2025 Reads

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
• Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer
• Winning the Week by Carey Bentley and Demir Bentley
• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
• Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect by Will Guidara
• Black Psychedelic Revolution by Nicholas Powers
• Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs by Pearl Cleage
• History of Tea by Laura C. Martin
• There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension Hanif Abdurraqib

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2020 – 2024//favorite reads

1. Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect by Will Guidara
2. Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
3. The Heat Will Kill You First by Jeff Goodell
4. Journey to the Shadow Self: What Psychology, Goddess Worship, & Plant Medicine Can Teach Us by Dr. Marie Loper PhD
5. Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur by James A. Randel
6. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
7. End Times by Peter Turchin
8. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
9. communion by bell hooks
10. salvation: black people and love by bell hooks
11. all about love by bell hooks
12. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
13. dub: finding ceremony by alexis pauline gumbs
14. Holistic Tarot by Benebell Wen
15. undrowned: lessons from marine mammals by alexis pauline gumbs
16. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center by Rhaina Cohen
17. Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
18. The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell
19. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
20. Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel
21. Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
22. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
23. Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
24. Quilting by Lucille Clifton
25. Assata: An Autobiography
26. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
27. Blood In My Eye by George Jackson
28. A Broken People’s Playlist by Chimeka Garricks
29. How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm by Mei-Ling Hopgood
30. Deep Work by Cal Newport
31. This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
32. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
33. End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration Peter Turchin
34. The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
35. Secret Stairs: A Walking Guide of Berkeley and Oakland by Charles Fleming
36. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris
37. The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul by Danielle LaPorte
38. Influence by Robert Cialdini
39. Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex Sophia Giovannitti
40. Sex at Dawn by Cacilda Jethá and Christopher Ryan
41. More Than Two by Eve Rickert and Franklin Veaux
42. The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy
43. The Psychology of Money by Morgan House
44. Tarot for Change by Jessica Dore
45. Women who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
46. The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
47. The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
48. The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
49. Patternmaster by Octavia Butler
50. Mind of My Mind by Octavia Butler
51. Wild Seed by Octavia Butler
52. Clay’s Ark by Octavia Butler
53. Dawn by Octavia Butler
54. Adulthood Rites by Octavia Butler
55. Imago by Octavia Butler
56. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
57. Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
58. Kindred by Octavia Butler
59. Fledgling by Octavia Butler
60. Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler

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