Book List
I thought it might be interesting to log my reading lists from the last many years. Note, this is my completed reads. I’ve browsed or bought MANY more and I’m working to complete those too.
2024
Polywise: A Deeper Dive into Navigating Open Relationships by Jessica Fern and David Cooley
I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money by Madeline Pendleton
Shameless Sex: Choose Your Own Pleasure Path to Unlock the Sex Life You've Been Waiting For by Amy Baldwin and April Lampert
Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections by Emily Nagoski PhD
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown
The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
2023
What the Fresh Hell Is This: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You by Heather Corinna
A General Theory of Love by Richard Lannon MD, Thomas Lewis MD, and Fari Amini MD
The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You’ve Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended by Sheila Wray Gregoire, Rebecca Gregoire Lindenbach, and Joanna Sawatsky
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
The Emotionally Absent Mother, Second Edition: How to Recognize and Cope with the Invisible Effects of Childhood Emotional Neglect by Jasmin Lee Cori MS, LPC
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft
Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: Honor Your Emotions, Nurture Your Self, and Live with Confidence by Lindsay C. Gibson
Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy by Lindsay C. Gibson PsyD
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson PsyD
2022
Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Clients Will Listen by Donald Miller
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal From Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C Gibson, PsyD
The Art of Somatic Coaching: Embodying Skillful Action, Wisdom, and Compassion by Richard Strozzi-Heckler
A Pound of Cure: Change Your Eating, Change Your Life, One Step at a Time by Matthew Weiner
Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be by Becky Kennedy
Magnificent Sex: Lessons from Extraordinary Lovers by Peggy J Kleinplatz, Phd and Dana Menard, Phd
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Emotional Magnetism: How to Communicate to Ignite Connection in Your Relationships by Sandy Gerber
Open Deeply: A Guide to Building Conscious, Compassionate Open Relationships by Kate Loree
Women and Kink: Relationships, Reasons, and Stories by Jennifer Rehor and Julia Schiffman
Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It by John Abramson
Intimacy Educator: Teaching Through Touch by Caffyn Jesse
Us: Getting Past You & Me to Build a More Loving Relationship by Terrence Real
Bound: A Daughter, A Domme, and an End-of-Life Story by Elizabeth Anne Wood
Finding Me by Viola Davis
Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman, MD
Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit & Joy in the Female Body by Tami Lynn Kent
Insatiable Wives: Women Who Stray and the Men Who Love Them by David J Ley
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger by Soraya Chemaly
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
Unbound: A Woman’s Guide to Power by Kasia Urbaniak
Creating Consent Culture: A Handbook for Educators by Marcia Baczynski, Erica Scott
2021
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce Perry
Listening to Ecstacy: The Transformative Power of MDMA by Charles Wininger
Stranger Here: How Weight-Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed with My Head by Jen Larsen
Love Worth Making: How to Have Ridiculously Great Sex in a Long-Lasting Relationship by Stephen Snyder
Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance by Kelly McDaniel
This is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe
I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
Food Junkies: Recovery from Food Addiction by Vera Tarman
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racial Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma, and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern
How To Do The Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self by Nicole LePera
Brainspotting: The Revolutionary New Therapy for Rapid and Effective Change by David Grand
Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It by Garth Davis M.D., Howard Jacobson
Healers on the Edge: Somatic Sex Education by Caffyn Jesse, Cassie Moore, Mehdi Yahya
The Art of Receiving and Giving: The Wheel of Consent by Betty Martin, Robyn Dalzen
2020
Breath by James Nestor
Fiber Fueled by Will Bulsiewicz
Awareness by Anthony de Mello
Existential Kink by Carolyn Elliott
Boys & Sex by Peggy Orenstein
The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy by Deb Dana
Body Respect by Linda Bacon PhD, Lucy Aphramor PhD RD
The F*ck It Diet by Caroline Dooner
The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner
Together by Vivek H. Murthy
Better Sex Through Mindfulness by Lori A. Brotto PhD
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski
Dare To Lead by Brene Brown
The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss
2019
1984 by George Orwell
Building The Ideal Private Practice by Lynn Grodzki
When The Body Says No by Gabor Mate
Braving The Wilderness by Brene Brown
Scattered by Gabor Mate
The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
Rising Strong by Brene Brown
Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine
2018
Transformation Through Intimacy by Robert Augustus Masters
Feeling Good by David D Burns
An Intimate Life by Cheryl Cohen-Greene
Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson (There is now a workbook too)
The Gift of Therapy by Irvin D. Yalom
Trauma: A Practical Guide To Working With Body and Soul by Pelmas, Christiane
Sex is the Least of It: Surrogate Partners Discuss Love Life and Intimacy by Tova Feder
2017
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. van der Kolk
The Male Brain by Louann Brizendine
Betty Dodson Bodysex Basics by Betty Dodson and Carlin Ross
The Chemistry of Connection: How the Oxytocin Response Can Help You Find Trust, Intimacy, and Love by Kuchinskas, Susan
Sex in the Forbidden Zone When Therapists, Donaters, Clergy, Teachers and Other Men in Power Betray Women’s Trust by Rutter M.D., Peter
Leading and Supportive Love: The Truth About Dominant and Submissive Relationships by Lyon, Chris M
2016
You’re Not Too Much: Intensive Lives in an Expansive World by Leela Sinha
The New Topping Book by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy
A Life Less Monogamous: A Novel About Swinging by Cooper S. Beckett
2015
The Truth by Neil Strauss
Domination and Submission by Michael Makai
The New Bottoming Book by Janet W. Hardy, Dossie Easton
2014
Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf
Memoir of Mourning: Journey through Grief and Loss to Renewal by Chowaniec, Claudia