond of Sri Swami Satchidananda

  • “Yoga as Medicine” -Timothy McCall, M.D.

  • “Gandhi on Non-Violence” edited by Thomas Merton

  • “Autobiography of a Yogi” by Paramahansa Yogananda

  • “Yoga Mala” – Sri K. Pattabhi Jois  #jois

  • “The Four Desires” – Rod Stryker #rodstryker

  • “True Love” Thich Nhat Hanh  #thichnhathanh

  • “The Secret Power of Yoga” – Nischala Joy Deve

  • “Yoga Reminder: Lightened Reflections” by A. G. Mohan and Ganesh Mohan

  • “Yoga & the Pursuit of Happiness” Sam Chase

  • “The Bhagavad Gita” - Eknath Easwaran translation and narrative

  • “The Yoga Tradition” - Georg Feuerstein, PhD

  • “The Principles and Practice of Yoga in Healthcare” - Khalsa, Cohen, McCall, Telles

  • “Yoga for Everyone” - Diane Bondy