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Recommended reading

The bookshelf (112 titles, by theme)

ADHD & mental health4
Boundaries & relationships2
  • Boundaries Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend

    Recommended reading in the boundaries and relationships shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • Set Boundaries, Find Peace Nedra Glover Tawwab

    Recommended reading in the boundaries and relationships shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

Business, career & entrepreneurship4
  • Made to Stick Chip Heath and Dan Heath

    Recommended reading in the business, career, and entrepreneurship shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • Never Eat Alone Keith Ferrazzi with Tahl Raz

    Recommended reading in the business, career, and entrepreneurship shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • Never Split the Difference Chris Voss with Tahl Raz

    Recommended reading in the business, career, and entrepreneurship shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • Zero to One Peter Thiel with Blake Masters

    Recommended reading in the business, career, and entrepreneurship shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

Consciousness & inner work17
Counseling practice & money psychology19
Culture, family & first-gen experience9
Equity & inclusion3
Family patterns & generational healing7
  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents Lindsay C. Gibson

    Recommended reading in the family patterns and generational healing shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma Mariel Buqué

    Recommended reading in the family patterns and generational healing shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • Drama Free Nedra Glover Tawwab

    Recommended reading in the family patterns and generational healing shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • How to Do the Work Dr. Nicole LePera

    Recommended reading in the family patterns and generational healing shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • It Didn't Start with You Mark Wolynn

    Recommended reading in the family patterns and generational healing shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • The Origins of You Vienna Pharaon

    Recommended reading in the family patterns and generational healing shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • What Happened to You? Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey

    Recommended reading in the family patterns and generational healing shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

Financial health & money trauma1
  • Emotional Currency Kate Levinson

    Recommended reading in the financial health and money trauma shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

Habits & productivity10
  • Atomic Habits James Clear

    Recommended reading in the habits and productivity shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • Better Than Before Gretchen Rubin

    Recommended reading in the habits and productivity shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • Deep Work Cal Newport

    Recommended reading in the habits and productivity shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • Four Thousand Weeks Oliver Burkeman

    Recommended reading in the habits and productivity shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • Mini Habits Stephen Guise

    Recommended reading in the habits and productivity shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • The 5 AM Club Robin Sharma

    Recommended reading in the habits and productivity shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey

    Recommended reading in the habits and productivity shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • The Power of Habit Charles Duhigg

    Recommended reading in the habits and productivity shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • Tiny Habits BJ Fogg, Ph.D.

    Recommended reading in the habits and productivity shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • Zen Habits Leo Babauta

    Recommended reading in the habits and productivity shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

Leadership4
  • Dare to Lead Brené Brown

    Recommended reading in the leadership shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie

    Recommended reading in the leadership shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • Start with Why Simon Sinek

    Recommended reading in the leadership shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • Work Rules! Laszlo Bock

    Recommended reading in the leadership shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

Money & couples3
  • Money and Love Myra Strober and Abby Davisson

    Recommended reading in the money and couples shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • Money for Couples Ramit Sethi

    Recommended reading in the money and couples shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • Smart Couples Finish Rich David Bach

    Recommended reading in the money and couples shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

Personal development11
Personal finance15
  • Broke Millennial Erin Lowry

    Recommended reading in the personal finance shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • Deeper Than Money Chloe Elise

    Recommended reading in the personal finance shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • Dollars and Sense Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler

    Recommended reading in the personal finance shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • I Will Teach You to Be Rich Ramit Sethi

    Recommended reading in the personal finance shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • Millionaire Teacher Andrew Hallam

    Recommended reading in the personal finance shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • Money Out Loud Berna Anat

    Recommended reading in the personal finance shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • Rich Dad Poor Dad Robert T. Kiyosaki

    Recommended reading in the personal finance shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • The Behavior Gap Carl Richards

    Recommended reading in the personal finance shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • The Index Card Helaine Olen and Harold Pollack

    Recommended reading in the personal finance shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • The Investment Answer Daniel C. Goldie and Gordon S. Murray

    Recommended reading in the personal finance shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • The Little Book of Common Sense Investing John C. Bogle

    Recommended reading in the personal finance shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • The One-Page Financial Plan Carl Richards

    Recommended reading in the personal finance shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • The Psychology of Money Morgan Housel

    Recommended reading in the personal finance shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • The Richest Man in Babylon George S. Clason

    Recommended reading in the personal finance shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • The Simple Path to Wealth JL Collins

    Recommended reading in the personal finance shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

Social justice & poverty3
  • High Conflict Amanda Ripley

    Recommended reading in the social justice and poverty shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • I Never Thought of It That Way Monica Guzmán

    Recommended reading in the social justice and poverty shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

  • Poverty, by America Matthew Desmond

    Recommended reading in the social justice and poverty shelf. Print, Kindle, and Audible where available.

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