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 Life by Julia Cameron
Fiction
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond
No One You Know by Michelle Richmond
In Leah’s Wake 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 Roads by Wm Paul Young
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Someday, Someday, Maybe: by Lauren Graham
Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
Dream of the Blue Room: by Michelle Richmond
Non-fiction
On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life by Priscilla Warner
Tiny Buddha, Simple Wisdom for Life’s Hard Questions by Lori Deschene
The Flinch by Julien Smith
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction by David Sheff
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
Enjoy Every Sandwich: Living Each Day as If It Were Your Last by Lee Lipsenthal M.D.
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance by Jonathan Fields
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
Miracle for Jen by Linda Barrick
Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put on My Pajamas, and Found Happiness by Dominique Browning
Last Words 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 Life by Gretchen Rubin
You Can Buy Happiness (and It’s Cheap): How One Woman Radically Simplified Her Life and How You Can Too by Tammy Strobel
No Place Like Home: A Memoir in 39 Apartments by Brooke Berman
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself by Lissa Rankin
Living the Simple Life: A Guide to Scaling Down and Enjoying More by Elaine St. James
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller
Eat to Live: by Joel Fuhrman
Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World by Gary Vaynerchuk
Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists
Everything I Know 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 Simplicity
- 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!