100 Books I Read in 2018

I’d love you to add your recommendations.

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others; read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut’. — STEPHEN KING

Today I thought I’d share with you some of the books I’ve read since last January. Most of the books here are Memoirs and Poetry books (because that has been my primary focus) but I am branching out this year to read more genres and definitely more fiction.

If you’d like to add some book recommendations

Feel free. ENJOY!

(My favorites are bolded)

“Books wash away from the soul the dust of every day life” — Fanny Bunnett

1. Writing Down the Bones- Natalie Goldberg
2. Angelas Ashes — Frank McCourt
3. Out Came the Sun — Mariel Hemingway
4. Can We talk about Something More Pleasant? — Roz Chest
5. Ever Faithful to His Lead — Kathleen Pooler
6. Last Jew of Treblinka — Chil Rajchman
7. Chicken Soup for the Writers Soul — Jack Canfield
8. A Night Without Armor — Jewel (Poetry book)
9. The Poetry Handbook — Mary Oliver
10. Wild — Cheryl Strayed
11. The Gifts of Imperfection — Brene Brown
12. Unsinkable — Debbie Reynolds
13. Monkey Mind — Daniel Smith
14. Big Magic — Elizabeth Gilbert
15. On Writing — Stephen King
16. Breaking Ground on your Memoir — Linda Joy Myers
17. Liar’s Club — Mary Karr
18. Eat Pray Love — Elizabeth Gilbert
19. If you Want to Write — Brenda Ueland
20. The $35 wife — Kitty Kessler
21. The Year of Writing Dangerously — Barbara Abercrombie
22. The Lost Girls — John Glatt
23. A Movable Feast — Ernest Hemingway
24. Little by Little, People I’ve Known and Been — Rich Little
25. What Comes Next? — Abigail Thomas
26. Mother, I Don’t Forgive You — Nancy Richards
27. Bird by Bird — Anne Lamott
28. Good Poems — Garrison Keillor
29. Write the Story of Your Life — Ruth Kanin
30. The Trouble with Poetry — Billy Elliot
31. Running With Scissors — Augustin Burroughs
32. A New Earth — Eckhart Tolle
33. Braving the Wilderness — Brene Brown
34. Composed — Rosanne Cash
35. Brain on fire. My Month of Madness — Kay Redfield Jamison
36. Diary of Anais Nin — Anais Nin
37. Living with a Wild God — Barbara Ehrenreich
38. Your Own Sylvia, Sylvia Plath — Stephanie Hemphill
39. Writing Poetry from the Inside Out — Rebecca Ann Collins
40. Poetry after 9/11 — Dennis Loy Johnson
41. LIT — Mary Carr
42. Untethered Soul — Michael A. Singer
43. The Writing Life — Annie Dillard.
44. My Song for Him who Never Sang to Me — Merritt Malloy
45. A Mental Meal of Magical Rhymes and Poems — Arthur Weil
46. Perfect — Ellen Keller
47. The War of Art — Steven Pressfield
48. Advice to Writers — Jon Winokur
49. The Complete Idiots Guide to Writing Poetry — Some idiot?
50. I’m sorry you feel that way — Diana Joseph
51. Poets Corner — John Lithgow
52. How to eat a Poem — Ted Kopple
53. Walking Over Eggshells — Lucinda Clarke
54. Natural Woman — Carole King
55. Poem Crazy — Susan Woolridge
56. Poetic Medicine — John Fox
57. The Silence of Morning — D.A. Hickman
58. Wrong Place Wrong Time — David Perlmutter
59. Naked — Julie Freed
60. Ten Poems to Change Your Life — Roger Housden
61. Night — Elie Wiesel
62. Advice to Writers — Jon Winokur
63. Fooling with Words — Bill Moyers
64. The Glass Castle — Jeanette Walls
65. Living to Tell the Tale — Jane Taylor McDonnell
66. A Common Struggle — Patrick Kennedy
67. If You Can Talk You Can Write — Joel Saltzman
68. How to be a Writer — Barbara Baig
69. Immersed in Verse — Alan Wolf
70. Grace, Eventually — Anne Lamott
71. Writing Past Dark — Bonnie Friedman
72. This is not a Writing Journal — ?
73. Nothing Like Normal — Martha Graham-Weston
74. Leaving the Hall Light On — Madeline Sharples
75. Little Lost Girl — Angelique Anderson
76. An Unquiet Mind — Kay Redfield Jamison
77. Amadeus — Frances Pullen
78. The Boys in Trees — Carly Simon
79. Return to Love — Marianne Williamson
80. She got up off the Couch — Haven Kimmel
81. Wishful Drinking — Carrie Fisher
82. I am Brian Wilson — Brian Wilson
83. Scattering Ashes — Joan Hough
84. Conflicted Hearts — D. G Kaye
85. My Horizontal Life — Chelsea Handler
86. Van Gogh Blues — Eric Maisel
87. Cleo — Helen Brown
88. Gone Girl — Gillian Flynn
89. Do the Work — Stephen Pressfield
90. Have You No Shame? — Rachel Shukert
91. I feel Bad About My Neck — Nora Ephron
92. A New Earth — Eckhart Tolle
93. The Art of Work — Jeff Goins
94. How to Write Your Own Life Story — Lois Daniel
95. Notes from a Dirty Old Man — Charles Bukowski
96. Flat Broke with Two Goats — Jennifer McGahan
97. Accidental Soldier — Dorrit Sasson
98. The Body Keeps the Score — Bessel Van DerKolk
99. Stray: Memoir of a Runaway — Tanya Marquardt
100. On Writing Well — William Zinsser

HAPPY READING EVERYONE!