The Books we Read

On International Book Day, we thought this might be the right time to start compiling a list of some of the books and writers we read this year, and some of the ones that we go back to over and over.

These are the books that changed us, guided us, comforted us and inspired us, as we embarked on this new adventure. Many of them are quoted and referred to in our weekly journal, so this list will grow.

In no particular order or reference style, we love:

Sensuous Knowledge, by Minna Salami, A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone.

Les Sorcières / Brujas and Chez Soi, by Mona Chollet

Sacred Instructions, Sherri Mitchell, Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset (She Who Brings the Light), Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit Based Change

Sister Outsider, by Audre Lorde

The Wave in the Mind, Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination, by Ursula K. Le Guin and No Time to Spare, Thinking about what matters.

My Seditious Heart, Arundhati Roy, Collected Nonfiction

All about love, new visions, by bell hooks,

The Source of Self-Regard, Selected Essays, Speeches and Meditations, by Toni Morrison

 Who do we Choose to Be? and Perseverance by Margaret Wheatley,

Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson

One-way Street and Other Writings, by Walter Benjamin

Undoing Border Imperialism, by Harsha Walia, 

The Human Condition, by Hannah Arendt

Entangled Life, by Merlin Sheldrake; How Fungi Make our Worlds, change our minds, and shape our futures

Be Water My Friend, by Shannon Lee, on the Writings of Bruce Lee

Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott, some instructions on writing and life

Consolations, by David Whyte; The solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

Miro, I work Like a Gardener

Lady Sings the Blues, by Billie Holiday

The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben; What They Feel, How they Communicate. Discoveries from a Secret World.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way, A new English version by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Year of the Monkey, by Patti Smith

The Art of Listening, Erich Fromm, 

Call them by their True Names, by Rebecca Solnit, American Crises and Essays

At the Same Time, Essays and Speeches, by Susan Sontag

King Kong Theorie, Viriginie Despentes

Be More Pirate, by Same Conniff Allende and How to Be More Pirate by Alex Barker and Sam Conniff

Learning from the Germans, Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil, by Susan Neiman

Lettres à un jeune poète, Rainer Maria Rilke

On Fire, Naomi Klein

A Velocity of Being, Letters to a Young Reader, edited by Maria Popova and Claudia Bedrick

Humankind, by Rutger Bregman

the sun and her flowers, by rupi kaur

Ensayo sobre lo que no se ve (Essay about the Unseen), Enrique Lynch