Courtney’s Reading List

Reading inspires my writing, fuels my creativity and sometimes helps me escape for a bit. What are you reading right now?

Currently Reading:  The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Lifespacer  by Julia Cameron

 

Fiction

The Catcher in the Ryespacer  by J.D. Salinger

The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond

No One You Knowspacer  by Michelle Richmond

In Leah’s Wakespacer  by Terri Giuliano Long

While I Was Gone by Sue Miller

She’s Come Undone  by Wally Lamb

The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession by Paulo Coelho

Sarah’s Key  by Tatiana de Rosnay

Cross Roadsspacer  by Wm Paul Young

The Great Gatsbyspacer  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Someday, Someday, Maybe:  by Lauren Graham

Gone Girl: A Novelspacer  by Gillian Flynn

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)spacer  by Mindy Kaling

Dream of the Blue Room: by Michelle Richmond

 

Non-fiction

On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craftspacer  by Stephen King

Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Lifespacer  by Priscilla Warner

Tiny Buddha, Simple Wisdom for Life’s Hard Questionsspacer  by Lori Deschene

The Flinch by Julien Smith

The Glass Castle: A Memoirspacer  by Jeannette Walls

Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addictionspacer  by David Sheff

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Lifespacer  by Anne Lamott

Enjoy Every Sandwich: Living Each Day as If It Were Your Lastspacer  by Lee Lipsenthal M.D.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battlesspacer  by Steven Pressfield

Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliancespacer  by Jonathan Fields

The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Futurespacer  by Chris Guillebeau

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

Do the Workspacer  by Steven Pressfield

Miracle for Jen by Linda Barrick

Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put on My Pajamas, and Found Happinessspacer  by Dominique Browning

Last Wordsspacer  by George Carlin

Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Lifespacer  by Gretchen Rubin

You Can Buy Happiness (and It’s Cheap): How One Woman Radically Simplified Her Life and How You Can Toospacer  by Tammy Strobel

No Place Like Home: A Memoir in 39 Apartments by Brooke Berman

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinkingspacer  by Malcolm Gladwell

Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourselfspacer  by Lissa Rankin

Living the Simple Life: A Guide to Scaling Down and Enjoying Morespacer  by Elaine St. James

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spiritualityspacer  by Donald Miller

Eat to Live: by Joel Fuhrman

Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social Worldspacer  by Gary Vaynerchuk

Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalistsspacer

Everything I Knowspacer  by Paul Jarvis

Thrive by Arianna Huffington

My Books

Reading helps me write. Books give me ideas, teach me new words, and inform my writing. I wrote the following books and they are available on my website in different formats or through Amazon for Kindle. You don’t need a Kindle to read Kindle books. They can be read using the Free Kindle Reader App for your Web Browser, PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, or Android.

  • Mini-missions for Simplicityspacer
  • Simple Ways to Be more with Less
  • Living in the Land of Enough
  • Clutterfree

 

You can find many of these books at a local bookstore or library. If you purchase one of the books directly from my reading page, I receive a small commission that goes towards supporting my microbusiness. Thank you for that!