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2019 Reads
- Boom Town by Sam Anderson ★
- Promises, Promises: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Literature by Adam Philips
- Who Cares?: How to Reshape a Democratic Politics by Joan C. Tronto ★
- Bartleby, The Scrivener by Herman Melville
- A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
- Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
- True Grit by Charles Portis
- Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville
- The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
- A Liberated Mind by Steven C. Hayes ★
- Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Steven C. Hayes and Spencer Smith ★★
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung,
- Walking in Wonder by John O’Donohue
- 1491 by Charles C. Mann
- The Three Marriages by David Whyte ★
- Atomic Habits by James Clear ★
- Missing Out by Adam Phillips
- Unforbidden Pleasures by Adam Phillips
- The Beast in the Nursery by Adam Phillips
- On Kindness by Adam Phillips ★★
- On Balance by Adam Phillips ★
- Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine,
- A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine
- A Primer for Forgetting by Lewis Hyde
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy ★
- Working by Robert Caro ★
- How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
- A Philosophy of Walking by Frederic Gros ★
- To Sell is Human by Daniel Pink
- The Oddysey by Homer (Emily Watson translation) ★
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt ★
- Essentialism by Greg McKeown
- Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach ★
- The Big Picture by William Goldman
- The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
- Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy
- The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne (Selected essays) ★
- Lost Connections by Johann Hari
- Scarcity by Sendhil Mullainathan
- The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard by Joe Brainard ★
- The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben ★