This select-favorites list of books I’ve enjoyed and/or learned something valuable from is constantly being added to.
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Crucial Conversations
Grenny, et al.
Codependent No More
Melody Beattie
My Grandmother’s Hands
Resmaa Menakem
Don’t Think of an Elephant
George Lakoff
Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child
John Gottman, Ph.D.
The Art of Gathering
Priya Parker
The Assassination of Fred Hampton
Jeffrey Haas
The Body is Not an Apology
Sonya Renee Taylor
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
Saving Grace
Kirsten Powers
The Prophets
by Robert Jones, Jr.
Karen Chilton knocks this audiobook out of the park, y’all.
The Road Home
by Michael Thomas Ford
Native American Healing Meditations
by Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Best experienced by audiobook.
The Power of Vulnerability
by Brené Brown
This audiobook was more of a recorded workshop and might(?) vary from printed text.
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
by Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD
Take what you need; leave the rest.
Full Circle
by Michael Thomas Ford
The Cooking Gene
by Michael W. Twitty
Audiobook narrated by the author, whose extensive expertise clarifies pronunciations that would be difficult to know in print.
The Art of Living
by Thich Nhat Hanh
One Native Life
by Richard Wagamese
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
White Fragility
by Robin DiAngelo
So You Want to Talk About Race
by Ijeoma Oluo
Parable of the Sower
by Octavia Butler
Counting Coup
by Joseph Medicine Crow
One Mississippi
by Mark Childress
This audiobook is well-narrated.
Complex PTSD
by Pete Walker
This one is more clinical but offers profound insights. If you’re not living with CPTSD, you’re working with someone who has CPTSD. Learn to recognize the signs.
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
by N.K. Jemisin
Casaundra Freeman narrates this audiobook with world-class skill and attention.
The Broken Kingdoms
by N.K. Jemisin
Casaundra Freeman excels again!
Show Up Hard: A Roadmap for Helpers in Crisis
by Shannon Weber
Audiobook narrated by author, whose social work background makes you feel like you’re sitting down with the boss you need, rather than the boss you have, for a pep talk.
A Day Late and a Dollar Short
by Terry McMillan
The Color of Water
by James McBride
JD Jackson is one of my favorite audiobook narrators. Susan Deneker pulls together a stellar performance with JD to tie two histories into one present, impeccably.
Radical Acceptance
by Tara Brach
Long Walk to Freedom
by Nelson Mandela
Appropriately titled, Michael Boatman does this 27-hour and 39-minute audiobook a tremendous service.
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
Teaching to Transgress
by bell hooks
Walden & On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Clayborne Carson – editor
This Is Just My Face
by Gabourey Sidibe
This one is worth audiobooking.
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
If Beale Street Could Talk
by James Baldwin
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars Club
by Christopher B. Teuton
The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother
by Gabriel García Márquez
I read this in the Spanish language and have no clear recommendation as to which English translation/copy is better than another. Sorry.
Ain’t I a Woman
by bell hooks
Sister Outsider
by Audre Lorde
The Gift of Fear
by Gavin De Becker
The Dialectic of Sex
by Shulamith Firestone
Many Lives, Many Masters
by Brian Weiss, M.D.
Religion & Spirituality for Diverse Women
by Bryant-Davis, et al.
Nectar in a Sieve
by Kamala Markandaya
Inner Revolution
by Robert Thurman
The Gospel According to Thomas
by Didymos Judas Thomas
The Front Porch 